The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

AARON KUNIN & FRANKLIN BRUNO

Saturday, August 16 2008 at 5:00pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau

3702 San Fernando Blvd

Glendale, CA 91206

Let's celebrate. Aaron Kunin's new novel The Mandarin is out.

Doors open at 4:30pm

Reading starts at 5:00pm

$5 donation requested

Aaron Kunin is a poet, critic, and novelist. He is the author of a collection of small poems about shame, Folding Ruler Star (Fence Books, 2005); a chapbook, Secret Architecture (Braincase, 2006); and a novel, The Mandarin (Fence, 2008). He is assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College and lives in Los Angeles.

Franklin Bruno is the author of a book of criticism (Armed Forces) and a chapbook of poems (MF/MA). His poems have appeared in The Hat, Faucheuse, Vanitas, and the anthology Intersections: Innovative Poetry from Southern California (Green Integer). He has taught philosophy at UCLA, Pomona College, Northwestern University, and Bard College. A native Southern California, he keeps leaving Los Angeles, and keeps coming back.