Wednesday

A New Cadence in November: Witte and Mattraw

A New Cadence Poetry Series
Presents

Valerie Witte

and

Alexandra Mattraw


Reading from their work

@
The Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

November 16th, 2013
7:30pm
Free


A native St. Louisan, Valerie Witte received her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in various journals, such as Barrow StreetVOLTInterim, and Letterbox; and her first chapbook, The History of Mining, was recently published by the ge collective. She is a member of Kelsey Street Press and the Bay Area Correspondence School. Her recent projects have explored such topics as a future Earth's prosthetic nature and the evolution of human skin. Check out her work at valeriewitte.squarespace.com.

Alexandra Mattraw’s third chapbook, in the way of harbors, is available at Dancing Girl Press. Her first two chapbooks were published through Achiote Press and Beard of Bees. You can find her poems and reviews in journals including VOLT, Cultural Society, Verse, Word For/Word, Realpoetik, Denver Quarterly, alice blue, Lost Roads Press, and American Letters & Commentary. Alexandra’s first full manuscript has been selected as a finalist by Nightboat Books and 1913 Press, and her second was recently chosen as a finalist for the Colorado Review Prize. Her most recent poems were released this October in 1913 Journal of Forms and Thethepoetry. A former Vermont Studio Center resident, Alexandra curates a writing, reading, and art series called Lone Glen in Oakland, California. If you are interested in learning more about her projects, please visit http://alexandramattraw.wordpress.com/.

Friday

A New Cadence in Octoer, part 2: Matt Hart and Russell Dillon...TONIGHT!

A New Cadence Poetry Series
 

Presents


Matt Hart & Russell Dillon


Reading from their work


TONIGHT!


October 18th, 2013,  7:30pm

@

Felix Kulpa Gallery

107 Elm Street

Santa Cruz CA 95060

Free


Russell Dillon is the author of ETERNAL PATROL, newly published by Forklift Books in Fall 2013, and the chapbook SECRET DAMAGE (Forklift Books). He is the co-editor of Big Bell, began life in New York, continued it in San Francisco, and now continues it further in New York.


Matt Hart is the author of five books of poems, Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006), Wolf Face (H_NGM_N Books, 2010), Light-Headed (BlazeVOX, 2011), Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast Publishing, 2012), and Debacle Debacle (H_NGM_N Books, 2013), as well as several chapbooks. Additionally, his poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Big Bell, Cincinnati Review, Coldfront, Columbia Poetry Review, H_NGM_N, Harvard Review, jubilat, Lungfull!, and Post Road, among others. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, a 2013 individual artist grant from The Shifting Foundation, and fellowships from both the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band TRAVEL.

Tuesday

A New Cadence in October- O'Shaughnessy and Farquhar

A New Cadence Poetry Series


Presents

A Night of Experimental and Feminist Poetries
 Featuring:

Dion N. Farquhar
and
Pamela O’Shaughnessy


Reading from their work
October 12th, 7:30pm
@
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz CA 95060
Free

Dion Farquhar is a poet and fiction writer with recent poems in Cricket Online Review, Shampoo, moria, BlazeVOX, Shifter, etc. Her second poetry book Wonderful Terrible just came out with Main Street Rag Publishing, and her first poetry book Feet First was published by Evening Street Press in 2010.

Pamela O’Shaughnessy is a Harvard-trained lawyer who, after sixteen years of legal practice, turned to fiction and poetry. She and her sister Mary have written fifteen books of suspense and mystery which have sold over eight million copies worldwide. Eight of their books have been New York Times bestsellers. Pam has been published in numerous poetry journals and has been a featured poet in the Triggerfish Critical Review. Her first poetry collection, FLYING AT SEA-LEVEL, was published in 2007, and she published an anthology of twenty-first century poetry, BURNING GORGEOUS, in 2010. FIGMENTS and other poems is a comprehensive selection of her poetry to date. Pam lives on the California Central Coast.