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.
Saturday
Thursday
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
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
Wednesday
A New Cadence Poetry Series Presents Double Header Weekend!
Saturday, October 24th @ 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 25th @ 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
Friday
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
Have a nice summer,
Jim Maughn
Wednesday
ANC in June
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents:
Jared Stanley
&
Scott Inguito
reading from their works
Friday, June 19th
7:30pm
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
(behind Streetlight Records)
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Jared Stanley made a book called Book Made of Forest (Salt Publishing), and the chapbooks I Something Scott Inguito You, The Outer Bay and In Fortune, and has some new work forthcoming in Mary. He lives in the tawny grass, east of the ocean.
Scott Inguito's latest chapbook out from Momotombo Press is DEAR JACK. He has poems in Shampoo, and his collage-play, Trying to Create Intimacy with a Narcissist was performed at California College of Art, San Francisco, for Small Press Traffic in December 2008. Scott lives in San Francisco and teaches composition at San Jose City College. His paintings can be seen at scottinguito.com.
for further information, contact james Maughn :
jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or See anewcadence@blogspot.com
Tuesday
This Friday!
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents
Maria Garcia Teutsch
and
Christine Hamm
Reading from Their Work
Saturday, May 16th
7:30pm
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
Free and open!
Maria Garcia Teutsch is a poet and fiction writer living in Santa Cruz. She is widely published as Maria Garcia Tabor. She has served as editor of three literary journals, The Atlantis, The Cold Mountain Review (on the East Coast), and The Homestead Review. She is cofounder of Poetic Voices/Voces Poeticas intercollegial poetry competition/festival involving the colleges in Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties. She is a passionate supporter of the arts and artists, believing that if you supply a space, artists will fill it up with wonder. She also serves on the board of the Henry Miller Library. www.marialoveswords.com
Christine Hamm is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University. She won the MiPoesias First Annual Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. Her poetry has been published in The Adirondack Review, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Rattle, and many others. She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and she teaches English at CUNY. The Transparent Dinner, her book of poems, was published by Mayapple Press in 2006. Christine was named a runner-up to the Poet Laureate of Queens in 2007. chamm.blogspot.com
Sunday
A New Cadence -- Susana Gardner
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents
Susana Gardner
Reading from Her Work
Saturday, May 16th
7:30pm
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
Free and open!
Susana Gardner lives in Switzerland where she edits Dusie Press and curates the Dusie Kollektiv. The author of several chapbooks, her first book [lapse insel weary], was published by The Tangent Press. She writes and translates and will soon begin a poetic reading series as well at the DADA Haus--Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich.
And next week -- Maria Garcia Teutsch and Christine Hamm -- Friday, May 22nd.
Tuesday
A New Cadence in May
Spread the word!
Chad Sweeney
And
Mojdeh Marashi
Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry: Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), and An Architecture (BlazeVox, 2007). Selected for Best American Poetry 2008, his poems have appeared in New American Writing, Colorado Review, Black Warrior, Verse, Volt, Ping Pong, Slope and Barrow Street. He is coeditor of Parthenon West Review and editor of the anthology Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: the Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (City Lights, 2009). He teaches poetry and is a Ph.D. candidate at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
Mojdeh Marashi is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and visual artist. Her work is deeply influenced by the ancient and modern history of Iran where she grew up. In 1986 she co-founded YALDA, a cultural ogranization, where she taught Farsi language classes and co-hosted the weekly radio program “Rang aa Rang (Color to Color)” on KUSF. Marashi earned an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts in 2002 and will finish her Masters in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 2009. Her fiction was chosen to appear in 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 Ping Pong, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Poetry International, American Letters & Commentary, Seattle Review, Subtropics and Washington Square.
Contact Jim Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or go to anewcadence@blogspot.com for more information.
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents:
Presents:
Chad Sweeney
And
Mojdeh Marashi
reading from their poetry and translations of Iranian Poets
Saturday, May 9th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm
Admission is free
Mojdeh Marashi is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and visual artist. Her work is deeply influenced by the ancient and modern history of Iran where she grew up. In 1986 she co-founded YALDA, a cultural ogranization, where she taught Farsi language classes and co-hosted the weekly radio program “Rang aa Rang (Color to Color)” on KUSF. Marashi earned an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts in 2002 and will finish her Masters in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 2009. Her fiction was chosen to appear in 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 Ping Pong, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Poetry International, American Letters & Commentary, Seattle Review, Subtropics and Washington Square.
Contact Jim Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu or go to anewcadence@blogspot.com for more information.
Sunday
ANC in April
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents:
Jean Vengua
and
Dion Farquhar
reading from their poetry
Friday, April 24th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm
Admission is free
Dion Farquhar lives in Santa Cruz, California. Recent poems appear in Right Hand Pointing, Shifter, Opium, New Verse News, Ep;phany, Otoliths, etc. Her poetry chapbook Cleaving won first prize at Poet’s Corner Press in 2007. Her first book, Feet First, is a finalist for the Sinclair Prize at Evening Street Press and will be published in early 2010.
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.
Contact Jim Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.
Thursday
Three Upcoming Readings
Please spread the word, and join us for three exciting readings:
First, on February 26th, we welcome back Andrew Joron:
Andrew Joron
reading from his poetry
107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060(Behind Streetlight Records)
Andrew Joron's new book of poetry is The Sound Mirror. He is the author of a book of prose, The Cry at Zero (2007), a study of surrealism, The Sun at Night (2005), and several books of poetry, including Fathom (2003), a Village Voice book of the year. Andrew is also a noted translator from the German; he is the translator and editor of Ernst Bloch's Literary Essays (Stanford, 1998).
Second, on March 7th, Laura Sims:
Laura Sims
reading from her poetry
107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060(Behind Streetlight Records)
Laura Sim’s Practice, Restraint, won the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize, and she has published four poetry chapbooks, including Bank Book (Answer Tag Press) and Paperback Book (3rd Bed). Individual poems have appeared in the journals 26, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crayon, Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, jubilat, La Petite Zine, and LIT, among others. She lives in New York, where she teaches composition & literature at Baruch College in Manhattan. Her second book, Stranger, is forthcoming in March from Fence Books.
And then, on March 14th, Karen Leona Anderson:
reading from her poetry
107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060(Behind Streetlight Records)
Karen Leona Anderson is the author of Punish Honey, published by Carolina Wren Press. She received an M.F.A from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, an M.A. from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University, where she wrote a dissertation on poetry and science. Her work has appeared in ecopoetics, jubilat, Verse, Indiana Review, Fence, Volt, and other journals. She is an assistant professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
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