Cold River Press

08/24/2026

Cold River Press is on hiatus as I re-program the site for a more modern approach to publishing. I appreciate your patience.

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07/20/2026

I hope to see you this Sunday at Chateau Davell in Camino for our 2nd VOICES 2026 reading. Bring lawn chairs and a lawn umbrella, they say it will be a might warmish. Our host has a fine selection of wine and craft beer, please help support him. I will have a handful of books for sale, they're going fast.

Intro 2:00
Tom Goff 2:10
Nora Goff 2:20
Jennifer Pickering 2:30
Lara Gularte 2:40
Brad Buchanan 2:50
BREAK
Wendy Williams 3:30
Carol Grellas 3:40
Sharon Mahany 3:50
Chris Olander 4:00
Tim Kahl 4:10
Gene Berson 4:20
Suzanne Marshall 4:30

07/05/2026

I hope you all had a spectacular 4th of July for our nation's 250 year anniversary! Now it's time to get back to the business of poetry starting Saturday, July 11th with the Sacramento reading of VOICES 2026. This will be an afternoon filled with poetry, friendship, and food!!! BBQ,, Refreshments, Potluck....bring your favorite dish for the potluck and come hear some fantastic word slinging from the exceptional poets that will be gathering for this event. You will not want to miss it!

The fun starts at 1pm. I hope to see you there!

06/30/2026

In honor of finally obtaining a Trademark for Cold River Press, and in honor of our country's 250th birthday, I present this:

The alternative press has served as a persistent counterweight to dominant power structures and their media apparatus, operating in the margins and sometimes bursting into the mainstream, always pushing the boundaries of acceptable discourse. From early colonial-era broadsides that circulated revolutionary ideas to the abolitionist newspapers that helped ignite a civil war, from the labor press that organized industrial workers to the underground newspapers that challenged the Vietnam War, from feminist publications that re-imagined gender relations to contemporary independent digital platforms exposing stories ignored by corporate news outlets, alternative media has consistently amplified marginalized voices and held power accountable in ways that establishment media often cannot or will not do. Understanding this history is essential to comprehending how American democracy has evolved, how social movements have mobilized, and how citizens have contested dominant narratives across more than two centuries. On the eve of our great country's 250th birthday, we should all take a moment to remind ourselves it was earned, in great part, by crazed printers who were wholly determined to "get the word out" at whatever cost. I salute and honor these forefathers of independent thought by continuing their quest and doing what ever I can to keep alternative press alive.

06/30/2026

After years of wrangling with outside agencies, and defeating an unnamed opponent who claimed Cold River Press was theirs, Cold River Press has obtained its own Trademark. My grass roots publishing finally recognized. Sweet.

06/28/2026

We did not forget the Higher Elevation folk. We will be holding another reading in Camino on July 26. Hope to see you there!

06/28/2026

July 11th, it's coming soon! Hope to see you there!

06/18/2026

Let the mailing begin!

05/31/2026

Mark your calendars for these two reading dates for VOICES 2026. Bring yourself and your favorite side dish for our yearly potluck and enjoy a fine day of poetry under the sun. Hope to see you there.

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05/28/2026

This Years Contributors For VOICES 2026:

Randy Barnes, Roger Funston, Lou-Anne Makes-Marks, Frank Bowman, Edilson Afonso Ferreira, Lara Gularte, Karl Kempton, Dyson Kona Smith, Nora Goff, Max West, Celeste R. Bartel, Changming Yuan, Susan Marquez Owen, Sue Daly, A.M. Hayden, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas, Nomad , Stanley Zumbiel, Diane Funston, Tom Goff, Rick Rayburn, Sheila Lowe-Burke , J. C. Olander, Harvey D. Osgood, Todd Boyd, Theo S. Goodwin, Jill Stockinger, Wendy Patrice Williams, Yuan Hongri, Yuanbing Zhang, Manu Mangattu, Jay Simpson, Sharon Mahany, Meghan Tutolo, David C. Anderson, Benito Villa, Pilar Graham, M***a Wu, Juley Harvey, Teresa Rennick, Ed Balldinger, Tim Hudenburg, Jennifer Fenn, Allegra Silberstein, Dave Boles, Robert Fleming, Marc Petrie, Joan Goodreau, Edward J. McCoul, Ann Privateer, Jennifer Pickering, M.B. Stacey, Joe Kidd, Deborah C. Segal, Dianna Henning, Jim Bourey, Nancy Gotthart, Patricia Harris-Bowman, Amrita Skye Blaine, Eugene Berson, Olga Browne, Amy Hoskins, Penny Kline, Joe Nolan, Sibillla Hershey, Jeanine Stevens, Curt Nelson, SM Caruthers, Doreen Beyer, Ann Wehrman, Tim Kahl, Mark Heathcote, A.D. Winans, Dick Troy, Diane Horner, Gary Kruse, Taylor Graham, Brad Buchanan, and Lytton Bell

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