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.

A New Cadence in February

We're back...

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Irish Poet,

Nell Regan

reading her work

Sunday, February 19th

@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

(Behind Streetlight Records)

3:00pm

Admission is free

Nell Regan is an Irish writer at UC Berkeley as a Fulbright Scholar. Her debut poetry collection Preparing for Spring, Arlen House, 2007 was nominated for the Glen Dimplex New Writing Awards and Strong First Collection Awards among others. A new sequence of poems Bound for Home, commissioned by Cork County Council has just been published by Arlen House and will be distributed by Syracuse University Press. Her work has been published widely in Irish, British and US journals. She is the recipient of Literature Bursaries from the Irish Arts Council, Dun Laoghaire/ Rathdown County Council. She was an Writing Fellow at the International Writing Programme at Iowa University this Fall and is currently completing her third book. She has also published non fiction including historical biography and travel articles.

A New Cadence in November: What Redwoods Know— Poems From California State Parks

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

What Redwoods Know:

Poems from California State Parks

A reading

for California State Parks

November 12th, 2011

@ 7:30

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Free

A New Cadence in October: Lease, Perrière, Corwin

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Joseph Lease,

Donna de la Perrière

&

Nina Corwin

reading from their works

October 22TH, 2011

@ 7:30

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Free

The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry award, Donna de la Perrière is the author of Saint Erasure (Talisman House, 2010), a finalist for the Northern California Booksellers Association’s 2011 Book of the Year Award, and True Crime (Talisman House, 2009).Her work has appeared in Agni, American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Five Fingers Review, New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly, New American Writing, Volt, and other journals as well as No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press, 2009) and Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006).

Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press), Broken World (Coffee House Press), and Human Rights (Talisman House, second edition forthcoming). Lease’s poems “’Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” and "Send My Roots Rain" have been selected for Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (Second Edition).  "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was also selected for The Best American Poetry 2002. His poems have also been featured on NPR and published in The AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, Bay Poetics, No Gender, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, and elsewhere.  Marjorie Perloff wrote: “The poems in Joseph Lease’s Broken World are as cool as they are passionate, as soft-spoken as they are indignant, and as fiercely Romantic as they are formally contained.  Whether writing an elegy for a friend who died of AIDS or playing complex variations on Rilke’s Duino Elegies (“If I cried out, / Who among the angelic orders would / Slap my face, who would steal my / Lunch money”), Lease has complete command of his poetic materials.  His poems are spellbinding in their terse and ironic authority: Yes, the reader feels when s/he has finished, this is how it was—and how it is.  An exquisite collection!”  And Michael Bérubé called Broken World “remarkably inventive and evocative work from Joseph Lease, one of the finest poets writing today.”

Nina Corwin is the author of two books of poetry, The Uncertainty of Maps and Conversations With Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints. Her work has appeared in ACM, Forklift OH, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review, Southern Poetry Review, Verse and has been nominated for the Pushcart prize. Corwin is an Advisory Editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and curates readings at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago where she co-edited Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art By Women. She has read and performed her work across the country, at times set with musical or choreographic compositions. In daylight hours, she is a psychotherapist known for her work on behalf of victims of violence.

For more information contact jamaughn@cabrillo.edu

or see  anewcadence@blogspot.com

A New Cadence Oct. 16th. Other Voices

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

A Special Night of Fiction

Featuring the writers of Other Voices Books


October 16th, 2011
7:30pm
@
The Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

"Other Voices Books is a not-for-profit, independent press devoted to keeping books of short fiction alive and well in a dominant corporate publishing climate that increasingly marginalizes the short story form. We also, through the Morgan Street International Novel Series, champion fiction set outside the United States. Other Voices Books has offices in Chicago and Los Angeles, and is an imprint of Dzanc Books."

http://www.dzancbooks.org/storage/OVBooks/OVfront.html

A New Cadence Special Event! Amra Brooks, July 23rd.

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

                                                         

AMRA BROOKS

                            

READING HER WORKS

July 23, 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.

A New Cadence in June- Meetze and Carr

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES

presents

James Meetze

&

Emily Carr

Saturday, June 18, 2011
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm

James Meetze is the author of I Have Designed This For You (2007), and editor, with Simon Pettet, of Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler (2010). His new book, Dayglo, won the 2010 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, judged by Terrance Hayes.

Emily Carr’s first book, directions for flying (Furniture Press), was the winner of the 2009 Furniture Press Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, the story will fix you it is there outside your &, was published in Toadlily Press’s 2009 Quartet Series. In 2010, Emily was a Poetry Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center & Writer in Residence at the Jack Kerouac House. You can read her work in recent issues of Prairie Schooner, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, Bombay Gin, Margie, Interim, Caketrain, Phoebe, Fourteen Hills, The Capilano Review, So To Speak, dusie, and Versal. She is the author of 13 ways of happily, out now from Parlor Press.