FEATHERBOARD WRITING SERIES presents
John Sakkis, Chris Kerr &
Writer-in-Residence Niki Korth
on
Saturday, February 8th, 5-7pm
JOHN SAKKIS was nominated for the SF Literary Arts Foundation James D. Phelan Poetry Award for 2013. He is the author of The Islands (forthcoming Nightboat Books) and Rude Girl (BlazeVOX Books). He has translated three books by Athenian poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis — 'now, 1/3' and thepoem (BlazeVOX Books) Maribor (The Post-Apollo Press), awarded the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation, and Chinese Notebook (Ugly Duckling Presse). He lives in Oakland.CHRIS KERR was born near San Diego, his fiction debuted in The New Review of Literature, and his poetry first appeared in Eleven Eleven. As the founding editor of Projector, a magazine of creative responses to film, Chris has programmed screedings (screening + reading) for venues such as Rock Paper Scissors Collective and The Roxie Theater. Artist Colter Jacobsen and he recently produced a chapbook of collaborative poetry titled Round Ether O Weather. Chris holds an MFA in Fiction from Pacific University, teaches Literary Arts at Oakland School for the Arts, and is slowly finishing a novel about an unplanned midlife pregnancy in a loveless marriage in a desert border town.
NIKI KORTH wears many hats but is ultimately an artist and free culture enthusiast/activist who believes earnestly in the triad of the creative arts, technological literacy, and human rights. Should you wish to learn more about her, please write to niki.e.korth@gmail.com. Please also contact her if you’d like to discuss the history of the moving image and speculate about the future of video as consumer technology as much as artistic medium and political tool. In the spirit of McLuhan but in the age of the Internet – she believes that we all own the message. But the medium may have a mind of its own.
