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).
