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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Our Annual Benefit

Sixteen Rivers Press will host its annual benefit reading the evening of November 17, 2012 at a beautiful home in San Rafael. The featured reader is esteemed poet Jane Hirshfield. If you would like an invitation, please contact us at info@sixteenrivers.org. Help...

Summer Is Upon Us

Summer is upon us and great things are afoot at Sixteen Rivers Press! We have new books from our members, a new chapbook from our Poets Under Forty series, and our first translation project, all in the pipeline working their way toward you, our readers. We couldn’t be...

Sixteen Rivers Spring Newsletter

Spring is here and so are two new books from Sixteen Rivers Press. We are excited to share these new titles with you, and to let you know about upcoming readings and events. We hope to see you at one or more readings and to include you in the celebrations of our new...

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