Woot! Good times! Telluride's Bardic Trails hosts Sixteen Rivers poet Dane Cervine tonight in their Zoom Room. 7 pm Mountain Time. #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #BardicTrailsVirtualPoetrySeries

As a poetry press that’s spotlighted translation, we repudiate the notion of turning literary translation over to AI. AI can’t and will never know the hot labyrinth and muscle of the human heart, nor the wild mind. #travesty #translation #poetry #poetrycommunity.

Sound the trombones! Our first reading of the NEW YEAR! Drop on by! #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #Bird&Beckett

Before we call it a day, we're giving a shout out to Gerald Fleming, another Sixteen Rivers poet featured in the latest issue of LAdige! Fleming is a master of the prose poem; his is a wild, careening, absurdist voice: "A lie’s just a life, one letter gone missing." #poetry #poetrycommunity #LAdige

Bang smash! Sixteen Rivers poet Helen Wickes has four superb poems up at LAdige, a dynamite online litmag. Check it out! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #LAdige

Hey-o, Northern California poets! It's raining! It's pouring—what better time to polish your manuscript and submit to our awesome press? Think about it! 🙂 #callforsubmissions #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

The new year begins with the gift of Cornelius Eady reciting "Proof!" As Eady says in his introduction, this moment—and this poem—reflect "another kind of new beginning." Snap! #poetry #poetnews #newbeginnings #promise #resistance #NewYorkCity

"Bird, bird, bird. Hello bird. You lift me up bird. You sing the day beautiful, bird." "Birdsong of Shaker Way" by Jamaican poet Ann-Margaret Lim is the perfect poem to ring in the New Year. Press the audio button to hear Lim's joyous recitation! www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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Yikes! If you're anything like us, you just might be gifting friends & family well into the new year. So . . . why not surprise folks with a few poetry gems to usher in 2026? Here are a few of our favorite poetry books! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky sixteenrivers.org

If you do one thing in this week of endless horrors—public & personal—read Murray Silverstein's astonishing poem "Dante in Auschwitz, Ulysses in Hell" in VOX POPULI. Ulysses asks, "Why am I in hell?" & "Where are we going?" questions we all ask ourselves in these troubled times. #poetry #poetrysky

James Penha’s “Pentimento,” a delicate, tender poem that speaks to the enduring and haunting feeling of loss.

This poem calls to us at this moment. Thank you, Lucille Clifton, for your words that pierce the heart. #poetry #poetrysky

As an independent poetry press that spotlights beautiful language and wild minds, we of course agree with all that Maria Dahvana Headley has to say about the platitudinous horrors of AI and the glory of the genuine human voice! This 🧵 sounds the hue and cry, for sure!

Hey-o, Northern California poets with a manuscript waiting in the wings: You've got 51 days, 3 hours, & 40 minutes to submit your manuscript to Sixteen Rivers Press! The call for submissions ends Feb. 1, 2026 @ 11:59 pm! You can do it! #callforsubmissions #poetry #poetrysky sixteenrivers.org/submit

Hey-o, writers & artists! We'd like to call your attention to a gorgeous online literary magazine: The Dreaming Machine. Perhaps you've heard of it? If not, get a gander! Sixteen Rivers poet Carolyn Miller's poem "Movement Class at the Holistic Institute" is in the Dec. 2 issue! #poetry #poetrysky

We had a brilliant time this past Thursday listening to the Da Vinci Junior High School students read from TO THE HUMAN RACE, their latest chapbook of poems. Such passionate poems about their place in the world as they face the tragedy of the climate crisis. Bravo! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetnews

Friends! If you happen to be near Davis on December 4, why not drop on by the John Natsoulas Gallery at 7:00 pm & have a listen to the Da Vinci Junior High School poets read work from their latest glorious chapbook: TO THE HUMAN RACE? Hope to see you there! 521 1st St., Davis. #poetrycommunity

In their chapbook, TO THE HUMAN RACE, the Da Vinci Junior High School poets sound the hue & cry about the climate crisis. Sixteen Rivers invites you to witness their collective cri de coeur in a reading at the John Natsoulas Gallery Thurs., December 4, 7 pm. Come one! Come all! #poetry #poetrysky

Diggety! Hats off to poet Moira Magneson whose poems "Death Deluxe" and "Mom Drives Fast" are the last of our nominations for this year's Pushcart. Both poems appear in Magneson's first full-length collection: "In the Eye of the Elephant." To find out more about Moira Magneson 👇

We are thrilled to nominate Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong's "fugue" & "if i had a cousin in jerusalem" for a Pushcart Prize. Appearing in Kwong's third collection of poetry, "the department of peace," both poems speak to the charged, political times in which we live. To find out more about Bonnie Wai-Lee 👇

Translation abides! Sixteen Rivers has nominated the haunting, existential poem “Las Escaleras/The Stairs” by Mexican poet Ulalume González de León for a Pushcart Prize. "Las Escaleras" appears in PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS Volume Three, translated by Terry Ehret and Nancy J. Morales. #poetry #Pushcart

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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