Sixteen Rivers Fall Fundraiser and 26th-Anniversary Celebration

Come celebrate poetry, autumn, and our 26th year of independent publishing with readings by lauded poets Kim Addonizio and D.A. Powell.

Admission is free, but please visit our registration page to let us know you're coming and/or make a donation.

Learn more about Sixteen Rivers Press at our website, sixteenrivers.org, or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SixteenRivers/

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Donations will help Sixteen Rivers continue to offer a regional publishing venue for poets of the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. Suggested levels:

$10 Rill

$50 Stream

$100 Tributary

$150 River

$250 Watercourse

$500 Wellspring

About the Authors

Kim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She also has two word/music CDS: Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, & Kissing (with Susan Browne) and My Black Angel, the companion to My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits, a collaboration with woodcut artist Charles D. Jones. Her poetry has been translated into several languages including Spanish, Arabic, Italian, and Hungarian. Collections have been published in China, Spain, Mexico, Lebanon, and the UK. Addonizio’s awards include two fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim, two Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. Her latest books are a poetry collection, Mortal Trash (W.W. Norton), and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). Now We’re Getting Somewhere was published by W.W. Norton (March 2021). Exit Opera (W.W.Norton)was released in September 2024.

D. A. Powell was born in Albany, Georgia, on May 16, 1963. He attended Sonoma State University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1991 and his master’s in 1993. He received his MFA degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1996.

Powell is the author of the trilogy of books Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2004), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Lunch (Wesleyan University Press, 2000); and Tea (Wesleyan University Press, 1998). His poetry collection Chronic (Graywolf Press, 2009) received the Kingsley Tufts Award and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent books are Repast: Tea, Lunch, Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2014) and Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2012).

Powell is also the recipient of the Paul Engle Prize from the James Michener Center, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the 2019 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Powell has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Sonoma State University, San Francisco State University, and served as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University. He is currently a professor at the University of San Francisco.

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