Jan 29, 2014

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.

Jan 28, 2014

Hi there, I'm reading in a couple weeks at

FEATHERBOARD WRITING SERIES
Saturday, February 8th
5-7pm

John Sakkis, Chris Kerr & Writer-in-Residence Niki Korth
+
FULL FRAME - "time-based media works that use the screen not as a mirror or magnifying glass, but as a frame that encapsulates the unseen"

Aggregate Space Gallery
801 W. Grand Ave, Oakland

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stills from the gallery show below




Jan 22, 2014

Jan 19, 2014

Jan 17, 2014


last night I killed a mosquito above my kitchen sink just as DJ Rupture's Mosquito (Club Foot Mix) began playing on my turntable, "mosquito/ mosquito mosquito mosquito"

I don't know, it was pretty Jungian

Jan 16, 2014

Books Read 2013

1. A Clash Of Kings- George R.R. Martin
2. Saginaw #4
3. New Yipes Reader- Haleh Hatami/ Suzanne Stein
4. Echo 681- ed. Jessica Pompei/ Holaday Mason/ Sarah Maclay
5. Bug House- Logan Ryan Smith
6. A Storm Of Swords- George R.R. Martin
7. Batman Year One- Frank Miller
8. The Holy Forest Collected Poems Of Robin Blaser- Robin Blaser
9. A Tale Of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
10. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark- Alvin Schwartz
11. More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark- Alvin Schwartz
12. Walt Whitman The Measure Of His Song- eds. Jim Perlman/ Ed Folsom/ Dan Campion
13. Poasis Selected Poems 1986-1999- Pierre Joris
14. At Me- Brandon Downing
15. Songs For Jadina- Alan Chong Lau
16. Saginaw #5
17. Serenade- Bill Berkson
18. Acts #6 A Book Of Correspondences For Jack Spicer
19. Memoir American- Benjamin Hollander
20. How To Paint Sunlight- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
21. Rhyme Against The Internet- Justin Katko
22. A Feast For Crows- George R.R. Martin
23. Crater #1- Michael Kindellan
24. Crater #16- Google Song- Joe Lumna
25. Element- Julien Poirier
26. X Portraits- Elizabeth Guthrie
27. Millions Of Colours- Ken Edwards
28. The Broken Tornado- Will Yackulic
29. Saginaw #1
30. Arrival- Sarah Anne Cox
31. Conversations With Ishmael Reed- ed. Bruce Dick/ Amritjit Singh
32. Anthology Of Black Humor- Andre Breton
33. William Butler Yeats- Denis Donoghue
34. Hanging Quotes Talking Book Arts, Typography And Poetry- Alastair Johnston
35. Ambush Review #3
36. Eros, Eros, Eros Selected And Last Poems- Odysseas Elytis/ trans. Olga Broumans
37. A Dance With Dragons- George R.R. Martin
38. Scary Stories 3 More Tales To Chill Your Bones- Alvin Schwartz
39. Notes On Thought And Vision- H.D.
40. Amerarcana A Bird And Beckett Review #2013
41. From Pearl Harbor Day To FDR's Birthday- Jackson Maclow
42. Brief Capital Of Disturbances- George Albon
43. Self And Simulacra- Liz Waldner
44. Responses To The Apologist- Ted Rees
45. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee An Indian History Of The American West- Dee Brown
46. Big Bell
47. Mimeo Mimeo #7 The Lewis Warsh Issue
48. Rue Wilson Monday- Anselm Hollo
49. Other Words 3rd San Francisco International Poetry Festival- September 25-28, 2003
50. Pleasant Peasant #1- Jesse Easley
51. Mister Wonderful- Daniel Clowes
52. The Emerald Tablet- ed. Derek Fenner

Jan 9, 2014

New Year's Eve 2014






Jan 8, 2014

Now There Are Always Snows
Gennady Aygi

like snow the Lord that is
and is what is the snows
when the soul is what is

the snows the soul the light
and all is only this
that those like death that is
that like them too it is

confess that it is so
among light darkness is
when once again the snows
Oh-God-Again-The-Snows
how can it be it is

and is not to be checked
as corpses are and not

oh Deathmask-Land that is
no question that it is
then when the People verb
which signifies is not

and that such being is
what is this doing here
the Face is such a Mask
it seems there only is
the land Darkness-and-Face

the Epoch-such-a-corpse
and one there is that is
when straightaway they are not
-oh God again the snows!-
they are not one thing is
only the Deathness-Land

it is as is and not
and only by this is
but is what only is

miracle sudden swirl
there is no Deadness-Land
oh God again the snows
the soul the snows the light

Oh God again the snows

but be there are none
the snows my friend the snows
the soul the light the snow

oh God again the snows

and snow that is there is

Jan 7, 2014