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