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

Poetry lovers & friends—feel a little blue? Welp, the cure for what ails you just might be the 28th annual Petaluma Poetry Walk happening this Sunday, Sept. 21, 11am to 8pm: 26 poets, 8 venues, + a walking guide to assist your amble. Free! The Big Easy is hosting the Black Lawrence poets! #poetrysky

Sierra foothills folks—Sixteen Rivers poet Moira Magneson will be reading from In the Eye of the Elephant at Cameron Park Library this Thursday evening, September 18, 5:30 to 7:00. Open mic to follow! Get your poems on! #poetry #poetnews #poetrysky #writingcommunity #sierrafoothills

Our final batch of photos from our Waking Up event last night. Kudos to these young writers for their poems of resistance and resilience! Inclined to purchase a copy of Waking Up? Go to: sixteenrivers.org. #poetrysky #poetry #writingcommunity #youthpoetlaureateprograms #poetnews

More photos of young poets poeming at our Waking Up event in Santa Cruz on Sunday evening. A night to rival the Emmys! #poetry #writingcommunity #poetnews #SantaCruz #SantaCruzMuseumofArt&History

Sixteen Rivers poet Dane Cervine reports that last night's reading in Santa Cruz featuring the young poets whose voices make up the Waking Up anthology was a grand and moving event! Huzzah for the up-and-coming generation of powerful poets! @farnazfatemi.bsky.social #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews

It’s probably not too far-fetched to say that @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social describes the secret wish of all poets!

It’s raining poets next Sunday, Sept. 21, at the Petaluma Poetry Walk!! #poetnews #poetrysky #writingcommunity #poetry

We're jazzed to be part of WAKING UP, an incredible youth poetry project that unfolded this past year in Santa Cruz County. Big bow of gratitude goes to poet Farnaz Fatemi for advising & mentoring these young poets. Sunday, 9-14, 6 - 7:30 pm @ Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Free! #poetrysky

26 poets. 8 venues. 1 day. Oh my! 2025 Petaluma Poetry Walk. Sixteen Rivers poets and translators will be there. Download the day's walking guide for everything you need to know. petalumapoetrywalk.org/wp-content/u... #poetrycommunity #poetnews #writingcommunity #poetrysky #PetalumaPoetryWalk

Poets & poetry lovers! Mark your calendars for the Petaluma Poetry Walk on Sunday, September 21. Now in its 28th year, this day-long burst of poetry is bound to elevate your serotonin levels! #poetrysky #poetnews #writingcommunity #poetry #petaluma petalumapoetrywalk.org

In partnership with the Santa Cruz Youth Poet Laureate Program, Sixteen Rivers press is thrilled to announce the publication of Waking Up: Teen Poems of Resistance and Resilience! A book release celebration will be held on Sunday, Sept. 14, 6 pm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. #PoetrySky

This Tuesday evening, Sept. 9, MoSt Poetry will be hosting a reading at Bookish Modesto featuring Sixteen Rivers poet Moira Magneson and UC Merced professor and poet Samantha Tetangco Ocena. Open mic to follow! Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #poetry #writingcommunity #poetnews @mostpoetry.bsky.social

This Tuesday evening, Sept. 9, MoSt Poetry will be hosting a reading at Bookish Modesto featuring Sixteen Rivers poet Moira Magneson and UC Merced professor and poet Samantha Tetangco Ocena. Open mic to follow! Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #poetry #writingcommunity #poetnews @mostpoetry.bsky.social

Our last summer workshop for 2025 will be at Salida Public Library 1:00-3:00 p.m. Saturday, September 13. www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-s...

On Sunday, September 14, Book Passage will host Mary Mackey reading from her latest powerhouse book of poems—In This Burning World. Not to be missed! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetnews

A revelatory, must-read interview in which Maria Reva, Jasmin Schreiber, & Ed Yong discuss the *framing* power of the word *endling* & how art arises out of heartache, loss, & grief. #writingcommunity #writing

Encountering a poem by Lynne Knight is lovely way to wake up to the day! After Her Affair by Lynne Knight - Rattle: Poetry

After the protests, the parades, & the general holiday hobnobbing, come join Rivertown Poets & Aqus Cafe as they host Sixteen Rivers poets for a Labor Day Zoom reading! #poetry #writingcommunity #poetnews

Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns

O! This exquisite, breathtaking poem. Dalia Taha, you have our heart. Thank you, Sara Elkamel, for this translation. #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #translation

One of autumn's many pleasures is the arrival of The Best American Poetry. September 2, 2025 is the official release date for The Best American Poetry 2025. Yay! And . . . big happiness here at Sixteen Rivers! Gerald Fleming's poem, "Two Thousand," is in the mix! Diggety! #poetry #poetrycommunity

Kick back and join Sixteen Rivers poets and translators for a Labor Day Zoom reading!

Petaluma Poetry Walk is a skosh over a month away—September 21 in the lovely little town of Petaluma. It's a day-long poetry stroll * saunter * amble through the streets and old-fashioned establishments of Petaluma! And it's free! petalumapoetrywalk.org #poetrycommunity #poetnews #writingcommunity

Hey-o, folks! Poems, poems, poems, and then some coming your way this Saturday at Berkeley's Northbrae Community Church, 3-5 pm. Terry Ehret! Nancy J. Morales! Patrick Cahill! Moira Magneson! Come one, come all! #poetrycommunity #poetnews #poemnews #writingcommunity @terryehret.bsky.social

To live on this Earth at the same time as the prescient, powerful Mary Mackey is a pleasure and a gift. #poetry #climatecrisis #PoetrySky #PoetNews #writingcommunity

Need a respite from the pervasive, unrelenting news cycle? Poems to the rescue! On Saturday, August 23 @ Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley, four Sixteen Rivers poets will read from and talk about their latest work. Come & bask in the music of their words! It's free! #poetry #PoetrySky #PoetNews

C'est merveilleux! @alexanderchee.bsky.social put out a call for good poetry podcasts, and lo and behold, and of course, the Skyverse came through! Thought we'd pass along these recommendations. Thanks, Jeff MacGregor! #poetnews #poetry #PoetrySky

A reminder: Dane and Donna will be giving folks some poem dazzle tomorrow evening, Tuesday, August 12, 7 pm @ Works/San Jose Art, 38 South 2nd St, San Jose. You can Zoom in as well. To preregister, go to bit.ly/3IHdK1L @poetrysanjose.bsky.social. #PoetNews #PoetrySky #writingcommunity

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas. -Kobayashi Issa

@sandymcintosh.bsky.social just brought this awesome high school summer internship program to our attention. These teens are learning how to be warriors for the arts! Huzzah! #poetry #literature #poetrysky #writingcommunity

Ahhh . . . one of [many] things we love about BlueSky, the chance to discover new forms of poetry, in this case, the "cherita," a six-line narrative form invented in 1997 by the UK poet ai-li in memory of her grandparents. Very cool! Thank you @merrildsmith.bsky.social! #cherita #poetry #PoetrySky

August is Women in Translation month & so we're celebrating Sixteen Rivers poets Terry Ehret & Nancy J. Morales who've translated the late, great Mexican-Uruguayan poet Ulalume González de León's PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS into three volumes, a years-long project. @clmporg.bsky.social #poetry #poetrysky

Wow! We can't keep up with Sixteen Rivers poet Dane Cervine, but we're trying! This Tues., Aug. 12, @ 7pm, Well-RED—a Poetry Center San Jose Program—will feature Dane reading alongside poet and improvisational artist Donna Presson. Open mic to follow! #PoetNews #PoetrySky @poetrysanjose.bsky.social

Why are these poets all beaming? Because they crushed their Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show reading @ the Fairfax Public Library this past Saturday! The lineup, left to right: Albert Flynn DeSilver, Kate Peper, Cathryn Shea, Ann Robinson, Barbara Swift Brauer, & Janet Jennings. #PoetrySky #Poetry

Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein caught poet Camille Dungy expounding upon her new book, "Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden" in the redwood grove at UC Berkeley's Botanical Garden. Murray reports that her talk was lively, inspiring, brilliant, as is the book! #BookSky #Poetry #Poets

In which Dante Di Stefano celebrates all bodies as they are, inhabiting one body, the Earth as it is. #poetry #poems #poetrysky

Heads-up, poets! The Hugo Awards will now include a “speculative” poetry category. Woo-hoo! Cause for celebration 🍾! #poetry #poetnews #poetrysky