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