Wednesday

A New Cadence in April, Part 1

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Stephen Vincent
& Jean Vengua


reading from their works

April 3rd, 2010
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free


Poet, essayist, editor, and long-time resident of San Francisco, Stephen Vincent was founder, publisher, and editor of Momo's Press and Shocks magazine in the nineteen-seventies. During the eighties and early nineties, he was the founding Director of Bedford Arts, Publishers, which became an internationally renowned publisher of art books. Stephen Vincent's most recent books of poetry include Walking Theory (Junction Press), Walking (Junction Press), A Walk Toward Spicer (Cherry On the Top Press), and two ebooks, Sleeping With Sappho (http://www.fauxpress.com/e/vincent/), and Triggers.

Jean Vengua is the author of Prau, published by Meritage Press. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies and journals, including Babaylan, Otoliths, Sidereality, Moria, X-Stream, Returning a Borrowed Tongue, Going Home to a Landscape, Bay Poetics, Interlope, and Fugacity. Her chapbook, The Aching Vicinities, was published in 2006 by Otoliths, and is available at Lulu.com.



For more information contact jamaughn@cabrillo.edu
or see anewcadence@blogspot.com

Tuesday

A New Cadence in March

A New Cadence Poetry Series

Presents

Amina Cain
&
Amarnath Ravva
reading from their works

MARCH 20TH, 2010
@ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free

Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), a collection of stories that revolve quietly around human relationality, landscape and emptiness, and A Body That Has Trouble, a newly completed book of fictionesques and their companion prose pieces. She is also a curator and a teacher of writing/literature. Her work has appeared in publications such as 3rd Bed, Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, La Petite Zine, Sidebrow and Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers, is forthcoming in The Encyclopedia Project, MoonLit and Sous Rature, and was recently translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS. She lives in Los Angeles. http://aminacain.com

Amarnath Ravva has performed (as part of the ambient improvisational ensemble Ambient Force 3000) at LACMA, Los Angeles; Machine Project, Los Angeles; and Betalevel, Los Angeles. He has exhibited work at Telic, Los Angeles; Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles; Pond, San Francisco; and Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona. In addition to presenting his work in numerous readings, he has writing online at PennSound, LA-Lit and Drunken Boat #10, and work forthcoming in Encyclopedia vol. 2, and Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. He is on the board of advisors for nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts and is a curator at Betalevel. http://www.videopoetics.org/



For more information contact jamaughn@cabrillo.edu
or see anewcadence@blogspot.com