What says summer in Santa Cruz like going to the beach and huddling under a blanket in the fog, reading a good novel or short story?
In honor of summer, it's A New Cadence Summer Fiction Series! First reading June 9th, featuring Amra Brooks and Jessica Breheny! 7:30pm at Felix Kulpa Gallery. More details to come...but mark your calendars.
Tuesday
Tiziano Fratus, from his recent reading
Tiziano Fratus reads Mouth II/Old Documents, with James Maughn reading Francesco Levato's English translation. Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz CA 4/21/2010.
Friday
A New Cadence in May, Part 2
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents
C.J. Sage
&
J.P. Dancing Bear
reading from their works
Friday, May 21th,
7:30 PM
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz 95060
(behind Streetlight Records)
C. J. Sage's poems appear nationally and internationally in publications such as The Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Threepenny Review, et cetera. Previous books are Let's Not Sleep (poems), And We The Creatures (anthology), Field Notes in Contemporary Literature (textbook/anthology), and Odyssea (poems). After taking her M. F. A. in Creative Writing/Poetry, she taught poetry, writing, and literature for many years. A native of California, she now edits The National Poetry Review and Press and works as a Realtor in Santa Cruz and surrounding counties. Sage resides in Rio Del Mar, California, a coastal town on the Monterey Bay.
J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of Conflicted Light (Salmon Poetry, 2008), Gacela of Narcissus City (Main Street Rag, 2006), Billy Last Crow (Turning Point, 2004) and What Language (Slipstream, 2002), winner of the 2001 Slipstream Prize. His poems have been published in New Orleans Review, National Poetry Review, Knockout, Bateau, diode, DIAGRAM, Verse Daily and many others. His work has been ten times nominated for a Puschcart Prize and once for a Forward Prize. He has been working with Nicaraguan poet Blanca Castellon on translating of her poetry into English, the first will appear in Redactions, Marlboro Review, International Poetry Review, iconoclast and The Bitter Oleander. He has also been working with Mexican poet Oscar Wong to translate his work into English. He is the editor of the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press and the host of “Out of Our Minds” a weekly poetry program on public radio station KKUP.
for more information contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu
Presents
C.J. Sage
&
J.P. Dancing Bear
reading from their works
Friday, May 21th,
7:30 PM
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz 95060
(behind Streetlight Records)
C. J. Sage's poems appear nationally and internationally in publications such as The Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Threepenny Review, et cetera. Previous books are Let's Not Sleep (poems), And We The Creatures (anthology), Field Notes in Contemporary Literature (textbook/anthology), and Odyssea (poems). After taking her M. F. A. in Creative Writing/Poetry, she taught poetry, writing, and literature for many years. A native of California, she now edits The National Poetry Review and Press and works as a Realtor in Santa Cruz and surrounding counties. Sage resides in Rio Del Mar, California, a coastal town on the Monterey Bay.
J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of Conflicted Light (Salmon Poetry, 2008), Gacela of Narcissus City (Main Street Rag, 2006), Billy Last Crow (Turning Point, 2004) and What Language (Slipstream, 2002), winner of the 2001 Slipstream Prize. His poems have been published in New Orleans Review, National Poetry Review, Knockout, Bateau, diode, DIAGRAM, Verse Daily and many others. His work has been ten times nominated for a Puschcart Prize and once for a Forward Prize. He has been working with Nicaraguan poet Blanca Castellon on translating of her poetry into English, the first will appear in Redactions, Marlboro Review, International Poetry Review, iconoclast and The Bitter Oleander. He has also been working with Mexican poet Oscar Wong to translate his work into English. He is the editor of the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press and the host of “Out of Our Minds” a weekly poetry program on public radio station KKUP.
for more information contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu
Monday
A New Cadence in May, Part 1
A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents
Joan Gelfand
&
David Allen Sullivan
reading from their works
Saturday, May 15th,
7:30 PM
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz 95060
(behind Streetlight Records)
An award winning writer, Joan Gelfand’s poetry, fiction, reviews and essays have appeared in national and international magazines, anthologies and literary journals including Rattle, Kalliope, The Toronto Quarterly, The Huffington Post and Eclipse. President of the Women’s National Book Association, Joan teaches in the California Poets in the Schools program. “A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams” was published by SF Bay Press in 2009 and her upcoming chapbook of short stories will be published by Cervena Barva Press in Fall 2010. Joan is also the Fiction Editor for Zeek magazine. http://joangelfand.com
David Allen Sullivan was born in Illinois, and grew up in Vermont, with one year spent in Vienna—where his teacher, the novelist Jonathan Carroll, inspired him to write poetry (mostly bad Whitman knock-offs). He received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, where he edited The Chicago Literary Review, and went to graduate school at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation was on the ethics of address in the poems of Emily Dickinson and Killarney Clary. He teaches English, Film, and Screenwriting at Cabrillo Community College, where he also edits the Porter Gulch Review with his students. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, with Cherie Barkey, and their two children, Jules and Amina Barivan.
for more information contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu
Presents
Joan Gelfand
&
David Allen Sullivan
reading from their works
Saturday, May 15th,
7:30 PM
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz 95060
(behind Streetlight Records)
An award winning writer, Joan Gelfand’s poetry, fiction, reviews and essays have appeared in national and international magazines, anthologies and literary journals including Rattle, Kalliope, The Toronto Quarterly, The Huffington Post and Eclipse. President of the Women’s National Book Association, Joan teaches in the California Poets in the Schools program. “A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams” was published by SF Bay Press in 2009 and her upcoming chapbook of short stories will be published by Cervena Barva Press in Fall 2010. Joan is also the Fiction Editor for Zeek magazine. http://joangelfand.com
David Allen Sullivan was born in Illinois, and grew up in Vermont, with one year spent in Vienna—where his teacher, the novelist Jonathan Carroll, inspired him to write poetry (mostly bad Whitman knock-offs). He received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, where he edited The Chicago Literary Review, and went to graduate school at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation was on the ethics of address in the poems of Emily Dickinson and Killarney Clary. He teaches English, Film, and Screenwriting at Cabrillo Community College, where he also edits the Porter Gulch Review with his students. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, with Cherie Barkey, and their two children, Jules and Amina Barivan.
for more information contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu
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