A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Hugh Behm–Steinberg,  

David B. Goldstein

and

Caroline Goodwin

Reading from their work

@

The Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

December 14th, 2013

7:30pm

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 Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press) and Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books), as well as several chapbooks including Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv) and Good Morning! (Deconstructed Artichoke Press). He is the author of two libretti: Terrible Things Will Happen But It's Going to Be Okay: A Donner Party Opera with composer Guillermo Galindo, and a children's opera based on the Chinese folktale, The Clever Wife, which was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera for their Opera to Go series. He also collaborates on text/sound art projects with Matt Davignon, and is a member of The Crank Ensemble. He is currently collaborating with his wife on an illuminated manuscript re-working of Farid ud-Din Attar's 12th Century Sufi masterpiece The Conference of the Birds. He teaches at California College of the Arts, where edits the journal Eleven Eleven.

David B. Goldstein's new book is Laws of Rest (BookThug). His first chapbook, Been Raw Diction, was published by Dusie Press in 2006. As a literary critic, food writer, and translator, he has published on a wide range of subjects, including Shakespeare, contemporary poetry, translation, cannibalism, philosophies of food, and the politics of Martha Stewart. His first book of criticism, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England, is due out this fall. His translations from Italian poetry appear in The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, among other publications. Goldstein lives with his family in Toronto, where he is Associate Professor of English at York University. 

Caroline Goodwin is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford. She teaches in the MFA Writing and the undergraduate Writing and Literature programs and is the faculty advisor for the college's undergraduate literary journal, Humble Pie, and the HearSay Reading Series. A short collection entitled Text Me, Ishmael was recently published by the Literary Pocket Book series in Pontypridd, Wales, UK and her first full-length poetry collection, Trapline, is available from JackLeg Press in Chicago.  Born and raised in Alaska, she moved to the Bay Area in 1999. Her work has appeared most recently in Junction Box and The Broken Plate. She is currently at work on a nonfiction book about the life and death of her second daughter, Josephine. In 2013 she was named Poet Laureate of San Mateo County.

A New Cadence in November: Witte and Mattraw

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Valerie Witte

and

Alexandra Mattraw

Reading from their work

@

The Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

November 16th, 2013

7:30pm

Free

A native St. Louisan, Valerie Witte received her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in various journals, such as Barrow Street, VOLT, Interim, and Letterbox; and her first chapbook, The History of Mining, was recently published by the ge collective. She is a member of Kelsey Street Press and the Bay Area Correspondence School. Her recent projects have explored such topics as a future Earth's prosthetic nature and the evolution of human skin. Check out her work at valeriewitte.squarespace.com.

Alexandra Mattraw’s third chapbook, in the way of harbors, is available at Dancing Girl Press. Her first two chapbooks were published through Achiote Press and Beard of Bees. You can find her poems and reviews in journals including VOLT, Cultural Society, Verse, Word For/Word, Realpoetik, Denver Quarterly, alice blue, Lost Roads Press, and American Letters & Commentary. Alexandra’s first full manuscript has been selected as a finalist by Nightboat Books and 1913 Press, and her second was recently chosen as a finalist for the Colorado Review Prize. Her most recent poems were released this October in 1913 Journal of Forms and Thethepoetry. A former Vermont Studio Center resident, Alexandra curates a writing, reading, and art series called Lone Glen in Oakland, California. If you are interested in learning more about her projects, please visit http://alexandramattraw.wordpress.com/.

A New Cadence in Octoer, part 2: Matt Hart and Russell Dillon...TONIGHT!

A New Cadence Poetry Series
 

Presents

Matt Hart & Russell Dillon

Reading from their work

TONIGHT!

October 18th, 2013,  7:30pm

@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz CA 95060

Free

Russell Dillon is the author of ETERNAL PATROL, newly published by Forklift Books in Fall 2013, and the chapbook SECRET DAMAGE (Forklift Books). He is the co-editor of Big Bell, began life in New York, continued it in San Francisco, and now continues it further in New York.


Matt Hart is the author of five books of poems, Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006), Wolf Face (H_NGM_N Books, 2010), Light-Headed (BlazeVOX, 2011), Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast Publishing, 2012), and Debacle Debacle (H_NGM_N Books, 2013), as well as several chapbooks. Additionally, his poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Big Bell, Cincinnati Review, Coldfront, Columbia Poetry Review, H_NGM_N, Harvard Review, jubilat, Lungfull!, and Post Road, among others. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, a 2013 individual artist grant from The Shifting Foundation, and fellowships from both the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band TRAVEL.

A New Cadence in October- O'Shaughnessy and Farquhar

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

A Night of Experimental and Feminist Poetries
 Featuring:

Dion N. Farquhar

and

Pamela O’Shaughnessy

Reading from their work

October 12^th, 7:30pm
@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz CA 95060

Free

Dion Farquhar is a poet and fiction writer with recent poems in Cricket Online Review, Shampoo, moria, BlazeVOX, Shifter, etc. Her second poetry book Wonderful Terrible just came out with Main Street Rag Publishing, and her first poetry book Feet First was published by Evening Street Press in 2010.

Pamela O’Shaughnessy is a Harvard-trained lawyer who, after sixteen years of legal practice, turned to fiction and poetry. She and her sister Mary have written fifteen books of suspense and mystery which have sold over eight million copies worldwide. Eight of their books have been New York Times bestsellers. Pam has been published in numerous poetry journals and has been a featured poet in the Triggerfish Critical Review. Her first poetry collection, FLYING AT SEA-LEVEL, was published in 2007, and she published an anthology of twenty-first century poetry, BURNING GORGEOUS, in 2010. FIGMENTS and other poems is a comprehensive selection of her poetry to date. Pam lives on the California Central Coast.

May 29th! Shimoda and Devota

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Brandon Shimoda

and

Dot Devota

Reading from their work

@

The Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

May 29th, 2013

7:30pm

Free

The poet DOT DEVOTA is from a family of ranchers and rodeo stars. She is the author of The Eternal Wall (Cannibal Bools), MW: A Midwest Field Guide (Editions19\), and And The Girls Worried Terribly (forthcoming from Noemi Press). She currently writes prose about the Midwest and travels full time.

BRANDON SHIMODA is the author of four books—most recently Portuguese (Octopus Books/Tin House) and O Bon (Litmus Press)—as well as numerous limited editions of collaborations, drawings, writings, and songs. Born in California, he has lived most recently in Maine, Taiwan, Arizona, and at vispoetica.tumblr.com.

A New Cadence in May: Firestone, Lomax, and Rosenthal!

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Jennifer Firestone,

Dana Teen Lomax,

&

Sarah Rosenthal

Reading from their work,

including

Femshi, a multimedia Neo-Benshi event!

May 18th, 2013, 7:30pm
@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz CA 95060

Free

Jennifer Firestone is the author of Flashes (Shearsman Books), Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books). Firestone co-edited (with Dana Teen Lomax) Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books), a year-long experiment documenting letter exchanges between fourteen poet-pairs. Firestone's poems has been published in the following journals: Drunken Boat, How2, Dusie, 580 Split, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, Poetry Salzburg Review, among others. She has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. Firestone is an Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College (The New School).

Dana Teen Lomax is a poet whose most recent work includes two editorial projects--Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children (Black Radish Books, 2013) and Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community (co-edited with Jennifer Firestone, Saturnalia Books, 2008). She is the author of several books of poems including Disclosure (Black Radish Books, 2011), Unpublishable Manuscript #43 (UbuWeb Editions, 2010), and Curren¢y (Palm Press, 2006). Supported by the California Arts Council, the Peninsula Community Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Marin Arts Council, and others, her work has received the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson prize for poetry, among other awards and has most recently appeared in Jacket, Poets & Writers, The Bay Poetics Anthology, Imaginary Syllabi, and Against Expression (Northwestern University Press, 2011). She served as the Director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in San Francisco and is currently working on a book of poems entitled Shhh! Lullabies for a Tired Nation. Dana teaches writing at San Francisco State University and Marin Juvenile Hall. She lives in San Quentin with her incredible family.

Sarah Rosenthal is the author of Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009) and the chapbooks How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), sitings (a+bend, 2000) and not-chicago (Melodeon, 1998). Her writing has appeared in journals such as ecopoetics, Denver Quarterly, Bird Dog, dusie, and Boston Review, and is anthologized in Bay Poetics (Faux, 2006), The Other Side of the Postcard (City Lights, 2005) and hinge (Crack, 2002). She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Fiction Award and grant-supported writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Soul Mountain, and Ragdale. She has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University and Santa Clara University as well as privately, and writes curricula for the Developmental Studies Center. Her collection of interviews, A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area, was recently published by Dalkey Archive (April 2010).

A New Cadence in April - Stephen Kessler

A New Cadence Poetry Series presents

Stephen Kessler

in a reading and book party for two new books

Join Stephen Kessler in celebrating his latest book of original poems

Scratch Pegasus (Swan Scythe Press) and his new translation of

Poems of Consummation by Vicente Aleixandre (Black Widow Press)

Saturday April 20, 2013, 

7:30pm

Felix Kulpa Gallery, 

107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz

SCRATCH PEGASUS is a selection of new poems (2006-2012) exploring themes of time, love, friendship, aging, teachers, art, music, “wild men” and the streaming present of the everyday.

POEMS OF CONSUMMATION is Vicente Aleixandre’s late-life lyrical and metaphysical investigation into the mysteries of youth, sex, memory, old age, death and oblivion.

Stephen Kessler’s other recent books include The Tolstoy of the Zulus (essays), The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges (as editor and principal translator), and The Mental Traveler (novel). His translation of Desolation of the Chimera by Luis Cernuda received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and his version of Cernuda’s collected prose poems, Written in Water, won a Lambda Literary Award. He is the editor of The Redwood Coast Review, now in its fifteenth year. www.stephenkessler.com

Vicente Aleixandre (1898-1984), one of Spain’s leading twentieth-century poets, received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1977. Stephen Kessler’s version of Poems of Consummation, first published in Spanish in 1968, is the first complete translation of this book to appear in English.

Please join us for an evening of poetry, conversation and libations.

A New Cadence in March, Part 3 Canarium Press!

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Lynn Xu, Joshua Edwards,

and Farnoosh Fathi

reading from their poetry

Sunday, March 24th @ Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060

(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm

Admission is free

LYNN XU was born in Shanghai. Her poems have appeared in 6x6, 1913,Best American Poetry 2008, Boston Review, Octopus, Poor Claudia, and others. A chapbook, June, was published by Corollary Press in 2006 and her first book, Debts & Lessons, will be published by Omnidawn in spring 2013. She co-edits Canarium Books.

JOSHUA EDWARDS directs and co-edits Canarium Books. He's the author of Imperial Nostalgias (Ugly Duckling, 2013) and Campeche (Noemi, 2011) and the translator of Mexican poet María Baranda's Ficticia (Shearsman, 2010). Currently a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, he divides his time between Stuttgart, Germany and Marfa,Texas.

FARNOOSH FATHI's first book, Great Guns, will be out from Canarium Books in spring 2013. Her work has also appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Everyday Genius, Poetry, Jacket2, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland, California.

A New Cadence in March, Part 2 Greenstreet, Arrieu-King, and Orser-Crouse

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Kate Greenstreet, Cynthia Arrieu-King,

and Kristen Orser-Crouse

reading from their poetry

Friday, March 15th @ Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060

(Behind Streetlight Records)

7:30pm Admission is free

Kate Greenstreet is the author of The Last 4 Things and case sensitive, both from Ahsahta Press, and six chapbooks. Her new work can be found in Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Volt, Fence, Boston Review, and other journals. Ahsahta published her third book, Young Tambling, in January 2013.

Cynthia Arrieu-King works as an associate professor of creative writing at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and a former Kundiman fellow. She is the author of two collections of poetry, People are Tiny in Paintings of China (2010) and Manifest (2013). She also co-wrote a chapbook with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis By a Year Lousy with Meteors (2012). Her first book appeared on The Believer’s Reader’s Choice Poetry List in 2011 and was mentioned on Seth Abramson’s list of best contemporary works of poetry in The Huffington Post. She runs a radio show through WLFR (wlfr.fm) about writers and writing in South Jersey and the tri-state called The Last Word.

Kristen Orser-Crouse  works in text and image and is the author of the chapbooks E AT I (Wyrd Tree Press), SQUINT (Dancing Girl Press), Folded into Your Midwestern Thunderstorm (Greying Ghost Press), Winter, Another Wall (blossombones), and Wilted Things (Scantily Clad Press). Her work is often in pieces on the hardwoods and always in process.