A New Cadence in November: What Redwoods Know— Poems From California State Parks

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

What Redwoods Know:

Poems from California State Parks

A reading

for California State Parks

November 12th, 2011

@ 7:30

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Free

A New Cadence in October: Lease, Perrière, Corwin

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Joseph Lease,

Donna de la Perrière

&

Nina Corwin

reading from their works

October 22TH, 2011

@ 7:30

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Free

The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry award, Donna de la Perrière is the author of Saint Erasure (Talisman House, 2010), a finalist for the Northern California Booksellers Association’s 2011 Book of the Year Award, and True Crime (Talisman House, 2009).Her work has appeared in Agni, American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Five Fingers Review, New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly, New American Writing, Volt, and other journals as well as No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press, 2009) and Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006).

Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press), Broken World (Coffee House Press), and Human Rights (Talisman House, second edition forthcoming). Lease’s poems “’Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” and "Send My Roots Rain" have been selected for Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (Second Edition).  "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was also selected for The Best American Poetry 2002. His poems have also been featured on NPR and published in The AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, Bay Poetics, No Gender, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, and elsewhere.  Marjorie Perloff wrote: “The poems in Joseph Lease’s Broken World are as cool as they are passionate, as soft-spoken as they are indignant, and as fiercely Romantic as they are formally contained.  Whether writing an elegy for a friend who died of AIDS or playing complex variations on Rilke’s Duino Elegies (“If I cried out, / Who among the angelic orders would / Slap my face, who would steal my / Lunch money”), Lease has complete command of his poetic materials.  His poems are spellbinding in their terse and ironic authority: Yes, the reader feels when s/he has finished, this is how it was—and how it is.  An exquisite collection!”  And Michael Bérubé called Broken World “remarkably inventive and evocative work from Joseph Lease, one of the finest poets writing today.”

Nina Corwin is the author of two books of poetry, The Uncertainty of Maps and Conversations With Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints. Her work has appeared in ACM, Forklift OH, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review, Southern Poetry Review, Verse and has been nominated for the Pushcart prize. Corwin is an Advisory Editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and curates readings at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago where she co-edited Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art By Women. She has read and performed her work across the country, at times set with musical or choreographic compositions. In daylight hours, she is a psychotherapist known for her work on behalf of victims of violence.

For more information contact jamaughn@cabrillo.edu

or see  anewcadence@blogspot.com

A New Cadence Oct. 16th. Other Voices

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

A Special Night of Fiction

Featuring the writers of Other Voices Books


October 16th, 2011
7:30pm
@
The Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

"Other Voices Books is a not-for-profit, independent press devoted to keeping books of short fiction alive and well in a dominant corporate publishing climate that increasingly marginalizes the short story form. We also, through the Morgan Street International Novel Series, champion fiction set outside the United States. Other Voices Books has offices in Chicago and Los Angeles, and is an imprint of Dzanc Books."

http://www.dzancbooks.org/storage/OVBooks/OVfront.html

A New Cadence Special Event! Amra Brooks, July 23rd.

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

                                                         

AMRA BROOKS

                            

READING HER WORKS

July 23, 7:30PM

FELIX KULPA GALLERY

107 ELM STREET

SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060

Amra Brooks was born and raised in California. Her novella California was published by Teenage Teardrops in December 2008. Currently she is working on a book of fiction titled The Scariest Movie Ever Made, a collection of poems called The Pinking Sky, and a collaborative book project with painter Maureen Gallace. In addition, Amra writes critical essays and reviews about contemporary art, music, film, and literature. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Spin Magazine, index, Zingmagazine, the LA Weekly, and many other publications. She was the assistant director at 303 Gallery in New York and at the director at China Art Objects Galleries in Los Angeles. She has taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz and San Diego, and Naropa University. Currently she lives in Pennsylvania where she is the visiting writer at Muhlenberg College.

A New Cadence in June- Meetze and Carr

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES

presents

James Meetze

&

Emily Carr

Saturday, June 18, 2011
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm

James Meetze is the author of I Have Designed This For You (2007), and editor, with Simon Pettet, of Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler (2010). His new book, Dayglo, won the 2010 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, judged by Terrance Hayes.

Emily Carr’s first book, directions for flying (Furniture Press), was the winner of the 2009 Furniture Press Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, the story will fix you it is there outside your &, was published in Toadlily Press’s 2009 Quartet Series. In 2010, Emily was a Poetry Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center & Writer in Residence at the Jack Kerouac House. You can read her work in recent issues of Prairie Schooner, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, Bombay Gin, Margie, Interim, Caketrain, Phoebe, Fourteen Hills, The Capilano Review, So To Speak, dusie, and Versal. She is the author of 13 ways of happily, out now from Parlor Press.

A New Cadence Poetry Series presents Cloud Shepherd

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES
presents

Cloud Shepherd

Featuring:

Andrew Joron, Brian Lucas and Joseph Noble

Saturday, May 21, 2011
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm

Free



"Formed in late 2008 and based in Oakland, CA, Cloud Shepherd is a trio playing improvised music. Andrew Joron, is the Theremin and waterphone operator. Brian Lucas uses 6 string bass, tapes, percussion, voice and keyboards. He is also a visual artist. In a previous life he was a member of the free form psychedelic band,Mirza. Lucas has recently worked with Big City Orchestra and was a member of Caroliner in the mid-90s. On various flutes, bowls, and percussion is the poet Joseph Noble, blowing long meditative one notes and flurried runs that hearken back to a time when Space Was The Place."

A New Cadence in May - Scharf and Kaplan

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES
presents


Josef Kaplan
&
Michael Scharf

Saturday, May 7, 2011
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm

Free


Josef Kaplan is the author of Our Heavies and Peace, and co-author of Dunk Runts with Gordon Faylor. He co-edits Sustainable Aircraft, an online journal of mostly criticism on contemporary poetry, and Tea Party Republicans Press.

Michael Scharf's poetry "mimics a vernacular language so debased it does actual harm." He was poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly from 1997 until 2006. At Poets & Writers magazine, he founded and wrote the column Metromania. In 1999, he founded Harry Tankoos Books, which publishes books and chapbooks; in 2006, with the poet Joshua Clover, he co-founded the small press ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni, publisher of Kevin Killian's Action Kylie, among other books. He holds a B.A. in cognitive science from Vassar College, and an M.A. in linguistics from Brown University. His work has appeared in Chain, ubuweb, Jacket, the Germ, and the Poetry Daily Essentials anthology.

A New Cadence in April -- May and Candelaria

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES
presents


Jamaal Versiz May
&
Xochiqueztal Candelaria


Saturday, April 23, 2011
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm

Jamaal Vs. May is a poet, editor, producer and recording artist from Detroit, MI. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Atlanta Review, Verse Daily and The Collagist among other magazines and anthologies. He has received a Bread Loaf Work Study Scholarship, a Pushcart nomination, an International Publication Prize from Atlanta Review and a Cave Canem Fellowship. May is a two time Midwest Regional Poetry Slam Champion and two-time Individual World Slam finalist. He is an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College and teaches poetry in public schools through the Inside Out Literary Arts Project. His first chapbook “The God Engine” was published by Pudding House Press in 2009. Production and engineering credits include The Last Poets, Dead Prez and The Four Tops.

Xochiqueztal Candelaria was raised in San Juan Bautista, California, and holds degrees from UC Berkeley and New York University. She is the author of Empire, from Univ. of Arizona Press. Her work has appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Seneca Review, and other magazines. She has also written articles for the online journal: Solo Ella. Xochiqueztal received fellowships from UC Berkeley, New York University, Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference (2005, 2006), Hall Farm Center for the Arts, The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the LEF Foundation. She was the winner of the 2006 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, the Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry, and the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize. She currently lives in San Francisco.

Thank you, Stephen Kessler!

The 2011 Gold Awards: Writers Picks (Arts & Culture)
Awards for the lesser-known wonders of the Santa Cruz arts scene.

Best Alternative Literary Scene

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Poetry Santa Cruz’s monthly readings at Bookshop SC and Capitola Book Café are the most prestigious venues for verse we have, but for more offbeat and unpredictable literary fare, A New Cadence series—hosted by James Maughn and usually held at the always interesting Felix Kulpa Gallery—is tough to beat. Like the PSC series, New Cadence sometimes mixes visiting with resident poets, but often one or two or a whole gang of exotic bards blows into town for an edgier evening of flying language and verbal subversion. (SK)

April 2nd: Leslie, Baus, Rexilius

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES

presents

Andrea Rexilius
Eric Baus
&
Juliana Leslie

Saturday, April 2, 2011
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm

Andrea Rexilius completed her Ph.D. in Literature and Writing at the University of Denver. She is co-editor of Marcel Press. She is the author of TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION (Rescue Press, 2011) and HALF OF WHAT THEY CARRIED FLEW AWAY (Letter Machine Editions, 2011).








Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1975. His publications include Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), The To Sound (Verse Press, 2004; Winner of the 2002 Verse Press, selected by Forrest Gander), and the chapbooks The Space Between Magnets (Diaeresis), A Swarm In The Aperture (Margin to Margin), and Something Else The Music Was (Braincase Press). He edits Minus House chapbooks, and currently lives in Denver.


Juliana Leslie was born in Cooperstown, New York, and currently lives in Santa Cruz, California. She holds degrees from University of California, Santa Cruz; Mills College; and University of Massachusetts, Amherst. MORE RADIANT SIGNAL is her first book.

March 19th Fernandez, Klein and Martin,

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES

presents

Ish Klein, Robert Fernandez
& Diane K. Martin

Saturday, March 19th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm



Robert Fernandez was born in 1980 in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in South Florida. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Iowa Writers's Workshop and the University of Iowa Department of English. We Are Pharaoh is his first book.

Ish Klein grew up in Long Beach, NY. Her book Moving Day will be out in 2011 from Canarium books. A dvd of her videos will also be released from Poor Claudia of Portland, Oregon. She's lived all over the world and now lives in Amherst, MA with the writer Greg Purcell.

Diane Kirsten Martin has been published on Poetry Daily, in Field, New England Review, Crazyhorse, Third Coast, North American Review, 32 Poems, Tar River Review, CutBank, and Nimrod, among others. Diane's collection, Conjugated Visits was pubished by Dream Horse Press in spring 2010. She lives in San Francisco.

A New Cadence in March - Belz and Thomas

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Aaron Belz
&
Jake J. Thomas

reading from their works

Saturday, March 12th
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free

Aaron Belz has published two books of poetry, The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX 2007) and Lovely, Raspberry (Persea Books, 2010), both of which have been reviewed glowingly in Boston Review and the latter of which was named by Books & Culture as a “Favorite Book of 2010.” John Ashbery writes, "Belz’s poetry reminds us that poetry should be bright, friendly, surprising, and totally committed to everything but itself. Reading him is like dreaming of a summer vacation and then taking it." For links to poems, reviews, tour dates, and other information please visit http://belz.net


Jake J. Thomas is a creative worker. He does his best to make poems, paintings, photographs, and stories--out of the horror called life--that express his sense of optimism about people, art and revolution (despite all the evidence that things are falling apart, have never been just, and are in desperate need of fixing). Above all, Jake J. Thomas believes in the power of creative work as a spark to begin the process of transforming our society into one in which we can actually live, into one where freedom is not merely a word that insults our intelligence. You can catch an occasional story or a new series of painting/ poems at his blog: jakejthomas.blogspot.com

A New Cadence in February - Kahl and McKinney

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Joshua McKinney &
Tim Kahl

reading from their works

Saturday, February 19th
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Free

Joshua McKinney is the author of two award-winning books of poetry: Saunter, co-winner of the University of Georgia Press Poetry Series Open Competition in 2002, and The Novice Mourner, winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize in 2005. He has also published two poetry chapbooks: Saunter (Primitive Publications, 1998) and Permutations of the Gallery (Pavement Saw Press, 1996), winner of the Pavement Saw Chapbook Contest. His poems have appeared in over one hundred national journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, New American Writing, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, and many others. His other awards include The Dickinson Poetry Prize and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Writing. He is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee.

Tim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself (Word Tech, 2009). His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, American Letters & Commentary, Berkeley Poetry Review, Fourteen Hills, George Washington Review, Illuminations, Indiana Review, Limestone, Nimrod, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, South Dakota Quarterly, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Texas Review, and many other journals in the U.S. He has translated German poet Rolf Haufs, Austrian avant-gardist, Friederike Mayröcker; Brazilian poets, Lêdo Ivo and Marly Oliveira; and the poems of the Portuguese language's only Nobel Laureate, José Saramago. He also appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the video, poetry book review and poetics blog The Great American Pinup. He is also the editor for Bald Trickster Press, which is dedicated to works of poetry in translation into English.

For more information contact jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or see anewcadence@blogspot.com

A New Cadence in February -- Samuels and Ifland

A New Cadence Poetry Series


Presents


Lisa Samuels
&
Alta Ifland

reading from their works

MONDAY, FEB. 7th
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Free

Lisa Samuels grew up in the United States, Sweden, and the Middle East; she now lives in New Zealand and teaches at the University of Auckland. She has published five poetry books and four chapbooks as well as essays and edited work on poetry and critical practice. Her most recent books are Tomorrowland (Shearsman 2009), Throe (Oystercatcher 2009) and Mama Mortality Corridos (Holloway 2010). Two new books will come out in 2011: Gender City (Shearsman), a book-length poem, and Anti M (Chax), a creative non-fiction work in a form called omitted prose.



Alta Ifland grew up in Eastern Europe and immigrated to the States in 1991. Her bilingual (French-English) book of prose poems, Voice of Ice, was awarded the 2008 Louis Guillaume Prize for Prose Poems. Her collection of short stories, Elegy for a Fabulous World, was published by ninebark press. Her latest book of short stories, Death-in-a-box, was recently published by Subito Press.

For more information contact jamaughn@cabrillo.edu
or see anewcadence@blogspot.com

A New Cadence For January: Lentine and Shufran

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents


Genine Lentine
&
Lauren Shufran

reading from their works

Saturday, January 22th
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free


Genine Lentine’s chapbook Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes was published in 2010 by New Michigan Press: www.thediagram.com/nmp/pr_lentine.pdf. Another chapbook, Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model was published in August by the g.e. Series at Books and Bookshelves. Her essays and interviews have appeared in American Poetry Review, American Speech, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, O, the Oprah Magazine, Shambhala Sun, and Tricycle. The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden, her collaboration with Stanley Kunitz and photographer Marnie Crawford Samuelson was published by W.W. Norton in 2005. Current projects include Slug or Snail: An Assay on Velocity and Viscosity, and Love Serenade. Ongoing public projects include Listening Booth, Spacewalks, and The Heinous Task Table, all of which took shape in a 2009 Project Space residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Lauren Shufran is a first-year PhD candidate in the Literature Department at UCSC. She received her MFA from San Francisco State University, and is actively involved in Small Press Traffic, San Francisco's longest-running non-profit literary organization. Burrow was published by Hooke Press in 2006; recent work has appeared in Try!, P-Queue, Yellow Edenwald Field, and War and Peace.



For more info contact James Maughn @ jamaughn AT cabrillo dot edu

A New Cadence 2011- Spring Line-Up

UPDATED!

A New Cadence Poetry Series, Spring 2011 Series:
All Readings take place at Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 @ 7:30pm, unless otherwise noted:

Saturday, January 22nd – Genine Lentine and Lauren Shufran

Monday, February 7th – Lisa Samuels and Alta Ifland

Saturday, February 19th – Joshua McKinney and Tim Kahl

Saturday, March 12th – Aaron Belz and Jake J. Thomas

Saturday, March 19th – Diane K. Martin, Ish Klein, Robert Fernandez

Saturday, April 2rd – Juliana Leslie, Andrea Rexilius, and Eric Baus

Saturday, April 23rd – Jamaal May and Xochiquetzal Candeleria

Saturday, May 7th – Josef Kaplan and Michael Scharf

Saturday, May 21th – Free Rein: Andrew Joron, Brian Lucas, and Joseph Noble

Saturday. June 18th – James Meetze and Emily Carr