A
New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents
Stephen
Kessler, Alan Soldofsky,
&
Richard Silberg
Reading
from their works
@
The
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107
Elm Street
Santa
Cruz, CA 95060
April
26th,
2014
Reception
at 6:30pm
Reading
begins at 7:30pm
Hosted By Robert Sward
Free
Stephen
Kessler
is a poet, prose writer, translator and editor. His most recent books
include Scratch
Pegasus (poems),
Poems
of Consummation by
Vicente Aleixandre (translation), The
Tolstoy of the Zulus: On Culture, Arts & Letters (essays),
and The
Mental Traveler (novel).
He received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the
Academy of American Poets for his version of Desolation
of the Chimera by
Luis Cernuda. He is the subject of a FloodLight Feature in Issue 5
of the online journal phren-Z
.
Alan
Soldofsky has
published a new collection of poems, In
the Buddha Factory,
from Truman State University Press. Also three chapbooks of poems:
Kenora Station, Staying Home, and most recently a chapbook that
includes a selection of poems by his son, the poet Adam Soldofsky,
Holding
Adam / My Father's Books.
He has published poems widely in magazines and academic journals
including: The
Antioch Review,
The
Crab Orchard Review,
The
Georgia Review,
The
Gettysburg Review,
The
Greensboro Review,
Grand
Street,
The
Michigan Quarterly Review,
The
Nation,
The
North American Review,
and Poetry
East.
His poems have three times been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He
has also contributed essays on modern and contemporary poets to a
variety of journals. His articles, essays, interviews, and book
reviews have appeared widely in periodicals including Chelsea,
Narrative,
Poetry
Flash,
Quarry
West,
and The
Writer's Chronicle.
He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at San Jose State
University where he directs the MFA Program
in Creative Writing.
Richard Silberg, Associate
Editor of Poetry Flash, hosts the Poetry Flash reading series. He is
author of The Horses, New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2012).
His previous poetry collections include Deconstruction of the Blues
(Red Hen Press, 2006), which received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles
Literary Award. His poetry has also appeared in American Poetry
Review, Denver Quarterly, VOLT, New American Writing, Catamaran
Literary Reader, and other journals. His co-translation of Korean
poet Ko Un, The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems (University of
California Press, 2006), received a Northern California Book Award
for Translation. His most recent co-translation is This Side of Time,
poems by Ko Un (White Pine Press, 2012). His books also include
Doubleness (Heyday, 2000) and a collection of his Poetry Flash
essays, Reading the Sphere: A Geography of Contemporary American
Poetry (Berkeley Hills, 2002). Robert Hass said of Reading the
Sphere: "No one is writing about poetry with more vividness,
particularity, intelligence, and range, than Richard Silberg."
The Horses, New & Selected Poems is his most recent book.
Silberg taught Poetry Workshops and "Writing and Appreciating
Contemporary Poetry" at UC Berkeley Extension for over twenty
years. Richard Silberg was born in New York City in 1942. He
received his BA from Harvard in 1963 and his MA in creative writing
from San Francisco State University.
