Poetry from Ireland and Finland

Poetry from Ireland & Finland

featuring:

Trevor Joyce, Fergal Gaynor, &

Marja Tuhkanen

Friday, October 12^th, 2007

@

Louden Nelson Center : 301 Center Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Room 6

7:30pm

Admission is free

Trevor Joyce has published eleven volumes of poetry, including The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine (1976), his working of the middle-Irish Buile Suibhne, and stone floods (1995), which was nominated for the Irish Times Literature Prize for Poetry. His most recent publications are with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold: A Body of Work 1966-2000 (NWP & Shearsman Books, 2001) and the audio CD Red Noise of Bones (Coelocanth & Wild Honey Press, 2001). A volume of workings from the Irish, Courts of Air and Earth (Shearsman Books), and a collection of work since 2000, What's in Store (The Gig), are forthcoming.

Fergal Gaynor is a poet / interventionist / singer / conceptual & performance artist who, as one half of Art/not art was the primary mover behind the Cork Caucus, that brought the likes of Vito Acconci, Gayatri Spivak, and many other major figures together in 2005 to discuss and enact art, possibility and democracy. He is coming to focus increasingly on poetry, and a chapbook will be published to coincide with this, his first visit to the U.S. A full collection will follow later from Miami University Press, Ohio.

Marja Tuhkanen was born in Finland and studied with Adrian Petcu and Baroque violinist Maya Homburger. Her interest in early music then brought her to the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, studying Baroque violin under Pavlo Beznosiuk. Since 2005 she has been a freelancing out of Cork. She is a member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and also performs with Opera 2005, Cork Opera Works, Cork Chamber Orchestra and various string quartets.

See anewcadence.blogspot.com or contact Jim Maughn at 831-336-5409 or jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.

Nathaniel Mackey at the Kuumbwa

POETRY

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

NATHANIEL MACKEY

&

HAFEZ MODIRZADEH

SAXOPHONIST / COMPOSER

JAZZ

Thursday, October 11, 7pm, $8 adv. / $11 door

at KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz (427-2227)

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.,
through a grant it has received
from the James Irvine Foundation and by Cabrillo
College’s BELA Division &
English Department, Poetry Santa Cruz, and
A New Cadence Poetry Series.

A New Cadence In May

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Joseph Lease & Melissa Reeser

reading from their works

Saturday, may 19th

@

Louden Nelson Center : 301 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 : 7:30pm

Admission is free

Joseph Lease is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of poetry: Human Rights and The Room. His work has been featured on npr and published in The AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, VQR, Bay Poetics, Paris Review, and elsewhere. The title poem from Broken World appeared in The Best American Poetry, edited by Robert Creeley and David Lehman. Originally from Chicago, Lease lives in the Bay area and chairs the mfa Program in Writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

“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!”

—MARJORIE PERLOFF

Melissa Reeser is a graduate of the UCSC Creative Writing program. Her eclectic resume includes checking at grocery stores, working the front desk at a gym, hosting events at the Capitola Book Cafe, and gardening at the Ashtanga Yoga Institute. She has been writing poetry since the age of seven. She will be teaching English in Paris starting in the fall. She loves French food, Moroccan music, and the ocean.

for further information, contact james maughn @ 831-336-5409 or jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or See anewcadence@blogspot.com

A New Cadence in March, Part 2! David Lau and Steve Willard

A New Cadence

Poetry Series

Presents:

Steve Willard

&

David Lau

reading from their poetry

Thursday, March 31^th, 2007

@

Louden Nelson Center

301 Center Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Room 6

7:30pm

Admission is free

Steve Willard, poet and songster, survived a botched assassination attempt (no joke!) in January 2007, and is currently touring the west with his band, GO DUO. Currently finishing a doctorate in music composition at UC San Diego, Willard has performed with Duncan Sheik and Alvin Lucier, andbeen published in journals such as Denver Quarterly and Boston Review.of poems, Harm., is just out from University of California Press. Please join him and David Lau in celebrating the art of poetry and life in general.

David Lau comes from Long Beach and LA—after a stint in Iowa City, he now lives in Santa Cruz where he teaches at the University of California and Cabrillo College. His poetry has been a finalist for a Pushcart Prize and has been published in Denver Quarterly, Volt, Boston Review and other magazines. He is currently making a documentary called Laborland about the transformation of California in the era of global trade.

An New Cadence in March, part 1 Kate Greenstreet and Janet Holmes!

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Kate Greenstreet

&

Janet Holmes

reading from their works

Saturday, March 17th

@

Louden Nelson Center

301 Center Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Room 6

7:30pm

Admission is free

Kate Greenstreet's first book, case sensitive, is just out from Ahsahta Press. Her chapbook, Learning the Language, was published by Etherdome Press last fall. Born in Chicago, Kate has lived mostly on the east and west coasts of the U.S., currently back on the Atlantic side, in New Jersey. She received a Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts in 2003. Her poems have appeared in Bird Dog, Conduit, can we have our ball back?, GutCult, Diagram, Octopus, POOL, The Massachusetts Review, No Tell Motel, Fascicle, Barrow Street, Word For/Word, the tiny, RHINO, Free Verse, LIT, MiPOesias, CutBank, Kulture Vulture, TYPO, 26, string of small machines, KELR, XANTIPPE, Spell, CARVE, Absent, Dusie, and other journals. New work is forthcoming in Cannibal and Vanitas.

Janet Holmes has published F2F (2006), Humanophone (2001), and The Green Tuxedo (1998), all from the University of Notre Dame Press, and The Physicist at the Mall (1994), winner of the Anhinga Prize. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in 1913, Cannibal, Cutbank, Notre Dame Review and Practice, New Writing + Art. She edits Ahsahta Press, a 32-year-old all-poetry press housed at Boise State University that is home to poets Dan Beachy-Quick, Lisa Fishman, Graham Foust, Kate Greenstreet, Brian Henry, Aaron McCollough, Sandra Miller, and Susan Tichy, among many others.

for further information, contact james maughn @ 831-336-5409 or see

anewcadence@blogspot.com