In June of 2015, an article about Gillian Wegener, poet laureate of Modesto, appeared in the Modesto Bee.

Congratulations to Gillian Wegener, who won the 1st annual poetry prize awarded by Wherewithal, for her poem "A Boy Comes Toward You."  

Jeanne Wagner, author of In The Body of Our Lives, won the Arts and Letters, Rumi Prize in Poetry contest!

Erin Rodoni is a third generation Point Reyes native, but was born with a severe case of wanderlust and has found many temporary homes all over the world. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA...

Welcome to Point Reyes poet Erin Rodoni, whose manuscript Rotating Exhibit will be published by Sixteen Rivers in 2017. Rodoni's manuscript was chosen by the press from a field of very strong...

Michael Dennis' review of Alkali Sink was featured in Today's Book of Poetry.            

"In This Afterlife" was featured in Poetry Daily, on Friday April 17.

is published in the KYSO Flash Anthology. 

are published in issue 2 of KYSO: Flash

Rosa Lane won the 38th Annual New Millennium prize for poetry for her poem "Father."

Read Gerald Fleming's new work in Mudlark No. 5

Helen Wickes' poem, "Secret Lives of Trees," was featured in Sweet: A Literary Confection, Issue 7.2.

Beverly Burch read from How a Mirage Works, on the KUSP podcast.

Miriam Bird Greenberg, whose collection All night in the new country was the 2012 winner of the Sixteen Rivers Poets-Under-40-Chapbook contest, will be included in the Best New Poets...

Helen Wickes has three poems, "Harrow,"Still Life on the Road to Los Ojos," and "The Vagrant Spirit," published in the Spring 2014 edition of the Citron Review.

Carolyn Miller's essay Fruit Focaccia: Breakfast With Susan, an homage to Susan Sibbet (1942-2013), was featured on Poetry Flash.

A Thresher of Dust and Dreams: Miriam Bird Greenberg's All Night in the New Country was reviewed by Mindy Kronenberg, in Weave Magazine

Helen Wickes' poem "Strategies in Pink" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Read Nina Lindsay's poem, “The Two Worlds,” in Blue Fifth Review.

Sixteen Rivers Press has submitted the following Pushcart nominations: “Crucifixion, Kinetic,” and “Passencore,” from Gerald Fleming’s The Choreographer, and “Love Poem,” and “Arrival,” from Miriam...

Sixteen Rivers Press co-founder Carolyn Miller has an essay, "Always," in the November issue of The Sun. Her college memoir, "Arts and Science," published in the Fall 2012 issue of The Missouri...

The following interview in English with Ito Naga was conducted in English by e-mail in May 2013. Could you talk a little bit about how Je sais came into being? I had been looking for Georges Pérec’s...

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...

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...

Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce the release of our two newest books: Barbara Swift Brauer’s At Ease in the Borrowed World and Gerald Fleming’s The Choreographer. We are proud of both...

Sixteen Rivers Press is excited to announce that the deadline for submissions for the 2013 manuscript competition has been extended! Manuscripts will now be accepted up to March 1, 2013 both online...

Sixteen Rivers Press wishes you a very happy new year, and we hope to do our part to fill your year with poetry. In this edition of our newsletter, you’ll learn about upcoming book releases,...

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...

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...

Sixteen Rivers Press is seeking submissions for a chapbook by a poet under forty years of age, to be published in Spring 2013. All styles and forms are welcome. The winner will receive $500 and 25...

Terry Ehret's new book Night Sky Journey will be published by Kelly's Cove Press in September, 2011. It is one of six books selected to launch an annual series of new work and classic reprints of...

Congratulations to Barbara Swift Brauer whose manuscript was selected as the winner of our 2011 Manuscript Competition. Her book will be published in spring of 2013 along with a new collection by...

Jeanne Wagner’s poetry rides through a landscape both familiar in its humanity and astonishingly new. Her fluid syntax and inventive diction flood into hidden and unexpected fissures of experience...

Christina Hutchins’ The Stranger Dissolves is an exquisite debut volume. This superb collection is elegant, impassioned, and consistently wise in its reckonings. Few poets so carefully embody the...

Congratulations to Judy Halebsky, the winner of the Sixteen Rivers chapbook contest with her manuscript Space, Gap, Interval, Distance. Our judge, Forrest Hamer, made the final selection from a...

Read the review by Alexa Mergen of The Place That Inhabits Us in Rattle's online blog (1/25/11). Jeanne Wagner has won the $1,000 Inkwell Award, sponsored by Manhattanville College and judged by...