Reading and Book Events for Sixteen Rivers Press: September – November 2025
Tuesday, September 9, 7 pm
Second Tuesday Poetry @ Bookish Modesto
Readers: Moira Magneson, Samantha Tetangco Ocena
Location: Bookish Modesto, 811 Roseburg Ave, in the Roseburg Square shopping center
Thursday, September 18, 5:30 to 7 pm
Cameron Park Library Writers Workshop
Fall Reading & Open Mic
Reader: Moira Magneson
Location: Cameron Park Library, 2500 Country Club Dr., Cameron Park
Sunday, September 21
Petaluma Poetry Walk
Sixteen Rivers Reading, 11 am
Readers: Patrick Cahill, Judy Halebsky, Moira Magneson
Location: Petaluma Hotel, 205 Kentucky Street, Petaluma, CA
Sixteen Rivers Reading, 4 pm
Readers: Terry Ehret, Nancy J. Morales, Amanda Moore
Location: Usher Gallery, 1 Petaluma Boulevard North, Petaluma, CA
For full schedule, go to: https://petalumapoetrywalk.org/2025-schedule/
Sunday, September 28, 11 am to 4 pm
Litquake Book Fair + Litquake Out Loud
Sixteen Rivers will have a table at this event.
Location: Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission Street
between Third and Fourth Streets, San Francisco, CA
Monday, September 29, 7:30 pm
Sacramento Poetry Center
DANGEROUS WOMEN
Readers: Molly Fisk, Kim Shuck, Moira Magneson, Tricia Caspers
Location: 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, CA
Saturday, October 11, 9 am
Tahoe Literary Festival
Echoes of the Sierra: A Poet Laureate Conversation
Readers: Karen Terrey, Jesse James Ziegler, Lara Gularte, Moira Magneson
Location: Tahoe Art Haus & Cinema
For full schedule go to: https://www.tahoelitfest.com/
Saturday, October 18, 3:30
Become the River Literary Festival
The River as Muse
Readers: Karen Terrey, Rebecca Lawton, Christina Hutchins, Alice Templeton, Moira Magneson
Location: Coloma Grange, Highway 49, Coloma, CA
Sunday, October 19, 2 to 5 pm
Sixteen Rivers Fall Fundraiser
Readers: Kim Addonizio, D. A. Powell
Location: Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA
Saturday, November 1, 3 to 5 pm
Sixteen Rivers Presents
A Celebration of Poetry Flash
Readers: Joyce Jenkins, Richard Silberg
Location: Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA
Fall Fundraiser for Sixteen Rivers Press
The Fall Fundraiser for Sixteen Rivers Press will feature readings by Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, plus a silent auction. Admission is free, and donations are welcomed. Sunday, Oct. 20, 2:00 pm at Northbrae Community Church (941 The Alameda, Berkeley).
Sixteen Rivers Presents: The 2024 authors
Christina Lloyd, Murray Silverstein, and Alice Templeton—will be reading their poetry and discussing the topic of “Lineages” on Saturday, Sept. 21, at 3:00 pm at Northbrae Community Church (941 The Alameda, Berkeley).
Readings for 2024 Books
April 10, Wednesday, Readers’ Books, 7 p.m.
103 East Napa St., Sonoma
Alice Templeton, Murray Silverstein, Christina Lloyd
April 14, Sunday, Book Passage, 4 p.m.
51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera
Murray Silverstein, Christina Lloyd, Alice Templeton
April 20, Saturday, Beat Museum, 7 p.m.
540 Broadway, San Francisco
Patrick Cahill (with others)
May 5, Bazaar Café, Sunday, 6 p.m.
5927 California St., San Francisco
Christina Lloyd, Alice Templeton, Murray Silverstein
May 19, Sunday, Poetry Flash, Berkeley, 3 p.m.
(Location?)
Murray Silverstein, Alice Templeton, Christina Lloyd
Sixteen Rivers 2023 Book Launch
Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce our two publications for 2023: Songbirds of the Nine Rivers, by Jospeh Zaccardi and All Tomorrow’s Train Rides, by Matthew M. Monte.
Join us for the book launch. We’ll be at Book Passage in Corte Madera on April 2 at 4 PM. We can’t wait to see you!
The Art of Translation, Nov 6, 2022 at Dominican University
Join us for an afternoon of readings and conversation about poetry and translation with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Matthew Zapruder, Terry Ehret, Marjorie Agosin, Celeste Kostopoulos-Cooperman, and Nancy Morales.
Go to our Events page and sign up on Eventbrite.
America, We Call Your Name Youth Poetry Reading
Join us to hear new poems of resistance and resilience by the six winners of the Sixteen Rivers Press Youth Poetry Contest!
Six grand-prize winners of our national contest for teen poets will read their poems, plus the poems from our anthology, America, We Call Your Name, that inspired their work.
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Sixteen Rivers Presents reading on Sep. 26 featuring Kim Shuck and Denise Low
Please join us for a special reading on Sunday, September 26th, 3 PM, in the Sacred Hoop Garden of the Northbrae Community Church.
In the shadow of the current crises of our society, we seek surcease from the transmitted wisdom of the people who lived on this continent before European Civilization arrived. Two poets with indigenous heritage will read from poems written to keep their ancestral culture alive and to speak to the moment we live in now.
Denise Low and Kim Shuck will share their work in the Sacred Hoop Garden behind the Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. We hope you can join us, masked and vaccinated.
Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09, is winner of a Red Mountain Press Award for Shadow Light. Other recent publications are a memoir, The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival (U. of Nebraska Press), a Hefner Heitz Award finalist; Wing (Red Mountain); Casino Bestiary (Spartan); and Jackalope (Red Mountain, fiction). She is co-author of Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors (U. of Nebraska Press). At Haskell Indian Nations University she founded the creative writing program. She teaches for Baker University’s School of Professional and Graduate Studies. She is contributing editor to Essay Daily’s Midwessay project. She lives in California’s Sonoma County on Tsuno Mountain, homeland of Pomo people. www.deniselow.net
Kim Shuck was born in San Francisco, California, and is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She received a BA in Art and an MFA in Textiles from San Francisco State University. Shuck is the author of Exile Heart from That Painted Horse Press (2021), Deer Trails from City Lights Press (2019), Clouds Running In (Taurean Horn Press, 2014), Rabbit Stories (Poetic Matrix Press, 2013), and Smuggling Cherokee (Greenfield Review Press, 2005), as well as of the chapbook collection Sidewalk Ndn (FootHills Press, 2018). In 2019, Shuck was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and has served as the poet laureate of San Francisco, California.
Spring Readings for 2021 Authors
Sun August 15: Poetry on Sundays featuring Stella Beratlis and Dane Cervine; 2 pm, hosted by Gary Thomas with open mic following featured readers. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83375142037.
Sun August 29: Sixteen Rivers Presents Dane Cervine and Stella Beratlis, Please join us on Sunday, August 29, 3 PM in person, at the Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda in Berkeley.
Mon Nov. 1: Rivertown Poets featuring Stella Beratlis & Dane Cervine
Maya Khosla’s All the Fires of Wind and Light selected for 2020 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award
PEN Oakland, called “The Blue Collar PEN” by The New York Times, is honoring Maya Khosla’s All the Fires of Wind and Light with the Josephine Miles Literary Award.
PEN Oakland’s annual awards ceremony is scheduled to take place online via the Oakland Public Library Rockridge Branch on December 5, 2020, from 2PM-5PM PST.
The award ceremony will be a public event; info on broadcast at Oakland Public Library.
Dec 6: Sixteen Rivers Presents Faylita Hicks and James Cagney
Our Second Sixteen Rivers Presents
Please join us on Sunday, December 6, at 3 p.m., for the second reading in our ongoing series, Sixteen Rivers Presents. Our featured poets are Faylita Hicks and James Cagney.
Faylita Hicks is a poet, essayist, and interdisciplinary artist born in Gardena, CA, and raised in Central Texas. Their work has been featured in Adroit, American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, F(r)iction, HuffPost, Kenyon Review, Longreads, Palette Poetry, Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus, Slate, Texas Observer, Texas Monthly, VIDA Review, and others.
Oakland native James Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory, winner of the PEN Oakland 2019 Josephine Miles award. His poems have appeared in Poetry Daily, The Maynard, and Civil Liberties United, among other journals. To buy his book, visit Nomadicpress.org, and to read more of his writing, go to TheDirtyRat.blog.
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Sixteen Rivers Presents is a bimonthly poetry series presented on Zoom and curated by members of Sixteen Rivers Press. In featuring some of the best poets writing today, we hope to promote diversity, to unite California poets with national poets, to stimulate public discourse, and to celebrate poetry during difficult times.
Second Tuesday Reading: Eliot Schain & Patrick Cahill
Join host Stella Beratlis in our monthly reading + open mic series. This month we are excited to feature Eliot Schain, author of THE DISTANT SOUND and Patrick Cahill, author of THE MACHINERY OF SLEEP. Open mic follows.
Patrick Cahill’s prose and poems have appeared in over forty journals, including TriQuarterly, Volt, Poets Eleven, the Irish magazine Into the Void, Subprimal, and Eclectica. His poems have twice won the Central Coast Writers Award. He is a cofounder and editor of Ambush Review, a San Francisco–based literary and arts journal and was a contributing editor for the Sonoma County anthology Digging Our Poetic Roots. Patrick received his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz and wrote a study of Whitman and visual experience in nineteenth-century America. Portions of this work have appeared in The Daguerreian Annual and Left Curve.
Eliot Schain’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Santa Monica Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Miramar, among other journals, as well as in two anthologies: The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed, and Christopher Buckley and Gary Young’s Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California. Schain’s books include American Romance from Zeitgeist Press and Westering Angels from Small Poetry Press. He has served as program director for the Poetry Society of America, has taught high school, and now works as a psychotherapist. A proud member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, he lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Mary.
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WHY LOVE AND WHY LOVE NOW: Eliot Schain, Erin Rodoni, and Ken Hass
Featuring Sixteen Rivers Press members Eliot Schain and Erin Rodoni reading with Ken Hass on Sunday, September 27, 2020, 3 PM.
Please join Poetry Flash for a reading of love poems, during which the poets will use their own works to traverse the territory of that huge word and discuss how “love” in this dark age can remind us of who we are and who we want to be. There will be interactive conversation between the poets and a short period for questions from the audience at the end.
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October fundraiser features Matthew Zapruder & Prageeta Sharma
Sunday, October 11, 2020, 3 pm PDT
Our annual fundraiser will feature Matthew Zapruder and Prageeta Sharma reading their work to celebrate our 21 years of publishing fine books of poetry by Northern California poets. We hope you will join us and consider a donation in support of our continuing work.
Matthew Zapruder is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Father’s Day, from Copper Canyon in Fall 2019, as well as Why Poetry, a book of prose. He is editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. From 2016-7 he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine. He teaches in the MFA and English Department at Saint Mary’s College of California.
Poet Prageeta Sharma was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Her collections of poetry include Bliss to Fill (2000), The Opening Question (2004), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, Infamous Landscapes (2007), Undergloom (2013), and Grief Sequence (2019). Sharma’s honors and awards include a Howard Foundation Award. She is the Henry G. Lee professor of English at Pomona College as well as the founder and president of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, and Literary Studies.
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Second Tuesday Poetry: Ulalume González de León reading on May 12
Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center via Zoom on the second Tuesday in May to celebrate the publication of Ulalume González de León’s PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL. 1, with project translators Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales.
Poet, essayist, and translator Ulalume González de León believed that “Everything has already been said,” and, thus, that each act of creation is a rewriting, reshuffling, and reconstructing of one great work. For this reason, she chose the title Plagios (Plagiarisms) for her book of collected poems. Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz called Ulalume González de León “the best Mexicana poet since Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,” recognizing the visionary quality of her work.
Plagios (Plagiarisms), just out this year from Sixteen Rivers Press, is the first of three bilingual volumes of González de León’s work. This first volume presents several short collections of poems González de León produced from 1968 to 1971, each of which explores the ephemeral nature of identity and its dependence on the ever-shifting ground of language and memory.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS
Terry Ehret, one of the founders of Sixteen Rivers Press, has published four collections of poetry, most recently Night Sky Journey from Kelly’s Cove Press. Her literary awards include the National Poetry Series, the California Book Award, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, a nomination for the Northern California Book Reviewer’s Award, and five Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2004–2006, she served as the poet laureate of Sonoma County where she lives and teaches writing.
Nancy J. Morales, a first-generation American of Puerto Rican parents, earned her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers College, a master’s in teaching English as a Second Language from Adelphi University, and a doctorate in education from Teachers College at Columbia University. She has taught at Dominican University, College of Marin, Sonoma State University, and other schools, from elementary to graduate levels. Currently she is a board member for the Northern California Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association and teaches Spanish to private clients.
John Johnson’s poetry has appeared in many print and online journals, including Boxcar Poetry Review, Clade Song, Triggerfish Critical Review, and Web Conjunctions. He is a long-time student of the Spanish language and has studied letter-press printing with Iota Press of Sebastopol, producing chapbooks and bilingual broadsides.
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Book launch & reading April 26, 2020
Please Join Us for a Sixteen Rivers Zoom Book Launch and Reading
Celebrating the New Publications for 2020
Sunday April 26 at 3 PM Pacific Time
With the ongoing COVID-19 situation, our April and May events to launch our new publications have been shifted to an online format.
We hope you will join us for a live-streamed reading, featuring
- Patrick Cahill, author of The Machinery of Sleep
- Eliot Schain, author of The Distant Sound
- Nancy J. Morales, John Johnson, and Terry Ehret presenting Plagios/Plagiarism
- The Poetry of Ulalume González de León.
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Fixel reading tonight at Moe’s
Tonight, Thursday Feb 27: Celebration and book launch for THE COLLECTED POETRY & PROSE OF LAWRENCE FIXEL, by the late San Francisco poet, edited and with an introduction by GERALD FLEMING. Also appearing and presenting Lawrence Fixel’s work at this event will be poets JACK MARSHALL, EDWARD MYCUE, JO-ANNE ROSEN, and poet-painter PATTI TRIMBLE, painter STEPHANIE SANCHEZ, photographer MARK CITRET, psychotherapist ROBERT CANTOR, and teacher WENDY BERKELMAN.
Michael Heller says. “Lawrence Fixel was one of our most beautiful and original writers.…In a world of dogmas, false certainties and oppressive realities, he was an angel of Evanescence itself, fluid, ungraspable, seeking as he wrote ‘to find in that which passes, that which does not pass.’”
GERALD FLEMING is a poet and editor; he’s published four books of poems, most recently One, edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review, and is currently editing the limited–edition vitreous magazine One (More) Glass.
Kickoff of new series at The Hidden Cafe postponed
In the interest of practicing voluntary social isolation, we’re postponing this event to a later date, TBD.
Sixteen Rivers Presents At The Hidden Cafe
A POETRY READING WITH
MATTHEW ZAPRUDER AND ERIN RODONI
Sunday, March 29th 2020, 3:30-5:00, free. The Hidden Cafe, 1250 Addison St., Berkeley, in Strawberry Creek Park.
Join us for the kickoff reading of a bimonthly series sponsored by Sixteen Rivers Press. The theme this time: Renewal.
Matthew Zapruder recently published his 5th book of poetry, Father’s Day, (Copper Canyon Press) as well as Why Poetry?, a collection of critical essays (Ecco Press/Harper Collins). He teaches in the St. Mary’s College MFA Program and is the editor of Wave Books.
Erin Rodoni is the author of Body, in Good Light (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017) and A Landscape for Loss, which won the 2016 Stevens Manuscript Prize sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.
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Save the Date: 20th Anniversary Party Nov. 3
Sixteen Rivers Press wants you to help us celebrate our 20th anniversary in the tradition of the literary salon: a reading of press authors from the past 20 years at the Mill Valley Golf Clubhouse featuring refreshments, hors d’oeuvres, and silent auction. November 3, 2019, from 2-5 p.m. Mark your calendars now and watch this space: we’ll be opening up our ticketing/reservation system shortly.
Fall Fundraiser with W. S. Di Piero and Ellen Bass
SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS INVITES YOU TO OUR FALL FUNDRAISER & GARDEN PARTY
Join us at a private home in Berkeley at 3:00 P.M. on Saturday, October 8, 2016, for an afternoon of wine, hors d’oeuvres, and readings by two acclaimed poets:
ELLEN BASS AND W. S. DI PIERO
Tickets: $25 (Rivulet), $50 (Brook), $75 (Stream), or $100 (Tributary) per person.
ELLEN BASS is the author of three books of poetry: Mules of Love, The Human Line, and her most recent, Like a Beggar, from Copper Canyon Press. She coedited the groundbreaking No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women. Her awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and a Lambda Literary Award. Her work has been described as piercingly intimate and at once crushing and uplifting. Bass teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University and leads writing workshops here and abroad; she lives in Santa Cruz.
W. S. DI PIERO is the author of six books of poetry and numerous collections of essays; he is also an art critic and a translator of Italian poetry. His books include Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems, and his latest, TOMBO, from McSweeneys. His poetry is noted for its urban landscapes and gritty realism, but is also inspired by works of art, especially that of Italian masters such as Caravaggio. His awards include a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fund. He lives in San Francisco and is on the faculty of the Stegner Poetry Workshop.
SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS, founded in 1999, is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective. The press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay and is dedicated to the publication of fine poetry by Northern California poets.
Sixteen Rivers Press P.O. Box 640443 San Francisco, CA 94164 415-273-1303 Sixteen Rivers Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.
Helen Wickes at Moe’s Books: January 21, 2016
Helen Wickes, author of World as You Left It, will read with Dan Bellm at Moe’s Books on Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 7:30.
Benefit party with Zapruder and Young supports future books
Photos from our benefit party, which was held Saturday, October 17, 2015.
Sixteen Rivers Showcase at Litquake San Rafael, October 11, 2015
Join Gerald Fleming, Jacqueline Kudler, Lisa Erin Robertson, and Stella Beratlis on October 11, 2015 at West End Café from 4:30 to 5:45 for a Sixteen Rivers Press Showcase. 1131 4th St., San Rafael, CA. Free!
Stella Beratlis & Christina Hutchins at Moe’s, October 8, 2015
Thursday, October 8, 2015 7:30 PM 9:00 PM
Poetry Flash presents Christina Hutchins and Stella Beratlis at Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley; (510) 849-2087.
16R Anniversary Party
SAVE THE DATE!
Sixteen Rivers Press Invites You to
A Poetry Reading &
Anniversary Party
To celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of our founding, Sixteen Rivers Press welcomes you to a party featuring a reading by two acclaimed poets
at a private home in the East Bay.
Tickets are priced at four levels, beginning at $25, and proceeds will go to the support of Sixteen Rivers Press and the publication of our books.
Join us for Prosecco, light refreshments,
a silent auction, and a reading by
Dean Young & Matthew Zapruder
on
Saturday, October 17, 2015
from 3 to 6 p.m.
at
2801 Claremont Boulevard
Berkeley, California 94705
Tickets: $25 (Rivulet), $50 (Brook),
$75 (Stream), or $100 (Tributary) per person
Tickets sales are closed.
Beratlis, Wickes, and Robertson at La Luz de Jesus
Join Stella Beratlis, Helen Wickes, and Lisa Erin Robertson at a shindig celebrating the birthdays of three Angelenos active in the music and art worlds. Party opens with a set of vintage country and hillbilly sounds from musician Skip Heller, followed by readings by Beratlis, Wickes, and Robertson at 8:00 sharp. The evening concludes with a set by longtime LA musician Don Bolles, spinning his unique brand of mash-up avante-pop. All are invited. At La Luz de Jesus, 4633 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles. 6 pm, August 1, 2015. laluzdejesus.com
Terry Ehret in September
Terry will be performing another music and poetry collaboration with her daughter Caitlin Moe on Sunday, September 6 at the Redwood Cafe in Cotati. Terry and Caitlin will join two fellow Sonoma County Poets Laureate, Gwynne O’Gara and Mike Tuggle. The program runs 5-7 PM, but come early or stay late to enjoy Redwood Cafe’s great food and brews. Location: 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, CA 94931, Tel 707-795-7868.
Event: Covered in Birds (June 6, 2015)
On June 6, Sixteen Rivers poet Terry Ehret was one of nine Sonoma County poets who collaborated with the nine musicians of the jazz ensemble Take Jack for an evening of poetry and music. The sold-out event, called “Covered in Birds,” was a benefit to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center.
Murray Silverstein June 12 at Café Nefeli
Jeanne Wagner at Second Sunday Poetry Series
Jeanne Wagner, author of In the Body of Our Lives (2011, Sixteen Rivers Press), is reading with Pam Uschiak at the Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series on Sunday, June 14. Open mic to follow. 3-5 p.m., Valona Delicatessen & Café, 1323 Pomona St, Crockett.
2015 Readings
April 2015
Stella Beratlis, Lisa Robertson, and Helen Wickes
Saturday, April 18, 4 p.m.
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard,
Corte Madera • (415) 927-0960
Lynne Knight with Lola Haskins for Poetry Flash
Thursday, April 23
Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley • (510) 849-2087
Stella Beratlis, Lisa Robertson, and Helen Wickes
Saturday, April 25, 2 p.m.
Merced County Library, 2100 O Street,
Merced • (209) 385-7643
May 2015
Murray Silverstein
Sunday, May 10, 3:00 p.m.
Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue,
Berkeley • (510) 644-4930
Stella Beratlis
Sunday, May 31, 2 p.m.
Carnegie Arts Center, 250 North Broadway Avenue,
Turlock • (209) 632-5761
June 2015
Murray Silverstein
Friday, June 12, 7:00 p.m.
Cafe Nefeli, 1854 Euclid,
Berkeley • (510) 841-6374
Stella Beratlis, Lisa Robertson, and Helen Wickes
Monday, June 15, 7:00 p.m.
Poetry Express Berkeley, Himalayan Flavors
1585 University Avenue, Berkeley • poetryexpress@gmail.com
Stella Beratlis, Lisa Robertson, and Helen Wickes
Friday, June 19, 6:30 p.m.
Carson City Library, 900 North Roop Street,
Carson City, Nevada • (775) 887-2244
Stella Beratlis, Lisa Robertson, and Helen Wickes
Sunday, June 21, 6:30 p.m.
Literary Arts & Wine Series, Coffeebar
10120 Jibboom Street, Truckee • rebeccane@gmail.com
Stella Beratlis, Lisa Robertson, and Helen Wickes
Monday, June 22, 7:30 p.m.
Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street,
25th and R Complex, Sacramento • (707) 939-1779
Albany Library Reading, February 10 2015
Beverly Burch and Miriam Bird Greenberg will be reading at the Albany Library, at 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA, on Tuesday evening, February 10 at 7pm. Please join us as an open reading follows.
Silverstein and Burch to read at Valona Series on Sunday, January 11
Join Murray Silverstein and Beverly Burch this Sunday as they read from their work at the Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series, hosted by Connie Post. The reading starts at 3 pm and is followed by an open mic period. At Valona Delicatessen & Café, 1323 Pomona Street, Crockett. (Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series on Facebook)
The Architecture of Poetry: Murray Silverstein at Inaugural Studio One Reading Series
On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Murray Silverstein will participate in a benefit for Studio One. In the early afternoon, Silverstein will give a talk on the connection between poetry and architecture. Later that day, he will read with Dora Malech in a reading/reception. More information and ticket purchase at http://studioonereadingseries.blogspot.com/2014/11/saturday-january-10-benefit-reading.html.
Beverly Burch at the Petaluma Poetry Walk
Helen Wickes with Troy Jollimore at Ravenswood
Helen Wickes, whose fourth collection World As You Left It will be published by Sixteen Rivers in 2015, will be reading on September 7 with Troy Jollimore at Ravenswood historic site in Livermore, 2pm. See flier for more information.
Murray Silverstein at Modesto Architecture Festival
Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein, who is both an architect and a poet, will speak on the relationship between the two at the Modesto Architecture Festival, 3 p.m. on Sept. 13. The event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant from The James Irvine Foundation and co-sponsored by the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center.
Beverly Burch at Petaluma Poetry Walk
The 19th Annual Petaluma Poetry Walk takes place Sept. 21, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. at eight venues. Beverly Burch, author of the recent Sixteen Rivers collection How a Mirage Works, will be reading with Donna Emerson and John Johnson at the Seed Bank, 199 Petaluma Blvd., N., at 11 a.m. See www.petalumapoetrywalk.org for full schedule.
Sixteen Rivers Press Annual Fundraiser 2014
Save the Date!
SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS AT FIFTEEN INVITES YOU TO
A GARDEN PARTY
To celebrate our fifteenth anniversary, Sixteen Rivers Press welcomes you to a garden party featuring a reading by honored poet Kay Ryan, with
light refreshments and Prosecco served on the grounds of a Marin County estate.
Tickets are priced at four levels, beginning at $25, and proceeds will go to the support of Sixteen Rivers Press and the publication of its books.
Join us for Prosecco and hors d’oeuvres
and a reading by former U.S. poet laureate
KAY RYAN
on
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2014
FROM 3 TO 6 P.M.
at the home of
KATHERINE & GREGG CRAWFORD
201 Linden Lane, San Rafael
Tickets: $25 (Rivulet), $50 (Brook),
$75 (Stream), or $100 (Tributary) per person
Tickets can be purchased at http://sixteenriversfundraiser.brownpapertickets.com/
Paris Reading: Gerald Fleming, May 13
Gerald Fleming, author of The Choreographer and Swimmer Climbing onto Shore, will read Kit Fryatt and Carole Glasser Langille at Carr’s Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris.