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.