Featured Titles for 2026

Children of Obscura

Dane Cervine

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $20
Page count: 106
Publication date: April 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-939639-43-1

Random Universe

Carolyn Miller

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $20
Page count: 96
Publication date: April 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-939639-44-8

Afterimages

Lenore Myers

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $20
Page count: 124
Publication date: April 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-939639-45-5

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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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Welcoming our newest members: Janet Jennings and Greg Mahrer

We are very pleased to introduce our two newest members, Janet Jennings and Gregory Mahrer. Janet Jennings writes: “I grew up in a Midwestern chocolate-making family. In my teens, I worked summers at the factory, amid the smell of roasting cocoa beans, where I packed...

Welcoming Our Newest Member, Lenore Myers

Lenore Myers’s poems and essays can be found in The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Indiana Review, LIT, and One, among other literary journals. Her chapbook, Regards to Balthus, was published in 2023 by Seven Kitchens Press. She teaches English as...

Announcement: Jacqueline Kudler

With great sadness, we announce that Jacqueline Kudler, a founding member of Sixteen Rivers Press, has died at age 89 from complications of ALS. She was a wonderful poet; an ardent and active supporter of the press from its founding up to the time of her death; and a...

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