A New Cadence in October: Robinson and Marshall

A New Cadence Poetry Series


Presents:


Kit Robinson
&
Tom Marshall


reading from their poetry

Saturday, October 23th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm
Admission is free


Kit Robinson is the author of Determination (Cuneiform,2010), The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry,2009), Train I Ride(BookThug, 2009), and 17 other books of poetry. A co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 (Mode A, 2006-2010), Robinson lives in Berkeley, California, where he works as a freelance writer and plays Cuban tres guitar in the Latin dance band Bahia Son.

Tom Marshall is that guy who has taught poetry workshops for, and brought poetry events to, Cabrillo College for the last two decades. His poems, short fiction, critical works, and nature writings have appeared in many magazines, newspapers, and online sources over the last four decades. Lately, he has also become a mystery novelist. He will read selected poems from several collections, including a few pieces written with the Detective Novel Magnetic Poetry kit and a slice of "Awake in Horror: Observations."

Contact Jim Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information

A New Cadence in October, John Walsh, from Galway, Ireland!

A New Cadence Poetry Series


Presents:



John Walsh


reading from his poetry

Tuesday, October 5th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm
Admission is free



John Walsh was born in Derry, Ireland. After living in Germany for sixteen years, he now lives and writes in Connemara. He has published three collections of poetry, Johnny tell Them (Guildhall Press, 2006), Love’s Enterprise Zone (Doire Press, 2007) and Chopping Wood with T.S. Eliot (Salmon Poetry, 2010). He is organiser of North Beach Poetry Nights in Galway, Ireland’s leading performance poetry event, and is director of Doire Press, a small literary publisher in the west of Ireland.


Contact Jim Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.

A New Cadence in September, Part 2:

As some of you know, tonight's (Sat. Sept. 25th) reading
w/Joseph Lease and Mark Statman had to be canceled at the
last minute due to an unforeseen airline snafu. Mark is
still coming down, though, and will be reading tomorrow
(Sun. Sept. 26th) at 7:00pm. This new reading will still
be happening at the Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street,
Santa Cruz, CA. Joseph Lease is unable to make it,
so his portion of the reading will be filled by yours
truly. I recognize this is very last minute, but
Mark is a superlative poet, and I think the evening will be
well worth your time. Joseph will be rescheduled for sometime in the
spring.

Here are some bios, for those who could use a little more
incentive:

Tourist at a Miracle is MARK STATMAN’s first full
collection of poetry. His poems, translations, and
criticism have appeared in many anthologies and in such
publications as American Poetry Review, The Hat, Hanging
Loose, Tin House, and Florida Review. His translation of
Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York (with Pablo
Medina) has been widely praised; John Ashbery called it
“the definitive version.” He is also the author of Listener
in the Snow: The Practice and Teaching of Poetry ( Kenneth
Koch said “teaching poetry may never be the same again”);
The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing (with
Christian McEwen); and The Red Skyline: Poems, a chapbook.
His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship. Statman is an associate professor of Literary
Studies at Eugene Lang College of The New School and also
taught for many years for Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Katherine, and their
son, Jesse.

JAMES MAUGHN lives in Santa Cruz, CA, where he a poetry
co-editor for the literary arts journal Ping Pong,
published by the Henry Miller Memorial Library. He also
coordinates A New Cadence Poetry Series out of the Felix
Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz. His first book, Kata, was
published by BlazeVOX Books in 2009. Work has appeared in
Otoliths, Lungfull, Parthenon West Review, TinFish, Big
Bell, Sentence, Moria, Poetry Salzburg Review, Dusie,
MiPoesias, and Horse Less Review. He is a member of the
Black Radish Collective, and his second book, Arakaki
Permutations, will be published by Black Radish Books in
2010.







Contact Jim Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.

A New Cadence in September

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:


Eric Gudas

reading from his poetry


Saturday, September 11th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm
Admission is free

Eric Gudas was born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1972. His poems, book reviews, and interviews with American poets have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, Poetry Flash, The Southern Review, and other journals. Beautiful Monster, his chapbook of poems, was published by Swan Scythe Press in 2003. He and his wife, Alyssa Sherwood, live with their daughter in Los Angeles. A doctoral candidate in English at UCLA, he is completing a dissertation about the life and writing of contemporary American poet Eleanor Ross Taylor.


Contact Jim Maughn at jamaughn @ cabrillo.edu for more information.

A New Cadence Fall 2010 Series

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

A New Cadence Poetry Series Presents Double Header Weekend!

October 24^th and 25^th

Saturday, October 24^th @ 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 25^th @ 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

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