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Step and Repeat: Rod Smith & Will Alexander

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Back again for another weekend of performance. Here are the poets the PRB and curators Emma Reeves and Bennett Simpson have lined up:

Rod Smith
& Will Alexander

Saturday, September 27
6pm-11pm

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Poetry will start at 6pm.

Other performers include:

Barbara T. Smith
Yung Jake
Power Violence
Le1f with Isla Jones Cheadle and REACH LA

plus
Fade to Mind presents
Kingdom
Nguzunguzu
and Prince Will

Tan Lin, Kate Durbin & Jibade-Khalil Huffman

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Our final week of Step and Repeat.

Tan Lin
Kate Durbin
& Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Saturday, October 4
6pm-11pm

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Poetry will start at 6pm.

Other performers include:

Tim Hecker
Geneva Jacuzzi
Heather Lawless
Neil Hamburger
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Brendan Fowler 
Dub Club

Open Press: 4 Press Events, This Weekend, Oct 11-12

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Saturday, Oct 11 4-7pm
The Song Cave @ the PRB

Readings by Todd Colby, Graham Foust & Jane Gregory

Doors open @ 4pm
Readings @ 4:30pm

951 Chung King Rd
LA, CA (Chinatown)

Timeless, Infinite Light: Emji Spero, Zoe Tuck, Joel Gregory & Olive Blackburn

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The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

TIMELESS, INFINITE LIGHT
with
EMJI SPERO 
ZOE TUCK
JOEL GREGORY
& OLIVE BLACKBURN

Timeless, Infinite Light is an Oakland small press focused on contemporary poetry and critical theory, with a heavy, West Coast lean towards the experimental / political / mystical. They are a member of the Omni Collective.

http://timelessinfinitelight.com/

Saturday, November 1, 2014
7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau 
951 Chung King Rd
Chinatown, Los Angeles

Emji Spero is an Oakland-based artist exploring the intersections of writing, installation, and performance. Their writing has been featured in Tripwire, Dusie, Jupiter88, Jacket2, Tract/Trace, Wheelhouse Magazine,The Vulgate, and Not Enough Data. Spero's new book, almost any shit will do, uses found language, word-replacement and erasure to strange the familiar and map the boundaries of collective engagement.

Joel Gregory is a dropout of the New School MFA program and a co-founder of Timeless, Infinite Light. He is a poet and visual artist living in Oakland, California. 

Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, where she cut her teeth on poetry. Since relocating to the Bay Area, she has been an active in the local literary community, working at Small Press Distribution and co-curating Condensery Reading Series. She facilitates workshops on gender, poetics, trans-mythography, and queer sci-fi. Her recent work can be found in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and in journals such as textsound and Dusie. She is a poetry reader for HOLD: a journal.

Olive Blackburn is a dancer, writer, and communist from Northern California. She is a doctoral candidate at UCLA in dance history. She lives between Oakland and Los Angeles.



Friday Nov 7, 7:30pm: Laura Moriarty & Andrew Zawacki

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LAURA MORIARTY's recent books are The Fugitive Notebook (a chapbook just out from Couch Press), Who That Divines (Nightboat Books, 2014), A Tonalist (Nightboat Books, 2010), A Semblance: Selected and New Poems, 1975-2007 (Omnidawn, 2007) and the novel Ultravioleta(Atelos, 2006). She has taught at Naropa University and Mills College and is now the Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution. She is also part of the  Bay Area Public School collective at the Omni Commons in Oakland where she and Zoe Tuck have just finished teaching a class in Vampire Poetics.





ANDREW ZAWACKI is the author of the poetry books Videotape (Counterpath, 2013), Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House, 2009), Anabranch (Wesleyan, 2004), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia, 2002). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, and elsewhere, and he has published three books in France: Georgia and Carnet Bartleby, both translated by Sika Fakambi, and Par Raison de brisants, translated by Antoine Cazé and a finalist for the Prix Nelly Sachs. Zawacki’s translation of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo (Burning Deck, 2012), received a French Voices Grant, while his translation of Smirou’s See About, forthcoming from La Presse, earned an NEA Translation Fellowship. A former fellow of the Slovenian Writers’ Association, Zawacki edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine, 1999) and edited and co-translated Aleš Debeljak’s Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems (Persea, 2011). He is coeditor of Verse, The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse, 2005), and Gustaf Sobin’s Collected Poems (Talisman House, 2010). He directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia.

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Doors open @ 7:00pm, Readings @ 7:30pm
Friday, November 7 – Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Road, Chinatown, Los Angeles

Jennifer Tamayo, Mark Johnson & Gregory Betts

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The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

JENNIFER TAMAYO
MARK JOHNSON
& GREGORY BETTS

Saturday, November 22, 2014

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We are starting earlier than usual so we can also attend the Insert Blanc Press Fall Book launch at Commonwealth & Council, where the world premiere screening of Joseph Mosconi's Fright Catalog (The Movie) will take place.

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd
Chinatown, Los Angeles

Jennifer BAAAARRRRFFFF Tamayo
is a Colombian-born transnational artist and activist based in New York City. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University. JT is the author of the collection of poems and art work, Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes (Switchback, 2011) and the limited edition chapbook POEMS ARE THE ONLY REAL BODIES (Bloof Books, 2013). Her second full collection, YOU DA ONE, was published in the fall of 2014 (Coconut Books). Since 2010, JT has served as the Managing Editor for Futurepoem an independent NYC press publishing contemporary poetry and prose. She lives in Harlem.

Mark Johnson is the author of Dream of a Like Place (SUS Press: 2013), rFul (Hiding Press: 2013), Gruon BS (Make Now: 2014), and After Such Knowledge Park (Make Now: 2014). Three of his mix projects can be found on Gauss PDF: Orange Mound (2013), Pink Lotion (2013) and Then AIr (2014). He runs Hiding Place, a book / record shop in Philadelphia.

Gregory Betts is still recovering from Avant Canada, a concerted effort by a generation of Canadian writers to salvage the avant-garde from our capitalist milieu.

Divya Victor & Brad Flis

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The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

DIVYA VICTOR
& BRAD FLIS

Saturday, December 13, 2014
7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau 
951 Chung King Rd
Chinatown, Los Angeles

Divya Victor is the author of Natural Subjects (Trembling Pillow, 2015), UNSUB (Insert/Blanc, 2015), Things To Do With Your Mouth (Les Figues, 2014), Swift Taxidermies1919-1922 (GaussPDF, 2014), Goodbye John! On John Baldessari (GaussPDF, 2012), PUNCH (GaussPDF, 2011) and Partial Derivative of the Unnameable (Troll Thread, 2012); and the chapbooks Hellocasts by Vanessa Place (2011) and SUTURES (2009). She lives in the United States and Singapore.

Brad Flis is a Torontonian who has recently moved to San Diego from Detroit. He first met Divya Victor in Buffalo though he was reading her poetry in Northampton when she lived in Philadelphia. He teaches at a community college in Chula Vista and busses to Ensenada twice a month. He has written books with Patrick Lovelace Editions and 1913 Press. He's glad to be here.

January 10, 7:30pm: Felix Bernstein & Cecilia Corrigan

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Felix Bernstein debuted on YouTube with his real and satirical Coming Out Video in 2008 and went on to play characters from Amy Winehouse to Lamb Chop to Leopold Brant. His critical and uncritical writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Htmlgiant, GaussPDF, Boston Review, The Believer, Hyperallergic, and Bomb. His first book Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry is forthcoming from Insert Blanc Press. With Gabe Hoot Rubin, he made the films Unchained Melody and Boyland. Together they directed and starred in Red Krayola’s opera Victorine at the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and lead the band Tender Cousins. He’s always on the nose at www.felixbenstein.com.

Cecilia Corrigan is a writer and performer based in New York. Her debut book, Titanic (Northwestern University Press, 2014) was awarded the Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize. Titanic was on Flavorwire’s Top Ten Academic Press books and Flavorwire’s Top Ten Poetry books of 2014. She has previously worked on HBO's Luck for show-runner David Milch, and recently finished her first feature screenplay. She also writes fiction and performs stand up comedy.


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Saturday, January 10, 2015
Doors at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012

January 17, 7:30pm: James Sherry, Brian Kim Stefans & Diane Ward

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James Sherry is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose most recently Oops! Environmental Poetics, essays on a new model of environmental culture. His next collection of poetry, Entangled Bank, is forthcoming from Chax Press. He is the publisher of Roof Books and founder of the Segue Foundation in New York City.

Diane Ward's recent published work includes the visual poem "InHouse" in Confluence, edited by Lee Ann Brown, 2012 and "love pivots" in Love Poems, 2014, with Italian translation by Milli Graffi. Roof Books published several collections of her writing beginning in the 1980s. She is currently working on her PhD in Geography at UCLA, focusing on urbanization and conceptions of the human-nature relationship.

Brian Kim Stefans' books include Viva Miscegenation: New Writing (MakeNow, 2013), Kluge: A Meditation and other works (Roof, 2007), What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Heretical Texts, 2006), Angry Penguins (Harry Tankoos, 2000), Gulf (Object Editions, 1998) and Free Space Comix (Roof, 1998), Before Starting Over: Selected Interviews and Essays 1994-2005 (Salt Publishing, 2006) and Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics (Atelos, 2003). His animated poem "The Dreamlife of Letters" among other works can be viewed at his website arras.net. Recent critical writing include “Conceptual Writing: The L.A. Brand” published by Area Sneaks Sheets, and the series “Third Hand Plays” for the website of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art concerning electronic literature. He is a professor of English at UCLA.


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JAMES SHERRY
BRIAN KIM STEFANS
& DIANE WARD

Saturday, January 17, 2015
Doors open at 7pm, Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012

January 24, 7:30pm: Rodney Koeneke & Anthony McCann

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Saturday, January 24, 2015
Doors at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm
Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012
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Rodney Koeneke’s Etruria is just out from Wave Books. Earlier books include Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006) and Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003). A new chapbook, Seven for Boetticher & Other Poems, will appear any second now from Oakland's Hooke Press. Recent work can be found in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Granta, Gulf Coast, The Nation, and at Harriet, where he was August’s Featured Writer.  He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches British and World History at Portland State.

Anthony McCann is the author of the poetry collections Thing MusicI Heart Your FateMoongarden and Father of Noise. In addition to these books he is one of the authors (along with Matthew Rohrer and Joshua Beckman) of Gentle Reader!,  a collection of erasures of the English Romantics.  Originally from upstate New York he lives in Los Angeles where he irregularly acts as Poet Laureate of Machine Project, a Los Angeles art and performance space. With Machine he has co-curated poetry events in major art museums, private living rooms, secret public closets, the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean (in a boat). Anthony is a member of the faculty at the University of California at Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program. He also teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. 

The Animal Relation: Molly Bendall, Rachel Mayeri & Laurence Rickels, Sunday Feb 15, 2pm

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Variations on a theme: some talk, some verse, some video. Focus on the human-animal relation. New time, same place: Poetic Research Bureau, Sunday February 15, 2pm.



Molly Bendall is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Under the Quick (Parlor Press, 2009). Her new collection Watchful is forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2016. She has also co-authored with the poet Gail Wronsky, Bling & Fringe (What Books), and has done several collaborative projects with L.A. artist John O’Brien. She teaches at the University of Southern California.

Rachel Mayeri is a Los Angeles-based artist working at the intersection of science and art. Her videos, installations, and writing projects explore topics ranging from the history of special effects to the human animal. For the past several years, she has been working on a series of experimental videos exploring the primate continuum entitled Primate Cinema.
Laurence A. Rickels, in 2011, after thirty years teaching at the University of California, accepted the professorship in art and theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe as successor to Klaus Theweleit. He is also the Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Among Rickels’s many books there are cult classics like The Case of California (1991), The Vampire Lectures (1999), Nazi Psychoanalysis (2002), and The Devil Notebooks (2008). A review of SPECTRE, his 2013 study of James Bond: “The provocations of Rickels’s genius combustion engine – Kulturindustrie, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, German idealism, and Shakespeare – lures us into introjection from the mindless mass media projection Sensurround riding Bond’s technological wave” (The Huffington Post). In the course of his investigations into the condition he termed, already in his first book Aberrations of Mourning (1988), “unmourning,” Rickels has also explored the animal relation, notably in sections of his books Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography of Art Cinema (2008), I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick (2010), and his brand new endopsychic genealogy of the Cold War era: Germany. A Science Fiction. For more information please visit his personal website: www.larickels.com

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Sunday, February 15, 2015
Doors open at 1:45pm, Event at 2pm
Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA 90012


Sat, Feb 21, 7:30pm: Ackerman, Detorie & Sakkis

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AMANDA ACKERMAN is the author of the chapbooks The Seasons Cemented (Hex Presse), I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck (Insert Press Parrot #8), and Short Stones (Dancing Girl Press). She has co-authored Sin is to Celebration (House Press), the Gauss PDF UNFO Burns a Million Dollars, and the forthcoming novel Man’s Wars And Wickedness (Bon Aire Projects). She is co-publisher and co-editor of the press eohippus labs. She also writes collaboratively as part of the projects SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and UNFO. Her book The Book of Feral Flora is forthcoming from Les Figues press.
 
MICHELLE DETORIE is the author of numerous chapbooks including Fur Birds (Insert Press), How Hate Got Hand (eohippus labs), and Bellum Letters (Dusie). She also makes visual poems, poetry objects, time-based poetry, and curates the public art project, The Poetry Booth. Her first full-length collection, After-Cave, is just out with Ahsahta Press. She recently completed The Sin in Wilderness, a book-length erasure about love, animals, and affective geography. Her current project is a series of swamp poems narrated by dragons and bitchy ghosts.

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 Dusie Press, 2015); 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.


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Saturday, February 21, 2015
Doors 7pm
Reading 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012

Sat, Feb 28th, 7:30pm: Claudia Keelan, Bridgette Bates & Martha Ronk

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Bridgette Batesdebut collection, What Is Not Missing Is Light, is the winner of Rescue Press’ Black Box Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Fence, jubilat, PEN Poetry Series, VERSE, and elsewhere.  Originally from Nashville, she lives in Los Angeles where she writes for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and is a features contributor to Kirkus Reviews

Claudia Keelanis the author of six books poetry, most recently the verse drama O, Heart (Barrow Street 2014). A book of translations Truth of My Songs: The Poems of the Trobairitz is forthcoming from Omnidawn this spring.  Her honors includethe Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books (Utopic, 2001) and The Jerome Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review.  She is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Programs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she edits the journal Interim.

Martha Ronkis the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Transfer of Qualities (2013), a National Book Award long-list selection; Partially Kept (2012); Vertigo (2007), chosen by C.D. Wright for the National Poetry Series; and In a landscape of having to repeat (2004), winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award. Her prose includes Glass Grapes: And Other Stories (2008), and Displeasures of the Table: memoir as caricature (2001).

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Saturday, February 21, 2015
Doors 7pm
Reading 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012

Amiri Baraka's The New-Ark

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Join Harmony Holiday & Paul Vangelisti at the Poetic Research Bureau for a screening of Amiri Baraka's recently rediscovered documentary "The New Ark". 
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Sunday, February 22
6pm
The Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012

March 14: Allison Carter + Sandra & Ben Doller

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Allison Carter is the author of A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues Press) and Here Versus Elsewhere (Insert Blanc Press) as well as several shorter collections, including Sum Total (Eohippus Labs), All Bodies Are The Same and Have The Same Reactions (Blanc Press), Shadows Are Weather (Horse Less Press), and We All Are Afraid of Repeating Mistakes That I Have Already Made: Breakfast Poems (Dancing Girl Press). Her work has also been included in Fence, Diagram, Conjunctions, and other journals. Allison works as a mental health professional, and brings creative writing workshops and opportunities into mental health settings, including Skid Row and inpatient psychiatric facilities. Allison lives in LA with her fiance and her medium sized dog, Little Cowboy.

Sandra Doller has published four books, two chapbooks, and two collaborations. Her most recent work includes Leave Your Body Behind, forthcoming from Les Figues in May 2015; The Yesterday Project with Ben Doller, forthcoming from Sidebrow in September 2015; and bits of improvised text and performance coming at you all the time. Her other kind of writing focuses on text-image-performance, anti-disciplinarity, and conversations between art forms. Doller completed her MA at University of Chicago and her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she is currently an Associate Professor at California State University-San Marcos. The founder & editrice of 1913 Press & 1913 a journal of forms, Doller lives in San Diego and Joshua Tree with man and dogs.

Ben Doller is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Fauxhawk, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in 2015. His previous books include Radio, Radio (selected by Susan Howe as winner of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award), FAQ:, and Dead Ahead. A collaborative book of visual anti-sonnets with Sandra Doller, titled Sonneteers, was published on Éditions Eclipse, and their new collaborative prose book, The Yesterday Project is forthcoming from Sidebrow. Doller is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program at University of California-San Diego.


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Saturday, March 14 2015
Doors open 7pm, Reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012

Wednesday, March 18: Nikki Darling & Jibade-Khalil Huffman

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Nikki Darling is a student in the Creative Writing/Literature PhD program at USC. Her poetry, performance, and experimental essays are based around subjectivity, persona, and post-structuralist methods of deconstructing literary form and meaning. She is a columnist at KCET Artbound and is currently finishing her first novel, Fade Into You, a story of mixed-race identity in the San Gabriel Valley during the 1990s. Her criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Art Book Review, Tomorrow Magazine, and Public Books, among others. Her essay “Appropriate For Destruction” was included in Best Music Writing 2010.


Jibade-Khalil Huffman is an artist and the author of three books of poems: 19 Names For Our Band (2008), James Brown is Dead (2011), and Sleeper Hold (2015). His art and writing projects, which span performance, photography, poetry, and video, have been presented at galleries and museums, including MoMA/PS1, Marianne Boesky and the Hammer Museum as part of Made in LA 2014.

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Wednesday, March 18 2015, 8pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA


Thurs + Fri late night events: &Now Offsite Group Readings!

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Join us Thursday and Friday nights for a ton of visitors from all-over-the-damn-place. They're all in SoCal for the &Now conference at CalArts, and we're bringing them down from the desert into the center of the blast radius, Downtown LA, to read for you townies. 

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Thursday, March 26
8:30pm until late


Carlos Soto Román
Andrew Fitch
Amaranth Borsuk
Laynie Browne
Dan Beachy-Quick
Katy Bohinc
& Carla Harryman


Friday, March 27 2015
9:00pm until late

Lucas de Lima
Kate Durbin
Lara Glenum
Douglas Kearney
Aaron Kunin
Johannes Göransson
& Ronaldo Wilson

 

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012


Our Thursday night visitors:

Carlos Soto-Román is a poet and translator. A former resident of Philadelphia, PA he now hails from Santiago, Chile. He has published in Chile: La Marcha de los Quiltros (1999), Haikú Minero (2007), Cambio y Fuera (2009), and in the US: Philadelphia’s Notebooks (Otoliths, 2011), Chile Project: [Re-classified] (Gauss-PDF, 2013), Alternative Set of Procedures (Corollary Press, 2014) and The Exit Strategy (Belladonna, 2014). As a translator he published an expanded Spanish edition of Do or DIY (Das Kapital, 2013), a collective essay written by Craig Dworkin, Simon Morris, and Nick Thurston, and recently, a translation of Ron Silliman’s BART (Cuadro de Tiza, 2004). He is the curator of the cooperative anthology of contemporary US poetry Elective Affinities.

Andy Fitch’s most recent books are Sixty Morning Walks, Sixty Morning Talks and (with Amaranth Borsuk) As We Know. Ugly Duckling soon will release his ebook Sixty Morning Walks. With Cristiana Baik, he is currently assembling the Letter Machine Book of Interviews. He has dialogic books forthcoming from 1913 Press and Nightboat Books. He edits Essay Press and teaches in the University of Wyoming’s MFA program.

Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012), and, with Brad Bouse, Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012). Abra, a collaboration with Kate Durbin forthcoming from 1913 Press, recently received an NEA-sponsored Expanded Artists’ Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago and will be issued as an artist’s book with an iPad app created by Ian Hatcher. Her collaborative digital projects include an erasure bookmarklet, The Deletionist, with Nick Montfort and Jesper Juul, and Whispering Galleries, a site-specific LeapMotion erasure work for the city of New Haven. Another collection of poems is forthcoming from Kore Press. Amaranth is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she also teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics.

Laynie Browne is the author of eleven collections of poetry and two novels. Her most recent collection of poems Scorpyn Odes, is just out from Kore Press. Other recent books include Lost Parkour Ps(alms) in two editions, one in English, and another in French, from Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havré (2014). She is a 2014 Pew Fellow. Forthcoming books include P R A C T I C E (SplitLevel Texts). She teaches at University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.

Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist and occasional novelist. His most recent book is A Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work. A new collection of poetry, gentlessness, and a chapbook, Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs will appear this spring. He's a Monfort Professor at Colorado State University, where he teaches in the MFA Writing Program.

Katy Bohinc is the author of Dear Alain, love letters of a poet to a philosopher, addressed to Alain Badiou. As irreducible a work as any poet would antagonize a philosopher with, yet also a metaphor for Badiou's thought, who responds himself in the afternote. Bohinc demonstrates how Love, Politics, Math and Poetry are conditions on Philosophy, sexual metaphors intended, and poetry is everything. Slavoj Zizek writes: "This book should be banished!" She lives in New York City, is the director of Tender Buttons Press and recently edited Please Add To This List: A Guide to Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets & Experiments. Work has appeared in Poor Claudia, The Capilano Review, Elderly, Armed Cell & others. She is working on a new book: THE COMMUNITY.

Carla Harryman is he author of seventeen books of poetry, prose, and works for performance including W— /M—(2013), Adorno’s Noise (2008), Gardener of Stars (2001), and Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays, Essays (1989). Her collaborative works include the multi-authored work The Grand Piano, an Experiment in Autobiography: San Francisco, 1975-1980 and The Wide Road (with Lyn Hejinian). Open Box (with Jon Raskin), a CD of music and text performances was released on the Tzadik label in 2012. Her Poets Theater, interdisciplinary, and bi-lingual performances have been presented nationally and internationally. She is the editor of two critical volumes: Non/Narrative, a special issue of the Journal of Narrative Theory, and Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker (with Avital Ronell and Amy Shoulder). She serves on the faculty of the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University and on the summer faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.


THESE SCENES OF UNBECOMING: a conversation with John Paul Ricco, Nasrin Himada & Etienne Turpin

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To celebrate the launch of their recent respective publications, please join John Paul Ricco, Nasrin Himada, and Etienne Turpin on Tuesday at 7pm for a conversation on the ethics and politics of unbecoming. Within this theoretical framework, and in relation to various scenes, topics will include: violence, sex, intimacy, brutality, sharing, extinction, pleasure, animality, loss, mourning, confinement, and bodies. 



John Paul Ricco is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, Media Theory, and Culture in the Department of Visual Studies in the Centre for Comparative Literature, at the University of Toronto, Canada. Ricco's most recent book, The Decision Between Us, combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation."http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo17577653.html

Nasrin Himada holds a post-doctoral research fellowship in Communications at the Université de Montréal and is a visiting scholar in the Aesthetics and Politics program at CalArts. http://scapegoatjournal.org/

Etienne Turpin is a philosopher living and working in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he is the director of anexact office. http://anexact.org/


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Tuesday, March 31 7pm
Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, April 4: Corina Copp, Lanny Jordan Jackson & Andrew Maxwell

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CORINA COPP is a writer and theater artist based in New York. Her first full-length book of poems, The Green Ray, has just been published by Ugly Duckling Presse. Recent work can be found in Cabinet, BOMB, Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism (Triple Canopy), SFMOMA’s Open Space, and elsewhere. Excerpts of her three-part play, The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love, have have been presented in a group show, Un, Deux, Trois, at Home Alone 2 Gallery (09/14, performed with Lanny Jordan Jackson); at the NYC Prelude Festival, Dixon Place, and through the support of the LMCC Workspace program. Copp is a curator at the Segue Foundation.

LANNY JORDAN JACKSON is a filmmaker, writer, artist, and performer living in New York. He is the author of the chapbooks VILLI (2010), Dear Swimmer (2011), the films Vivian (2013), Triple Shark Cerberus (2013), Scorpio vs. Glass Door Restaurant (2014), and variety of performance pieces.

ANDREW MAXWELL's recent collections of aphorism and poetry include Peeping Mot (Apogee, 2013) and Candor is the brightest shield (Ugly Duckling, 2014). An artist's book with illustrator Nathan Gelgud, Beggars of Life, is forthcoming later this year. He lives in Los Angeles, where he co-directs the Poetic Research Bureau reading series and DJs a weekly radio show of outernational obscurites, The Dream of Harry Lime.


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Saturday, April 4 2015
Doors open 7, reading: 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Saturday, April 11: Gelare Khoshgozaran, Susan Schultz & Daniela Seel

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Gelare Khoshgozaran is an artist, a writer and translator, and a video-editor working from a cubicle somewhere in Burbank where she is writing this short bio in third person. She has contributed to multiple Persian and English publications including Parkett, The Enemy, TripWire, Jadaliyya, Ajam Media Collective, Mardomak and ZanNegaar Journal of Women Studies. Gelare lives, works and fears dying in Los Angeles; the last time she crossed an international border was in August 2009.

Susan Schultz's books include Aleatory Allegories (Salt), And Then Something Happened (Salt), Memory Cards & Adoption Papers (Potes & Poets), Dementia Blog (Singing Horse), Memory Cards: 2010-2011 Series (Singing Horse), A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and edited collections on John Ashbery (Alabama) and on multiformalisms (Textos), the latter with Annie Finch. Tinfish Press recently published Jack London is Dead: Euro-American Poetry of Hawai`i (and some stories), which she edited (2013). He newest book is volume two of Dementia Blog, "She's Welcome to Her Disease" (Singing Horse Press, 2013). Tinfish Press can be found at tinfishpress.com

Daniela Seel
, born 1974 in Frankfurt/Main, is a poet, publisher, translator, editor, host, and mentor. In 2000 she was co-founder of KOOKread, the literary branch of the artists' network KOOK ‒ together with fellow authors Jan Böttcher, Alexander Gumz, Karla Reimert, and Uljana Wolf. Emerging from KOOK, and supported by book artist and illustrator Andreas Töpfer as Art Director, in 2003 she founded kookbooks– Lab for Poetry as Life Form. Her first collection of poems ich kann diese stelle nicht wiederfinden / i cannot find this place again was published by kookbooks in 2011. Her poems have been translated into Polish, English, Slovak, French, Norwegian, Italian, Dutch, Serbian, and Croatian. She has collaborated with musicians, dancers, visual artists, and fellow poets. In her current project was weißt du schon von prärie / what do you know about prairie, actually she tries to further explore the relations between voice, space, textures, and movement, how they evolve from one another and change over time, thus perhaps creating a "four-dimensional poetry room". She lives in Berlin.

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