Welcome to Sixteen Rivers Press
Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for San Francisco Bay Area poets. Founded in 1999 by seven writers, the press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into the San Francisco Bay. Since 2001, we have produced twenty-eight outstanding books of poetry, sharing our commitment to excellence with the poetry world.
For a printable PDF of the 2013 Catalog... New Titles for 2013
Barbara Swift Brauer
At Ease in the Borrowed World
“Haunted by loveliness and by ghosts, Barbara Swift Brauer’s collection, At Ease in the Borrowed World, maps out a new geography of belonging. Not to place, exactly, or to family, but to a suspended world where everyone gathers: parents and children, women and men, characters from novels, from history, the dead. It’s a sharply etched but comforting landscape, where reader and writer are both allowed temporary reign; where we ‘climb to the top of it and see farther,’ and then ‘place the sleeping residents / back in their beds, and fold the quick dark around them.’ ” —Molly Fisk, author of The More Difficult Beauty [Read More...]
Gerald Fleming
Swimmer Climbing onto Shore (2005)
& The Choreographer (2013)
The Choreographer
“All through The Choreographer, we encounter our own humanness in mirrors both dark and bright, as Gerald Fleming reveals us to ourselves. Each of these pieces feels unexpected yet somehow inevitable. I love their mordant wit, their sparseness and precision, their relentless truthfulness. This book is filled with music, and Fleming’s lyrical mastery is nowhere clearer than in the stunning sequence at its center—prose poems sprung from fifteenth-century Sephardic songs that seduce us into his imagined world of irresolvable ache, foolishness, and joy.” —Joan Larkin, author of My Body: New and Selected Poems [Read More...]
