Sixteen Rivers Press

05/20/2026

Blowing in from the four directions: Poets Camille Norton, Lenore Myers, Gene Berson, and Moira Magneson will be reading at the Sacramento Poetry Center this upcoming Monday, May 25 @
7:30 pm. Hope to see folks there!
The Sacramento Poetry Center

05/20/2026

Blowing in from the four directions: Poets Camille Norton, Lenore Myers, Gene Berson, and Moira Magneson will be reading at the Sacramento Poetry Center this upcoming Monday, May 25 @ 7:30 pm. Hope to see folks there! 🤩

The Sacramento Poetry Center

05/16/2026

Ladies and gentlemen: Kate Peper’s absurd • funny • tender poem appearing today in Rattle!

05/15/2026

Ladies and gentlemen: Kate Peper’s absurd • funny • tender poem appearing today in Rattle!

If shoes are to vaginas, what are purses?

05/15/2026

Hey-o, friends! We just encountered poet Lee Rossi's recent praise of Dane Cervine's CHILDREN OF OBSCURA: This Mysterious Human. Rossi's review perfectly sums up this wildly eclectic, electric book Get a gander! 🙂

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245386466-children-of-obscura

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05/14/2026

It’s down to the wire, folks! Tule Review, Sacramento Poetry Center’s stellar literary journal, is accepting submissions through May 15, then phhhht! the window closes! Get your poems on! Link:
https://www.sacpoetrycenter.
org/publications-tule-review

05/13/2026

It's down to the wire, folks! Tule Review, Sacramento Poetry Center's stellar literary journal, is accepting submissions through May 15, then phhhht! the window closes! Get your poems on! Link below👇

https://www.sacpoetrycenter.org/publications-tule-review

04/30/2026

As coda to National Poetry Month, we wish to express our gratitude to the 30 poets whose poems have stirred and dazzled us this April. More than ever we believe in poetry’s capacity to open hearts and electrify minds. 💙⚡️We hope you enjoyed our playlist! 🥰

04/30/2026

We finish National Poetry Month with a poem that hurts the heart with its affirmation of love and grief: “Late Love” by Murray Silverstein.

This poem appears in Silverstein’s latest book, RED STUDIO (Sixteen Rivers, 2024.)

04/30/2026

What an important and necessary anthology.This promises to be a powerful poetry reading! If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, come to the Art House Gallery in Berkeley on Sunday, May 3, 3:00 to 5:00 pm, for the launch of Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War from Scarlet Tanager Books with Lucille Lang Day, Sean Mclain Brown, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Claire Ortalda, and Andrena Zawinski.

04/30/2026

All spring we’ve witnessed the loud, strutting courtship of wild turkeys, calling to mind Helen Wickes’ praise poem “November Sun,” which even though it takes place in autumn, is nonetheless quite fitting for this day.
This poem appears in Wickes’ collection WORLD AS YOU LEFT IT (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2015.) To find out more about Helen and her work, visit:
https://sixteenrivers. org/author-profiles/helen-wickes