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We’d like to thank our designer, Cathi Bosco, of Madison, Connecticut, who was able to intuit the look of our press and give us a new design that preserves but enlivens the spirit of our rivers logo.

And soon 2012 will be upon us and we’ll have many more readings with our newest authors Judy Halebsky, winner of our first chapbook contest, and Jacqueline Kudler with her newest full-length collection. They will read at venues in Marin County, San Francisco, the East Bay, Modesto, and elsewhere so there is a location for almost everyone. Please check back soon for more information.

Jeanne Wagner’s poetry rides through a landscape both familiar in its humanity and astonishingly new. Her fluid syntax and inventive diction flood into hidden and unexpected fissures of experience and memory. She seems to carve out new spaces where images pour into and out of one another and where metaphors appear like undiscovered species, strange yet perfectly adapted to her world. Her imagination ranges from the cellular level to the cosmic reaches and from the Arctic to the Flamingo Motel of Berkeley. She activates the nuances of language itself, its near-lost etymologies and inherent double entendres, to explore the dark complications of home and relationship, grief, emotional deafness, the estranging skin, sin, and redemption. These poems move and amaze and consistently enlighten.  —Jeanne Emmons