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.
Saturday
A New Cadence in June --- Stengel and Reed
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
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
Tuesday
A New Cadence Presents The Summer Fiction Series
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.
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.
Saturday
Introducing A New Cadence Summer fiction series!
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.
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.
Tuesday
Tiziano Fratus, from his recent reading
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.
Friday
A New Cadence in May, Part 2
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
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
Monday
A New Cadence in May, Part 1
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
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
Wednesday
Two Readings Next Week!
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.
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
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
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
Tuesday
A New Cadence in March
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
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
Wednesday
Upcoming ANC Readings
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...
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...
Sunday
A New Cadence in January: Michelle Bautista and Joseph T. Oliva Arriola
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
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
Saturday
A New Cadence in Deember
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.
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.
Thursday
A New Cadence for November
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
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
Wednesday
A New Cadence Poetry Series Presents Double Header Weekend!
Saturday, October 24th @ 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 25th @ 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
Friday
Summer Hiatus
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
Have a nice summer,
Jim Maughn
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.
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