Summer Hiatus

Thanks to everyone who came out during the Spring 2009 series. We're taking July and August off, but will be back in the fall with Donna De La Perriere in September, and Kate Greenstreet and Anna Leahy in October. Michelle Bautista will also be reading sometime in the fall, and there are other readings yet to be announced. Check back here periodically for more information.

Have a nice summer,
Jim Maughn

ANC in June

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Jared Stanley

&

Scott Inguito

reading from their works

Friday, June 19^th

7:30pm

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

(behind Streetlight Records)

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Jared Stanley made a book called Book Made of Forest (Salt Publishing), and the chapbooks I Something Scott Inguito You, The Outer Bay and In Fortune, and has some new work forthcoming in Mary. He lives in the tawny grass, east of the ocean.

Scott Inguito's latest chapbook out from Momotombo Press is DEAR JACK. He has poems in Shampoo, and his collage-play, Trying to Create Intimacy with a Narcissist was performed at California College of Art, San Francisco, for Small Press Traffic in December 2008. Scott lives in San Francisco and teaches composition at San Jose City College. His paintings can be seen at scottinguito.com.

for further information, contact james Maughn :
jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or See anewcadence@blogspot.com

This Friday!

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Maria Garcia Teutsch

and

Christine Hamm

Reading from Their Work

Saturday, May 16th
7:30pm
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
Free and open!

Maria Garcia Teutsch is a poet and fiction writer living in Santa Cruz. She is widely published as Maria Garcia Tabor. She has served as editor of three literary journals, The Atlantis, The Cold Mountain Review (on the East Coast), and The Homestead Review. She is cofounder of Poetic Voices/Voces Poeticas intercollegial poetry competition/festival involving the colleges in Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties. She is a passionate supporter of the arts and artists, believing that if you supply a space, artists will fill it up with wonder. She also serves on the board of the Henry Miller Library. www.marialoveswords.com

Christine Hamm is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University. She won the MiPoesias First Annual Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. Her poetry has been published in The Adirondack Review, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Rattle, and many others. She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and she teaches English at CUNY. The Transparent Dinner, her book of poems, was published by Mayapple Press in 2006. Christine was named a runner-up to the Poet Laureate of Queens in 2007. chamm.blogspot.com

A New Cadence -- Susana Gardner

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Susana Gardner

Reading from Her Work

Saturday, May 16^th

7:30pm

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

(Behind Streetlight Records)

Free and open!

Susana Gardner lives in Switzerland where she edits Dusie Press and curates the Dusie Kollektiv. The author of several chapbooks, her first book [lapse insel weary], was published by The Tangent Press. She writes and translates and will soon begin a poetic reading series as well at the DADA Haus--Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich.

And next week -- Maria Garcia Teutsch and Christine Hamm -- Friday, May 22nd.

A New Cadence in May

Spread the word!

A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents:

Chad Sweeney
And
Mojdeh Marashi

reading from their poetry and translations of Iranian Poets

Saturday, May 9th

@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm

Admission is free

Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry: Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), and An Architecture (BlazeVox, 2007). Selected for Best American Poetry 2008, his poems have appeared in New American Writing, Colorado Review, Black Warrior, Verse, Volt, Ping Pong, Slope and Barrow Street. He is coeditor of Parthenon West Review and editor of the anthology Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: the Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (City Lights, 2009). He teaches poetry and is a Ph.D. candidate at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.


Mojdeh Marashi is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and visual artist. Her work is deeply influenced by the ancient and modern history of Iran where she grew up. In 1986 she co-founded YALDA, a cultural ogranization, where she taught Farsi language classes and co-hosted the weekly radio program “Rang aa Rang (Color to Color)” on KUSF. Marashi earned an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts in 2002 and will finish her Masters in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 2009. Her fiction was chosen to appear in the anthology, “Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: Women of the Iranian Diaspora” (University of Arkansas, 2006), and her translations (with Chad Sweeney) have appeared in Ping Pong, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Poetry International, American Letters & Commentary, Seattle Review, Subtropics and Washington Square.

Contact Jim Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or go to anewcadence@blogspot.com for more information.

ANC in April

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Jean Vengua

and

Dion Farquhar

reading from their poetry

Friday, April 24th

@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm

Admission is free

Dion Farquhar lives in Santa Cruz, California. Recent poems appear in Right Hand Pointing, Shifter, Opium, New Verse News, Ep;phany, Otoliths, etc. Her poetry chapbook Cleaving won first prize at Poet’s Corner Press in 2007. Her first book, Feet First, is a finalist for the Sinclair Prize at Evening Street Press and will be published in early 2010.

Jean Vengua is the author of Prau, published by Meritage Press. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies and journals, including Babaylan, Otoliths, Sidereality, Moria, X-Stream, Returning a Borrowed Tongue, Going Home to a Landscape, Bay Poetics, Interlope, and Fugacity. Her chapbook, The Aching Vicinities, was published in 2006 by Otoliths, and is available at Lulu.com.

Contact Jim Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.

Three Upcoming Readings

Please spread the word, and join us for three exciting readings:

First, on February 26th, we welcome back Andrew Joron:

Andrew Joron

reading from his poetry

Thursday, February 26th @ Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm Admission is free

Andrew Joron's new book of poetry is The Sound Mirror. He is the author of a book of prose, The Cry at Zero (2007), a study of surrealism, The Sun at Night (2005), and several books of poetry, including Fathom (2003), a Village Voice book of the year. Andrew is also a noted translator from the German; he is the translator and editor of Ernst Bloch's Literary Essays (Stanford, 1998).

Second, on March 7th, Laura Sims:

Laura Sims

reading from her poetry

Saturday, March 7th @ Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm Admission is free

Laura Sim’s Practice, Restraint, won the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize, and she has published four poetry chapbooks, including Bank Book (Answer Tag Press) and Paperback Book (3rd Bed). Individual poems have appeared in the journals 26, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crayon, Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, jubilat, La Petite Zine, and LIT, among others. She lives in New York, where she teaches composition & literature at Baruch College in Manhattan. Her second book, Stranger, is forthcoming in March from Fence Books.

And then, on March 14th, Karen Leona Anderson:

Karen Leona Anderson

reading from her poetry

Saturday, March 14th @ Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm Admission is free

Karen Leona Anderson is the author of Punish Honey, published by Carolina Wren Press. She received an M.F.A from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, an M.A. from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University, where she wrote a dissertation on poetry and science. Her work has appeared in ecopoetics, jubilat, Verse, Indiana Review, Fence, Volt, and other journals. She is an assistant professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland.