heya, new review of The Islands up today over at NewPages

available to order here

thanks Dunagan!

xxoo

AWP OFFSITE Reading April 9th in Minneapolis

I'll be in Minneapolis next week, I'm reading at  

TV Party! AWP Offsite Public Access Event with Brooklyn Arts Press, Hanging Loose, Nightboat Books, Penguin Poets, Ping Pong and Swerve!

DOORS at 6:00, READING at 7:00
This entire event will be filmed for future airing on MTN!

MTN Studios are NEWLY in the Thorp Building at 1620 Central Avenue NE. Do not believe any map that tells you otherwise! www.mtn.org

EASY BUS RIDE: take a northbound #10 bus from 2nd Avenue South at the Convention Center to Central Avenue NE & 18th.

Featuring brief readings by:

7:00
Daniel Borzutzky
Fred Schmalz reading Jenny Browne
John F. Buckley
Melissa Buzzeo
Jackie Clark

7:30
Julia Cohen
Thomas Devaney
Joanna Fuhrman
Eugene Gloria
Caroline Hagood

8:00
Nathan Hoks
Paulo Javier
Vincent Katz
Gabriella Klein
Susan Lewis
Shelley Marlow

8:30
Dawn Lundy Martin 
Ted Mathys
Rose McLarney
Pablo Medina
Sharon Mesmer
Joe Pan

9:00
Joanna Penn Cooper 
Martin Rock
Broc Rossell
Lauren Russell 
John Sakkis

9:30
Erika Jo Brown 
William Stobb
Orlando White
Robert Wrigley
Keith Taylor

heading back to SoCal tomorrow for &Now: Blast Radius, I'll be reading with Nightboat this Thursday at 4PM, see you in the heat.

xoxo

East Bay book release reading

I'm reading at La Commune next Saturday, March 14th for Steve Orth's Hybrid Moments series, really excited to be reading with Jane Gregory, 2PM start time, would be great to see you, whoever you are. 

"Hello and get ready cause Hybrid Moments is back with a vengeance. Please join us at La Commune Cafe and Bookstore inside of the Omni Oakland Commons on March 14th as John Sakkis and Jane Gregory kill you with poetry. This reading (I think) is the EAST BAY book release of John's newest book THE ISLANDS out now from Nightboat Books. If you miss this reading you need to remove your head from your bottom. Remember Hybrid Moments always starts at 2pm!!!

JANE GREGORY is from Tucson & lives in Berkeley. Her first book, My Enemies, was published by the Song Cave. New work is or will soon be in Critical Quarterly, Elderly & The American Reader.

JOHN SAKKIS is the author of The Islands (Nightboat Books, 2015) and Rude Girl (BlazeVOX Books 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks and ephemera. Since 2005 he has edited BOTH BOTH, a little magazine of poetry and art. With Angelos Sakkis he has translated four books by Athenian poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis: most recently Y'es and Diaeresis (forthcoming 2015 from Dusie Press);' their translation of Agrafiotis's Maribor (The Post-Apollo Press, 2011), was awarded the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. He lives in Oakland."

Dear friends and family,

My new book The Islands has just arrived from the printer, published by
dream publisher Nightboat Books, with an amazing cover (and backcover) by
Pablo Guardiola, I'm thrilled to be on the Nightboat roster and stoked to
announce that the book is available for order.

I started this book in Greece and finished it in Oakland, with stops along
the way in Boulder, CO, SF and Concord, CA.

Here's what Norma Cole has to say

"THE ISLANDS is melos, music in 5-part harmonic sequences, beginning with
the once-upon-a-time of 'one night, after the happily of dinner.' So it's
the sound of story in lyric concretion, rhythmic concision, the atmosphere
of film, the senses migrating from one section to another, punning 'knot
exactly.' This book is a nostos, a welcome home event, and will be your
favorite memory palace."—Norma Cole

You can order from the main distributor University Press New England (UPNE)
at
http://www.upne.com/1937658267.html

or direct from Nightboat Books at
http://www.nightboat.org/title/islands

or if you prefer, Small Press Distribution (SPD) is also carrying the book
at
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781937658267/the-islands.aspx?rf=1

As always, thank you so much for supporting my work, for supporting small
press poetry and presses, and for your love and generosity, see you sooner
than later I hope,
Yours truly,
John