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
Friday
Wednesday
ANC in June
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents:
Jared Stanley
&
Scott Inguito
reading from their works
Friday, June 19th
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
Tuesday
This Friday!
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
Sunday
A New Cadence -- Susana Gardner
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents
Susana Gardner
Reading from Her Work
Saturday, May 16th
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.
Tuesday
A New Cadence in May
Spread the word!
Chad Sweeney
And
Mojdeh Marashi
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.
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents:
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
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.
Sunday
ANC in April
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.
Thursday
Three Upcoming Readings
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
107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060(Behind Streetlight Records)
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
107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060(Behind Streetlight Records)
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:
reading from her poetry
107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060(Behind Streetlight Records)
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
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents:
Sandra Lim, Elline Lipkin
&
Lauren Eggert-Crowe
reading from their works
Sunday, September 28th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
(behind Streetlight Records)
Admission is free
Sandra Lim was born in
Elline Lipkin grew up in
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
Saturday
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)
Admission is free
Jennifer Firestone is from
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
for further information, contact james Maughn :
jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or See anewcadence@blogspot.com
Friday
Don't Miss Next Week's Doubleheader!!
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents
A National Poetry Month Doubleheader
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
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
Jason Morris grew up in
Felix Kulpa Gallery 107 Elm Street (behind Streetlight Records)
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
Felix Kulpa Gallery 107 Elm Street (behind Streetlight Records)
Readings start at 7:30pm Admission is Free
Saturday
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
Admission is free
Hugh Behm–Steinberg is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing at
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
Tuesday
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.
Sunday
JUST ADDED! A New Cadence in March
A New Cadence Poetry Series
& The UCSC Poetry and Politics Research Cluster
& 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
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
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.
Tuesday
February Reading
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents:
Mark Statman and Pablo Medina
translation of
Federico Garcia Lorca’s
Poet in
Friday, February 22nd
Louden
“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 22nd: Mark Statman and Pablo Medina read from their new translation of Lorca’s Poet in New York Flamenco guitar by Adam Marcowitz
Saturday, March 22nd: Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Matt Hill
Tuesday, April 15th: Joshua Kryah and Alex Lemon
All Readings are free and open to the public. More details to follow shortly.
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