NICHOLAS SYRIANUS KATSAFANAS
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AMERICAN EPIC POEMS: Official PDFs
(Distended Poems w/ Structural Allusion to Big Pun)
S+P (Σύννεφο και Πρίαπος) [2025] (forthcoming) — Excerpts: 1 | 2 | 3
Cloud and Priapus, both virtually depicted with shifting images depicted across eras—from Playstation 1 to Playstation 5, from Ancient Athens to Imperial Rome—one holding a Buster Sword that's, of course, vaguely phallic, and the other holding a large phallus that's, of course, often used as a deadly weapon, both tortured via an ambiguous demigod-adjacent genetic lineage (Jenova and Aphrodite?)—S+P investigates, both directly and via specific character digressions, these two confounding mirror images over the course of its 17 modal cantos.
Mode: >.667
MECHANISM AND DIALOGUE (2nd Ed.) [2025]
A poem consisting solely of spoken dialogue by Ingo S, an adroit remote viewer, and the entities (a school bus sized orb, floor fan, and a tic tac shaped "UAP") he encounters during his various out of body sojourns.
Mode: 8th Interval (34-55)
METROPOLIS + ISOSCELES (3rd Ed.) [2021, 2023] PAPERBACK
Adam Metropolis and Larry Isosceles, two moderately opinionated men, share their thoughts on the true nature of the number 1.99999 repeating and various theories of the so-called Western world.
Mode: >.667
$14.28 IS MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN $14.00 (2nd Ed.) [2023]
Epic ice hookah with screamo as the default classical American music in a tribute to John Hawkes and/or Symeon the New Theologian.
Mode: >.667
Essay: "SELF-SIMILARITY IN THE EXTENDED LINE"
If you mandate symmetry you restrict difference: deriving a new American meter via analysis of Big Pun's line, "Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know we riddled some middlemen who didn't do diddily."
UPDATES
—09.16.2025: "Koreatown Bok Choy" (50% of S+P: Σύννεφα και Πρίαπος) will be serialized in 5 weekly Wednesday installments on Default Tumblr Theme beginning on Wednesday, September 17, 2025 through Wednesday, October 15, 2025.
LINKS
THE UNOFFICIAL NICK KATSAFANAS BILINGUAL ART RAP ARCHIVE
The Poem/Rap Dyad is a false problem.
FEELINGS COME FROM GAIN OF FUNCTION LABS [2024]
Lyric Poems.
ALIBABA DILDO ARBITRAGE [2017]
Lyric Poems.
BLUE VELVET REVIEW
Micro-Press.
DEFAULT TUMBLR THEME
Substack.
LINKED-IN
Let's Connect!
JAZZ SINGING ABOUT SUICIDE [2025]
Buzuki Indie.
THE SHAPE OF GREEK JAZZ TO COME [2022]
Diamanda Syrianus.
