California Book Award Winner

Sixteen Rivers is proud to announce that Dan Bellm's book Practice has won the 2009 Silver Medal in Poetry as part of the California Book Awards given by the Commonwealth Club of California. An award ceremony will take place on Thursday, June 4 at 6:00pm at the Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, San Francisco. Further information is available at http://www.commonwealthclub.org/features/caBookAwards/.

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. Create a better day by reading a poem! There are plenty of poems all over the online universe, but Sixteen Rivers is a great place to narrow your search. Check out out all of our books at http://www.sixteenrivers.org/books.asp. There are lots of poems on the site to sample and enjoy. Be our guest.

Poetry in the Wider World

One of Dan Bellm's poems from Practice ("Elegy/in advance/do not hasten") appears in the new anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease, edited by Holly J. Hughes, with a forward by Tess Gallagher, just out from Kent State University Press. More info at http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/.

Another Nomination

Terry Ehret's Lucky Break has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. The awards ceremony will be held Sunday, April 19 at the Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin at Grove, at 1:00pm. Immediately after the ceremony, a reception and book signing will be held in the Latino/Hispanic Room. The ceremony and reception are free to the public, and Sixteen Rivers would be pleased and honored to have our readers and supporters attend.

Award Nominations

Congratulations to Terry Ehret (Lucky Break, 2008) and Dan Bellm (Practice, 2008) for their recent nominations for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Awards.

New Books for 2009

Two great new books are coming out from Sixteen Rivers Press in 2009. Light, Moving by Carolyn Miller and Again by Lynne Knight. Both books will be officially released on April 1, but you can preview the poems on our website at http://www.sixteenrivers.org/books_authors/again.asp and http://www.sixteenrivers.org/books_authors/lightmoving.asp

Deserved Recognition

Congratulations to Sixteen Rivers member Helen Wickes (In Search of Landscape, 2007). Her poem "The World as You Left It" has been chosen for inclusion in the 2009 Best of the Web anthology published by Dzanc Books. The poem was originally published in AGNI Online and was nominated by Sven Birkets, AGNI editor.