Sixteen Rivers Press Fall Benefit and 25th Anniversary Celebration

Join us for a delightful afternoon of wine, hors d'oeuvres, a silent auction, and readings by Dorianne Laux and Joe Millar

The event is free.

Please click on "get tickets" to let us know you're coming and/or to make a donation. Sixteen Rivers welcomes donations at the following suggested levels:

$10 Rill

$25 Brook

$50 Stream

$100 Tributary

$150 River

$250 Watercourse

$500 Wellspring

other

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Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection, Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award, Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Her latest collection of poetry is Life On Earth and was released in January of 2024. Finger Exercises for Poets, a book of concise craft essays and exercises for poets was released in July 2024.

Joseph Millar's first collection of poems, Overtime, was a finalist for the 2001 Oregon Book Award. His second collection, Fortune, appeared in 2007, followed by a third, Blue Rust, in 2012. Kingdom was released in early 2017, and Dark Harvest, New & Selected Poems, was released in 2021. His latest collection, Shine, will be published in October of 2024. He has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in such magazines as DoubleTake, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, APR, and Ploughshares. Millar teaches in Pacific University's low-residency MFA Program.

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