River River Books

07/02/2025

Cover reveals! Preorders! River River is utterly delighted by our next two books: Encounters for the Living and the Dead by Jameela Fay Dallis & Field Notes by E.G. Cunningham.

Both available for preorder now, publishing and shipping in September. https://riverriverbooks.beehiiv.com/p/fall-covers-reveal-preorders-for-jameela-f-dallis-s-encounters-for-the-living-and-the-dead-and-e-g-c

06/26/2025

Our summer reading period is open for five (5) more days (counting today). We want to read your poetry manuscript. Yes, yours! Yes, those poems!

No mandatory reading fee, a careful read from two thoughtful editors, the chance to join our growing catalog. Give us a shot!

06/21/2025

A week and a half left in this reading period! We want to read your amazing poetry manuscript!

We're open for 20 more days (counting today)!

If you're looking for a small press with two editors who will care deeply for your book, do give us a try. We're looking for (at least) two poetry collections to join our growing catalog.

06/11/2025

We're open for 20 more days (counting today)!

If you're looking for a small press with two editors who will care deeply for your book, do give us a try. We're looking for (at least) two poetry collections to join our growing catalog.

05/13/2025

Guess what?

We’re open for poetry manuscripts until the end of June! No required fee, we read them all, and we’ll notify everyone before we announce our selections. If you think a tiny press that focuses on care and transparency is a good fit for you and your work, send it our way!

05/02/2025

Amazing! So happy for Carla's book!!!

April's top ten from CLMP member publishers at Itasca Books. All available from Itasca Books at https://hubs.la/Q03ksmYZ0 CLMP is the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, a nonprofit helping independent literary presses thrive, more info at https://hubs.la/Q03kshKF0

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02/06/2025

One of our two new ones!!

A new title from River River Books! Your Mother's Bear Gun: Poems, by Corrie Williamson, a recipient of the 2020 PEN Northwest/Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. Available through Itasca Books at https://bit.ly/40YYIuV

02/05/2025

Listen to Joe Wilkins discuss and share poems from his new book Pastoral, 1994! https://ofpoetrypodcast.com/2025/01/28/episode-66-joe-wilkins-of-pastoral-tender-models-of-masculinity-and-the-sonnet-haunted-prairies/

01/11/2025

More shenanigans from the RRB editors who just can't stop finding amazing books to publish.

05/03/2024

We're open! Send us your poetry manuscript!

04/01/2024

Today, River River is launching a Kickstarter to help us fund the transition to a new distributor in the wake of SPD's abrupt closure last week. We are not the only small press impacted by this event, and many presses might be in worse shape than we are. Please support the publishers that make books you love, whether it's us or some other small indie press.

Help us ship poetry to independent bookstores, libraries, and readers.