Cadence Collective

04/11/2018

Thank you to everyone who supported our reading for the past 4 years and 4 months! Thanks to Boris Ingles for the photos from the last night!!

10/06/2017

Many former Cadence contributors are included in this new anthology!

78 authors and artists contributed to Incandescent Mind: Selfish Work. Read through their bios and learn more about them. Born in Danbury, Connecticut, Alex Diffin moved to Southern California at t…

05/16/2017

Huge poetry event alert! In a few short days, you can join us at the Long Beach Poetry Slam 2017. Sadie Girl Press will be hanging out behind a table, but still cheering on our contributor, Chestina Nicole Craig and all the amazing talent!

The official poetry slam of Long Beach

02/22/2017

In January, Melanie Riecke Hiller recorded the event hosted by Sarah Thursday, How I MADE It. This episode features Melissa Lussier Music, and Cadence Collective alumni, Boris Ingles, Clifton Snider, and G. Murray Thomas!

This episode presents audio from the monthly "How I MADE It" storytelling event hosted at MADE by Millworks. Contributors include Boris Ingles, Clifton Snyder, Murray Thomas, and I. Music is by Melissa Lussier and the event is presented by Sarah Tatro. photo by Boris Ingles.

02/15/2017

01/29/2017

Fox Coffee House was flooded a week ago and needs our help recovering. Consider ordering something delicious from their bake sale. Bring it to work or your next activist meeting. This place does A LOT for our community by supporting us creative folk with a place to do our many things. AND the food is yummy.

Hello world!

As some of you know Fox suffered damages from the rain storm Sunday which forced us to be closed to do some fixin' up.

We're having a bake sale Tuesday to get the shop bake on it's land legs and we would truly appreciate your support!

We'll have the following available in single-layer 8 inch:

-Almond cakes $20
-Strawberry shortcake $20
-Carrot Cake $20
-1 doz. Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Cookies $15

We'll also have lots of individual treats available!

You can place your orders here or email us at [email protected]

Please come visit us Tuesday-our hours will be 10-6.

01/29/2017

Sarah Thursday: Kai Arrives at the Moon

http://cadencecollective.net/2017/01/29/kai-arrives-at-the-moon

By Sarah Thursday This is not the beginning. It’s also not the end, but an ongoing swerve down a different street. There is no destination. Just drive. There is no normal, regular, like everyone, s…

01/26/2017

G. Murray Thomas: Trying to Drag the Beauty out of a Flower

http://cadencecollective.net/2017/01/26/trying-to-drag-the-beauty-out-of-a-flower

By G. Murray Thomas The rose explodes in fiery red. I trace the silky outline of a petal, Search for the scent, the seduction, the mystery.The rose disintegrates in my hand. The news explodes in bl…

01/22/2017

Antonio Cortez Appling: When the cubs aren't enough

http://cadencecollective.net/2017/01/22/when-the-cubs-arent-enough

By Antonio Cortez Appling stars have captured my nets when you find me I’ll be vanquished from missing lost in my pastimes corazon praying to the altars of my hurt feelings selfish in my resp…

01/19/2017

Luna Bella: Dear Suki: Number Five

http://cadencecollective.net/2017/01/19/dear-suki-number-five

By Luna Bella Dear Suki: Redondo Beach, 2001, if you pause here, you might feel the sea thundering ribs and spine against the rock isle. Every ripple is measured in ohms, eternal, rest- less, twitc…

01/19/2017

A Pushcart nominee, Lana Bella is an author of two chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016) and Adagio (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming), has had poetry and fiction featured with over 300 journals: 2River, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Columbia Journal, Poetry Salzburg Review, San Pedro River Review, The Hamilton Stone Review, The Ilanot Review… [ 35 more words ]

http://cadencecollective.net/2017/01/19/lana-bella

A Pushcart nominee, Lana Bella is an author of two chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016) and Adagio (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming), has had poetry and fiction featured with …

01/15/2017

Kit Courter: Episodes

http://cadencecollective.net/2017/01/15/episodes

By Kit Couter In between episodes, I suppose, life goes on in its continuing ways. I open a cupboard and look for gray moths, and usually find them, though it would be nice to find butterflies. The…