A New Cadence in September

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Sandra Lim, Elline Lipkin

&

Lauren Eggert-Crowe

reading from their works

Sunday, September 28th

@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

(behind Streetlight Records)

Santa Cruz, CA 95060 : 7:00pm

Admission is free

Sandra Lim was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended Stanford University, and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in several literary journals including Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, and ZYZZYVA. Her book, Loveliest Grotesque, won the Kore Press First Book Award in 2006.

Elline Lipkin grew up in Miami, FL, and attended Wesleyan University. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 1994 and her Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston in 2003. She has worked as an editor in both New York City and in Paris. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Margie, North American Review, The Texas Review, and in The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Her book, The Errant Thread, won the Kore Press First Book Award in 2005.

Lauren Eggert-Crowe recently fulfilled a New Year's Resolution to read her weight in books. She is the creator of Galatea's Pants, a zine to tear down myths and dress up statues. She holds an MFA in poetry from Univ. of Arizona. Her work has been published in Puerto Del Sol, You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, So To Speak, Alligator Juniper, DIAGRAM, Water-Stone Review, and Dirty Goat. She is a former employee of Kore Press.

for further information, contact james Maughn :
jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or See anewcadence@blogspot.com

A New Cadence in May

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:
Jennifer Firestone

&

Dana Teen Lomax

reading from their works

Wednesday, May 28th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

(behind Streetlight Records)

Santa Cruz, CA 95060 : 7:30pm

Admission is free

Jennifer Firestone is from San Francisco and currently lives in Brooklyn. She was recently appointed the Poet In Residence at Eugene Lang College (The New School). Her work has appeared in How2, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Fourteen Hills, Dusie, moria, MIPOesias and others. Her latest chapbook, from Flashes, is published by Sona Books. She is co-editing an anthology called Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community, which includes writers such as Anne Waldman, Brenda Iijima, Leslie Scalapino, Kathleen Fraser, Jill Magi, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Eileen Myles, Albert Flynn DeSilver and Wanda Coleman. Excerpts from Letters are currently being featured in Jacket Magazine.

Dana Teen Lomax is the author of Curren¢y (Palm Press), Room (a+bend press), and the co-editor of Letters To Poets, Conversations About Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books, 2008). Her work has been published in numerous journals and received the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson prize for poetry, among other awards. Supported by the California Arts Council, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Marin Arts Council, and other organizations, she is presently working on Q, “home movies” about raising a daughter on prison grounds and a poetry manuscript entitled Shhh! Lullabies for a Tired Nation. She works as the Interim Director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in San Francisco, teaches at SFSU and the University of San Francisco, and lives in northern California with her family.

for further information, contact james Maughn :
jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or See anewcadence@blogspot.com

Don't Miss Next Week's Doubleheader!!

A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents

A National Poetry Month Doubleheader

Friday, April 18th

Chad Sweeney, Matt Hart, & Jason Morris

reading from their works

Chad Sweeney is coeditor of Parthenon West Review and the author of two full-length books of poetry, An Architecture (BlazeVOX, 2007) and Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), as well as the chapbook A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky, 2006). His work has appeared in journals such as New American Writing, Verse, H_ngm_n, GutCult, American Letters & Commentary, Interim, Forklift, Big Bell, Pool, Ping Pong, the tiny, and Electronic Poetry Review. With Mojdeh Marashi, Chad has translated the selected works of poet H. E. Sayeh with the support of a grant from the SF Arts Commission. Chad lives in San Francisco with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney, but will begin a PhD in English/Poetry at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo in the Fall of 2008.

Matt Hart is the author of Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and three chapbooks: Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005), Sonnet (H_NGM_N Books, 2006) and Simply Rocket (Lame House Press, 2007). His work has appeared in many print and online journals, including Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, Jubilat, and Octopus. He lives and teaches in Cincinnati where he edits Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety.

Jason Morris grew up in Vermont. His poems have appeared in Mirage #4 Period(ical), Salt Hill, Ping Pong, Parthenon West Review, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere. Jacket recently published his essay on the New Sincerity. He lives in San Francisco, where he tends bar, edits Big Bell Magazine, and sits on his roof.

Felix Kulpa Gallery 107 Elm Street (behind Streetlight Records) Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Readings start at 7:30pm Admission is Free

Contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or see anewcadence.blogspot.com for more info

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Tuesday, April 15th

Joshua Kryah & Alex Lemon
reading from their works

Joshua Kryah was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a Schaeffer Fellow in poetry. His first book, Glean, won the Nightboat Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Verse, among other journals. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife and daughter, where he is a Visiting Assistant Professor in UNLV's University College. He is also poetry editor for Witness.

Alex Lemon's poetry collections include Hallelujah Blackout (forthcoming in 2008 from Milkweed Editions), Mosquito (Tin House Books 2006) and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less press 2007). A memoir is also forthcoming from Scribner. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines, including AGNI, BOMB, Denver Quarterly Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House. He co-edits LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and is a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review

Felix Kulpa Gallery 107 Elm Street (behind Streetlight Records) Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Readings start at 7:30pm Admission is Free

Contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or see anewcadence.blogspot.com for more info

A New Cadence in March

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Hugh Behm-Steinberg

and

Matt Hill

reading from their works

Saturday, March 29th

@

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

Admission is 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 House of the Dead and Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books), a book of poetry, as well as several chapbooks.

Matt Hill is the author of THE CLOUD RECKONER (prose poems) and EXTRACTS: A Field Guide for Iconoclasts . THE AMPLITUDE OF GROWLERS, flash fiction vignettes, will be posted on Amazon Shorts starting Jan. 08 -

for further information, contact james maughn :

jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or See anewcadence@blogspot.com

Please note the date change

Due to family obligations, the March 22nd reading with Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Matt Hill has been moved to the following Saturday, March 29. The event will still be held at the Louden Nelson Center,7:30pm.

JUST ADDED! A New Cadence in March

A New Cadence Poetry Series
& The UCSC Poetry and Politics Research Cluster

Present:

Noah Eli Gordon with Joshua Marie Wilkinson

and

Juliana Leslie

reading from their works

Monday, March 3rd

@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

7:00pm

Admission is free

Noah Eli Gordon's books include Novel Pictorial Noise (selected by John Ashbery for the 2006 National Poetry Series), Inbox (BlazeVOX, 2006), The Area of Sound Called the Subtone (Ahsahta Press, 2004; selected by Claudia Rankine for the Sawtooth Prize), and The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003). Ugly Duckling Presse recently published That We Come To A Consensus, a chapbook written in collaboration with Sara Veglahn. His reviews and essays have appeared in dozens of journals, including Boston Review, The Poker, 26, Jacket, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. He writes a chapbook review column for Rain Taxi, and teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the co-author, with Noah Eli Gordon, of Figures for a Darkroom Voice (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007). He is also the author of Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms (Pinball, 2005), Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (U of Iowa, 2006), and The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (forthcoming from Tupelo Press). He holds a PhD from University of Denver and lives in Chicago where he teaches at Loyola University. His first film, Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape, is due out in 2008.

Juliana Leslie is the author of two chapbooks: Pie in the Sky (Braincase Press) and Questions for Trees (Minus House), and her poetry has recently appeared in Aufgabe and Conjunctions. She currently lives in Santa Cruz, CA.

February Reading

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Mark Statman and Pablo Medina

Reading from their new

translation of

Federico Garcia Lorca’s

Poet in New York

Friday, February 22nd 7:00pm

Louden Nelson Center

“Pablo Medina and Mark Statman have produced the definitive version of Lorca’s masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original in 1930.”

—John Ashbery

With flamenco guitar permormed by

Adam Marcowitz

A New Cadence Spring Schedule

A New Cadence Spring Schedule

Friday, February 22^nd: Mark Statman and Pablo Medina read from their new translation of Lorca’s Poet in New York Flamenco guitar by Adam Marcowitz

7:00pm Louden Nelson Center

Saturday, March 22^nd: Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Matt Hill

7:30pm Louden Nelson Center

Tuesday, April 15^th: Joshua Kryah and Alex Lemon

7:30pm Felix Kulpa Gallery

All Readings are free and open to the public. More details to follow shortly.