"The al-Masjid Code" & "The music is played like it has somewhere to go"

Two recently appearing poems:

The al-Masjid Code
Portland Review, vol. 55, #2 (Fall/Winter 2008)

The music is played like it has somewhere to go
Portland Review, vol. 55, #2 (Fall/Winter 2008)

Nicholas Karavatos & Jeff Kelley at the Accident Gallery in Eureka, CA on Thursday, January 8, 2009

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

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

Projections by The Aix http://www.magneticvideo.com/eventsamples.html


the poems:

1. Rapunzel Akbar
2. Calemnity Specs
3. Procreate the Revolt
4. S

The audio links:
http://www.archive.org/details/NicholasKaravatos-200818-AccidentGalleryInEurekaCa
and
http://pages.suddenlink.net/jeffkelley/accident.mp3


We headlined the gallery's monthly event: the Accident Slam. During the evening's readings, an artist makes a painting. The audience votes on the best open-mic poet from the opening set. The following week that poet is invited back to perform their winning poem and receives the painting as a prize. http://www.accidentgallery.com/

I bought drinks for all my friends there on behalf of all my friends who couldn't be, especially Vivienne in South Africa.

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)