Upcoming & Recent Poetry Readings & Intermedia Spoken Word Performances

  

Upcoming & Recent Poetry Readings

& Intermedia Spoken Word Performances

2011
 

• Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Word UP!, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, 4550 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV

• Monday, January 31, 2011 – 7:00pm*
Show & Tell Gallery, Three Friends Coffee House, 201 SE 12th Ave., Portland, OR

2010   

• Sunday, November 14, 2010 – 7:00pm*
John F. Kennedy University, 2946 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA

• Thursday, November 11, 2010 – 8:00pm
International Performing Arts Festival, Dubai Community Theatre, United Arab Emirates

• Saturday, September 11, 2010 – 7:00pm
D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla, CA

• Thursday, September 9, 2010 – 6:00pm
Café des Artistes, 103 S. Main St., Fallbrook, CA

• Tuesday, September 7, 2010 – 9:00pm
The Cobalt, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA

• Wednesday, September 1, 2010 – 8:00pm
Ugly Mug, 261 N. Glassel St., Orange, CA

• Monday, August 23, 2010 – 7:00pm
Berkeley Poetry Express, 2072 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA

• Wednesday, August 18, 2010 – 7:00pm
Studio 333 Art Gallery, 333 Caledonia St., Sausalito, CA

• Saturday, August 14, 2010*
A New Poetry Series at DIVA, 110 W. Broadway, Eugene OR

• Friday, August 13, 2010 – 7:00pm*
Puget Sound Poetry Connection’s Distinguished Writer Series, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA

• Thursday, August 12, 2010 – 5:30pm*
Last Word Books, 211 4th Avenue East, Olympia, WA

• Wednesday, August, 11, 2010 – 7:00pm*
SoulFood Books, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA

• Sunday, August 1, 2010 – 4:30pm**
Arcata Playhouse, The Ink People’s Golden Road Festival, Arcata, CA

• Wednesday, July 28, 2010 – 5:00pm
Bay Area Writing Project presents Writing Teachers Write, Nomad Café, Oakland, CA

• Thursday, July 15, 2010 – 5:30pm*
Tigress Books, 420 Ferry St. SE, Salem, OR

• Wednesday, July 7, 2010 – 7:00pm
Oregon Literary Review, Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th, Portland, OR

• Monday, July 5, 2010 – 7:00pm
Bird & Beckett, 653 Chenery St., San Francisco, CA

• Monday, June 7, 2010 – 7:00pm
Show & Tell Gallery, 3 Friends Coffeehouse, 201 SE 12th Ave., Portland, OR

• Tuesday, June 1, 2010 – 7:30pm
Artists’ Union Gallery, 330 S. California St., Ventura, CA

• Friday, May 28, 2010 – 7:30pm
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA

2009   

• December 2, 2009 – 8:00pm***
Arcata Theater, 1036 G Street, Arcata, CA – No Asylum book launch event

2008
 

• January 8, 2009
Accident Gallery, 210 C Street, Eureka, CA

• August 11, 2008
Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR

• July 24, 2008
Colored Horse Studio, 780 Waugh Lane, Ukiah, CA

• July 19, 2008
Seattle Public Library – Green Lake Branch, 7364 E. Green Lake Dr. North, Seattle, WA

• July 14, 2008
Poetry Express, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA

• July 10, 2008
Willow Glen Books, 1330 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA

• June 21, 2008
Underground Books, 2814 35th Street, Sacramento, CA

• June 19, 2008
CityArt Gallery, 284 Main Street, Point Arena, CA

• June 15, 2008
Corners of the Mouth, Linnaea’s Café, 1110 Garden Street, San Luis Obispo, CA

• June 11, 2008
World Stage Performance Gallery, 4344 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

• June 10, 2008
Artists Union Gallery, 330 South California Street, Ventura, CA

• February 24, 2008 (broadcast)*
Mad River Anthology, KHSU-FM 90.5 – http://www.khsu.org/ – Humboldt State University


*Accompanied by electronic guitarist Jeff Kelley
**Accompanied by electronic guitarists Art Brown & Jeff Kelley
***Accompanied by musicians Art Brown (guitar), Jeff Kelley (guitar), Mark Weston (percussion), Shao Way Wu (bass)

PHOTOS - JFKU, Berkeley, CA - 14 Nov 10

John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA - 14 November 2010

 photo by Stacy Bond

  

 photo by Liz Burke

  

photo by Liz Burke

AUDIO - "I don’t feel vengeful. Just sleepy." - Arcata Theater, 2 December 2009

http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/1507056591/i-dont-feel-vengeful-just-sleepy

I don’t feel vengeful. Just sleepy.

• AUDIO – Arcata Theater, 2 December 2009
• Art Brown – Guitarist
• Nicholas Karavatos – Poet
• Jeff Kelley – Guitarist
• Mark Weston – Percussionist
• Shao Way Wu – Bassist
• http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/1507056591/i-dont-feel-vengeful-just-sleepy
• TEXT
• Todd Point Review (Summer 2008)
• No Asylum. Arcata: Amendment Nine, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9842800-0-1 at http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984280006/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

AUDIO - "Rapunzel Akbar" - Arcata Theater, 2 December 2009

http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/1495061663/rapunzel-akbar-audio-arcata-theater

 

Rapunzel Akbar

• Art Brown – Guitarist
• Nicholas Karavatos – Poet
• Jeff Kelley – Guitarist
• Mark Weston – Percussionist
• Shao Way Wu – Bassist

http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/1495061663/rapunzel-akbar-audio-arcata-theater

 

• TEXT
• Blackbox – a record of the crash (Summer Collisions, 2007) http://www.williamjamesaustin.com/rapunzel_akbar.html
• No Asylum. Arcata: Amendment Nine, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9842800-0-1 at http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984280006/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Dubomedy International Performing Arts Festival - Nov. 10-13, 2010

http://www.emirates247.com/entertainment/films-music/local-acts-set-to-shine-at-dubomedy-2010-11-03-1.312641

"Day two showcases the works of Dubomedy’s first performance and writing class, ending with an inter-media spoken word performance by the American poet and guest teacher Nicholas Karavatos, followed by two theatre productions, “Musical Chairs,” an ensemble piece, and “My Little Bit Life,” a one-act play about migrant workers."

(My guitarist just informed me he has to make an unexpected trip back to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. So no "intermedia." Just me.)

http://www.facebook.com/karavatos#!/group.php?gid=163668006977042

AUDIO - "Signs" - Tigress Books in Salem, OR on 15 July 2010

http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/1460463933/signs-audio-tigress-books-in-salem
Signs

• AUDIO – Tigress Books in Salem, OR on 15 July 2010
• Nicholas Karavatos – Poet
• Jeff Kelley – Guitarist
• http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/1460463933/signs-audio-tigress-books-in-salem 
• TEXT – Blackbox – a record of the crash (Spring Collisions, May 2008) at http://www.williamjamesaustin.com/signs_of_the_times.html & No Asylum. Arcata: Amendment Nine, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9842800-0-1 at http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984280006/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

 

AUDIO – "Shh" – SoulFood Books, Redmond, WA on 11 August 2010

"Shh"

• AUDIO – SoulFood Books, Redmond, WA on 11 August 2010
• Nicholas Karavatos – poet
• Jeff Kelley – guitarist
• http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/1452046131/shh-audio-soulfood-books-redmond
• TEXT – Karavatos, Nicholas. No Asylum. Arcata: Amendment Nine, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9842800-0-1 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984280006/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Intermedia Spoken Word with Nicholas Karavatos & Jeff Kelley on Sun., Nov. 14th at JFK University, Berkeley

Sunday, November 14 · 7:00pm - 8:00pm

 

John F Kennedy University - Berkeley

2956 San Pablo Ave

Berkeley, CA

Briefly returning to the United States from the United Arab Emirates, poet Nicholas Karavatos will be performing in spontaneous collaboration with electronic guitarist Jeff Kelley processing his pitched signals layering sound upon sounds in conversation with poet Nicholas Karavatos reciting his poems.

NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology Punk Rock Saved My Ass (Ukiah: Medusa’s Muse, 2010) and the latest issue of West Wind Review (Ashland: University of Southe...rn Oregon, 2010). In December 2009, Amendment Nine (Arcata) published his first book *No Asylum* http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984280006/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

David Meltzer writes: "Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity."

Lynn Alexander writes: “Karavatos … establish[es] the parameters of the lens, changing scale. Scale is an important element because it is often easier to understand power and the dynamics of coerced consciousness in terms of individuals as compared to the individual in societal context … both fraught with their complexities but with scale we can focus more on interplay, absent the distractions of perceived scope … The pond is small, these ponds can be any community. Again, the lens: A pool, a nation, a world – all with their respective strife, to scale … Scale. Scale is how we understand ourselves in ideology, less as faceless people behind ideas but as people with ideas, people connecting with other people.”

NICHOLAS KARAVATOS lives near Dubai, teaching literature and writing at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He has been an Assistant Professor there since 2006. From 2001 he had taught general studies at a small private college in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

VIDEO: Nicholas Karavatos interviewed by Asma al-Jeelani in Spring 2009 on ENewsMCM at American University of Sharjah

"(Spring 2009) English Professor Nicholas Karvatos describes experiences in and meaning of poetry in this [video] interview by MCM sudent reporter Asma Al Jeelani. Asma also interviewed International Studies Student Zeena Farsee who talks about her passion for writing poetry."
Posted Monday, 12 October 2009 07:57 ©2009 enewsmcm.com All Rights Reserved.
http://www.enewsmcm.com/component/content/article/1-pop/12-poetry-at-aus

Nicholas Karavatos with Jeff Kelley & Art Brown at the Golden Road Art & Music Fair, Ink People Center for the Arts, Arcata Playhouse, Old Creamery Bldg, Arcata, CA on Sunday, August 1, 2010

• Sunday, August 1, 2010
Golden Road Art & Music Fair, Ink People Center for the Arts, Old Creamery Bldg, Arcata, CA
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134544979896003&ref=ts
http://inkpeople.org/
Poet Nicholas Karavatos
with Jeff Kelley & Art Brown (electronic guitarists)

all photos by Dan Berman

all photos by Dan Berman

This Week in California: Canoga Park 9/7, Orange 9/8, Fieldbrook 9/9, La Jolla 9/11

• Tuesday, September 7, 2010 – 9:00pm
The Cobalt, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA
http://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/index.html (Cobalt Poets)

• Wednesday, September 8, 2010 – 8:00pm
Ugly Mug, 261 N. Glassel St., Orange, CA
http://www.poetryidiots.com/  (Two Idiots Peddling Poetry)

• Thursday, September 9, 2010 – 6:00pm
Café des Artistes, 103 S. Main St., Fallbrook, CA
http://www.kbgressitt.com/events/  (Fallbrook Writers Read)

• Saturday, September 11, 2010 – 7:00pm
D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla, CA
http://www.dgwillsbooks.com/

NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology *Punk Rock Saved My Ass* (Ukiah: Medusa’s Muse, 2010) and the latest issue of *West Wind Review* (Ashland: University of Southern Oregon, 2010). In December 2009, Amendment Nine (Arcata) published his first book *No Asylum* http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984280006/ref=cm_sw_su_dp


David Meltzer writes: "Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity."

NICHOLAS KARAVATOS lives near Dubai, teaching literature and writing at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He has been an Assistant Professor there since 2006. From 2001 he had taught general studies at a small private college in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is a graduate of Humboldt State University where he earned his B.A. in English with a minor in Art History (1986), and of New College of California where he earned an M.F.A. in Poetics (1999).

NO ASYLUM is available from these independent booksellers:
Arcata, CA – Northtown Books
La Jolla, CA – D.G. Wills Books
Olympia, WA - Last Word Books
Portland, OR – Powell’s Books
Salem, OR – Tigress Books
San Francisco, CA – Bird & Beckett
San Francisco, CA – Books & Bookshelves
Venice, CA – Beyond Baroque

@ Tigress Books, 420 Ferry St. SE, Salem, OR • Thursday, July 15, 2010

"Third Thursday" poetry reading series is hosted by Maureen Clifford, PhD at JoAnne Kohler's Tigress Books in Salem, Oregon, USA.

Poet Nicholas Karavatos reads in spontaneous collaboration with electronic guitarist Jeff Kelley:

1. Antipodal to Craters Are Lava Plains
2. Saw a Face in the Grain
3. Crashby Station News
4. Another Grassy Knoll
5. Procreate the Revolt
6. Gudron Silva Says
7. Took Like a Cookie in a Sugar Coat of Arms
8. Body Revolve
9. with all there is
10. now with you
11. Shh
12. The music is played like it has somewhere to go
13. Oxford Music Sampler
14. Silvia’s with Me in the Kitchen
15. Social
16. Labor
17. Dear Kama
18. Thirteen January Eighty Nine
19. Fourteen January Eighty Nine
20. Two February Eighty Nine
21. Nine February Eighty Nine
22. Signs

http://www.archive.org/details/NicholasKaravatos2010July15TigressBooksSalemOregonUsa

Nicholas Karavatos & Lynn Alexander at Berkeley Poetry Express on Monday, August 23, 2010

• Monday, August 23, 2010 – 7:00pm

Berkeley Poetry Express @ Priya Indian Cuisine
2072 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, CA

Liz Burke, Nicholas Karavatos, Lynn Alexander, Paul Corman-Roberts, Mark States

 

Lynn Alexander

Nicholas Karavatos

  

Liz Burke, Nicholas Karavatos, Lynn Alexander, Paul Corman-Roberts, Mark States

Photos by Full Of Crow Press

Tonight at Studio 333 Gallery in Sausalitio: Nicholas Karavatos, Joan Baranow & David Watts

Today · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Studio 333 Gallery, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, Calif.
Sunset Poetry by the Bay
Nicholas Karavatos, Joan Baranow & David Watts

Nicholas Karavatos lives near Dubai, teaching literature and writing at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He has been an Assistant Professor there since 2006. From 2001 he had taught general studies at a small private college in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. In December 2009, Amendment Nine (Arcata) published his first book No Asylum. David Meltzer writes: "Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity." 

Joan Baranow, PhD is an Assistant Professor of English at Dominican University of California. Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, The Antioch Review, The Western Journal of Medicine, and other magazines. Her poetry has also appeared in Women Write Their Bodies: Stories of Illness and Recovery, issued in 2007 by Kent State University Press. Her book of poetry, Living Apart, was published by Plain View Press. She won Individual Artists Fellowships in Poetry from the Marin Arts Council and from the Ohio Arts Council. She is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. With her husband, physician and poet David Watts, she produced the PBS documentary Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine, airing nationally in 2008-2011.

David Watts, MD has published five books of poetry, one under his avant-guard pseudonym, Harvey Ellis, and produced a CD of “word-jazz.” His book of stories, The Orange Wire Problem, along with Bedside Manners, embodies explorations into the complexities, dangers, ethics and mysteries of healing. He is an NPR commentator on All Things Considered, a producer of the PBS program Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine, a gastroenterologist at UCSF, and a classically trained musician. He has been an on-camera television host for PBS, Lifetime Network and KTVU-TV and a medical columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He founded two summer writing workshops for poets and writers with an interest in illness and healing, one at Sarah Lawrence College and another at Dominican University of San Rafael.

Nicholas Karavatos

Joan Baranow, PhD

Photos by Nicholas Karavatos and Full Of Crow Press

Bird & Beckett Books & Records in San Francisco, CA on Monday, July 5 at 7:00pm

Bird & Beckett welcomes poets Nicholas Karavatos & Dee Allen.

NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology Punk Rock Saved My Ass (Ukiah: Medusa’s Muse, 2010) and the latest issue of West Wind Review (University of Southern Oregon, 2010). In December 2009, Amendment Nine published his first book titled No Asylum (Arcata, 2009).

David Meltzer wrote on the back cover: “Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity.”

Nicholas Karavatos lives near Dubai, teaching at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Previously he taught in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. He is a graduate of New College of California  and Humboldt State University.

http://www.birdbeckett.com/

Nicholas Karavatos' next poetry reading/book-signing is sponsored by the Oregon Literary Review and will be in Portland, OR on Wednesday, July 7 at Blackbird Wine Shop.

Golden West College in Huntington Beach, CA on Friday, June 25 at 8:00pm

Tebot Bach welcomes poets Nicholas Karavatos & Kim Noriega to Golden West College.

NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology Punk Rock Saved My Ass (Ukiah: Medusa’s Muse, 2010) and the latest issue of West Wind Review (University of Southern Oregon, 2010). In December 2009, Amendment Nine published his first book titled No Asylum (Arcata, 2009).

David Meltzer wrote on the back cover: “Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity.”

Nicholas Karavatos lives near Dubai, teaching at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Previously he taught in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. He is a graduate of New College of California and Humboldt State University.

KIM NORIEGA grew up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, but in her late 20's bought a brand new Camaro, and -- with her five-year-old (beautiful!) daughter in tow -- drove "as far south and west" as possible without leaving the country -- to San Diego to be exact -- where they danced together on the beach singing Pretenders' songs and made angels of sand instead of snow.

Now that her daughter is grown, Kim spends her time (when not writing) putting her books in order according to the Dewey Decimal Number Classification System (mostly 800s) and thinking of crafts to make for her day job with her family literacy kids using yogurt containers. Kim's favorite flower is the lilac (closely followed by wild violets and black tulips) and her favorite color is red -- which is why she wore a red lace wedding gown when she married her beloved, Ernie.

Kim’s poem "Heaven, 1963," first published in Tebot Bach's Blue Arc West: Anthology of California Poets, was featured by former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser, in his nationally syndicated column, American Life in Poetry. The title poem of her first book, Name Me, recently published by Fortunate Daughter Press, was a finalist for the 2009 Joy Harjo prize.

http://www.tebotbach.org/

Golden West College, Community Room 102:
The entrance closest to the venue is on Gothard near the corner of Gothard & Edinger in Huntington Beach. DO NOT USE THE MAIN ENTRANCE to the College on Golden West as there will be a long walk across the campus to find the room. Please ignore the sign directing you to the parking sticker vending machine. The Tebot Bach audience does not pay for parking.

Nicholas Karavatos' next poetry reading/book-signing is in San Francisco, CA on Monday, July 5 at Bird & Beckett.

Show & Tell Gallery in Portland, Oregon on Monday, June 7 at 7:00pm

"3 Friends Mondays: Caffeinated Art" welcomes poets Nicholas Karavatos, Chris Cotrell, & Carolyn Brazda to the Show & Tell Gallery.

NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology Punk Rock Saved My Ass (Ukiah: Medusa’s Muse, 2010) and the latest issue of West Wind Review (University of Southern Oregon, 2010). In December 2009, Amendment Nine published his first book titled No Asylum (Arcata, 2009).

David Meltzer wrote on the back cover: “Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity.”

CHRIS COTTRELL was born in Portland, Oregon but grew up on Maui. His fiction, reviews and poetry have appeared in The Scene, Alchemy, Willamette Week, Portland Review (which he now edits), Clackamas Literary Review, Nervy Girl! and Alembic (formerly Mercury). Cottrell has been awarded the 2009 Shelley Reece award and the PSU/Literary Arts Writers in the Schools Residency and Internship for 2009-2010. He is the one of the first poetry MFAs from Portland State.

CAROLYN BRAZDA was the finalist for the 2008 and 2009 Academy of American Poets Award. She lives and writes in Portland, OR.

http://showandtellgallery.org/

Monday, June 7, 2010
7:00pm - 9:00pm
 Show & Tell Gallery
201 SE 12th Avenue
Portland, OR

Nicholas Karavatos & Carolyn Brazda

Nicholas Karavatos & Chris Cottrell

Photos by Carolyn Brazda & Chris Cottrell

Nicholas Karavatos' next reading/book-signing is sponsored by Tebot Bach at Golden West College, Community Room 102, Huntington Beach, CA on Friday, June 25

Artists' Union Gallery in Ventura, CA on Tuesday, June 1 at 7:30pm

Tuesday Night Poets welcomes Nicholas Karavatos to the Artists' Union Gallery.

Nicholas Karavatos is included in the anthology Punk Rock Saved My Ass (Ukiah: Medusa’s Muse, 2010) and the latest issue of West Wind Review (University of Southern Oregon, 2010). In December 2009, Amendment Nine published his first book titled No Asylum (Arcata, 2009).

David Meltzer wrote on the back cover: “Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity.”

http://www.venturaartistsunion.org/
http://www.thetuesdaynightpoets.com/

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Artists’ Union Gallery
330 S. California St.
Ventura, CA



Nicholas Karavatos' next reading/book-signing is in Portland, OR on June 7, 2010.

Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA on Friday, May 28 at 7:30 pm

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center welcomes Nicholas Karavatos and Ivan Goldman.

NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology Punk Rock Saved My Ass (Ukiah: Medusa’s Muse, 2010) and the latest issue of West Wind Review (University of Southern Oregon, 2010). In December 2009, Amendment Nine published his first book titled No Asylum (Arcata, 2009).

David Meltzer wrote on the back cover: “Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity.”

IVAN G. GOLDMAN will read from his political satire Exit Blue (Black Heron Press; 2010) and discuss how this, his third novel came about and answer questions on related matters such as invading Denmark and why maybe it's not such a good idea after all to elect imbeciles and crooks to high office. His previous novel, The Barfighter (Permanent Press; 2009) was nominated as a 2009 Notable Book by the American Library Foundation.

http://www.beyondbaroque.org/

Friday, May 28, 2010
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA

Audio at Tumblr

They

• TEXT - West Wind Review (Univ. of So. Oregon, 2010)
• AUDIO - Mad River Anthology (KHSU-FM, 2009)
• http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/530398866/they-west-wind-review-univ-of-so

Twenty Three June Eighty Six

• TEXT - Thieves Jargon, #142 (April 20, 2007) http://www.thievesjargon.com/workview.php?work=931
• AUDIO - 1979 & 2009 – Mixed by Nicholas Karavatos & Jeff Kelley
• http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/535530280/twenty-three-june-eighty-six-text

Written to a Subliminal Infusion of the Band fIREHOSE

• TEXT – Prosodia, #7 (1997)
• AUDIO – North Country Fair, Arcata Plaza, Arcata, CA (1992)
• Art Brown (guitar), Morgan Stern (bass), Mark Weston (drums)
• http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/538631926/intermedia

Fuck the Fear

• TEXT – 1986 – After the Fallen, #1 (2000)
• AUDIO – Beltane Bash, Yeehaw, Trinidad, CA (1993)
• Jeff Kelley (guitar); Richard LaPreziosa (bass); unremembered others
• http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/542590957/fuck-the-fear-text-1986-after-the

Headhunter

• AUDIO – The Conscious World on KHSU-FM, Arcata, CA – November 26, 1992
• Art Brown (guitar); Morgan Stern (bass); Mark Weston (drums); Rodney Brunlinger (producer/host)
• http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/560154254/headhunter-audio-the-conscious-world

Bloodwood

• TEXT – Country Activist, vol. 7, #6 (1990)
• AUDIO – Beltane Bash, Yeehaw, Trinidad, CA (1993)
• Jeff Kelley (guitar); Richard LaPreziosa (bass); unremembered others
• http://nicholaskaravatos.tumblr.com/post/584423216/bloodwood-text-country-activist

Book Tour - Summer 2010

• Friday, May 28, 2010 – 7:30pm
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA

• Tuesday, June 1, 2010 – 7:30pm
Artists’ Union Gallery, 330 S. California St., Ventura, CA

• Monday, June 7, 2010 – 7:00pm
Show & Tell Gallery, SE 12th and Ash, Portland, OR

• Friday, June 25, 2010 – 8:00pm
Golden West College, Community Room 102, Huntington Beach, CA

• Monday, July 5, 2010 – 7:00pm
Bird & Beckett, 653 Chenery St., San Francisco, CA

• Wednesday, July 7, 2010 – 7:00pm
Oregon Literary Review at Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th, Portland, OR

• Thursday, July 17, 2010 – 5:30pm
Tea Party Bookshop, 420 Ferry St. SE, Salem, OR

• Wednesday, August, 11, 2010 – 7:00pm
SoulFood Books, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA

• Thursday, August 12, 2010 – 5:30pm
Last Word Books, 211 4th Avenue East, Olympia, WA

• Friday, August 13, 2010 – 7:00pm
Puget Sound Poetry Connection’s Distinguished Writer Series, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA

• Saturday, August 14, 2010
A New Poetry Series at DIVA, 110 W. Broadway, Eugene OR

• Wednesday, August 18, 2010 – 7:00pm
Studio 333 Art Gallery, 333 Caledonia St., Sausalito, CA

• Monday, August 23, 2010 – 7:00pm
Berkeley Poetry Express, 2072 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA

• Wednesday, September 1, 2010 – 8:00pm
Ugly Mug, 261 N. Glassel St., Orange, CA

• Tuesday, September 7, 2010 – 9:00pm
The Cobalt, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA

• Thursday, September 9, 2010 – 6:00pm
Café des Artistes, 103 S. Main St., Fallbrook, CA

• Saturday, September 11, 2010 – 7:00pm
D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla, CA

No Asylum

Karavatos, Nicholas. No Asylum. Arcata: Amendment Nine, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-9842800-0-1

David Meltzer writes: "Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity."

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984280006/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Also available at:
Northtown Books in Arcata, CA
Bookshelves & Books in San Francisco, CA

Audio - Arcata Theater Lounge - December 2, 2009

Art Brown (guitar)
Edmond Deraedt (lights)
Nicholas Karavatos (poems, projections)
Jeff Kelley (guitar)
Mark Weston (percussion)
Shao Way Wu (bass)

An inter-media spoken word performance celebrating the publication of No Asylum by Nicholas Karavatos.

http://www.archive.org/details/NicholasKaravatos-2009December2-ArcataTheaterLoungeCalifornia

1. Rapunzel Akbar
2. I'm not vengeful. Just sleepy.
3. Saw a Face in the Grain
4. Another Grassy Knoll
5. Crashby Station News
6. Procreate the Revolt
7. Body Revolve
8. Spectacle of the Prophets of Phallopolis
9. Shh
10. The music is played like it has somewhere to go
11. Written in response to a Subliminal Infusion of the Band fIREHOSE
12. Greenhouse Effect Coffeeshop
13. Direct Action
14. Two February Eighty Nine
15. Twenty Two July Eighty Nine
16. now with you
17. Signs