A
New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents
Robert Sward & David Alpaugh
Reading
from their work
@
The
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107
Elm Street
Santa
Cruz, CA 95060
February
1st, 2014
Reception
at 6:30pm
Reading
begins at 7:30pm
Free
ROBERT SWARD has taught at Cornell
University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and UC Santa Cruz. A
Guggenheim Fellow he was chosen by Lucile Clifton to receive a Villa
Montalvo Literary Arts Award. His more than 20 books include: Four
Incarnations (Coffee House Press), Rosicrucian in the Basement, The
Collected Poems, and God is in the Cracks (Black Moss Press, Canada),
now in its second printing. His latest, New & Selected Poems,
1957-2012, was published by Red Hen Press.
Born and raised in Chicago, Sward
served in the U.S. Navy in the combat zone during the Korean War and
later worked for CBC Radio and as book reviewer and feature writer
for The Toronto Star and Globe & Mail while living in Canada.
Sward now lives in Santa Cruz with his wife, visual artist Gloria K.
Alford.
For more info see:
www.robertsward.com
see also Contemporary Authors
Autobiography Series, Volume 206.
and, Garrison Keillor reads "God
is in the
Cracks"
http://jjwebb.ihwy.com/rosycrossfather/godisinthecracks_keillor.mp3
http://jjwebb.ihwy.com/rosycrossfather/godisinthecracks_keillor.mp3
DAVID ALPAUGH’S poetry, fiction,
drama, satire, and criticism have appeared in literary journals that
include Able Muse, English Literary History, Evergreen Review,
Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, Free Lunch, Light, Modern Drama,
Mudlark, Poetry, Rattle, Twentieth Century Literature, Wisconsin
Review, and Zyzyvva. His first poetry collection COUNTERPOINT won
the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press and his
chapbooks have been published by Coracle Books and Pudding House
Publications. His controversial essays “The Professionalization of
Poetry” (Poets & Writers Magazine), "What's Really
Wrong With Poetry Book Contests?" (AboutPoetry and Rattle), and,
most recently, "The New Math of Poetry" (The Chronicle
of Higher Education) have stimulated much discussion both online
and off. A graduate of Rutgers University and the University of
California, Berkeley, he has taught at the U.C. Berkeley Extension;
was publisher of the Carquinez Poetry Review; and hosted two San
Francisco Bay Area monthly poetry readings in Walnut Creek and then
in Crockett. David Alpaugh's HEAVY LIFTING (Poems 1995
through 2006) was published by ALEHOUSE PRESS in 2007.
1 comment:
Traci Hulkill writes,
"...Sward edits The Outdoor Poet for Hilltromper, but that's the least of his callings. The poet, novelist, essayist and teacher serves as an elder statesman of the Santa Cruz literary scene, hosting events, reading at salons and tirelessly working to promote poetry. Lately Robert's own work has focused on his lifelong relationship with dogs, which serve as a company of quirky, opinionated muses. This year he looks forward to publishing Unleashed: The Dogs in My Life; at his Sat., Feb. 1st New Cadence Poetry Series reading, the whole thing may well go to the dogs."
--Traci Hulkill, editor & founder of Hilltromper.com/
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