A New Cadence Poetry Series

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

2011-10-27T09:44:00.000-07:00

Presents

What Redwoods Know:

Poems from California State Parks

A reading

for California State Parks

November 12th, 2011

@ 7:30

FelixKulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Free

A New Cadence in October: Lease, Perrière, Corwin

2011-10-20T07:50:00.001-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Joseph Lease,

Donna de la Perrière

&

Nina Corwin

reading from their works

October22TH, 2011

@ 7:30

FelixKulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Free

The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetryaward, Donna de la Perrière is the authorof Saint Erasure (Talisman House, 2010), a finalist for theNorthern California Booksellers Association’s 2011 Book of the Year Award, and TrueCrime (Talisman House, 2009).Her work has appeared in Agni,American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, DenverQuarterly, Five Fingers Review, New England Review &Bread Loaf Quarterly, New American Writing, Volt, and otherjournals as well as No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kariedwards (Litmus Press, 2009) and Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006).

JosephLease'scritically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press), BrokenWorld (Coffee House Press), and HumanRights (Talisman House, second edition forthcoming). Lease’s poems “’BrokenWorld’ (For James Assatly)” and "Send My Roots Rain" have beenselected for Postmodern American Poetry:A Norton Anthology (Second Edition). "'Broken World' (For JamesAssatly)" was also selected for TheBest American Poetry 2002. His poems have also been featured on NPR andpublished in The AGNI 30th AnniversaryPoetry Anthology, Bay Poetics, No Gender, The Paris Review, Colorado Review,Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, and elsewhere. Marjorie Perloff wrote: “The poems in JosephLease’s Broken World are as cool asthey are passionate, as soft-spoken as they are indignant, and as fiercelyRomantic as they are formally contained. Whether writing an elegy for afriend 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, whowould steal my / Lunch money”), Lease has complete command of his poeticmaterials. His poems are spellbinding intheir 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 andevocative work from Joseph Lease, one of the finest poets writing today.”

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

For moreinformation contact jamaughn@cabrillo.edu

or see anewcadence@blogspot.com

A New Cadence Oct. 16th. Other Voices

2011-09-29T12:57:00.000-07:00

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.

2011-07-21T14:11:00.001-07:00

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

2011-06-14T18:55:00.001-07:00

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

2011-05-17T08:37:00.000-07:00

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

2011-05-01T15:47:00.001-07:00

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

2011-04-06T14:47:00.000-07:00

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!

2011-04-02T15:49:00.000-07:00

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

2011-03-21T11:17:00.000-07:00

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,

2011-03-17T00:17:00.000-07:00

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

2011-03-09T10:19:00.000-08:00

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

2011-02-15T22:08:00.000-08:00

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

2011-01-26T11:05:00.000-08:00

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

2011-01-17T12:16:00.000-08:00

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

2011-01-01T12:17:00.001-08:00

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

Thank you!

2010-12-14T11:38:00.001-08:00

Thanks to everyone-- readers, poets, Robbie at Felix Kulpa, and especially the audience-- who made the fall-winter '10 ANC series such a success.

We'll be back before you know it.

Jim

A New Cadence in December: Damion Searls Reads Rainer Maria Rilke

2010-12-02T13:50:00.000-08:00

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES

presents

Damion Searls

reading from his new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke:

The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, & Dreams

Saturday, December 11th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm

Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch and a writer in English. He has translated many of Europe's greatest writers, including Proust, Rilke, Robert Walser, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Kurt Schwitters, Peter Handke, Jon Fosse, and Nescio, edited a new abridged edition of Thoreau's Journal, and produced a lost work of Melville's. Searls grew up in New York City, studied German philosophy at Harvard and American literature at UC Berkeley, and has received writing and translating awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, the Netherland America Foundation, the University of California, and the Austrian, Belgian, and Dutch governments. He lives with his wife and son in San Francisco.

Rainer Maria Rilke: Widely considered one of the greatest lyric poets of 20th century German Literature. Rilke's work has been introduced into the English literary world, starting in 1936, by two different generations of translators, including J. B. Leischmann, C. F. MacIntyre, Walter Arndt, Edward Snow, David Young, Robert Bly and Stephen Mitchell.

A New Cadence in November: Arrieu-King, Becker, and Brown

2010-11-17T10:32:00.000-08:00

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES

presents

Cynthia Arrieu-King
Lily Brown
&
Claire Becker

Saturday, November 20th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China is forthcoming from Octopus Books. Her poems and other work will come out this year in Boston Review, Witness, Jacket, Harp and Altar, Forklift Ohio, and with Kristi Maxwell in the new horse less press anthology New Pony. Marilyn Chin sent her to Kundiman when she visited the University of Cincinnati in 2006.

Claire Becker lives in Oakland and teaches high school at the California School for the Blind. She is the author of the chapbooks Untoward, from Lame House Press, and Get You, from Duration Press. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California and an Education Specialist Instruction Credential from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Her first book, Where We Think it Should Go, is forthcoming from Octopus Books.

Lily Brown holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California. Her first book, Rust or Go Missing, is forthcoming from Cleveland State University Poetry Center. She lives in Chicago and in Athens, where she is a Ph.D. student at The University of Georgia.

Some Links:

Claire Becker:

The full-length book Where We Think It Should Go on SPD's website: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780980193848/where-we-think-it-should-go.aspx?rf=1

A PDF of a new chapbook The Werld: http://www.horselesspress.com/

Young Adult, a chapbook, can be ordered for $8.00 from Boxwood Editions: http://www.boxwoodeditions.org/youngadult.html

The e-chap Get You can be downloaded for free from Duration Press: http://www.durationpress.com/

Cynthia Arrieu-King:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/Default.aspx?bookId=9780980193855

and

http://cynthiaarrieuking.blogspot.com

Lily Brown:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781880834916/rust-or-go-missing.aspx?rf=1

A New Cadence in November -- Simon Pettet

2010-11-11T13:35:00.000-08:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Simon Pettet

Monday, November 15th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm

Simon Pettet is an English-born poet and long-time resident of New York's Lower East Side. Hearth, his Collected Poems (so far) appeared recently from Talisman. Talisman also issued his Selected Poems (1995) and the volume, More Winnowed Fragments (2006). He has also compiled and edited the Selected Art Writings of the poet James Schuyler (Black Sparrow, 1998), as well as co-editing (with James Meetze) Other Flowers (FSG, 2010), Schuyler's posthumous poems. He made two now legendary collaborations with photographer-filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt, Conversations about Everything (Vehicle, 1987) and Talking Pictures (Zoland, 1994), as well as a fine-arts limited edition, Abundant Treasures (Granary Books, 2001) of his own poetry in collaboration with painter, Duncan Hannah.

A New Cadence in November: Sweeney and Hastings

2010-11-01T07:05:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

presents:

Chad Sweeney
&
Katherine Hastings

Sunday, November 7th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

(Special time!
4pm)

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), and translator (with Mojdeh Marashi) of The Selected Poems of Iranian poet, H.E. Sayeh, The Art of Stepping Through Time (White Pine, 2011). He edited the anthology, Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: the Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (CityLights, 2009) and is coeditor of Parthenon West Review. Sweeney teaches poetry and is a Ph.D. candidate at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo where he lives with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney.

Katherine Hastings is the author of several chapbooks, including Wolf Spider and Sidhe, both published by dPress and Lonidier Rampant, The Small Change Series, WordTemple Press. She is the author of Updraft published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and Fog & Light to be released from Ahadada Books later this year. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. She founded and hosts the WordTemple Poetry Series in Santa Rosa, CA, bringing well-established poets together with poets who have not yet published a book of poems. In addition, she hosts a radio program, also called WordTemple, on Santa Rosa's NPR-affiliate KRCB 91.1 FM (for information go to www.wordtemple.com).

for more info contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu, or visit anewcadence.blogspot.com

A New Cadence in October: Robinson and Marshall

2010-10-07T09:53:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Kit Robinson
&
Tom Marshall

reading from their poetry

Saturday, October 23th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm
Admission is free

Kit Robinson is the author of Determination (Cuneiform,2010), The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry,2009), Train I Ride(BookThug, 2009), and 17 other books of poetry. A co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 (Mode A, 2006-2010), Robinson lives in Berkeley, California, where he works as a freelance writer and plays Cuban tres guitar in the Latin dance band Bahia Son.

Tom Marshall is that guy who has taught poetry workshops for, and brought poetry events to, Cabrillo College for the last two decades. His poems, short fiction, critical works, and nature writings have appeared in many magazines, newspapers, and online sources over the last four decades. Lately, he has also become a mystery novelist. He will read selected poems from several collections, including a few pieces written with the Detective Novel Magnetic Poetry kit and a slice of "Awake in Horror: Observations."

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

A New Cadence in October, John Walsh, from Galway, Ireland!

2010-09-28T07:45:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

John Walsh

reading from his poetry

Tuesday, October 5th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm
Admission is free

John Walsh was born in Derry, Ireland. After living in Germany for sixteen years, he now lives and writes in Connemara. He has published three collections of poetry, Johnny tell Them (Guildhall Press, 2006), Love’s Enterprise Zone (Doire Press, 2007) and Chopping Wood with T.S. Eliot (Salmon Poetry, 2010). He is organiser of North Beach Poetry Nights in Galway, Ireland’s leading performance poetry event, and is director of Doire Press, a small literary publisher in the west of Ireland.

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

A New Cadence in September, Part 2:

2010-09-14T13:31:00.000-07:00

As some of you know, tonight's (Sat. Sept. 25th) reading
w/Joseph Lease and Mark Statman had to be canceled at the
last minute due to an unforeseen airline snafu. Mark is
still coming down, though, and will be reading tomorrow
(Sun. Sept. 26th) at 7:00pm. This new reading will still
be happening at the Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street,
Santa Cruz, CA. Joseph Lease is unable to make it,
so his portion of the reading will be filled by yours
truly. I recognize this is very last minute, but
Mark is a superlative poet, and I think the evening will be
well worth your time. Joseph will be rescheduled for sometime in the
spring.

Here are some bios, for those who could use a little more
incentive:

Tourist at a Miracle is MARK STATMAN’s first full
collection of poetry. His poems, translations, and
criticism have appeared in many anthologies and in such
publications as American Poetry Review, The Hat, Hanging
Loose, Tin House, and Florida Review. His translation of
Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York (with Pablo
Medina) has been widely praised; John Ashbery called it
“the definitive version.” He is also the author of Listener
in the Snow: The Practice and Teaching of Poetry ( Kenneth
Koch said “teaching poetry may never be the same again”);
The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing (with
Christian McEwen); and The Red Skyline: Poems, a chapbook.
His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship. Statman is an associate professor of Literary
Studies at Eugene Lang College of The New School and also
taught for many years for Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Katherine, and their
son, Jesse.

JAMES MAUGHN lives in Santa Cruz, CA, where he a poetry
co-editor for the literary arts journal Ping Pong,
published by the Henry Miller Memorial Library. He also
coordinates A New Cadence Poetry Series out of the Felix
Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz. His first book, Kata, was
published by BlazeVOX Books in 2009. Work has appeared in
Otoliths, Lungfull, Parthenon West Review, TinFish, Big
Bell, Sentence, Moria, Poetry Salzburg Review, Dusie,
MiPoesias, and Horse Less Review. He is a member of the
Black Radish Collective, and his second book, Arakaki
Permutations, will be published by Black Radish Books in
2010.

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

A New Cadence in September

2010-09-03T12:41:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Eric Gudas

reading from his poetry

Saturday, September 11th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm
Admission is free

Eric Gudas was born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1972. His poems, book reviews, and interviews with American poets have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, Poetry Flash, The Southern Review, and other journals. Beautiful Monster, his chapbook of poems, was published by Swan Scythe Press in 2003. He and his wife, Alyssa Sherwood, live with their daughter in Los Angeles. A doctoral candidate in English at UCLA, he is completing a dissertation about the life and writing of contemporary American poet Eleanor Ross Taylor.

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

A New Cadence Fall 2010 Series

2010-08-24T11:17:00.000-07:00

More or less complete:

A New Cadence Poetry Series, Fall 2010 Series:

All Readings take place at Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 @ 7:30pm, unless otherwise noted:

Saturday, September 11th – Eric Gudas

Saturday, September 25th - Mark Statman and Joseph Lease

Tuesday, October 5th – John Walsh, from Galway, Ireland

Saturday, October 23rd – Kit Robinson and Tom Marshall

Sunday, November 7th (Special time! 4pm)– Chad Sweeney and Katherine Hastings

Monday, November 15th - Simon Pettet

Saturday, November 20th – Cynthia Arrieu-King, Lily Brown, Claire Becker

Saturday, December 4th – Damion Searls reading from his new translations of Rainer
Maria Rilke, The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, & Dreams, published by Godine.

A New Cadence in June --- Stengel and Reed

2010-06-12T11:12:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Marthe Reed
&
Jill Stengel

reading from their works

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

Jill Stengel is a poet, publisher of a+bend press, and parent of three young children. Formerly of San Francisco and Los Angeles, she now resides with her family in Davis, CA. Several of her serial poems have appeared in chapbook form: cartography (1999, WOOD); History, Possibilities : (1999, a+bend press); ladies with babies (2003, Boog); lagniappe (2008, Nous-Zot Press, Dusie Kollektiv); late may (2007, Dusie); may(be) (2006, Dusie); and the forthcoming and I would open (Ypolita) and wreath (Texfiles). Some of these chapbooks, and individual poems, can be viewed online as well as in print, and she has new work in the forthcoming anthology Kindergarde. Her first full-length collection is forthcoming from Black Radish Books in 2010.

Marthe Reed is an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and the Director of Creative Writing. She has two collections of poetry, Gaze, published by Black Radish Books, and Tender Box, A Wunderkammer, published by Lavender Ink, as well as two chapbooks, zaum alliterations and (em)bodied bliss, both part of the Dusie Kollektiv series. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as New American Writing, Golden Handcuffs Review, New Orleans Review, and Sulfur, as well as e'zines such as HOW2, MiPoesias, Exquisite Corpse, Aught, eratio, Word For/Word, and Moria. Her manuscript, an earth of sweetness dances in the vein, was a finalist in Ahsahta Press' 2006 Sawtooth Poetry Contest. Marthe Reed edits the chapbook press Nous-zot Press. Her training includes an A.M. in Creative Writing. from Brown University, an M.A. in English and American Literature from U.C. San Diego, and a PhD in the poetics of place from the University of Western Australia.

For more information contact jamaughn@cabrillo.edu

A New Cadence Presents The Summer Fiction Series

2010-06-01T11:34:00.001-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

The Summer Fiction Series

AMRA BROOKS
&
JESSICA BREHENY

READING THEIR WORKS

JUNE 9TH, 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.

Jessica Breheny serves as the fiction editor for Ping Pong, the literary arts journal of the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California. Her work has appeared in Avery, Eleven Eleven, Fugue, LIT, Other Voices, and Santa Monica Review among other journals. She holds a PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz and teaches writing at San Jose City College.

Introducing A New Cadence Summer fiction series!

2010-05-29T15:59:00.000-07:00

What says summer in Santa Cruz like going to the beach and huddling under a blanket in the fog, reading a good novel or short story?

In honor of summer, it's A New Cadence Summer Fiction Series! First reading June 9th, featuring Amra Brooks and Jessica Breheny! 7:30pm at Felix Kulpa Gallery. More details to come...but mark your calendars.

Tiziano Fratus, from his recent reading

2010-05-25T17:27:00.000-07:00

Tiziano Fratus reads Mouth II/Old Documents, with James Maughn reading Francesco Levato's English translation. Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz CA 4/21/2010.

A New Cadence in May, Part 2

2010-05-07T13:14:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

C.J. Sage
&
J.P. Dancing Bear

reading from their works
Friday, May 21th,
7:30 PM
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz 95060
(behind Streetlight Records)

C. J. Sage's poems appear nationally and internationally in publications such as The Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Threepenny Review, et cetera. Previous books are Let's Not Sleep (poems), And We The Creatures (anthology), Field Notes in Contemporary Literature (textbook/anthology), and Odyssea (poems). After taking her M. F. A. in Creative Writing/Poetry, she taught poetry, writing, and literature for many years. A native of California, she now edits The National Poetry Review and Press and works as a Realtor in Santa Cruz and surrounding counties. Sage resides in Rio Del Mar, California, a coastal town on the Monterey Bay.

J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of Conflicted Light (Salmon Poetry, 2008), Gacela of Narcissus City (Main Street Rag, 2006), Billy Last Crow (Turning Point, 2004) and What Language (Slipstream, 2002), winner of the 2001 Slipstream Prize. His poems have been published in New Orleans Review, National Poetry Review, Knockout, Bateau, diode, DIAGRAM, Verse Daily and many others. His work has been ten times nominated for a Puschcart Prize and once for a Forward Prize. He has been working with Nicaraguan poet Blanca Castellon on translating of her poetry into English, the first will appear in Redactions, Marlboro Review, International Poetry Review, iconoclast and The Bitter Oleander. He has also been working with Mexican poet Oscar Wong to translate his work into English. He is the editor of the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press and the host of “Out of Our Minds” a weekly poetry program on public radio station KKUP.

for more information contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu

A New Cadence in May, Part 1

2010-05-03T13:15:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Joan Gelfand
&
David Allen Sullivan

reading from their works

Saturday, May 15th,
7:30 PM
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz 95060
(behind Streetlight Records)

An award winning writer, Joan Gelfand’s poetry, fiction, reviews and essays have appeared in national and international magazines, anthologies and literary journals including Rattle, Kalliope, The Toronto Quarterly, The Huffington Post and Eclipse. President of the Women’s National Book Association, Joan teaches in the California Poets in the Schools program. “A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams” was published by SF Bay Press in 2009 and her upcoming chapbook of short stories will be published by Cervena Barva Press in Fall 2010. Joan is also the Fiction Editor for Zeek magazine. http://joangelfand.com

David Allen Sullivan was born in Illinois, and grew up in Vermont, with one year spent in Vienna—where his teacher, the novelist Jonathan Carroll, inspired him to write poetry (mostly bad Whitman knock-offs). He received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, where he edited The Chicago Literary Review, and went to graduate school at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation was on the ethics of address in the poems of Emily Dickinson and Killarney Clary. He teaches English, Film, and Screenwriting at Cabrillo Community College, where he also edits the Porter Gulch Review with his students. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, with Cherie Barkey, and their two children, Jules and Amina Barivan.
for more information contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu

Two Readings Next Week!

2010-04-14T09:24:00.000-07:00

Please join us next week for two outstanding readings:

Wednesday, April 21st: Tiziano Fratus (W/James Maughn)

Saturday, April 24th: Nicole Mauro and Carrie Hunter (Please note this reading is on Saturday, the 24th, NOT Monday the 26th.)

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Tiziano Fratus

reading from his poetry in Italian,
w/James Maughn reading English translations

Wednesday, April 21st
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm
Admission is free

Tiziano Fratus was born in Bergamo in 1975. He published eleven collections of poems in Italy as Il Molosso (2005, 2007), Il Vangelo della Carne (Flesh Gospel, 2008), La staticità dei pesci martello (Static Nature of Hammerhead Sharks, 2008), Il respiro della terra (The Breath of the Earth, 2009), Historias de Malo Amor. Poesie carnali (Flesh Poems, 2010) and some in other countries as A inquisiçao (Lisbon, 2004), Poémes chuchotes sur la berge du Po (Lugano, 2008), A Room in Jerusalem (Brooklyn, 2008), 5PX2 (Edinburgh, 2009), Double Skin (Singapore, 2009). He collaborated with publishers and reviews before founding in 2006 the Festival and the Editions of Torino Poesia, that became one of leading centers in promotion of the world of the new voices of Italian poetry. On October 2009 he was one the founders of the Poeteca (Poetry Library) in Pinerolo. He presented his poetry in three continents, in festivals as Ars Poetica (Bratislava), Salon du Livre (Montpellier), SWF (Singapore), at Italian Cultural Institutes in several countries, in poetry houses as Casa Fernando Pessoa (Lisbon), The Poetry Center (Chicago), Casa della Poesia (Milan), in US. Anthologies of his poetry have been translated and published in the USA and in Brasil, a new one will be published in France. He’s working at the new wide poem titled L’uomo radice (The Root Man).

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Carrie Hunter
and
Nicole Mauro

reading from their works

Saturday, April 24th
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free

Carrie Hunter has been published online in Moria Poetry, Eratio Postmodern Poetry, Aught, Turntable & Blue Light, Wordplay, Dusie, Parcel, and Sawbuck, and in print in SCORE magazine and CRIT Journal 2. Her chapbook Vorticells was published by Cy Gist Press, as well as the e-/chapbook Kine(sta)sis at Dusie. She received her MFA/MA in Poetics at New College of California, edits ypolita press (ypolitapress.blogspot.com), and lives in San Francisco. Her book The Incompossible will be published in 2010/2011 by Black Radish Books.

Nicole Mauro is the author of The Contortions (Dusie, 2009). Her second book, Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet, Featuring Sarah Palin as Poet, is forthcoming from Black Radish Books in 2010. She is the author of the chapbooks Odes, Dispatch (with Marci Nelligan), The Contortions, and Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet. In addition, she is the co-editor of Intersection: Sidewalks and Public Space (with Marci Nelligan, ChainArts, 2008), the first in the ChainLinks book series. Her poems, criticism and essays have appeared in numerous online and print publications. She teaches writing and rhetoric at The University of San Francisco, and lives in the bay area with her husband, Patrick, and daughters Nina and Faye.

A New Cadence in April, Part 1

2010-03-24T13:25:00.001-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Stephen Vincent
& Jean Vengua

reading from their works

April 3rd, 2010
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free

Poet, essayist, editor, and long-time resident of San Francisco, Stephen Vincent was founder, publisher, and editor of Momo's Press and Shocks magazine in the nineteen-seventies. During the eighties and early nineties, he was the founding Director of Bedford Arts, Publishers, which became an internationally renowned publisher of art books. Stephen Vincent's most recent books of poetry include Walking Theory (Junction Press), Walking (Junction Press), A Walk Toward Spicer (Cherry On the Top Press), and two ebooks, Sleeping With Sappho (http://www.fauxpress.com/e/vincent/), and Triggers.

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.

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

A New Cadence in March

2010-03-09T11:54:00.001-08:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Amina Cain
&
Amarnath Ravva
reading from their works

MARCH 20TH, 2010
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free

Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), a collection of stories that revolve quietly around human relationality, landscape and emptiness, and A Body That Has Trouble, a newly completed book of fictionesques and their companion prose pieces. She is also a curator and a teacher of writing/literature. Her work has appeared in publications such as 3rd Bed, Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, La Petite Zine, Sidebrow and Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers, is forthcoming in The Encyclopedia Project, MoonLit and Sous Rature, and was recently translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS. She lives in Los Angeles. http://aminacain.com

Amarnath Ravva has performed (as part of the ambient improvisational ensemble Ambient Force 3000) at LACMA, Los Angeles; Machine Project, Los Angeles; and Betalevel, Los Angeles. He has exhibited work at Telic, Los Angeles; Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles; Pond, San Francisco; and Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona. In addition to presenting his work in numerous readings, he has writing online at PennSound, LA-Lit and Drunken Boat #10, and work forthcoming in Encyclopedia vol. 2, and Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. He is on the board of advisors for nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts and is a curator at Betalevel. http://www.videopoetics.org/

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

Upcoming ANC Readings

2010-02-10T22:26:00.000-08:00

Mark your calendars:

20 March-- Amina Cain & Amarnath Ravva

3 April -- Stephen Vincent & Jean Vengua

26 April-- Carrie Hunter & Nicole Mauro

15 May -- Joan Gelfand w/Marty Castleberg & David Sullivan

More details, and a possible June reading, to follow...

A New Cadence in January: Michelle Bautista and Joseph T. Oliva Arriola

2010-01-10T21:05:00.000-08:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Michelle Bautista
and
Joseph T. Oliva Arriola

reading from their works

January 30th, 2010
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free

Michelle Bautista is a poet, performer, and martial arts teacher. Her first book, Kali's Blade, based on her Pinoy Poetics (Meritage Press, 2004) essay on the intersection of Filipino martial arts and poetry, was released in December 2006 from Meritage Press. Her work can also be seen in TMP Irregular, Muse Apprentice Guild, Babaylan (Aunt Lute, 2001), and Going Home to a Landscape (Calyx, 2003).

Tuhan Joseph T. Oliva Arriola is a practicing attorney in the area personal-finance and is the master of the Arriola School of Kamatuuran Kali Jin. He was a farm worker and grew up in a pool hall. He has written extensively for such magazines as Black Belt Magazine and Inside Kung Fu. He has taught Filipino stick fighting and kamatuuran philosophy in seminars in North America and Europe. His short story "The Pool Hall" was published in the book "Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs Wild". He will be reading from his novel "Journeys Within: the Princess Arisen".

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

A New Cadence in Deember

2009-11-28T13:55:00.000-08:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Michelle Bautista
and
Nicole Mauro
reading from their works

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

Michelle Bautista is a poet, performer, and martial arts teacher. Her first book, Kali's Blade, based on her Pinoy Poetics (Meritage Press, 2004) essay on the intersection of Filipino martial arts and poetry, was released in December 2006 from Meritage Press. Her work can also be seen in TMP Irregular, Muse Apprentice Guild, Babaylan (Aunt Lute, 2001), and Going Home to a Landscape (Calyx, 2003).

Nicole Mauro is the author of The Contortions (Dusie, 2009). Her second book, Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet, Featuring Sarah Palin as Poet, is forthcoming from Black Radish Books in 2010. She is the author of the chapbooks Odes, Dispatch (with Marci Nelligan), The Contortions, and Tax-Dollar Super-Sonnet. In addition, she is the co-editor of Intersection: Sidewalks and Public Space (with Marci Nelligan, ChainArts, 2008), the first in the ChainLinks book series. Her poems, criticism and essays have appeared in numerous online and print publications. She teaches writing and rhetoric at The University of San Francisco, and lives in the bay area with her husband, Patrick, and daughters Nina and Faye.

A New Cadence for November

2009-11-05T11:36:00.000-08:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Kat Meads
&
Sally Ashton

reading from their works

Friday,
November 20th
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free

Kat Meads, of Ben Lomond, is the author of The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan, Sleep, Born Southern and Restless, Not Waving and four books and chapbooks of poetry. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for prose poetry, a California Artist Fellowship for fiction, two Silicon Valley Artist grants and artist residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo and Millay Colony. She has also received the Chelsea award for fiction, the New Letters award for essay, and her short plays have been produced in New York and Los Angeles. Her most recent book, Little Pockets of Alarm (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2009) was runner-up for the University of Massachusetts Press’s Juniper Prize. Until the program’s demise in 2007 because of budget cuts, she served as Writing Program coordinator at UCSC Extension. (More info: www.katmeads.com.)

Sally Ashton, MFA, is a poet, teacher, and editor of the DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. She is author of These Metallic Days, and the prose poem collection, Her Name Is Juanita, just-released. Some Odd Afternoon is forthcoming in 2010. Poems also appear in An Introduction to the Prose Poem textbook anthology and Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes. She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship, Poetry, from Arts Council Silicon Valley. She blogs at www.poetryonastick.blogspot.com and besides workshops, teaches creative writing at SJSU.

For more information contact jamaughn@cabrillo.edu

A New Cadence Poetry Series Presents Double Header Weekend!

2009-10-07T10:48:00.000-07:00

October 24^th and 25^th

Saturday, October 24^th @ 7:00:

Stephen Kessler & Alta Ifland

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Free

Stephen Kessler is a poet, translator, essayist and editor. He is the author of eight books and chapbooks of original poetry, most recently Burning Daylight; fourteen books of literary translation, most recently Desolation of the Chimera: Last Poems by Luis Cernuda; a book of essays, Moving Targets: On Poets, Poetry & Translation; and a novel, The Mental Traveler.

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, has just been published by ninebark press.

Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was one of the leading poets of Spain’s legendary Generation of 1927, a constellation of creative genius that included such stars as Federico García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, Rafael Alberti, Jorge Guillén, Vicente Aleixandre, Salvador Dalí and Pedro Salinas. Of Cernuda, Octavio Paz wrote: “Few modern poets, in any language, give us this chilling sense of knowing ourselves to be before a man who really speaks, effectively possessed by the fatality and the lucidity of passion.”

Sunday, October 25^th @ 7:30

Kate Greenstreet, Anna Leahy & Rachel Loden

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Free

Kate Greenstreet's second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press and includes a DVD containing two short films. Ahsahta published Greenstreet's case sensitive in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008).

Anna Leahy is the winner of the 2006 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize for her book, Constituents of Matter, published by The Kent State University Press. She has published two previous chapbooks, Turns about a Point and Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom. She is a book reviewer for the Mid-American Review and is an assistant professor of English at North Central College in Illinois.

Rachel Loden is the author of Dick of the Dead, which came out in May 2009. Her first book, Hotel Imperium, was selected as one of the ten best poetry books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, which called it "quirky and beguiling." It was also shortlisted for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Honors include two appearances in the Best American Poetry series, a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Poetry from the California Arts Council, and a grant from the Fund for Poetry.

For more information contact James Maughn at jamaughn at cabrillo dot edu

Summer Hiatus

2009-06-19T23:16:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-03T09:50:00.001-07:00

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!

2009-05-19T11:29:00.001-07:00

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

2009-05-10T06:58:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-28T17:25:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-29T14:35:00.000-07:00

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

2009-02-19T16:49:00.000-08:00

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.

A New Cadence in September

2008-09-04T16:43:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Sandra Lim, Elline Lipkin

&

Lauren Eggert-Crowe

reading from their works

Sunday, September 28th

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

(behind Streetlight Records)

Santa Cruz, CA 95060 : 7:00pm

Admission is free

Sandra Lim was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended Stanford University, and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in several literary journals including Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, and ZYZZYVA. Her book, Loveliest Grotesque, won the Kore Press First Book Award in 2006.

Elline Lipkin grew up in Miami, FL, and attended Wesleyan University. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 1994 and her Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston in 2003. She has worked as an editor in both New York City and in Paris. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Margie, North American Review, The Texas Review, and in The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Her book, The Errant Thread, won the Kore Press First Book Award in 2005.

Lauren Eggert-Crowe recently fulfilled a New Year's Resolution to read her weight in books. She is the creator of Galatea's Pants, a zine to tear down myths and dress up statues. She holds an MFA in poetry from Univ. of Arizona. Her work has been published in Puerto Del Sol, You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, So To Speak, Alligator Juniper, DIAGRAM, Water-Stone Review, and Dirty Goat. She is a former employee of Kore Press.

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

A New Cadence in May

2008-04-19T19:46:00.001-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:
Jennifer Firestone

&

Dana Teen Lomax

reading from their works

Wednesday, May 28th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

(behind Streetlight Records)

Santa Cruz, CA 95060 : 7:30pm

Admission is free

Jennifer Firestone is from San Francisco and currently lives in Brooklyn. She was recently appointed the Poet In Residence at Eugene Lang College (The New School). Her work has appeared in How2, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Fourteen Hills, Dusie, moria, MIPOesias and others. Her latest chapbook, from Flashes, is published by Sona Books. She is co-editing an anthology called Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community, which includes writers such as Anne Waldman, Brenda Iijima, Leslie Scalapino, Kathleen Fraser, Jill Magi, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Eileen Myles, Albert Flynn DeSilver and Wanda Coleman. Excerpts from Letters are currently being featured in Jacket Magazine.

Dana Teen Lomax is the author of Curren¢y (Palm Press), Room (a+bend press), and the co-editor of Letters To Poets, Conversations About Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books, 2008). Her work has been published in numerous journals and received the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson prize for poetry, among other awards. Supported by the California Arts Council, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Marin Arts Council, and other organizations, she is presently working on Q, “home movies” about raising a daughter on prison grounds and a poetry manuscript entitled Shhh! Lullabies for a Tired Nation. She works as the Interim Director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in San Francisco, teaches at SFSU and the University of San Francisco, and lives in northern California with her family.

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

Don't Miss Next Week's Doubleheader!!

2008-04-11T15:23:00.001-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents

A National Poetry Month Doubleheader

Friday, April 18th

Chad Sweeney, Matt Hart, & Jason Morris

reading from their works

Chad Sweeney is coeditor of Parthenon West Review and the author of two full-length books of poetry, An Architecture (BlazeVOX, 2007) and Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), as well as the chapbook A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky, 2006). His work has appeared in journals such as New American Writing, Verse, H_ngm_n, GutCult, American Letters & Commentary, Interim, Forklift, Big Bell, Pool, Ping Pong, the tiny, and Electronic Poetry Review. With Mojdeh Marashi, Chad has translated the selected works of poet H. E. Sayeh with the support of a grant from the SF Arts Commission. Chad lives in San Francisco with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney, but will begin a PhD in English/Poetry at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo in the Fall of 2008.

Matt Hart is the author of Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and three chapbooks: Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005), Sonnet (H_NGM_N Books, 2006) and Simply Rocket (Lame House Press, 2007). His work has appeared in many print and online journals, including Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, Jubilat, and Octopus. He lives and teaches in Cincinnati where he edits Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety.

Jason Morris grew up in Vermont. His poems have appeared in Mirage #4 Period(ical), Salt Hill, Ping Pong, Parthenon West Review, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere. Jacket recently published his essay on the New Sincerity. He lives in San Francisco, where he tends bar, edits Big Bell Magazine, and sits on his roof.

Felix Kulpa Gallery 107 Elm Street (behind Streetlight Records) Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Readings start at 7:30pm Admission is Free

Contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or see anewcadence.blogspot.com for more info

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Tuesday, April 15th

Joshua Kryah & Alex Lemon
reading from their works

Joshua Kryah was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a Schaeffer Fellow in poetry. His first book, Glean, won the Nightboat Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Verse, among other journals. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife and daughter, where he is a Visiting Assistant Professor in UNLV's University College. He is also poetry editor for Witness.

Alex Lemon's poetry collections include Hallelujah Blackout (forthcoming in 2008 from Milkweed Editions), Mosquito (Tin House Books 2006) and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less press 2007). A memoir is also forthcoming from Scribner. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines, including AGNI, BOMB, Denver Quarterly Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House. He co-edits LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and is a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review

Felix Kulpa Gallery 107 Elm Street (behind Streetlight Records) Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Readings start at 7:30pm Admission is Free

Contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or see anewcadence.blogspot.com for more info

A New Cadence in March

2008-03-15T14:22:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Hugh Behm-Steinberg

and

Matt Hill

reading from their works

Saturday, March 29th

Louden Nelson Center : 301 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 : 7:30pm

Admission is free

Hugh Behm–Steinberg is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford University and the recipient of an NEA fellowship. His books include The House of the Dead and Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books), a book of poetry, as well as several chapbooks.

Matt Hill is the author of THE CLOUD RECKONER (prose poems) and EXTRACTS: A Field Guide for Iconoclasts . THE AMPLITUDE OF GROWLERS, flash fiction vignettes, will be posted on Amazon Shorts starting Jan. 08 -

for further information, contact james maughn :

jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or See anewcadence@blogspot.com

Please note the date change

2008-03-11T23:26:00.000-07:00

Due to family obligations, the March 22nd reading with Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Matt Hill has been moved to the following Saturday, March 29. The event will still be held at the Louden Nelson Center,7:30pm.

JUST ADDED! A New Cadence in March

2008-02-24T17:19:00.000-08:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series
& The UCSC Poetry and Politics Research Cluster

Present:

Noah Eli Gordon with Joshua Marie Wilkinson

and

Juliana Leslie

reading from their works

Monday, March 3rd

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

7:00pm

Admission is free

Noah Eli Gordon's books include Novel Pictorial Noise (selected by John Ashbery for the 2006 National Poetry Series), Inbox (BlazeVOX, 2006), The Area of Sound Called the Subtone (Ahsahta Press, 2004; selected by Claudia Rankine for the Sawtooth Prize), and The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003). Ugly Duckling Presse recently published That We Come To A Consensus, a chapbook written in collaboration with Sara Veglahn. His reviews and essays have appeared in dozens of journals, including Boston Review, The Poker, 26, Jacket, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. He writes a chapbook review column for Rain Taxi, and teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the co-author, with Noah Eli Gordon, of Figures for a Darkroom Voice (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007). He is also the author of Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms (Pinball, 2005), Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (U of Iowa, 2006), and The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (forthcoming from Tupelo Press). He holds a PhD from University of Denver and lives in Chicago where he teaches at Loyola University. His first film, Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape, is due out in 2008.

Juliana Leslie is the author of two chapbooks: Pie in the Sky (Braincase Press) and Questions for Trees (Minus House), and her poetry has recently appeared in Aufgabe and Conjunctions. She currently lives in Santa Cruz, CA.

February Reading

2008-02-12T13:37:00.000-08:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Mark Statman and Pablo Medina

Reading from their new

translation of

Federico Garcia Lorca’s

Poet in New York

Friday, February 22nd 7:00pm

Louden Nelson Center

“Pablo Medina and Mark Statman have produced the definitive version of Lorca’s masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original in 1930.”

—John Ashbery

With flamenco guitar permormed by

Adam Marcowitz

A New Cadence Spring Schedule

2008-01-22T13:59:00.000-08:00

A New Cadence Spring Schedule

Friday, February 22^nd: Mark Statman and Pablo Medina read from their new translation of Lorca’s Poet in New York Flamenco guitar by Adam Marcowitz

7:00pm Louden Nelson Center

Saturday, March 22^nd: Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Matt Hill

7:30pm Louden Nelson Center

Tuesday, April 15^th: Joshua Kryah and Alex Lemon

7:30pm Felix Kulpa Gallery

All Readings are free and open to the public. More details to follow shortly.

Poetry from Ireland and Finland

2007-10-08T14:57:00.001-07:00

Poetry from Ireland & Finland

featuring:

Trevor Joyce, Fergal Gaynor, &

Marja Tuhkanen

Friday, October 12^th, 2007

Louden Nelson Center : 301 Center Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Room 6

7:30pm

Admission is free

Trevor Joyce has published eleven volumes of poetry, including The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine (1976), his working of the middle-Irish Buile Suibhne, and stone floods (1995), which was nominated for the Irish Times Literature Prize for Poetry. His most recent publications are with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold: A Body of Work 1966-2000 (NWP & Shearsman Books, 2001) and the audio CD Red Noise of Bones (Coelocanth & Wild Honey Press, 2001). A volume of workings from the Irish, Courts of Air and Earth (Shearsman Books), and a collection of work since 2000, What's in Store (The Gig), are forthcoming.

Fergal Gaynor is a poet / interventionist / singer / conceptual & performance artist who, as one half of Art/not art was the primary mover behind the Cork Caucus, that brought the likes of Vito Acconci, Gayatri Spivak, and many other major figures together in 2005 to discuss and enact art, possibility and democracy. He is coming to focus increasingly on poetry, and a chapbook will be published to coincide with this, his first visit to the U.S. A full collection will follow later from Miami University Press, Ohio.

Marja Tuhkanen was born in Finland and studied with Adrian Petcu and Baroque violinist Maya Homburger. Her interest in early music then brought her to the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, studying Baroque violin under Pavlo Beznosiuk. Since 2005 she has been a freelancing out of Cork. She is a member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and also performs with Opera 2005, Cork Opera Works, Cork Chamber Orchestra and various string quartets.

See anewcadence.blogspot.com or contact Jim Maughn at 831-336-5409 or jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.

Nathaniel Mackey at the Kuumbwa

2007-10-08T14:54:00.000-07:00

POETRY

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

NATHANIEL MACKEY

HAFEZ MODIRZADEH

SAXOPHONIST / COMPOSER

JAZZ

Thursday, October 11, 7pm, $8 adv. / $11 door

at KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz (427-2227)

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.,
through a grant it has received
from the James Irvine Foundation and by Cabrillo
College’s BELA Division &
English Department, Poetry Santa Cruz, and
A New Cadence Poetry Series.

A New Cadence In May

2007-05-08T01:06:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Joseph Lease & Melissa Reeser

reading from their works

Saturday, may 19th

Louden Nelson Center : 301 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 : 7:30pm

Admission is free

Joseph Lease is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of poetry: Human Rights and The Room. His work has been featured on npr and published in The AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, VQR, Bay Poetics, Paris Review, and elsewhere. The title poem from Broken World appeared in The Best American Poetry, edited by Robert Creeley and David Lehman. Originally from Chicago, Lease lives in the Bay area and chairs the mfa Program in Writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

“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!”

—MARJORIE PERLOFF

Melissa Reeser is a graduate of the UCSC Creative Writing program. Her eclectic resume includes checking at grocery stores, working the front desk at a gym, hosting events at the Capitola Book Cafe, and gardening at the Ashtanga Yoga Institute. She has been writing poetry since the age of seven. She will be teaching English in Paris starting in the fall. She loves French food, Moroccan music, and the ocean.

for further information, contact james maughn @ 831-336-5409 or jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or See anewcadence@blogspot.com

A New Cadence in March, Part 2! David Lau and Steve Willard

2007-03-28T17:15:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence

Poetry Series

Presents:

Steve Willard

&

David Lau

reading from their poetry

Thursday, March 31^th, 2007

Louden Nelson Center

301 Center Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Room 6

7:30pm

Admission is free

Steve Willard, poet and songster, survived a botched assassination attempt (no joke!) in January 2007, and is currently touring the west with his band, GO DUO. Currently finishing a doctorate in music composition at UC San Diego, Willard has performed with Duncan Sheik and Alvin Lucier, andbeen published in journals such as Denver Quarterly and Boston Review.of poems, Harm., is just out from University of California Press. Please join him and David Lau in celebrating the art of poetry and life in general.

David Lau comes from Long Beach and LA—after a stint in Iowa City, he now lives in Santa Cruz where he teaches at the University of California and Cabrillo College. His poetry has been a finalist for a Pushcart Prize and has been published in Denver Quarterly, Volt, Boston Review and other magazines. He is currently making a documentary called Laborland about the transformation of California in the era of global trade.

An New Cadence in March, part 1 Kate Greenstreet and Janet Holmes!

2007-03-14T14:36:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Kate Greenstreet

Janet Holmes

reading from their works

Saturday, March 17th

Louden Nelson Center

301 Center Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Room 6

7:30pm

Admission is free

Kate Greenstreet's first book, case sensitive, is just out from Ahsahta Press. Her chapbook, Learning the Language, was published by Etherdome Press last fall. Born in Chicago, Kate has lived mostly on the east and west coasts of the U.S., currently back on the Atlantic side, in New Jersey. She received a Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts in 2003. Her poems have appeared in Bird Dog, Conduit, can we have our ball back?, GutCult, Diagram, Octopus, POOL, The Massachusetts Review, No Tell Motel, Fascicle, Barrow Street, Word For/Word, the tiny, RHINO, Free Verse, LIT, MiPOesias, CutBank, Kulture Vulture, TYPO, 26, string of small machines, KELR, XANTIPPE, Spell, CARVE, Absent, Dusie, and other journals. New work is forthcoming in Cannibal and Vanitas.

Janet Holmes has published F2F (2006), Humanophone (2001), and The Green Tuxedo (1998), all from the University of Notre Dame Press, and The Physicist at the Mall (1994), winner of the Anhinga Prize. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in 1913, Cannibal, Cutbank, Notre Dame Review and Practice, New Writing + Art. She edits Ahsahta Press, a 32-year-old all-poetry press housed at Boise State University that is home to poets Dan Beachy-Quick, Lisa Fishman, Graham Foust, Kate Greenstreet, Brian Henry, Aaron McCollough, Sandra Miller, and Susan Tichy, among many others.

for further information, contact james maughn @ 831-336-5409 or see

anewcadence@blogspot.com

ANDREW JORON THIS FRIDAY AT LNC

2006-11-15T13:10:00.000-08:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Andrew Joron

reading from his work

Friday, November 17th

Louden Nelson Center

301 Center Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Room 6

7:30pm

Admission is free

Andrew Joron was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1955 and grew up in Stuttgart, Germany; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Missoula, Montana. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in history and philosophy of science. After a decade and a half spent writing science-fiction poetry, culminating in his volume Science Fiction (Pantagraph Press, 1992), he turned to a more philosophical mode of speculative lyric. This work has been collected in The Removes (Hard Press, 1999) and in Fathom (Black Square, 2003). He is also the translator, from the German, of the Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch’s Literary Essays (Stanford University Press, 1998), and the surrealist Richard Anders’s aphorisms and prose poems. Andrew lives in Berkeley, where he works as a freelance bibliographer and indexer.

Contact Jim Maughn at 831-336-5409 or jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.

Poetry. Exorcism.

2006-11-01T12:42:00.000-08:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Dr. Rob Wilson

The Reverend Dr. Tom Marshall

Saturday, November 11

at 7:30 pm

at Louden Nelson

Community Center

301 Center St.

Santa Cruz

honoring all veterans by questioning war

Dr. Rob Wilson

UC professor Rob Wilson has published poems in various journals from Tinfish to Partisan Review and Poetry. He is at work on two collections of poetry: Ananda Air: American Pacific Lines of Flight; and Automat: Un/American Poetics, and has put together two important collections of cultural criticism. Rob will read his anti-war poems and perform an exorcism of the spirit of “W.”

Rev. Dr. Tom Marshall

Tom Marshall teaches at Cabrillo College and publishes in its journal, Porter Gulch Review, as well as other local, national, and international journals. His new chapbook entitled ≠ (is not equal to) / a suite of poems will be given away at this reading. Rev Doc T will read those poems and contribute one about “possession” to the evening’s exorcism of the spirit of war.

A New Cadence in October

2006-10-23T11:35:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Kevin Opstedal

& Cedar Sigo

reading from their work

Saturday, October 28th

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

7:30pm

Admission is free

Kevin Opstedal has edited several little magazines,
including GAS, Blue Book, and Augustus Truhn's Magazine.
His book reviews, essays, drawings and poetry have
appeared in CoEvolution Quarterly, The San Francisco
Chronicle, Kerouac Connection, Poetry Flash,
Exquisite Corpse, Rolling Stock, Log, and Prosodia,
among others.  He has read his poems in San Francisco, 
Venice, La Jolla, Hollywood, New York, Santa Monica, and
Berkeley.  He lives in Santa Cruz.

Cedar Sigo’s revised second edition of Selected Writings
appeared in 2005 from Ugly Duckling Presse. His most
recent is a book of collaborations, Death Race V.S.O.P.
He has read his poems at St Marks Church, The Bowery
Poetry Club, Intersection for The Arts, & SF Art Institute.

Contact Jim Maughn at 831-336-5409 or jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.

An New Cadence in September

2006-09-05T12:24:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Anthony Hawley

reading from his work

Saturday, September 9th

Louden Nelson Center

301 Center Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Room 6

7:30pm

Admission is free

Anthony Hawley is the author of The Concerto Form (Shearsman Books, 2006) and the chapbooks Afield (Ugly Duckling Press, 2004) and Vocative (Phylum Press, 2004). Recent poems have appeared/are forthcoming in Cannibal, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Jacket, The Tiny, and Verse. Currently he resides in Lincoln, NE where he lives with his wife and daughter and is on the faculty of University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

See anewcadence@blogspot.com or contact Jim Maughn at 831-336-5409 or jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.

hiatus

2006-07-04T14:32:00.000-07:00

On the off chance anyone's keeping track, the series is on hiatus for the summer. Readings will resume in September, with Anthony Hawley on Sept 9th.

Jim

Another Reading in May!

2006-05-19T11:21:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Sid Gershgoren

reading from his work

Saturday, May 27th

Louden Nelson Center

301 Center Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Room 6

7:30pm

Admission is free



Sid Gershgoren, a "socially integrated" poet and prose
writer, has published five books of both  poetry and
prose, including his most recent book, Past Rentals.  
He has also written more than a dozen other works, all of
a very imaginary kind. He lives in Berkeley.

A New Cadence in May

2006-05-05T13:05:00.000-07:00

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Kelly Holt
&
Carra Stratton

reading from their poetry

Thursday, May 11th, 2006
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
7:30pm
Admission is free

Kelly Holt is a San Francisco native. She has two chapbooks, Jesstures (¡Mirab.dict!, 2005) and Equidistances (PonyXpress, 2000). Her poems have or will appear in Faux Press's Bay Poetics Anthology, Fulcrum, New American Writing, Jacket, 6,500, Mirage 4/Period(ical), Tolling Elves, Small Town, Commonweal and Fourteen Hills. She has taught at SFSU, Academy of Art University, and UC Santa Cruz, where she is a PhD Candidate in Literature. She is writing a dissertation on the Berkeley Renaissance poets and Ernst Kantorowicz.

Carra Stratton’s hopeful her name will suffice. She’s from Buffalo. She lives here now, where she goes to school.. no recent publications and it's embarrassing to list your publications with those 10 year gaps, like job resumes and the employers get suspicious because they think you could be a little mad or just not serious enough to stay. She suggests throwing mounds of paint on limos and persons -- red or blue. symbolism is confusing.

Contact Jim Maughn at 831-336-5409 or jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.