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Sixteen Rivers Press, the Glossary

Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective that provides an alternative publishing avenue for San Francisco Bay Area poets.^[1]

32 relations: Al Young, Alice James Books, Architecture, Brenda Hillman, Camille Dungy, Carolyn Miller, David St. John, Diana O'Hehir, Diane Sher Lutovich, Eavan Boland, Eleanor Wilner, Fiction, Francisco X. Alarcón, Gillian Conoley, Ilya Kaminsky, Jacqueline Kudler, Jane Hirshfield, Kathleen Fraser (poet), Kay Ryan, Marie Howe, Marjorie Agosín, Mark Doty, National Endowment for the Arts, Nonprofit corporation, Philip Levine (poet), Poetry, Psychology, Publishing, Robert Hass, Small Press Distribution, Terry Ehret, United States.
Book publishing companies based in San Francisco
Publishing companies established in 1999

Al Young

Albert James Young (May 31, 1939 – April 17, 2021) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor.

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Alice James Books

Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in New Gloucester, Maine.

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Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman (born March 27, 1951, in Tucson, Arizona) is an American poet and translator.

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Camille Dungy

Camille T. Dungy (born 1972) is an American poet and professor.

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Carolyn Miller

Carolyn Rae Miller (born 1945 in Boston, MA) is SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication Emerita at North Carolina State University.

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David St. John

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Diana O'Hehir

Diana Farnham O'Hehir (May 23, 1922 – January 19, 2021) was an American poet and writer of prose from northern California.

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Diane Sher Lutovich

Diane Sher Lutovich (died June 2, 2004) was an American poet, and writing teacher.

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Eavan Boland

Eavan Aisling Boland (24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor.

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Eleanor Wilner

Eleanor Rand Wilner (born 1937) is an American poet and editor.

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Fiction

Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.

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Francisco X. Alarcón

Francisco Xavier Alarcón (21 February 1954 – 15 January 2016) was a Chicano poet and educator.

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Gillian Conoley

Gillian Conoley (born March 29, 1955) is an American poet.

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Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a USSR-born, Ukrainian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor.

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Jacqueline Kudler

Jacqueline Kudler (1935-2024) was a poet and educator who lived in Sausalito, California.

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Jane Hirshfield (born February 24, 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator, known as 'one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere' and recognized as 'among the modern masters,' 'writing some of the most important poetry in the world today.' A 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, her books include numerous award-winning collections of her own poems, collections of essays, and edited and co-translated volumes of world writers from the deep past.

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Kathleen Fraser (poet)

Kathleen Fraser (March 22, 1935 - February 5, 2019) was a contemporary poet.

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Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) is an American poet and educator.

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Marie Howe

Marie Howe (born 1950 Rochester, New York) is an American poet.

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Marjorie Agosín

Marjorie Agosín (born June 15, 1955) is a Chilean-American writer.

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Mark Doty

Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work My Alexandria. He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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Nonprofit corporation

A nonprofit corporation is any legal entity which has been incorporated under the law of its jurisdiction for purposes other than making profits for its owners or shareholders.

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Philip Levine (poet)

Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.

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Publishing

Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.

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Robert Hass

Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet.

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Small Press Distribution

Small Press Distribution (SPD) was an "exclusively literary" nonprofit book distributor for the small press that operated from 1969 to 2024.

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Terry Ehret

Terry Ehret (born 1955 in San Francisco) is an American poet.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Rivers_Press

Also known as 16 rivers press.