Poetry from Ireland and Finland

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.