Featured Titles for 2025

If we are the forest the animals dream

Patrick Cahill

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 94
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-41-7

Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III

Poems by Ulalume González de León

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $20
Page count: 180
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-39-4

In the Eye of the Elephant

Moira Magneson

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 118
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-37-0

the department of peace

Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 104
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-40-0

Waking Up: Teen Poets Respond to America, We Call Your Name

Selected by Simon Ellefson, Sylvi Kayser, and Dina Lusztig Noyes

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $12
Page count: 62
Publication date: September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-46-2

To the Human Race: Hope River 3, Poems from Young Teens

Selected by Sixteen Rivers Press and Davis Poet Laureate Emerita Julia B. Levine

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Publication date: September 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-47-9
Paperback / 61 pages

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Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for Northern California poets. Founded in 1999 by seven writers, the press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay.

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I Know (Je Sais) Reviewed on Huffington Post

The Huffington Post reviews Sixteen Rivers’ latest full-length book today, Lynne Knight’s translation of Ito Naga’s I Know (Je Sais).  “Aphoristic and Zen-koan-like, I Know is a collection of 469 observations on life and the universe by a scientist whose eye for...

Autumn News

The members of Sixteen Rivers Press are deeply saddened by the recent death of our founding member, Susan Sibbet. Not only was Susan a talented poet, but she was a passionate advocate for poetry as well. A long-time board member of California Poets in the Schools,...

Autumn Readings 2013

Upcoming Readings:  On Sunday, November 24, 2013 from 3 PM to 5 PM, Sixteen Rivers Press poet Barbara Swift Brauer (At Ease in the Borrowed World) will read with prose writer Kaitlyn Gallagher at the MINE Gallery in Fairfax, California, at 1820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd,...

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