A New Cadence in April - Stephen Kessler

A New Cadence Poetry Series presents

Stephen Kessler

in a reading and book party for two new books

Join Stephen Kessler in celebrating his latest book of original poems

Scratch Pegasus (Swan Scythe Press) and his new translation of

Poems of Consummation by Vicente Aleixandre (Black Widow Press)

Saturday April 20, 2013, 

7:30pm

Felix Kulpa Gallery, 

107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz

SCRATCH PEGASUS is a selection of new poems (2006-2012) exploring themes of time, love, friendship, aging, teachers, art, music, “wild men” and the streaming present of the everyday.

POEMS OF CONSUMMATION is Vicente Aleixandre’s late-life lyrical and metaphysical investigation into the mysteries of youth, sex, memory, old age, death and oblivion.

Stephen Kessler’s other recent books include The Tolstoy of the Zulus (essays), The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges (as editor and principal translator), and The Mental Traveler (novel). His translation of Desolation of the Chimera by Luis Cernuda received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and his version of Cernuda’s collected prose poems, Written in Water, won a Lambda Literary Award. He is the editor of The Redwood Coast Review, now in its fifteenth year. www.stephenkessler.com

Vicente Aleixandre (1898-1984), one of Spain’s leading twentieth-century poets, received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1977. Stephen Kessler’s version of Poems of Consummation, first published in Spanish in 1968, is the first complete translation of this book to appear in English.

Please join us for an evening of poetry, conversation and libations.

A New Cadence in March, Part 3 Canarium Press!

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Lynn Xu, Joshua Edwards,

and Farnoosh Fathi

reading from their poetry

Sunday, March 24th @ Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060

(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm

Admission is free

LYNN XU was born in Shanghai. Her poems have appeared in 6x6, 1913,Best American Poetry 2008, Boston Review, Octopus, Poor Claudia, and others. A chapbook, June, was published by Corollary Press in 2006 and her first book, Debts & Lessons, will be published by Omnidawn in spring 2013. She co-edits Canarium Books.

JOSHUA EDWARDS directs and co-edits Canarium Books. He's the author of Imperial Nostalgias (Ugly Duckling, 2013) and Campeche (Noemi, 2011) and the translator of Mexican poet María Baranda's Ficticia (Shearsman, 2010). Currently a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, he divides his time between Stuttgart, Germany and Marfa,Texas.

FARNOOSH FATHI's first book, Great Guns, will be out from Canarium Books in spring 2013. Her work has also appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Everyday Genius, Poetry, Jacket2, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland, California.

A New Cadence in March, Part 2 Greenstreet, Arrieu-King, and Orser-Crouse

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Kate Greenstreet, Cynthia Arrieu-King,

and Kristen Orser-Crouse

reading from their poetry

Friday, March 15th @ Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060

(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm Admission is free

Kate Greenstreet is the author of The Last 4 Things and case sensitive, both from Ahsahta Press, and six chapbooks. Her new work can be found in Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Volt, Fence, Boston Review, and other journals. Ahsahta published her third book, Young Tambling, in January 2013.

Cynthia Arrieu-King works as an associate professor of creative writing at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and a former Kundiman fellow. She is the author of two collections of poetry, People are Tiny in Paintings of China (2010) and Manifest (2013). She also co-wrote a chapbook with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis By a Year Lousy with Meteors (2012). Her first book appeared on The Believer’s Reader’s Choice Poetry List in 2011 and was mentioned on Seth Abramson’s list of best contemporary works of poetry in The Huffington Post. She runs a radio show through WLFR (wlfr.fm) about writers and writing in South Jersey and the tri-state called The Last Word.

Kristen Orser-Crouse  works in text and image and is the author of the chapbooks E AT I (Wyrd Tree Press), SQUINT (Dancing Girl Press), Folded into Your Midwestern Thunderstorm (Greying Ghost Press), Winter, Another Wall (blossombones), and Wilted Things (Scantily Clad Press). Her work is often in pieces on the hardwoods and always in process.

March 9th: Ed Coletti!!

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Ed Coletti

Reading from his work

Saturday, March 9^th, 2013 
7:30pm
@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz CA 95060

Free

Ed Coletti is an American Poet and Painter living in the Sonoma County, California area. Born in New York, Coletti moved to Santa Rosa when he returned from the Vietnam War. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and completed a Masters in Creative Writing under Robert Creeley at California State University, San Francisco or San Francisco State University.

Coletti has been published in two editions of Light Year (Bits Press), ZYZZYVA, Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, divide (Univ. of Colorado), Blueline, Stymie Magazine, Big Bridge, Spillway Magazine, Unlikely Stories, Jerry Jazz Musician, Tucumcari Literary Review, the Orphic Lute, Kickass Review, Parting Gifts, The Harrow, Green's Magazine, Gryphon, The Pedestal, Italian Americana, Cyclamen and Swords (Israel, The New Verse News, and other journals and anthologies. He is currently indexed in Granger's American Poets. He published a collection of his poems in 2000, titled thawts: Selected Poems of Edward Coletti with a second edition in 2006. Two other books of poetry have been published by dPress in 2006 and 2007 including Between Trellis and Glass, Quiet Now, and Bringing Home the Bones which is a multimedia epic poem about war, peace, remains, recovery, closure, superstition, and the attempt to find reality after war. In 2010, he published Jazz Gods. His latest collection of poems When Hearts Outlive Minds was published in 2011 by Conflux Press.

And We're Back! A New Cadence in February- Carr and Lewis, +Special Guests

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:
Emily Carr & Erica Lewis

+Special Guests

reading from their works

Saturday, February 16^th, 2013
@
 Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

(behind Streetlight Records)

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

7:30pm

Admission is free

Emily Carr’s second book of poetry, 13 Ways of Happily: Books 1 & 2 (Parlor Press 2011), was chosen by Cole Swensen as the winner of the 2009 New Measures Prize. Excerpts from The Weights of Heaven, a book-length erasure essay, was recently published in the Adaptations issue of the Western Humanities Review. The poems here are from Carr’s Tarot novel, Name Your Bird without a Gun; for a video performance of other excerpts, visit www.ifshedrawsadoor.com.

erica lewis is a fine arts publicist in San Francisco, where she ran the Canessa Reading Series at the historic Canessa Park Gallery. A graduate of Northwestern University and Mills College, her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies. Books include murmur in the inventory, just out from Shearsman Books, and the precipice of jupiter (Queue Books) and camera obscura (BlazeVox Books), both featuring original artwork by Bay Area artist Mark Stephen Finein. Chapbooks include excerpts form camera obscura (EtherDome) and of excerpts from murmur in the inventory (Ypolita Press). She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Diana Hamilton and Josef Kaplan

Don't Miss This Reading!

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz CA

Friday, October 19th  

7:30pm

Diana Hamilton

and

Josef Kaplan

Diana Hamilton is the author of Okay, Okay (Truck Books, 2012). Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bomb, The Claudius App, and Two Serious Ladies.. She is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at Cornell University.

Josef Kaplan is the author of Democracy Is Not for the People (Truck Books, 2012). Recent work has appeared in The Claudius App, Calmaplombprombombbalm, Rethinking Marxism and The Death and Life of American Cities.

Hosted by David Lau.

A New Cadence October Fiction Event

A New Cadence Poetry Series Presents

A Fiction Special Event

featuring Other Voices Press

Authors:

Gina Frangello

Joshua Mohr

Rob Roberge

Leota Higgins

Stacy Bierlein

Sunday, October 14^th

3PM

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz 95060

Gina Frangello is the author of three books of fiction: A Life in Men (forthcoming from Algonquin in February 2014), Slut Lullabies (Emergency Press 2010), and My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus 2006).  She is the Executive Editor and co-founder of the independent fiction press Other Voices Books, and also serves as the Sunday Editor of The Rumpus and the Fiction Editor of The Nervous Breakdown.  She lives in Chicago.

Joshua Mohr's work has been published in Other Voices, The Cimarron Review, Pleiades, and Gulf Coast, among others. He is the author of Damascus, Termite Parade and Some Things That Meant the World to Me. He is a regular contributor to TheRumpus.net, and teaches writing in San Francisco. He also sings in the band Damn Handsome & The Birthday Suits.

Rob Roberge is the author of the upcoming book of stories Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life, the neo-noir novels More Than They Could Chew (Perennial Dark Alley/Harper Collins, February 2005) and Drive (re-issue, Hollyridge Press, 2006). His stories have been featured in ZYZZYVA, Chelsea, Other Voices, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the "Ten Writers Worth Knowing Issue" of The Literary Review. His work has also been anthologized in Another City (City Lights, 2001), It’s All Good (Manic D Press, 2004) and SANTI: Lives of the Modern Saints (Black Arrow Press, 2007).  New work is scheduled to appear in OC Noir, part of the series that includes San Francisco Noir, LA Noir and Las Vegas Noir.  Other new work is coming in PENTHOUSE. 

Leota Higgins has an MFA from the University of San Francisco and is currently at work on her first novel "Still Searching", the first chapter of which has been published by Achiote Press in their debut story collection "Routes".

Stacy Bierlein is the author of A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends. She is the editor of the award-winning anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection (May 2008), and a co-editor of Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience (October 2011). She is a founding editor of the independent press Other Voices Books as well as co-creator of the Morgan Street International Novel Series. Bierlein is a graduate of Syracuse University and Columbia College. A native of mid-Michigan and avid traveler, she currently makes her home in Newport Coast, California. Follow her on Twitter @StacyBierlein.

A New Cadence in April: Dennis Phillips

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Dennis Phillips

Reading from his work

7:30pm
@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz CA 95060

Free

Dennis Phillips is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Arena, Credence, Sand, and most recently Study for the Possibility of Hope  (Pie in the Sky Press) and Navigation: Selected Poems, 1985 – 2010 (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions) . His work, both poetry and commentary, regularly appears in various national and local poetry journals. In 1998 he edited and wrote the introduction for a book on some of the early essays of James Joyce, Joyce On Ibsen. His novel, Hope, came out in 2007.

Phillips was a founding editor of Littoral Books, which published works by authors such as Amiri Baraka, Norma Cole, Ray DiPalma, and Stephen Ratcliffe. Besides his work with Littoral, over the years Phillips has contributed in various ways to other literary endeavors, including as the Book Review Editor of Sulfur, as Poetry Editor of the L.A. Weekly, as an enthusiastic staff member of the College of Neglected Science, and as the Director of the Beyond Baroque literary foundation.

Phillips is a professor in the department of Histories, Theory and Practices at Art Center College of Design, where he has been teaching literature and writing since 1979. Additionally, he is on the faculty of the Graduate Writing Program at Otis College of Art and Design.

He lives in Pasadena, California.

A New Cadence in March: Sweeney and Marashi

A New Cadence Poetry Series

presents

Chad Sweeney & Mojdeh Marashi

A trilingual reading!

from

The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H.E. Sayeh 1948-2000 (White Pine Press)

and

Wolf’s Milk: the Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney (Forklift, Ohio)

7:30 pm, SATURDAY, MARCH 24^TH 

@

FELIX KULPA GALLERY

107 ELM STREET

SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060

The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H.E. Sayeh spans more than fifty years of production by one of Iran’s most important contemporary poets. They will read these musical poems in both Persian and English! The book was supported by grants from the NEA, New York Council on the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Council and the Witter Byner Foundation.

Wolf’s Milk: The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney is a bilingual edition, the first of its kind, a “translation” from a fictitious poet, the great Irish Spaniard poet, Juan Sweeney. Chad will read from it in both langauges.

Chad Sweeney teaches in the MFA program at California State University, San Bernardino. He is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, the Spanish/Enlish bilingual Wolf’s Milk: Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney (Forklift, 2012) and Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010) which was a Cold Front Magazine best book of 2010 and a finalist for Foreword Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year. He is cotranslator of the Selected Poems of contemporary Iranian poet H.E. Sayeh, the “modern Hafiz.” Sweeney’s poems have appeared widely, including in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, American Poetry Review, New American Writing and Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He lives in Redlands with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney and their son Liam.

Mojdeh Marashi is a writer, artist, and designer whose work is deeply influenced by the ancient and modern history of Iran. Born in Iran, she moved to U.S. in 1977 and has been based in the San Francisco Bay Area since. Filled with a deep longing for the culture she was raised in, she cofounded YALDA cultural organization in 1986, teaching Persian languageclasses and co-hosting the weekly radio program “Rang aa Rang (Colorful)” on KUSF, the University of San Francisco’s radio station. She has an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts and an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her fiction was chosen for 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 Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Poetry International, American Letters & Commentary, Atlanta Review, Seattle Review, Subtropics and Washington Square. She has traveled twice to Iran to work directly with H.E. Sayeh for this project.