Hey-o! Springtime is love time, & what better way to celebrate spring & love then to go to today's SF release party of Feather Press’ TENDER HEARTS CLUB, an anthology of love poems? So many awesome poets, including Sixteen Rivers poet Patrick Cahill! For details 👇 #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky

Breaking news: AFTERIMAGES, Lenore Myers' 1st full-length collection of poems drops soon! This lush, electric suite of ekphrastic poems poses BIG questions: How do the artist, poet, & reader exist in time & in relation to one other? What intimacies do they share? A beautiful, revolutionary book!👇

Shout out to friend of Sixteen Rivers Press Molly Fisk who has two poems up in Vox Populi today! She has a new book dropping in April too: WALKING WHEEL published by Red Hen Press. Mollyology abides! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetnews @mollyfisk.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social

Poetry man about Berkeley and friend to poets everywhere—the amazing and prolific Richard Silberg—could use a little help from his friends! Give what you can and pass it on! ❤️‍🩹 #poetrycommunity #poets #poetrysky #poetry #writingcommunity #Berkeley

Dane Cervine's 2nd prose poem collection with Sixteen Rivers—Children of Obscura: This Mysterious Human—sets sail across the space-time continuum, exploring the many worlds within & without our own world, marveling at the curiosities & paradox of human existence; each poem a wonder! #poetry #poems

Sixteen Rivers poet Carolyn Miller has a new poetry collection coming out, her fourth: RANDOM UNIVERSE! These wise, luminous, in-love-with-this-sorrowful-beautiful-life poems will fill you up with their music. To read more about Carolyn & to buy her book, visit sixteenrivers.org. #poetry #poetrysky

Pollen is in the air & so is poetry! We're delighted to announce we've three new poetry collections dropping on April 2nd: Carolyn Miller's "Random Universe," Dane Cervine's "Children of Obscura," & Lenore Myers' "Afterimages." We'll be singing their praises in posts to come! #poetrysky #poetry

In which the marvelous Sophia Hall—2023 DC Youth Poet Laureate—hosts "Meet a Poet" featuring Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein reading his poems—little marvels unto themselves—to a Moscow audience: poetry transcending borders! Wisdom. Mystery. Delight. It's all here! #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

Ulalume González de León's exquisite, existential poem "The Stairs" is featured in Poetry Daily today! This poem appears in González de León's Plagios/Plagiarisms 3, translated by Terry Ehret & Nancy J. Morales, & published by Sixteen Rivers Press. Gorgeous, haunting poems! #translation #poetry

Julia Levine’s harrowing yet deeply compassionate poem, “Letter to Pam Bondi,” speaks to the survivors’ experience. Thank you @rattlepoetry.bsky.social for publishing this poem today in Poets Respond. Our hope is that this poem will be shared far and wide. #poetry #poetrysky #Epstein #PamBondi

When the forces of nihilism appear especially strong, it's good to revisit Gwendolyn Brooks' "Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among them Nora and Henry III)," a poem that buoys us with its defiant, plain-spoken optimism. #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #BlackHistoryMonth

Yesterday, Feb. 6, the 30-day anniversary of Renée Good's death, A Courage of Poets—200—gathered at the California State Capitol & read lines of poetry in remembrance of Renée, Alex, Keith, Silverio, & the many other individuals killed by ICE. We were there to grieve & share our hearts. 👇

A Courage of Poets is in the news! Much gratitude to Kary Hess and the Daily Bohemian for spotlighting our event! 🤩💙 #poetry #poetnews #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #ACourageofPoets

Of course we love Langston Hughes, the most American of American poets. And it goes without saying that we love rivers, and so, Hughes' poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," holds a special place in our hearts. 🖤💙 #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #LangstonHughes #BlackHistoryMonth

Cornelius Eady's poem, "Nina's Blues," a beautiful, sorrowful elegy for The High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #blackhistorymonth #corneliuseady

In recognition of Black History Month, which really is ALL day, EVERY day, EVERY month, ALL year long, we offer the Poetry Foundation's link to his gorgeous poem "Thank You." #BlackHistorymonth #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky

Tonight, tonight There's only you tonight What you are, what you do, what you say!* 🎵 Northern California poets! As of 10:00 am PST, you've just 14 more hours to get your manuscripts to us! We're on tenterhooks! 😀 *"Tonight" lyrics from West Side Story, Sondheim & Bernstein #poetrysky #poetry

Boomshakalaka! 💥 Boomshakalaka! 💥 Boomshakalaka! 💥Boom! 💥 Northern California poets! You've got till 12:00 midnight, Sunday, February 1, to submit your manuscripts! Boom! 💥 #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #poetry #callformanuscripts #callforsubmissions #poetnews

Calling all California poets and writers! If not now, when? Pass it on! #acourageofpoets #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetrysky

Sixteen Rivers poet & press co-founder, Terry Ehret (that's her in the photo), is the special guest poet tonight at Poetic License Online Poetry Reading. She'll be sharing poems on the theme of Doubt, in particular the kinds of doubt artists & writers struggle with! See below for the link! #poetry

California & West Coast poets! Join us in A COURAGE OF POETS, Friday, Feb. 6, 10:00 am @ the Calif. State Capitol! We are poeming in remembrance of Renee Good, Keith Porter Jr., Silverio Gonzalez & all other individuals killed by ICE. #speakout #nonviolent-resistance #poetry #poetrycommunity

Northern California poets: The countdown begins! You've six more days until midnight Sunday, February 1, to get your manuscript to us! The beautiful thing is, there's no submission fee, so nothing's stopping you! Go for it! #callformanuscripts #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

Sixteen Rivers invites California poets to participate in A Courage of Poets, a statewide, peaceable gathering of poets & writers intended to bear witness out loud to the ICE killings of Renée Good, Keith Porter Jr., Silverio Villegas González, & Alex Pretti. 👇 #poetry #poetrycommunity #Poetrysky

Last call for this reading! TODAY! Poem besotting and wonderment coming at you! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetnews #poetrysky @glenningersoll.bsky.social

This Saturday : : Cagney and Ingersoll shall "sing the body electric." ⚡ Come listen! ⚡ #poetry #poetnews #poetrycommunity @glenningersoll.bsky.social

James Cagney! Glenn Ingersoll! Fujita V poets, guaranteed to blow down the timbers of the poetry house! This Saturday, January 24, 3 to 5 pm @ Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley. Come and be amazed! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #poetnews @glenningersoll.bsky.social

Tick. Tick. Tick. ⏰ Ten days left to submit your fabulous manuscript to our fabulous press! Twelve midnight ,February 1, is the witching hour. C'mon! You can do it! #callforsubmissions #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky

Little poem and new (to us) poet discoveries on Bluesky are always fun! Thanks for the introduction to #ElenaPerez @fakeourway.bsky.social!

Cagney and Ingersoll . . . partners in rhyme. Kind of like Butch and Sundance. Or Monk and Coltrane. A poet pairing for the ages. Don't miss these two! Saturday, Jan. 24 at Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley. 3-5 pm. 'Til then! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #Berkeley

Today, the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., we want to celebrate both Dr. King & his protégé, John Lewis, by remembering joy, so we're posting Pearl Cleage's poem, "for John Lewis, who loved to dance" which puts us all up in our feelings. #MLK #poetry #PearlCleage #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

Glenn Ingersoll delivers his poems with a splash of sarcasm & biting wit; beneath each line, a growling, grrring trickster coyote. Can you tell we love his poems? Sixteen Rivers invites you to experience Ingersoll for yourself on Saturday, January 24 @ Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. Details 👇

The first time we heard James Cagney read was back in the day—2004—at Sacramento City College. He recited "Lycanthropoetry" & zzzzttt!: it was like witnessing St. Elmo's fire—electric! Sixteen Rivers Presents is thrilled to host poets James Cagney & Glenn Ingersoll on January. 24. Details 👇

Putting this out there again for all the Northern California poets with a manuscript shoved in their satchel for how long? Days? Months? Years? We can't wait to be dazzled! Submit! 🤩 #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #callforsubmissions

We love this poem by @isabellewrites.bsky.social Tom Snarsky’s #smallpoemsunday is a gift to us all. 🙏🏻 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

BIG bow to Eric Whittington of the fabulous Bird & Beckett Books & Records for hosting Sixteen Rivers' first poetry reading of the New Year. You can tell by the photos that B & B—in the heart of SF's Glen Park—is a happening place, home to jazz legends & literary luminaries! #poetry #Bird&Beckett

A dark, national déjà vu is upon us. Perhaps the darkness never left. Certainly, it seems we are at a tipping point in our democracy. In 2018 we published an anthology of poems: America We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistancee and Resilience. This collection still sings true today. #poetrycommunity

Tonight. 🌃 We're on your dance card, yes? #poetry #poetnews #poetrycommunity #SanFrancisco #poetrysky #Bird&Beckett

…it should break your heart to kill.

We condemn the ICE killing and grieve the loss of Renee Nicole Good—poet, mother, daughter, wife, human being. May she rest in poetry.

Make it viral.

ZOUNDS! These two phenomenal poets will blow down the doors of the poetry house! Come and be amazed! 🤩 #poetry #poetrysky #poetnews #poetrycommunity #Berkeley #BayArea

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...