Marriage Equality
MAMMA a group of middle-aged mothers who want our every son and daughter to grow up and be able to marry a nice girl or boy — or boy or girl. Yes, we’re talking same-sex marriage — marriage equality — so gird your loins and join us. You don’t have to be a MAMMA to be part of our family.
Joining us means talking about same-sex marriage with people who don’t support it. If that’s a scary thought, not to worry, Sweetie. MAMMA’s here. We have some nice content to help you start conversations with opponents of marriage equality — even those who haven’t yet learned to play well with others.
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MAMMA loves to entertain as much as we love books, so you all are invited to party with MAMMA —
Fallbrook’s Writers Read Presents
Performance Poet Nicholas Karavatos
Thursday 09 September
Café des Artistes
103 S. Main Street, Fallbrook, CA
5:30 Doors open, supper menu available
6:00 to 6:45 Nicholas Karavatos reading and Q&A
6:45 to 7:30 Open mic – share your original poetry or prose or relax and listen to others
Performance poet Nicholas Karavatos, a graduate of Humboldt State University, now lives in Dubai and teaches literature and creative writing at American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. His collection of poetry, No Asylum, was published in December by Amendment Nine. Click here to listen to Nick’s book launch performance.
Beat poet David Meltzer wrote of No Asylum, “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.”
Karavatos’ poetry has been published in many books and journals, including After the Fallen, Big Bridge: The War Papers, Blackbox – A Record of the Crash, Certain Stones, Cherry Bleeds, Country Activist, debt, Earth First! Radical Environmental Journal, EcoNews, Edge City Magazine, Hamilton Stone Review, Juke Jar, Log, Minotaur, Mirage Periodical, Numinous, Paisley Moon, PoetsWest Online, Portland Review, Prophetic Voices, Prosodia, Punk Rock Saved My Life, Red Fez, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Steelhead Special, Thieves Jargon, Tight, Travelling Poet, Todd Point Review, Toyon, Unlikely Stories, West Wind Review, What the Hell and With+Stand.
Rapunzel Akbar
Long hair hip hop Kabul reports
Jail for lewdly selling ice cream to girls
Homeland Security is a comic book serial
Not yet a graphic novel based on a screenplay
The top of the hour is the bottom of the barrel on this Fourth of July
The news is on repeat and I feel like a fool
Minimum wages are rising across
Car bombs are multiplying across
Gas lines in the Levant
She mouthlessly pleads for fuel
The whole planet watches Jerry Springer and Maury Povich
On satellite TV and sympathizes with the Taliban
“Holiday in Cambodia” is or is not a gap-fill
Sing-along around the barrel-fire folk song
— Nicholas Karavatos
For more information, contact Kit-Bacon at kb@kbgressitt.com or 760-522-1064.
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