Accident Gallery - Eureka, CA - Thursday, January 8th - 7:30pm

Poet Nicholas Karavatos will perform poems in spontaneous collaboration with electric guitarist Jeff Kelley at the Accident Gallery in Eureka on Thursday, January 8, 2009.

The evening begins with an open mic at 7:30, followed by the inter-media spoken word performance by Nicholas Karavatos and Jeff Kelley.

Accident Gallery
210 C St
Eureka, CA 95501
(707) 445-2420

North Country Fair, Arcata Plaza, Arcata, CA – 20 September 1992

http://www.archive.org/details/NicholasKaravatos1992September20NorthCountryFairArcataPlaza

Bassist: Morgan Stern
Guitarist: Art Brown
Percussionist: Eddie Justiniano
Percussionist: Mark Weston
Poet: Nicholas Karavatos


the poems:


No Asylum
Noisy Men Again
This Is the Place
Resting Place
Leisure Tenders Revolution for Despair to Harvest
Along the Dotted Lines
The Coming Soon
Making Medicine with Shiva
Windshield
How Do I Love Thee?
sacred text edited for television
mystic bargain basement
Above and Below on Other Days
Burning at Too Low a Temp
Written to a Subliminal Infusion of the Band fIREHOSE
The General Hysteria of Living in the Trees
Down Past the Mined Potato Rock and Back
Bloodwood
What Truth about War Survives


This was a spontaneous collaboration performed live outdoors:
http://www.archive.org/details/NicholasKaravatos1992September20NorthCountryFairArcataPlaza

The original recording is an analog soundboard tape engineered by All Around Sound http://soundrental.net/

Labor

TEXT

Labor
Blackbox – a record of the crash (Winter Collisions, 2006)
http://www.williamjamesaustin.com/2poems.html

AUDIO

http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/labor.mp3

Musician, The

TEXT

Musician, The
Blackbox – a record of the crash (Winter Collisions, 2006)
http://www.williamjamesaustin.com/2poems.html

AUDIO

http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/musician.mp3

"Dear Kama" & "Nine February Eighty Nine"

Two recently appearing poems:

Dear Kama
Numinous, #2 (November 2008)
http://numinousmagazine.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/nicholas-karavatos/

Nine February Eighty Nine
Minotaur, #51 (October 2008)

Twenty Three June Eighty Six

TEXT

Twenty Three June Eighty Six
Thieves Jargon, #142 (April 20, 2007)
http://www.thievesjargon.com/workview.php?work=931

AUDIO

http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/23686.mp3

Scoop

TEXT

Scoop
there., #4 (May 2008)
http://www.therejournal.com/04karavatos4.html

AUDIO

http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/scoop.mp3

Arabic Idol

TEXT

Arabic Idol
there., #4 (May 2008)
http://www.therejournal.com/04karavatos2.html

AUDIO

Arabic Idol
http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/arabidol.mp3

Unfortunately, I think I said "pear" instead of "prayer" in the collaboration.

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

TEXT

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Unlikely Stories (November 2007)
http://www.unlikelystories.org/karavatos1107.shtml

AUDIO

http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/rainy.mp3

Spectacle of the Prophets of Phallopolis

TEXT

Spectacle of the Prophets of Phallopolis
Unlikely Stories (November 2007)
http://www.unlikelystories.org/karavatos1107.shtml

AUDIO

http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/spectacl.mp3

She Knows I Exist

TEXT

She Knows I Exist
Cherry Bleeds, #155 (March 2008)
http://www.cherrybleeds.com/words/guest1/nicholas-mar08.html

AUDIO

http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/sheknows.mp3

Rapunzel Akbar

TEXT

Rapunzel Akbar
Blackbox – a record of the crash (Summer Collisions, 2007)http://www.williamjamesaustin.com/rapunzel_akbar.html

AUDIO

http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/rapakbar.mp3

Procreate the Revolt

TEXT

Procreate the Revolt

Unlikely Stories (May 2007)

http://www.unlikelystories.org/karavatos0507.shtml

AUDIO

Procreate the Revolt

http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/procreat.mp3

Signs of the Times

TEXT

Signs of the Times
Blackbox – a record of the crash (Spring Collisions, May 2008)
http://www.williamjamesaustin.com/signs_of_the_times.html

AUDIO

Signs of the Times
http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/signs.mp3

"Katy Perry single smacks of controversy in UAE"

By Kevin Scott and Siham Al Najami, Staff Reporters for Gulf News
Published: August 18, 2008, 23:21

http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Society/10238287.html

Lesbianism is (and has been) alive and well in the Arab world - a fact the article strains to deny:

"Dr Mouza Ghubash, an Emirati sociologist, told Gulf News: "This song reflects the kind of relationship and behaviour that is common in Western societies and that can also be found as a new phenomenon in Arab culture."

"New phenomenon"? Dream on, scapegoaters.

Reading Tour - August 2008 - Photo Album

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=46068&l=e5ca0&id=612936840

Poetry Readings in Fort Bragg and Portland.

In this album are Charlotte Gullick, Michael Datcher, Daphne Gottlieb, Dreux Carpenter, Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, Kate Gale, Maya, Jenoyne Adams, Chris Cottrell, Dan Rafael, Margreta Waterman, Regina Marie Espinosa, and Nicholas Karavatos.

Poetry Reading in Portland on Monday

“I Love Mondays” Reading Series
Hosted by Dan Rafael

Nicholas Karavatos & Chris Cottrell

Monday
August 11th
7:00 pm

Broadway Books
1714 NE Broadway
Portland, OR

Free Arcata Festival - 1996 - "No Asylum" by Primordial Stew

No Asylum (Karavatos)
http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/noasylum.mp3

Primordial Stew:
Doug Kamprath - Drums
Nick Karavatos - Bass, Vocals
Jeff Kelley - Guitar
Rik Reider - Guitar

Free Arcata Festival (Friday Night)
Old Arcata Creamery
Arcata, CA
1996

No Asylum
San Fernando Poetry Journal, vol. XIV, #1 (1991)

Reading Tour - July 2008 - Photo Album

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=45322&l=ccaf0&id=612936840

Poetry Readings in San Jose, Berkeley, Seattle, and Ukiah.

In this album: Jeff Kelley, Teresa Howell, Richard LaPreziosa, Dennis Richardson, Mark States, Julia Vinograd, Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, Paul Corman-Roberts, Marianne Keller, Peggy Martinez, J. Glenn Evans, Lindsay Jones, Raena West, Terry Moore Devine, Tai Lupin Van Orden, Penny Gunn, Theresa Whitehill, Susan Sparrow, Dan Barth, Jennifer Grau Black, and Nicholas Karavatos.

Reading Tour - June 2008 - Photo Album

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=45262&l=34bac&id=612936840

Poetry readings in Ventura, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Point Arena, and Sacramento.

In this album are Roe Estep, Jawanza Dumisani, Michael Datcher, Kevin Patrick Sullivan, Blake More, T.Mo, and Nicholas Karavatos.

Requiem

TEXT

Requiem
Juke Jar, #3
http://www.canopicpublishing.com/juke/contents3/nicholas%20karavatos%20requim.htm

AUDIO

Requiem
http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/requiem.mp3