A New
Cadence Poetry Series
Presents:
Emily Carr & Erica Lewis
Presents:
Emily Carr & Erica Lewis
+Special Guests
reading from their works
reading from their works
Saturday, February 16th, 2013
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm
Street
(behind
Streetlight Records)
Santa
Cruz, CA 95060
7:30pm
Admission is free
Admission is free
Emily
Carr’s second book of poetry, 13 Ways of Happily: Books 1 & 2
(Parlor Press 2011), was chosen by Cole Swensen as the winner of the 2009 New
Measures Prize. Excerpts from The Weights of Heaven, a book-length erasure essay, was recently
published in the Adaptations
issue of the Western Humanities Review. The poems here are from Carr’s Tarot novel, Name Your Bird
without a Gun; for a video performance
of other excerpts, visit www.ifshedrawsadoor.com.
erica lewis is a fine arts publicist in San
Francisco, where she ran the Canessa Reading Series at the historic Canessa
Park Gallery. A graduate of Northwestern University and Mills College, her work
has appeared in various journals and anthologies. Books include murmur in the inventory, just out
from Shearsman Books, and the
precipice of jupiter (Queue Books) and camera obscura (BlazeVox Books), both featuring original
artwork by Bay Area artist Mark Stephen Finein. Chapbooks include excerpts form camera obscura (EtherDome)
and of excerpts from murmur in
the inventory (Ypolita Press). She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
