Heigh ho! Sixteen Rivers is happy to announce that Patrick Cahill's poem "Fable" from his poetry collection If we are the forest the animals dream (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2025) has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize! Congratulations, Patrick! #poetry #PushcartPrize #poetrycommunity #poetrysky

Some kind of WONDERFUL is happening tonight, Nov. 20, in Berkeley! Poetry Flash is hosting a reading by poets Camille Norton and Rosa Lane: 7 pm at the Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Avenue. Come listen to these wild women get their poems on! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #PoetryFlash

We are enraptured with Camille Norton's poems. In millennial parlance, they are literary thirst traps: wild, allusive, down-to-the-bone funny, yet also dwelling places of grief & sorrow. Reading them, we want to laugh & cry all at once. Come hear Camille Norton's startling poems as she reads with

The students at Da Vinci Junior High in Davis have done it again: They've put together a third chapbook of ecopoetry—TO THE HUMAN RACE—in which they share not only their profound concern for the fate of our planet but also their abiding hope & love. Come hear them read on Thursday, Dec. 4, 7 pm at

The utter sad, sweet gorgeousness of D.A. Powell wrecks us every time. Check out his poem "Senescence" and see/feel it for yourself!

In its reimagining of Emily Dickinson's life & work, Rosa Lane's CALLED BACK is a marvel, a mystery, a masterpiece. With language & imagery evoking both Dickinson's era & our own, Lane's poems make for a potent, erotic elixir certain to hold readers in its thrall. Poets Rosa Lane & Camille Norton

Hey-o, Northern California poets! Sixteen Rivers Press eagerly, excitedly, zealously awaits the submission of your poetry manuscripts! You still have time to polish, revise, pore over the book that yearns to be in print. Just saying! 🙂 #poetry #poetrysky #callforsubmissions #poetnews

Hey-o! Poets Rosa Lane & Camille Norton will be blowing into Berkeley next Thursday evening, Nov. 20, with a reading to knock your socks off! Art House Gallery @ 7:00 pm. Poetry Flash will be hosting. Be there! #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetnews #PoetryFlash

This past Saturday—All Saints Day—we celebrated Joyce Jenkins, Richard Silberg, & the legendary Poetry Flash! It was a bonafide poetry hoedown—everywhere you turned: POETS! Thanks to all who came & made the event so special! Big gratitude goes out to Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Lucille Lang Day, &

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This is just to say Sixteen Rivers will be celebrating the long life of Poetry Flash and its editors— poets Joyce Jenkins and Richard Silberg whose love for poems and poets has prevailed for over fifty years ♥️

With the world in upheaval & new horrors winging in every day, we can take solace in poetry & in knowing that these two fine souls, Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg, have ensured that poetry remains alive & flourishing in Northern California. Join us as we honor Poetry Flash this Saturday. Details👇.

For over 50 years Poetry Flash has been the warp & woof of all things poetry in Northern California. Let's give Joyce, Richard, & the Flash a righteous HIGH-FIVE & HALLELUJAH! Come join us as we honor them this Saturday, Nov. 1st. Details below. #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews #writingcommunity

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Look! Look! Look! Two gorgeous poems by Sixteen Rivers poet Christina Lloyd are featured in Luna Luna Magazine. We bow down! #poetry #poetnews #poetrycommunity

On Sat., Nov. 1, Sixteen Rivers Presents celebrates Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg's decades-long devotion to Poetry Flash, the Bay Area's premier literary review. Come join us! 3-5 pm @ Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. Meanwhile, check out this lovely interview w/Joyce in ZYZZVA! #poetry

We just found this disturbingly prescient yet hopeful piece by Sixteen Rivers poet Terry Ehret floating about on Bluesky. In these dark times, there is some solace in knowing that poets have raised—& continue to raise—their voices against injustice. Thank you, @indyauntie.bsky.social #resist #poets

Call them mavericks, revolutionaries, visionaries, idealists, or poets with big hearts & big ideas: Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg have been changemakers in the world of Northern California poetry! We invite you to celebrate Joyce Richard, & Poetry Flash on Nov. 1! Details below. #poetry #poetrysky

Heads up, Northern California poets! Do you have a manuscript waiting in the green room, raring to go? Sixteen Rivers Press is here for it! Details below, or go to: sixteenrivers.org/news-announc... #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #callformanuscripts #writingcommunity #writing

North Bay friends—on October 28, Timothy Williams' Poetry Salon will celebrate Dia de los Muertos with poems to honor the ancestors, & Sixteen Rivers poet Terry Ehret is a featured reader! Come listen & place a marigold & a memento on the ofrenda! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #SantaRosa

In the spirit of Billy Collin's poem, "The Lanyard," let's show our gratitude to Poetry Flash for being the "breathing body and . . . beating heart" of California's poetry community for 50 + years. Come celebrate Joyce & Richard on Nov. 1st! Details below. #poetrycommunity #poetnews #poetrysky

Soon, in a week and a half to be exact, Sixteen Rivers Presents will be honoring Poetry Flash & its founders, poets Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg. Come give Joyce & Richard the standing ovation they deserve! Sat., Nov. 1, 3-5:00 pm, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky

Our 26th annual fundraiser has come—O boy!—& gone, & we were enthralled, enlivened, & enlightened by our poets. Big shout out to Kim Addonizio who stunned with her hard-hitting gorgeous poems, & to D.A. Powell who delighted with his bold, beautiful irreverence. Grazie! #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews

Graeme Richardson’s marvelous review of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” gives us insight into not only Heaney’s poems but also the depth of his character. Of course this collection will find its way onto our bookshelf! #poetry #poetnews #poetrysky #poetrycommunity @ravoon.bsky.social

This poem. The language. How it dances on the tongue. How playful & sorrowful & poignant it is. Did you even know the word dishabille before encountering this poem? Tomorrow poet D.A. Powell reads for our fundraiser: 2 - 5:00 pm @ Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. Come! #poetrysky #poetry

For your reading pleasure: Kim Addonizio's poem, "My Opera," from EXIT OPERA, her latest kick-ass collection of poetry. Addonizio is reading along with D.A. Powell at Sixteen Rivers' 26th Anniversary Fundraiser this Sunday! Details and registration info below. #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews #writing

This Sunday, after Saturday's protests—the marches, the speeches, the music, the dancing, the joyous lining up on freeway passes—come & have a seat at our fundraiser & let poetry wash over you! Kim Addonizio & D.A. Powell are reading! Details below! Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

We wager this beautiful, (and sometimes painful) essay in the Oakland Review of Books will capture the hearts of all those who love books and who love Oakland, in equal measure. It certainly captured ours. #books #bookreviews #writingcommunity #writing

Thunder and lightning happening at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley, this Sunday, October 19, 2 to 5 pm. Kim Addonizio and D.A. Powell sing the body electric! You're invited. And it's free! #poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity #poetnews @dapowell.bsky.social

The countdown begins for our annual Sixteen Rivers fundraiser featuring rock star poets D.A. Powell & Kim Addonizio. We're excited! You're excited! We're all excited! Sunday, Oct. 19, 2-5 pm, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity @dapowell.bsky.social

GADZOOKS! Poetry Flash has been the north star 🌠 for all things poetry for over half a century! We invite you to celebrate Joyce & Richard's enduring commitment to poets & poems this Nov. 1 at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. Come feel the love! #poetry #writingcommunity #poetnews #poetrysky

This Nahuatl poem translated by David Bowles stopped us in our tracks—a haunting, gorgeous enchantment. #elegy #poetry

Kim Addonizio's poems startle, shock, careen off the page, plummeting deep into your consciousness. Come hear Addonizio read from her work at our annual fundraiser as we celebrate 26 years of independent publishing. Oct. 19, 2-5pm @ Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. #poetrysky #poetnews #writing

Independent publishers and small presses (Sixteen Rivers is among that number)—this informative and ultimately sobering thread on the closure of the Baker & Taylor distribution center is worth a gander. #indiepresses #publishing

Two poems to wet your whistle by poet and longtime friend of Sixteen Rivers Press, Molly Fisk. #poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity #poetnews

Of D.A. Powell's CHRONIC, poet Stephanie Burt says: "No accessible poet of his generation is half as original, and no poet as original is this accessible." Come hear Powell's fresh, wild words at our annual fundraiser, Sun. Oct. 19, 2-5pm, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. #poetry #poetrysky

To say we're pleased to have poets Kim Addonizio & D.A. Powell read at our fall fundraiser is an understatement. Jazzed, thrilled, gobsmacked is more like it. So come, listen, & be dazzled! FREE! Sunday, Oct. 19, 2-5 pm. Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. #poetrysky #poetry #writingcommunity

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A little bit of Lucille Clifton to help us get through dark times. 💙

It was a hot time for poetry this past Monday night at Sacramento Poetry Center. Poets Molly Fisk, Patricia Caspers, Kim Shuck, & Moira Magneson were all marvelously dangerous! Thank you for the opportunity, SPC! #poetry #poetnews #poetrycommunity

Top of the ninth. Bases loaded. Monday evening. Be there!

If you love fine literature & small, independent presses, or if you're just small-press-curious, #Litquake's Small Press Book Fair @ SF's Yerba Buena Gardens is the place to be this Sunday, September 28, 11 - 4 pm. Sixteen Rivers will have a table there. Drop on by & say hello! #poetry #poetrysky

A beautiful play in baseball is also poetry. #baseball #poetry #JackSuwinski #poetrysky

And last, a shout out and BIG bow of gratitude to #PetalumaPoetryWalk impresario and poet wrangler extraordinaire, Kary Hess, who put on a magnificent, moving, all-day affair. We're singing her praises until the cows come home! 😍🐄 #poetry #poetnews #writingcommunity #poetrysky

Sixteen Rivers poets Patrick Cahill reading from his gorgeous *realismo mágico* collection: If we are the forest the animals dream, and Moira Magneson reading from In the Eye of the Elephant, with poems featuring creatures, heartache, and impermanence. #PetalumaPoetryWalk #poetry #poetnews #writing

Sunday's #PetalumaPoetryWalk was the jam! So many poems, so little time. We're posting photos from the morning's Sixteen Rivers Press Poets event that jump-started the day. First up: Sixteen Rivers co-founder, poet, & translator Terry Ehret introducing the marvelous Judy Halebsky. #poetry #poetnews

And for the Petaluma Poetry Walk's Grand Finale, a fireworks display of poets at the Aqus Café featuring: Dave Seter, Justin Cole Demeter, Kelechi Ubozoh, Ingrid Keir, Bill Vartnaw, Jennifer Barone and more! 6-8pm. #poetry #PetalumaPoetryWalk #poetrycommunity #poetnews

More skinny on the Petaluma Poetry Walk happening this Sunday, Sep. 21: at 2:45 pm or so, stroll on over to Copperfield's Books to listen to literary lights Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, whose words will strike you in "your deep heart's core." #poetry #poetnews #poetrycommunity #PetalumaPoetry

Kicking off the Petaluma Poetry Walk are three Sixteen Rivers poets: Judy Halebsky—Spring and a Thousand Years, Patrick Cahill—If we are the forest the animals dream, & Moira Magneson—In the Eye of the Elephant. Come listen! 11:00, Sept. 21 @ the Hotel Petaluma. #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetry

Keeping in step with newly appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze's championing of poetry translation, Petaluma Poetry Walk is featuring three poet-translators this Sunday, Sept. 21: Amanda Moore, Terry Ehret, & Nancy J. Morales! Don't miss this reading! #poetrysky #poetryintranslation #poetry