Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective that provides an alternative publishing avenue for San Francisco Bay Area poets.
Founded in 1999 by poets Valerie Berry, Terry Ehret, Margaret Kaufman, Jacqueline Kudler, Diane Sher Lutovich, Carolyn Miller, and Susan Sibbet as a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for San Francisco Bay Area poets.
Featured poets at those fundraisers have been Philip Levine, Eavan Boland, Al Young, Ilya Kaminsky, Brenda Hillman, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Mark Doty, Kay Ryan, and Camille Dungy.
Current Sixteen Rivers Press Nonprofit Board Members include Dane Cervine, Terry Ehret, Margaret Kaufman, and Carolyn Miller.
Current Sixteen Rivers Press Advisory Board members include Kazim Ali, Gillian Conoley, Camille T. Dungy, Ruth Gundle, Lee Herrick, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Marie Howe, Joyce Jenkins, Kay Ryan, David St. John, Eleanor Wilner, Maw Shein Win, and Matthew Zapruder.
Current active Sixteen Rivers Press collective members include Valerie Berry, Barbara Swift Brauer, Patrick Cahill, Dane Cervine, Terry Ehret, Gerald Fleming, Margaret Kaufman, Lynne Knight, Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, Christina Lloyd, Moira Magneson, Carolyn Miller, Matthew M. Monte, Camille Norton, Eliot Schain, Murray Silverstein, Alice Templeton, Helen Wickes, and Joseph Zaccardi.