Monthly

Poetry First!
Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Department at San José State University
1st Tuesday of Each Month
7:30 PM
South First Billiards (New Venue!)
www.sofapool.com
420 South First St., San Jose

Admission: FREE

Remember: You must be 21 or over (you can be way over) to join the festivities which begin at 7:30PM, with an open mic to follow.


Poetry Readings at:
Willow Glen Books

Second Thursday of Every Month
7:00 PM
1330 Lincoln Ave.
San Jose, CA 95125

(408) 298 8141
(408) 266 1361

JULY

Nicholas Karavatos

Date: Thursday, July 10 2008

Venue: Willow Glen Books (see left pane for address)

Time: 7 pm

 

 

NICHOLAS KARAVATOS was a manual worker by day and a poet-musician by night before going into debt to complete his formal education. A graduate of Humboldt State University in Arcata and New College of California's poetics program in San Francisco, he is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. His poems have appeared in After the Fallen, Blackbox, Certain Stones, Cherry Bleeds, Country Activist, Debt, Earth First! Radical Environmental Journal, Econews, Edge City Magazine, Humboldt-Central American Solidarity Newsletter, Juke Jar, Log, Minotaur, Mirage[periodical], Paisley Moon, Poetswest Online, Prophetic Voices, Prosodia, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Steelhead Special, Thieves Jargon, Tight, Travelling Poet, Toyon, Unlikely Stories and What the Hell. He is reading in eleven cities this summer in the Western United States and hopes his employer will consider it "professional development."