This three-poet-cohort is on a Northern California roll! Their next reading is Monday, June 1 (Rabbit, Rabbit 🐇 IYKYK!), 6 pm at the Aqus Café in Petaluma! Come on by and have a listen! And bring your own poems for the open mic! 😀 #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetry @lenimo.bsky.social

Tonight's the night! Meyers, Miller, and Cervine getting their rhythms and rhymes on at Bird & Beckett Books and Records. See you there at 7! 🤩

Shout-out here to Patrick Grizzell, the Sacramento Poetry Center, & the audience who came to listen, clap, & snap for Sixteen Rivers poets Lenore Myers, Camille Norton, & Moira Magneson, & the marvelous, mysterious Gene Berson. And, props to the charismatic NSAA for emceeing the open mic! #poetrysky

What is hip? Myers, Miller, & Cervine reading poems from their newest collections at Bird & Beckett Books and Records, undoubtedly one of San Francisco's coolest night spots! Thursday, May 28, 7 pm! What it is! 😎 #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetry #Bird&Beckett #SanFrancisco @lenimo.bsky.social

Say hey! This Sixteen Rivers trio will be poeming this Thursday evening at the legendary Bird & Beckett Books and Records! See you then and there! 🔥 #Bird&Beckett #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetnews #Poetrysky #SanFrancisco @danecervine.bsky.social @lenimo.bsky.social

Because we love poetry AND the Sierra foothills, we were happy to see that today's RATTLE featured Lynne Knight's "The Twenty-Year Workshop," an ars poetica that speaks to the puzzle of poem creation, and in doing so proclaims the word "foothills" to be its "own little poem." 😍 #poetrycommunity

Hey, friends! If you’re stalled in Memorial Day traffic on your way home from the mountains, why not wait it out at a dynamite poetry reading at Sacramento Poetry Center? 7:30 pm! Come on by! 🤩

We agree with Mary Mackey. Poetry is a liberating force.

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! 🤩 #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetry #SacramentoPoetryCenter

Damn! This Emily Berry poem :: phenomenal!

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! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky

This morning’s needed Balm of Gilead.

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👇 www.sacpoetrycenter.org/publications... #poetry #poetrysky #submissions #poems #poetrycommunity

I can’t say exactly if this essay by poet Roger Reeves is a confrontation or a reckoning with the horrors of American history and the seemingly irreconcilable wounds of slavery, but I can say it is powerful, and shattering, and a must-read.

And 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! ♥️⚡

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 Press, 2024). #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #NationalPoetryMonth

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. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #NationalPoetryMonth

Thank you, A. Van Jordan and Julia B. Levine, for sharing your poems and your power with us this past Saturday. You cast a spell on us! And to those who came out for poetry, a big bow of gratitude to you as well! #poetry #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth #poetrysky

We at Sixteen Rivers Press mourn the death of Richard Silberg, a poet whose life and work touched so many in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Tuesday's poem, then, is Richard's "The Answer," which seems especially apt today. #poetry #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth #RestinPoetry

Monday opens to Lee Herrick's "Erasure," a poem that speaks to the inchoate longing & wish to know one's place in the world. Lee Herrick is now serving as the tenth poet laureate of California. This poem appears in his book SCAR AND FLOWER (Word Poetry Books, 2019). #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth

For Sunday we offer you "Migraine," in which Sacramento poet Susan Kelly-DeWitt casts the fierce headache in an almost holy light. #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth

Today we give you Jeanne Wagner's "My mother was like the bees," a poem that spins from wonder to accusation to forgiveness, in the same way a bee moves from flower to flower. This poem is from Wagner's book IN THE BODY OF OUR LIVES (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010). #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth

Today is yesterday's tomorrow, which means Sixteen Rivers Presents is hosting A. Van Jordan & Julia B. Levine reading from their new books this afternoon @ Berkeley's Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda. Time? 3:00 pm. We'll see you there! #poetry #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth

Patricia Caspers, poet & editor of West Trestle Review, is hosting a cool, online poetry reading protesting the felony theft of poems from the Poetry Out Loud archive! Saturday, April 25 @ 10:00 am, PST.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! A. Van Jordan and Julia B. Levine will be storming the poetry house! Don't miss this reading! Where? Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley. When? 3:00 pm. Be there! ⚡ #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth

Years ago, this month, we encountered Robert Hedin's poem "Tornado" in Poetry Magazine. It gave us the willies; it still does. We've never forgotten it. This poem appears in Hedin's now out-of-print collection COUNTY O (Copper Canyon Press, 1984). #poetry #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth

Gillian Wegener's "Father-Daughter Dance: A Ghazal" from THIS SWEET HAPHAZARD (and isn't that the best title?) is beautifully painful, brimming with heartache and loss, which is exactly the intention of a ghazal. ♥️ #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth

Hey-o, friends of poetry! A reminder: we've two powerhouse poets—A. Van Jordan & Julia B. Levine—reading for Sixteen Rivers Presents this Saturday. It's free! And yes, you will be WOWED! 🤩 #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrysky #NationalPoetryMonth #BerkeleyEvents

Could it be an exaggeration to say that "The Birthing" by Deborah Digges—a poet who left us far too soon—is one of the most moving poems to be written in the aughts? Perhaps, but we don't think so. We invite you to check it out, see for yourself, & report back! 👇 #poetry #poetrycommunity

O Happy Day! Lenore Myers' AFTERIMAGES (Sixteen Rivers Press) blazes into being today, April 21, 2026! Congratulations, Lenore! ⚡ To discover more about Lenore Myers, visit: sixteenrivers.org/author-profi... #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetnews #NationalPoetryMonth #poetrysky

For you today: "On the Yolo Bypass," a poem from Julia Levine's ORDINARY PSALMS (LSU Press, 2021), an exquisite book laced with grief, epiphanies, and good dogs. 👇 #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #NationalPoetryMonth #Berkeleyevents

For Monday we give you A. Van Jordan's "Airsoft," a poem that highlights the imagination and playful innocence of a 12-year-old child—Tamir Rice—and in doing so, places the reader teetering on the brink of the unfathomable. 👇 #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth

We love this off-kilter ode by Diane Seuss. ❤️♥️♥️ #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #poetrysky #poetrycommunity @dseuss.bsky.social

A triple play of Sixteen Rivers poets will be reading from their new books TODAY, Sunday, April 19, @ 1:00 pm at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Come and have a listen! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth @danecervine.bsky.social @lenimo.bsky.social

Lenore Myers' ekphrastic poem "Thérèse" offers a spinning, fivefold Rashomon effect: we simultaneously view a young girl, the mind of Balthus, the Met's disregard, the poet's perception, and finally, our own interpretation of the poem and the painting. All very meta! 👇 #poetry #poetrycommunity

A. Van Jordan! Julia Levine! We have a massive litcrush on both these poets. ♥️♥️ And we're over the moon to hear them read TOGETHER for Sixteen Rivers Presents on Saturday, April 25 at 3:00 pm. Poem on! #poetrysky #poetry #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth

Today we offer you "Secrets of the Matrix," Dane Cervine's philosophical contemplation on the improbable, miraculous architecture of the brain. This poem appears in Dane's 2nd book of prose poems with Sixteen Rivers Press: CHILDREN OF OBSCURA—The Mysterious Human (2026). 👇 #poetry #poetrycommunity

This morning we invite you to step into Sixteen Rivers poet Carolyn Miller's "The Five Stages of Ecstasy," a poem that sets all five senses on fire. 🔥 #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #NationalPoetryMonth 👇

Every time we read Marie Howe's poem "The Last Time," we are bowled over by its elegance, simplicity, and restraint, how it accomplishes the difficult task of conveying both grief and revelation. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #NationalPoetryMonth 👇

Could it be that once conceived poems orbit in Earth's thermosphere awaiting the perfect moment to drop into the public consciousness, just as Sharon Old's "Rite of Passage" landed like Skylab in our front yard this morning? From the title to the ending, the poem is absolutely apt. #poetry #NPM

This Monday begins by swimming in the mesmerizing magic of Gerald Fleming's "Meditation on Jellyfish," a poem whose last line hits like a Zen monk wielding a keisaku. This poem appears in his eclectically personal & profound collection SWIMMER CLIMBING ONTO SHORE (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2005). 👇

Boom! ⚡ It doesn't get much better than this: A. Van Jordan and Julia Levine on the same bill for Sixteen Rivers Presents! Saturday, April 25 @ 3:00. Poem on! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #NationalPoetryMonth #Berkeley

This Sunday, we ask, "Who could not love Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States"? And so, with great reverence, we bring you "Wonder Woman," a poem to cross-stitch on your heart. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #NationalPoetryMonth

This morning, we awoke to rain & to the memory of the late Jacqueline Kudler & her poem "Covenant," a little mercy for the day. Jackie was a founding member of Sixteen Rivers Press; this poem is from her final book, RIPENINGS (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2024). We miss her wisdom & bright spirit. 👇

Todd Dillard has a few things to say about the crafting of poems! Preach! 👏

Charles Simic's "The Lights are on Everywhere" is a ghost poem coming to haunt us from the past. Simic grew up in WW II Belgrade where bombs fell for four years. He understands power & the nature of madmen who wield terror upon a people. #poetry #poetrycommunity #Trump #NationalPoetryMonth

Poet Stella Beratlis's ALKALI SINK (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2015) is a searing, singing, sometimes funny portrait of California's Central Valley—its people, culture, and landscape. Today we offer you "Donut Shop at the End of the World," one gem among many in this unforgettable collection. ❤️ #poetry

Hey-o! Coming your way soon: Dane Cervine, Carolyn Miller, and Lenore Myers at Book Passage in Corte Madera! Sunday, April 19, 1:00 pm. See you there! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #poetnews @bookpassage.bsky.social

Today we are thinking of the Persian poet Rumi & also of the Artemis II crew as they behold the moon. Surely the space travelers are experiencing love & wonder, something close to the feeling that arises in Rumi's ecstatic "Some Kiss We Want" which we present to you in equal love & wonder. #poetry

This morning we bring you Dan Bellm's poem "Repair" from his book PRACTICE (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008). It is a poem that explores grief and loss and hope set against the backdrop of war, a geography we all inhabit every day, especially now. #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity