A New Cadence in July: Stephen Kessler on Luis Cernuda

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES PRESENTS

FORBIDDEN PLEASURES

a reading and book signing by Stephen Kessler

from his translation of the New Selected Poems of one of Spain’s greatest poets

LUIS CERNUDA

Saturday July 18, 2015, 7pm

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz

Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) is one of the leading modern poets in the Spanish language. Stephen Kessler’s earlier translation of Cernuda’s prose poems, Written in Water (City Lights Books, 2004) received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Poetry, and his version of Cernuda’s late poems, Desolation of the Chimera (White Pine Press, 2009), received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Forbidden Pleasures (Black Widow Press, 2015), which is selected from the first twenty-five years of Cernuda’s career (1924-1949), completes the third volume of Kessler’s selected Cernuda and is the largest collection of his poetry ever to appear in English. Please join us to celebrate the publication of this important book.

For more about the translator, visit www.stephenkessler.com.

CO-SPONSORED BY POETRY SANTA CRUZ 

Sholeh Wolpé and Adela Najarro


 
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 7:30 PM,

 Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz

Sholeh Wolpé is a poet, playwright and literary translator whose work, according to Terrain Journal, “transcends the boundaries of language, gender, ethnicity and nationality.” Born in Iran, she spent most of her teen years in Trinidad and the UK before settling in the United States. Wolpé has authored three collections of poetry, most recently Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths. She is the editor of two anthologies, Breaking the Jaws of Silence, which gathers American voices of protest, and The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles. Her books of translations include, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad and a Persian translation of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself (co-translated with Mohsen Emadi), commissioned by the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program in celebration of Whitman’s work. Her latest book, Attar’s Conference of the Birds, will be released by W. W. Norton in 2017. Wolpé’s accolades include the 2014 Pen/Heim award, 2013 Midwest Book Award, 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation prize and residency awards at Hedgebrook in Whidbey Island, and Château de Lavigny in Switzerland.

Adela Najarro is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Split Geography (Mouthfeel Press) and Twice Told Over (Unsolicited Press), both published in March 2015. David A. Sullivan notes that in Split Geography “the personality that emerges from this collection is funny, poignant, irascible, and above all, in love with the promise that writing can be a spiritual exercise to remake ourselves. These are poems to live among. “About Twice Told Over, ”Juan Felipe Herrera states, “A tour de force, magnificent, lovely, sculpted, drenched with Borges, Sexton, Najarro. A radically new Latina verse.” She currently lives in Santa Cruz and teaches creative writing, literature and composition at Cabrillo College. 

Cosponsored by Poetry Santa Cruz and A New Cadence Poetry Series

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Roy Mash

and

Gerald Fleming

Reading from their works

@

The Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

May 26^th, 2015

Reception at 6:30pm

Reading begins at 7:30pm

Hosted By Robert Sward

Free

Roy Mash is a long time board member of Marin Poetry Center. He holds degrees in English, Philosophy, and Computer Science, though he currently doodles his time away staring out of café windows, dabbing up the seeds that have fallen from an everything bagel, and mentally thumbing over his poems that have appeared widely in journals such as AGNI, Barrow Street, Nimrod, Poetry East, and River Styx. He is the recipient of the Atlanta Review International Publication Award, and the Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Poets’ Dinner competition. His first full length book, Buyer’s Remorse (Cherry Grove Collections), debuted in 2014.

"Buyer’s Remorse is a celebration of the small, the overlooked, the underrated. Doggedly anti-lofty, reveling in the This-Worldly, the poems caper around the themes of the body, of mathematics and rationality, adolescence and middle-age, love and fear and death. The tone ranges from the irreverent to the wistful – the spritz of seltzer in the face of the Creature from the Black Lagoon to the lover standing in one sock. Drawing on sources from The Three Stooges to Archimedes, Lavoisier to Tweety Bird, Mash is a latter day Anti-Oracle, a nail in the tire of post-modernity, an incorrigible wag who’s smuggled his pea shooter into the Church of Poetry. Be ready to duck."

Gerald Fleming’s most recent books are The Choreographer, longer prose poems (Sixteen Rivers Press, San Francisco) and Night of Pure Breathing, prose poems from Hanging Loose Press in New York. He’s written three books for teachers, including Rain, Steam, and Speed (Jossey-Bass/Wiley). His poetry has appeared in many magazines over the decades, including New Letters, Western Humanities Review, Carolina Quarterly, New World Writing, Hanging Loose, and many others. Between 1995 and 2000 he edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review, and currently edits the limited-edition vitreous magazine One (More) Glass. He taught in the San Francisco Public Schools for thirty-seven years, and lives most of the year in Northern California, part of the year in Paris.

 

Of Fleming’s Night of Pure Breathing, Gary Young said:

“These dark fables, written in a language ‘born of rage,’ furiously peel back the veneer of the world we think we know. Part fairy tale, part dream, these poems explore a region where the ordinary and the fantastic overlap, where a smile can get a job, and where identities are fluid and interchangeable... Many poems are set in exotic locations—Corfu, Bali, Mexico, Ukraine—but they all merge to create a discrete, elemental landscape, a poetic geography where this remarkable collection plays out. In one poem, ‘a boy and a girl court each other by telling ghost stories.’ Gerald Fleming’s Night of Pure Breathing is a collection that seduces the reader in just that way. Hold onto your socks; you’re in for a ride.” 

Co-sponsored with Poetry Santa Cruz

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Eleni Sikelianos 

and 

Maria Garcia Teutsch 

Reading from their works

@

Louden Nelson Center  (< Please Note Venue Change!)
301 Center St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Room 5!

Friday, October 3^th, 2014 
7:30pm!

Maria Garcia Teutsch is a poet and editor. She has published over 20 journals of poetry as editor-in-chief of the Homestead Review, published by Hartnell College in Salinas, and Ping-Pong journal of art and literature, published by the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California. She teaches poetry and creative writing online. She serves as president of the board of the Henry Miller Memorial Library.

Ilya Kaminsky on Maria’s Poetics:  “Maria Garcia Teutsch is a poet who looks for lyricism and sensual flavor in our daily moments, and makes poems that ride on the human nerve, like Frank O’Hara told us the poet must.”

Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six previous books of poetry, most recently You Animal Machine, The Loving Detail of the Living and the Dead, Body Clock and The California Poem; the hybrid memoir, The Book of Jon; and a translation of Jacques Roubaud’s Exchanges on Light. She has been the happy recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, The National Poetry Series, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others, and of Princeton University’s Seeger Fellowship and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Writing. Sikelianos’s work has been widely anthologized, in two Norton anthologies (Postmodern American Poetry and American Hybrid) as well as Tin House’s Satellite Convulsions, A Best of Fence, and The Arcadia Project. She has collaborated with filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and musicians, including Philip Glass and Ed Bowes. At present, she teaches in and directs the Creative Writing Program at The University of Denver and teaches for Naropa’s Summer Writing Program. She shares her days with the novelist Laird Hunt and their daughter Eva Grace.

 

A New Cadence in April -- Kessler, Soldofsky, Silberg

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Stephen Kessler, Alan Soldofsky,

& Richard Silberg

Reading from their works

@

The Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

April 26^th, 2014

Reception at 6:30pm

Reading begins at 7:30pm

Hosted By Robert Sward

Free

Stephen Kessler is a poet, prose writer, translator and editor. His most recent books include Scratch Pegasus (poems), Poems of Consummation by Vicente Aleixandre (translation), The Tolstoy of the Zulus: On Culture, Arts & Letters (essays), and The Mental Traveler (novel). He received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for his version of Desolation of the Chimera by Luis Cernuda. He is the subject of a FloodLight Feature in Issue 5 of the online journal phren-Z .

 

Alan Soldofsky has published a new collection of poems, In the Buddha Factory, from Truman State University Press. Also three chapbooks of poems: Kenora Station, Staying Home, and most recently a chapbook that includes a selection of poems by his son, the poet Adam Soldofsky, Holding Adam / My Father's Books. He has published poems widely in magazines and academic journals including: The Antioch Review, The Crab Orchard Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Grand Street, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Nation, The North American Review, and Poetry East. His poems have three times been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has also contributed essays on modern and contemporary poets to a variety of journals. His articles, essays, interviews, and book reviews have appeared widely in periodicals including Chelsea, Narrative, Poetry Flash, Quarry West, and The Writer's Chronicle. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at San Jose State University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Richard Silberg, Associate Editor of Poetry Flash, hosts the Poetry Flash reading series. He is author of The Horses, New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2012). His previous poetry collections include Deconstruction of the Blues (Red Hen Press, 2006), which received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. His poetry has also appeared in American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, VOLT, New American Writing, Catamaran Literary Reader, and other journals. His co-translation of Korean poet Ko Un, The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems (University of California Press, 2006), received a Northern California Book Award for Translation. His most recent co-translation is This Side of Time, poems by Ko Un (White Pine Press, 2012). His books also include Doubleness (Heyday, 2000) and a collection of his Poetry Flash essays, Reading the Sphere: A Geography of Contemporary American Poetry (Berkeley Hills, 2002). Robert Hass said of Reading the Sphere: "No one is writing about poetry with more vividness, particularity, intelligence, and range, than Richard Silberg." The Horses, New & Selected Poems is his most recent book. Silberg taught Poetry Workshops and "Writing and Appreciating Contemporary Poetry" at UC Berkeley Extension for over twenty years. Richard Silberg was born in New York City in 1942. He received his BA from Harvard in 1963 and his MA in creative writing from San Francisco State University.

Esteemed poet, and Santa Cruz mainstay, Robert Sward, has graciously agreed to become co-curator of A New Cadence Poetry Series.   Welcome, Robert!

ROBERT SWARD has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and UC Santa Cruz. A Guggenheim Fellow he was chosen by Lucile Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award. His more than 20 books include: Four Incarnations (Coffee House Press), Rosicrucian in the Basement, The Collected Poems, and God is in the Cracks (Black Moss Press, Canada), now in its second printing. His latest, New & Selected Poems, 1957-2012, was published by Red Hen Press.

Born and raised in Chicago, Sward served in the U.S. Navy in the combat zone during the Korean War and later worked for CBC Radio and as book reviewer and feature writer for The Toronto Star and Globe & Mail while living in Canada. Sward now lives in Santa Cruz with his wife, visual artist Gloria K. Alford.

For more info see:  www.robertsward.com

see also Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 206.

and, Garrison Keillor reads "God is in the Cracks"
http://jjwebb.ihwy.com/rosycrossfather/godisinthecracks_keillor.mp3 

A New Cadence in February

 

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Robert Sward & David Alpaugh

Reading from their work

@

The Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

February 1^st, 2014

Reception at 6:30pm

Reading begins at 7:30pm

Free

ROBERT SWARD has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and UC Santa Cruz. A Guggenheim Fellow he was chosen by Lucile Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award. His more than 20 books include: Four Incarnations (Coffee House Press), Rosicrucian in the Basement, The Collected Poems, and God is in the Cracks (Black Moss Press, Canada), now in its second printing. His latest, New & Selected Poems, 1957-2012, was published by Red Hen Press.

Born and raised in Chicago, Sward served in the U.S. Navy in the combat zone during the Korean War and later worked for CBC Radio and as book reviewer and feature writer for The Toronto Star and Globe & Mail while living in Canada. Sward now lives in Santa Cruz with his wife, visual artist Gloria K. Alford.

For more info see:  www.robertsward.com

see also Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 206.

and, Garrison Keillor reads "God is in the Cracks"
http://jjwebb.ihwy.com/rosycrossfather/godisinthecracks_keillor.mp3  

DAVID ALPAUGH’S poetry, fiction, drama, satire, and criticism have appeared in literary journals that include Able Muse, English Literary History, Evergreen Review, Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, Free Lunch, Light, Modern Drama, Mudlark, Poetry, Rattle, Twentieth Century Literature, Wisconsin Review, and Zyzyvva. His first poetry collection COUNTERPOINT won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press and his chapbooks have been published by Coracle Books and Pudding House Publications. His controversial essays “The Professionalization of Poetry” (Poets & Writers Magazine), "What's Really Wrong With Poetry Book Contests?" (AboutPoetry and Rattle), and, most recently, "The New Math of Poetry" (The Chronicle of Higher Education) have stimulated much discussion both online and off. A graduate of Rutgers University and the University of California, Berkeley, he has taught at the U.C. Berkeley Extension; was publisher of the Carquinez Poetry Review; and hosted two San Francisco Bay Area monthly poetry readings in Walnut Creek and then in Crockett. David Alpaugh's HEAVY LIFTING (Poems 1995 through 2006) was published by ALEHOUSE PRESS in 2007.

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Hugh Behm–Steinberg,  

David B. Goldstein

and

Caroline Goodwin

Reading from their work

@

The Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

December 14th, 2013

7:30pm

Free

Hugh Behm–Steinberg is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford University and the recipient of an NEA fellowship. His books include The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press) and Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books), as well as several chapbooks including Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv) and Good Morning! (Deconstructed Artichoke Press). He is the author of two libretti: Terrible Things Will Happen But It's Going to Be Okay: A Donner Party Opera with composer Guillermo Galindo, and a children's opera based on the Chinese folktale, The Clever Wife, which was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera for their Opera to Go series. He also collaborates on text/sound art projects with Matt Davignon, and is a member of The Crank Ensemble. He is currently collaborating with his wife on an illuminated manuscript re-working of Farid ud-Din Attar's 12th Century Sufi masterpiece The Conference of the Birds. He teaches at California College of the Arts, where edits the journal Eleven Eleven.

David B. Goldstein's new book is Laws of Rest (BookThug). His first chapbook, Been Raw Diction, was published by Dusie Press in 2006. As a literary critic, food writer, and translator, he has published on a wide range of subjects, including Shakespeare, contemporary poetry, translation, cannibalism, philosophies of food, and the politics of Martha Stewart. His first book of criticism, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England, is due out this fall. His translations from Italian poetry appear in The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, among other publications. Goldstein lives with his family in Toronto, where he is Associate Professor of English at York University. 

Caroline Goodwin is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford. She teaches in the MFA Writing and the undergraduate Writing and Literature programs and is the faculty advisor for the college's undergraduate literary journal, Humble Pie, and the HearSay Reading Series. A short collection entitled Text Me, Ishmael was recently published by the Literary Pocket Book series in Pontypridd, Wales, UK and her first full-length poetry collection, Trapline, is available from JackLeg Press in Chicago.  Born and raised in Alaska, she moved to the Bay Area in 1999. Her work has appeared most recently in Junction Box and The Broken Plate. She is currently at work on a nonfiction book about the life and death of her second daughter, Josephine. In 2013 she was named Poet Laureate of San Mateo County.

A New Cadence in November: Witte and Mattraw

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Valerie Witte

and

Alexandra Mattraw

Reading from their work

@

The Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

November 16th, 2013

7:30pm

Free

A native St. Louisan, Valerie Witte received her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in various journals, such as Barrow Street, VOLT, Interim, and Letterbox; and her first chapbook, The History of Mining, was recently published by the ge collective. She is a member of Kelsey Street Press and the Bay Area Correspondence School. Her recent projects have explored such topics as a future Earth's prosthetic nature and the evolution of human skin. Check out her work at valeriewitte.squarespace.com.

Alexandra Mattraw’s third chapbook, in the way of harbors, is available at Dancing Girl Press. Her first two chapbooks were published through Achiote Press and Beard of Bees. You can find her poems and reviews in journals including VOLT, Cultural Society, Verse, Word For/Word, Realpoetik, Denver Quarterly, alice blue, Lost Roads Press, and American Letters & Commentary. Alexandra’s first full manuscript has been selected as a finalist by Nightboat Books and 1913 Press, and her second was recently chosen as a finalist for the Colorado Review Prize. Her most recent poems were released this October in 1913 Journal of Forms and Thethepoetry. A former Vermont Studio Center resident, Alexandra curates a writing, reading, and art series called Lone Glen in Oakland, California. If you are interested in learning more about her projects, please visit http://alexandramattraw.wordpress.com/.

A New Cadence in Octoer, part 2: Matt Hart and Russell Dillon...TONIGHT!

A New Cadence Poetry Series
 

Presents

Matt Hart & Russell Dillon

Reading from their work

TONIGHT!

October 18th, 2013,  7:30pm

@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz CA 95060

Free

Russell Dillon is the author of ETERNAL PATROL, newly published by Forklift Books in Fall 2013, and the chapbook SECRET DAMAGE (Forklift Books). He is the co-editor of Big Bell, began life in New York, continued it in San Francisco, and now continues it further in New York.


Matt Hart is the author of five books of poems, Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006), Wolf Face (H_NGM_N Books, 2010), Light-Headed (BlazeVOX, 2011), Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast Publishing, 2012), and Debacle Debacle (H_NGM_N Books, 2013), as well as several chapbooks. Additionally, his poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Big Bell, Cincinnati Review, Coldfront, Columbia Poetry Review, H_NGM_N, Harvard Review, jubilat, Lungfull!, and Post Road, among others. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, a 2013 individual artist grant from The Shifting Foundation, and fellowships from both the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band TRAVEL.

A New Cadence in October- O'Shaughnessy and Farquhar

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

A Night of Experimental and Feminist Poetries
 Featuring:

Dion N. Farquhar

and

Pamela O’Shaughnessy

Reading from their work

October 12^th, 7:30pm
@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz CA 95060

Free

Dion Farquhar is a poet and fiction writer with recent poems in Cricket Online Review, Shampoo, moria, BlazeVOX, Shifter, etc. Her second poetry book Wonderful Terrible just came out with Main Street Rag Publishing, and her first poetry book Feet First was published by Evening Street Press in 2010.

Pamela O’Shaughnessy is a Harvard-trained lawyer who, after sixteen years of legal practice, turned to fiction and poetry. She and her sister Mary have written fifteen books of suspense and mystery which have sold over eight million copies worldwide. Eight of their books have been New York Times bestsellers. Pam has been published in numerous poetry journals and has been a featured poet in the Triggerfish Critical Review. Her first poetry collection, FLYING AT SEA-LEVEL, was published in 2007, and she published an anthology of twenty-first century poetry, BURNING GORGEOUS, in 2010. FIGMENTS and other poems is a comprehensive selection of her poetry to date. Pam lives on the California Central Coast.

May 29th! Shimoda and Devota

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Brandon Shimoda

and

Dot Devota

Reading from their work

@

The Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

May 29th, 2013

7:30pm

Free

The poet DOT DEVOTA is from a family of ranchers and rodeo stars. She is the author of The Eternal Wall (Cannibal Bools), MW: A Midwest Field Guide (Editions19\), and And The Girls Worried Terribly (forthcoming from Noemi Press). She currently writes prose about the Midwest and travels full time.

BRANDON SHIMODA is the author of four books—most recently Portuguese (Octopus Books/Tin House) and O Bon (Litmus Press)—as well as numerous limited editions of collaborations, drawings, writings, and songs. Born in California, he has lived most recently in Maine, Taiwan, Arizona, and at vispoetica.tumblr.com.

A New Cadence in May: Firestone, Lomax, and Rosenthal!

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Jennifer Firestone,

Dana Teen Lomax,

&

Sarah Rosenthal

Reading from their work,

including

Femshi, a multimedia Neo-Benshi event!

May 18th, 2013, 7:30pm
@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz CA 95060

Free

Jennifer Firestone is the author of Flashes (Shearsman Books), Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books). Firestone co-edited (with Dana Teen Lomax) Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books), a year-long experiment documenting letter exchanges between fourteen poet-pairs. Firestone's poems has been published in the following journals: Drunken Boat, How2, Dusie, 580 Split, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, Poetry Salzburg Review, among others. She has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. Firestone is an Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College (The New School).

Dana Teen Lomax is a poet whose most recent work includes two editorial projects--Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children (Black Radish Books, 2013) and Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community (co-edited with Jennifer Firestone, Saturnalia Books, 2008). She is the author of several books of poems including Disclosure (Black Radish Books, 2011), Unpublishable Manuscript #43 (UbuWeb Editions, 2010), and Curren¢y (Palm Press, 2006). Supported by the California Arts Council, the Peninsula Community Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Marin Arts Council, and others, her work has received the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson prize for poetry, among other awards and has most recently appeared in Jacket, Poets & Writers, The Bay Poetics Anthology, Imaginary Syllabi, and Against Expression (Northwestern University Press, 2011). She served as the Director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in San Francisco and is currently working on a book of poems entitled Shhh! Lullabies for a Tired Nation. Dana teaches writing at San Francisco State University and Marin Juvenile Hall. She lives in San Quentin with her incredible family.

Sarah Rosenthal is the author of Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009) and the chapbooks How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), sitings (a+bend, 2000) and not-chicago (Melodeon, 1998). Her writing has appeared in journals such as ecopoetics, Denver Quarterly, Bird Dog, dusie, and Boston Review, and is anthologized in Bay Poetics (Faux, 2006), The Other Side of the Postcard (City Lights, 2005) and hinge (Crack, 2002). She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Fiction Award and grant-supported writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Soul Mountain, and Ragdale. She has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University and Santa Clara University as well as privately, and writes curricula for the Developmental Studies Center. Her collection of interviews, A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area, was recently published by Dalkey Archive (April 2010).

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.