"Saw a Face in the Grain" in Big Bridge #14

Saw a Face in the Grain
Big Bridge, #14
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/WAR09.HTM#NKaravatos


WAR PAPERS (3) Poems and essays against war. Sub-features by John Bradley, Joel Lewis, Philip Metres, Vincent Katz, Francesco Levato, and Louise Landes Levi, plus reflections from around the world on the election of Barack Obama, and, of course, Halvard Johnson's continuing anthology of anti-war poems.
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/WAR09-A.HTM

WAR PAPERS: POETRY 3; Eating Chocolate Ice Cream: Reading Mayakovsky
Compiled and Edited by Halvard Johnson
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/WAR09.HTM

Big Bridge: The Nola Issue
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/toc.htm

"Greenhouse Effect Coffeeshop" & "now with you" in Hamilton Stone Review, #18

Greenhouse Effect Coffeeshop
Hamilton Stone Review, #18 (July 2009)http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr18poetry.html#greenhouseeffectcoffeeshop

now with you
Hamilton Stone Review, #18 (July 2009)http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr18poetry.html#nowwithyou


Both of these poems have been revised. The poem "Greenhouse Effect Coffeeshop" now reads:

Greenhouse Effect Coffeeshop

I’m in the bass line
While everybody’s watching

The last few I slipped down
Steepest stairs in the world
Are Amsterdam’s

One Thousand One Arabian Nights
Is my room above the Greenhouse Effect

Four women walk
Through the front door
My age

Cider in the coffeeshop
Seated at the threshold I see
The first looks



Both of these poems have been revised. The poem "now with you" reads:


now with you
is like being
alone only more
so
now with you
is like convers-
ing with nothing left
to say
now with you
not able to see
outside
more than you could
not before
now with you
is less different than without
and I am even more
so
as I was before.

Mad River Anthology - May 10, 2009 on KHSU-FM

In the spirit of neo-dada free-jazz, these are the spontaneous collaborations of an electric guitarist and an electrifical poet.

Producer Tim Ayers writes:
"Former Mad River Anthology host Nicholas Karavatos returns to the show on a visit from the United Arab Emirates. Nick’s collage of international imagery is accompanied by guitarist Jeff Kelley with his wide array of sound bending foot pedals for an improvised collaboration at the KHSU studio."


Nicholas Karavatos & Jeff Kelley
Posted in Radio Programs on May 11, 2009 by Tim Ayres
http://madriveranthology.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/nicholas-karavatos-jeff-kelley/

The Show:
http://mra.yoursavinggrace.net/MRA090510.mp3

The Raw Tape:
http://mra.yoursavinggrace.net/NickJeffBonus.mp3


Mad River Anthology is available on iTunes.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=286474699


Mad River Anthology is produced by Tim Ayres & Brent Jenkins for KHSU, a non-commercial public radio station, licensed to, supported by, and located on the campus of Humboldt State University. KHSU broadcasts a diverse mix of programs throughout Northwest California and Southwest Oregon. As a public service of Humboldt State University, KHSU strives to present thoughtful and intelligent perspectives on local, national and international issues. Its objectives include fostering the arts, sciences and humanities, giving voice to underrepresented points of view, serving minority as well as majority needs, and both guiding and reflecting public intellect and taste. Mad River Anthology, first airing in the 1970s, is KHSU’s longest running program. http://www.khsu.org/

Poet Nicholas Karavatos with guitarist Jeff Kelley - Webcast on KHSU-FM on Sunday/Monday

LISTEN LIVE in DUBAI on Monday, May 11 at 9:00 AM
Live Streaming at http://www.khsu.org/

LISTEN LIVE in CALIFORNIA on Sunday, May 10 at 10:00 PM
KHSU 90.5 FM Arcata, 91.9 FM Crescent City-Brookings, 89.1 Ferndale-Fortuna, 89.7 Garberville, and 99.7 Willow Creek.
Live Streaming at http://www.khsu.org/

While in California to perform at Accident Gallery in Eureka last January, Nick & Jeff spent an afternoon at KHSU studios at Humboldt State University. The afternoon was recorded by Tim Ayers who has edited down a 25 minute episode of "Mad River Anthology."

These are unrehersed, spontaneous collaborations between a poet and an electric guitarist.

Mad River Anthology is available on iTunes.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=286474699

MAD RIVER ANTHOLOGY BLOG
http://madriveranthology.wordpress.com/
You can click on the "Listen" link in each show description to stream the audio, or right-click on it to save as an mp3. Special thanks to Grace Kerr. Listen to "Your Saving Grace" on Saturdays at 5pm on KHSU.

Mad River Anthology is produced by
Tim Ayres serya@suddenlink.net
Brent Jenkins bbbjenkins@gmail.com

If you would like to be added to the Mad River Anthology mailing list, please contact Tim Ayers

"Direct Action" in With + Stand 3: the red issue

a recently appearing poem

Direct Action
With + Stand 3: the red issue (March 2009)

This issue will be available at the With + Stand edition of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series in San Francisco on March 14, 2009.

http://canessagalleryreadingseries.blogspot.com/2009/03/march-14with-stand-reading.html

http://withplusstand.blogspot.com/2009/03/announcing-with-stand-3-red-issue.html

http://withplusstand.blogspot.com/2009/03/with-stand-3-some-contributor-bios.html

The editors write:
Recent crises in global capitalism have functioned, as crises often do, to reveal the historical contours of the present, providing new opportunities to read history against the grain and to unsettle established assumptions. With + Stand 3: the red issue proposes that as our economies enter a period of potentially profound structural transformation, it is all the more necessary to examine the relationship between the economic mode of production and cultural and social forms in the period after WWII.

"Critique does not simply liquidate the system." - Adorno, Negative Dialectics

"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)