A New Cadence in November: Arrieu-King, Becker, and Brown

A NEW CADENCE POETRY SERIES

presents

Cynthia Arrieu-King
Lily Brown
&
Claire Becker

Saturday, November 20th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)
7:30pm




Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China is forthcoming from Octopus Books. Her poems and other work will come out this year in Boston Review, Witness, Jacket, Harp and Altar, Forklift Ohio, and with Kristi Maxwell in the new horse less press anthology New Pony. Marilyn Chin sent her to Kundiman when she visited the University of Cincinnati in 2006.

Claire Becker lives in Oakland and teaches high school at the California School for the Blind. She is the author of the chapbooks Untoward, from Lame House Press, and Get You, from Duration Press. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California and an Education Specialist Instruction Credential from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Her first book, Where We Think it Should Go, is forthcoming from Octopus Books.

Lily Brown holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California. Her first book, Rust or Go Missing, is forthcoming from Cleveland State University Poetry Center. She lives in Chicago and in Athens, where she is a Ph.D. student at The University of Georgia.

Some Links:

Claire Becker:

The full-length book Where We Think It Should Go on SPD's website: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780980193848/where-we-think-it-should-go.aspx?rf=1

A PDF of a new chapbook The Werld: http://www.horselesspress.com/

Young Adult, a chapbook, can be ordered for $8.00 from Boxwood Editions: http://www.boxwoodeditions.org/youngadult.html

The e-chap Get You can be downloaded for free from Duration Press: http://www.durationpress.com/

Cynthia Arrieu-King:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/Default.aspx?bookId=9780980193855

and

http://cynthiaarrieuking.blogspot.com

Lily Brown:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781880834916/rust-or-go-missing.aspx?rf=1

A New Cadence in November -- Simon Pettet

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents:

Simon Pettet

Monday, November 15th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm



Simon Pettet is an English-born poet and long-time resident of New York's Lower East Side. Hearth, his Collected Poems (so far) appeared recently from Talisman. Talisman also issued his Selected Poems (1995) and the volume, More Winnowed Fragments (2006). He has also compiled and edited the Selected Art Writings of the poet James Schuyler (Black Sparrow, 1998), as well as co-editing (with James Meetze) Other Flowers (FSG, 2010), Schuyler's posthumous poems. He made two now legendary collaborations with photographer-filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt, Conversations about Everything (Vehicle, 1987) and Talking Pictures (Zoland, 1994), as well as a fine-arts limited edition, Abundant Treasures (Granary Books, 2001) of his own poetry in collaboration with painter, Duncan Hannah.

A New Cadence in November: Sweeney and Hastings

A New Cadence Poetry Series

presents:

Chad Sweeney
&
Katherine Hastings

Sunday, November 7th
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(Behind Streetlight Records)

(Special time!
4pm)




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), and translator (with Mojdeh Marashi) of The Selected Poems of Iranian poet, H.E. Sayeh, The Art of Stepping Through Time (White Pine, 2011). He edited the anthology, Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: the Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (CityLights, 2009) and is coeditor of Parthenon West Review. Sweeney teaches poetry and is a Ph.D. candidate at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo where he lives with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney.

Katherine Hastings is the author of several chapbooks, including Wolf Spider and Sidhe, both published by dPress and Lonidier Rampant, The Small Change Series, WordTemple Press. She is the author of Updraft published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and Fog & Light to be released from Ahadada Books later this year. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. She founded and hosts the WordTemple Poetry Series in Santa Rosa, CA, bringing well-established poets together with poets who have not yet published a book of poems. In addition, she hosts a radio program, also called WordTemple, on Santa Rosa's NPR-affiliate KRCB 91.1 FM (for information go to www.wordtemple.com).

for more info contact James Maughn at jamaughn@cabrillo.edu, or visit anewcadence.blogspot.com