A New Cadence in September

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

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!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.