Brian Kim Stefans, recent Los Angeles emigrant, is beginning an investigative archival project on endogenous/indigenous Angeleno poet-innovators, and posting some of his finds to his blog, Free Space Comix. The initial digs are well-worth your time.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Lindsey Boldt & John Sakkis
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
Lindsey Boldt & John Sakkis
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 4:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
Lindsey Boldt lives in San Francisco where she is a practicing poetess, cultural worker, vaudeville-style entertainer, elementary after-school teacher, human jukebox and assistant editor with The Post-Apollo Press. She is the author of the chapbook Oh My, Hell Yes and is currently working on two prose projects related to two very dated 80's movies.
John Sakkis's first full length book, Rude Girl, is just out from BlazeVox Books. He is the author of numerous chapbooks including most recently: Gary Gygax, The Moveable Ones and Rude Girl. With Angelos Sakkis he translates the work of Athenian multimedia artist/ poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis; their translation of Agrafiotis's Maribor is forthcoming from The Post-Apollo Press as well as Chinese Notebook forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. Recent work has appeared in Area Sneaks, Action, Yes and Octopus. He lives in the Lower Haight and works at Small Press Distribution in Berkeley.
Lindsey Boldt & John Sakkis
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 4:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
Lindsey Boldt lives in San Francisco where she is a practicing poetess, cultural worker, vaudeville-style entertainer, elementary after-school teacher, human jukebox and assistant editor with The Post-Apollo Press. She is the author of the chapbook Oh My, Hell Yes and is currently working on two prose projects related to two very dated 80's movies.
John Sakkis's first full length book, Rude Girl, is just out from BlazeVox Books. He is the author of numerous chapbooks including most recently: Gary Gygax, The Moveable Ones and Rude Girl. With Angelos Sakkis he translates the work of Athenian multimedia artist/ poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis; their translation of Agrafiotis's Maribor is forthcoming from The Post-Apollo Press as well as Chinese Notebook forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. Recent work has appeared in Area Sneaks, Action, Yes and Octopus. He lives in the Lower Haight and works at Small Press Distribution in Berkeley.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Mark Nowak
The Poetic Research Bureau presents....
Mark Nowak
Thursday, November 5, 2009 @ 8:00pm
Doors open at 8:00pm
Reading starts at 8:30pm
$5 donation requested
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Mark Nowak is a poet, social critic, labor activist, and author of, among others, Coal Mountain Elementary and Shut Up Shut Down, a New York Times "Editor's Choice." His work has also been included in Goth: Undead Subculture and American Poets in the 21st Century: the New Poetics. Nowak is "regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature," encouraging students to engage in all forms of poetry and expression, not just those found in mainstream literature and art. He is also the editor of the journal, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Kate Greenstreet & Aaron Kunin
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
Kate Greenstreet & Aaron Kunin
Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 4:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
Kate Greenstreet's second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press and includes a DVD containing two short films based on the two sections of the book. Ahsahta published Greenstreet's case sensitive in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recentlyThis is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008). Find her poems in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, VOLT, the Denver Quarterly, Fence, Court Green, and other journals. Visit her online at kickingwind.com.
Aaron Kunin is the author of a book of poems, Folding Ruler Star, and a novel, The Mandarin. Another collection, The Sore Throat and Other Poems, is forthcoming. He will be reading from a new chapbook, Cold Genius. He lives in Los Angeles.
Kate Greenstreet & Aaron Kunin
Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 4:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
Kate Greenstreet's second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press and includes a DVD containing two short films based on the two sections of the book. Ahsahta published Greenstreet's case sensitive in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recentlyThis is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008). Find her poems in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, VOLT, the Denver Quarterly, Fence, Court Green, and other journals. Visit her online at kickingwind.com.
Aaron Kunin is the author of a book of poems, Folding Ruler Star, and a novel, The Mandarin. Another collection, The Sore Throat and Other Poems, is forthcoming. He will be reading from a new chapbook, Cold Genius. He lives in Los Angeles.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Two Readings: C.J. Martin, Julia Drescher & Michelle Detorie and Martha Ronk & Andrew Maxwell
We have two readings at the PRB this week.
Thursday, October 15th at 8:00pm
C.J. Martin, Julia Drescher & Michelle Detorie
Doors open at 8:00pm
Reading starts at 8:30pm
This reading will be hosted by our special guest, Harold Abramowitz. C.J. and Julia are from the Lone Star State and edit Dos Press. Michelle is from Goleta and edits Hex Presse.
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Sunday, October 18 at 3:00pm
"Things & Ideas": Martha Ronk & Andrew Maxwell
Doors open at 3:00pm
Reading starts at 3:30pm
Martha Ronk and Andrew Maxwell play the old modernist saw and tip back that sweet Tennessean jar for a weekend reading on classic ontological themes. Hypostatizers unite as Martha reads from her new collection about things, and Andrew reads from a few new chapbooks about ideas. Ponge would be piqued!
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C.J. Martin lives in Lockhart, TX, where he co-edits Dos Press with Julia Drescher. He's also a contributing editor for Little Red Leaves (www.littleredleaves.com) & LRL e-editions. 3 chapbooks: _WIW?3: Hold me tight. Make me happy_ (Delete Press, 2009), _Lo, Bittern_ (Atticus/Finch, 2008) and _CITY_ (Vigilance Society, 2007). Work recent and forthcoming in Antennae, Broke (w/Julia Drescher), try! (w/Julia Drescher), Coconut, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, P-Queue, kadar koli, American Letters & Commentary, The Argotist Online, zafusy, the tiny, & Damn the Caesars.
Julia Drescher's poems may be found in Dusie, Broke, Try, The Colorado Review, P-Queue, goodfoot, & the tiny. A chapbook, Book of Hilda's Hunting, was recently published as part of the Dusie Kollectiv. She co-edits Dos Press (with C.J. Martin) & the online poetry journal Little Red Leaves.
Michelle Detorie lives in Goleta, CA where she edits WOMB and Hex Presse. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Daphnomancy, Bellum Letters, A Coincidence of Wants, and Ode to Industry, the picture-poem series Psychedelic Domestic and Die*o*rama, and the pamphlet How Hate got Hand. She is currently working on a series of synesthetically coded visual poems that investigate the question of women and animals and whether or not they are real.
Martha Ronk is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Vertigo, a National Poetry Series selection published by Coffee House 2008, and In a landscape of having to repeat, a PEN USA best poetry book winner 2005, Omnidawn Press. Her fiction, Glass Grapes and other stories was published by BOA Editions 2008. She is a 2007 NEA recipient and has had residencies at both Djerassi and MacDowell. She teaches both creative writing and Renaissance literature at Occidental College, Los Angeles.
Andrew Maxwell is co-director of the Poetic Research Bureau. He edited the occasional poetry journal The Germ, directed the Poetic Research reading series out of Dawson's Bookstore in central LA, and was a founding member of the online French-American translation collective Double Change. His aphorisms, poems, essays and translations have appeared in several American and French magazines including Jubilat, Fence, Triple Canopy, The Hat, Area Sneaks, Arsenal and Poésie.
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
$5 donation requested
ATTENTION!
THE PRB STOREFRONT HAS MOVED!
Same building, we've just moved our operations and bookshelves next door to the Luna Playhouse. Readings still take place in the same theater in which they've always taken place.
Thursday, October 15th at 8:00pm
C.J. Martin, Julia Drescher & Michelle Detorie
Doors open at 8:00pm
Reading starts at 8:30pm
This reading will be hosted by our special guest, Harold Abramowitz. C.J. and Julia are from the Lone Star State and edit Dos Press. Michelle is from Goleta and edits Hex Presse.
***
Sunday, October 18 at 3:00pm
"Things & Ideas": Martha Ronk & Andrew Maxwell
Doors open at 3:00pm
Reading starts at 3:30pm
Martha Ronk and Andrew Maxwell play the old modernist saw and tip back that sweet Tennessean jar for a weekend reading on classic ontological themes. Hypostatizers unite as Martha reads from her new collection about things, and Andrew reads from a few new chapbooks about ideas. Ponge would be piqued!
***
C.J. Martin lives in Lockhart, TX, where he co-edits Dos Press with Julia Drescher. He's also a contributing editor for Little Red Leaves (www.littleredleaves.com) & LRL e-editions. 3 chapbooks: _WIW?3: Hold me tight. Make me happy_ (Delete Press, 2009), _Lo, Bittern_ (Atticus/Finch, 2008) and _CITY_ (Vigilance Society, 2007). Work recent and forthcoming in Antennae, Broke (w/Julia Drescher), try! (w/Julia Drescher), Coconut, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, P-Queue, kadar koli, American Letters & Commentary, The Argotist Online, zafusy, the tiny, & Damn the Caesars.
Julia Drescher's poems may be found in Dusie, Broke, Try, The Colorado Review, P-Queue, goodfoot, & the tiny. A chapbook, Book of Hilda's Hunting, was recently published as part of the Dusie Kollectiv. She co-edits Dos Press (with C.J. Martin) & the online poetry journal Little Red Leaves.
Michelle Detorie lives in Goleta, CA where she edits WOMB and Hex Presse. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Daphnomancy, Bellum Letters, A Coincidence of Wants, and Ode to Industry, the picture-poem series Psychedelic Domestic and Die*o*rama, and the pamphlet How Hate got Hand. She is currently working on a series of synesthetically coded visual poems that investigate the question of women and animals and whether or not they are real.
Martha Ronk is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Vertigo, a National Poetry Series selection published by Coffee House 2008, and In a landscape of having to repeat, a PEN USA best poetry book winner 2005, Omnidawn Press. Her fiction, Glass Grapes and other stories was published by BOA Editions 2008. She is a 2007 NEA recipient and has had residencies at both Djerassi and MacDowell. She teaches both creative writing and Renaissance literature at Occidental College, Los Angeles.
Andrew Maxwell is co-director of the Poetic Research Bureau. He edited the occasional poetry journal The Germ, directed the Poetic Research reading series out of Dawson's Bookstore in central LA, and was a founding member of the online French-American translation collective Double Change. His aphorisms, poems, essays and translations have appeared in several American and French magazines including Jubilat, Fence, Triple Canopy, The Hat, Area Sneaks, Arsenal and Poésie.
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
$5 donation requested
ATTENTION!
THE PRB STOREFRONT HAS MOVED!
Same building, we've just moved our operations and bookshelves next door to the Luna Playhouse. Readings still take place in the same theater in which they've always taken place.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Tom Raworth, Kevin Killian & Gabriela Jauregui
Thursday, September 24 2009 at 8:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 8:00pm
Reading starts at 8:30pm
$5 donation requested
Tom Raworth has been writing to amuse himself for half-a-century: the random threads from this hedonism have led him this year to China and the North Eastern Tibetan plateau, now to L.A., and to Mexico in November. In Italy two years ago he was awarded the Antonio Delfini Prize for "lifetime career achievement" though he is not yet dead. His Collected Poems was published in 2003 by Carcanet, who will publish a book of poems since that collection in 2010. His Collected Prose appeared from SALT this year. He has occasionally taught in the UK , the USA and South Africa; and has read his work in more than 20 countries. His graphic work has been exhibited in Europe, the USA and South Africa, and he has collaborated with musicians, painters and other poets. His children, grandchildren and a few friends keep him awake.
Kevin Killian has written two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1990), two books of stories, Little Men (1996) and I Cry Like a Baby (2001) and two books of poetry, Argento Series (2001), and Action Kylie (2008). With Lew Ellingham, Killian has written often on the life and work of the American poet Jack Spicer [1925-65] and with Peter Gizzi has edited My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008) for Wesleyan University Press. For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written thirty plays, including Stone Marmalade (1996, with Leslie Scalapino), The American Objectivists (2001, with Brian Kim Stefans), and Often (also 2001, with Barbara Guest). New projects include Screen Tests, an edition of Killian's film writing, and Impossible Princess, a new fiction collection forthcoming from City Lights Books in November. A new novel Spreadeagle will appear in the spring.
Gabriela Jauregui (b. Mexico City, 1979) is the author of Controlled Decay (Akashic Books/Black Goat Press, 2008). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside and an MA in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine. Her critical, creative and collaborative work has been published in journals and anthologies in the US, Mexico, and Europe, including, most recently in New American Writing, Eje Central, and forthcoming in Mandorla. She is a member of the sur+ publishing collective in Mexico. Gabriela is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at USC and a Soros Fellow. She lives and works in Los Angeles and Mexico City.
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 8:00pm
Reading starts at 8:30pm
$5 donation requested
Tom Raworth has been writing to amuse himself for half-a-century: the random threads from this hedonism have led him this year to China and the North Eastern Tibetan plateau, now to L.A., and to Mexico in November. In Italy two years ago he was awarded the Antonio Delfini Prize for "lifetime career achievement" though he is not yet dead. His Collected Poems was published in 2003 by Carcanet, who will publish a book of poems since that collection in 2010. His Collected Prose appeared from SALT this year. He has occasionally taught in the UK , the USA and South Africa; and has read his work in more than 20 countries. His graphic work has been exhibited in Europe, the USA and South Africa, and he has collaborated with musicians, painters and other poets. His children, grandchildren and a few friends keep him awake.
Kevin Killian has written two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1990), two books of stories, Little Men (1996) and I Cry Like a Baby (2001) and two books of poetry, Argento Series (2001), and Action Kylie (2008). With Lew Ellingham, Killian has written often on the life and work of the American poet Jack Spicer [1925-65] and with Peter Gizzi has edited My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008) for Wesleyan University Press. For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written thirty plays, including Stone Marmalade (1996, with Leslie Scalapino), The American Objectivists (2001, with Brian Kim Stefans), and Often (also 2001, with Barbara Guest). New projects include Screen Tests, an edition of Killian's film writing, and Impossible Princess, a new fiction collection forthcoming from City Lights Books in November. A new novel Spreadeagle will appear in the spring.
Gabriela Jauregui (b. Mexico City, 1979) is the author of Controlled Decay (Akashic Books/Black Goat Press, 2008). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside and an MA in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine. Her critical, creative and collaborative work has been published in journals and anthologies in the US, Mexico, and Europe, including, most recently in New American Writing, Eje Central, and forthcoming in Mandorla. She is a member of the sur+ publishing collective in Mexico. Gabriela is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at USC and a Soros Fellow. She lives and works in Los Angeles and Mexico City.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock
CA CONRAD & FRANK SHERLOCK
Sunday, September 13 2009 at 4:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
CAConrad is the recipient of THE GIL OTT BOOK AWARD for The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a forthcoming collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Books, 2010). CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He invites you to visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com and also with his friends at http://PhillySound.blogspot.com
Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School in January 2010.
Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School in January 2010.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
Amina Cain & Amarnath Ravva
Sunday, August 23 2009 at 4:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
Sunday, August 23 2009 at 4:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), a collection of stories that revolve quietly around human relationality, landscape, and emptiness. She is also a curator, most recently for When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation), a month long festival of writing, performance, and video, and a teacher of writing/literature. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as 3rd Bed, Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, Dewclaw, The Encyclopedia Project, La Petite Zine, Sidebrow, and Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers, and was recently translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS. She lives in Los Angeles.
Amarnath Ravva has performed (as part of the ambient improvisational ensemble Ambient Force 3000) at LACMA, Los Angeles; Machine Project, Los Angeles; and Betalevel, Los Angeles. He has exhibited work at Telic, Los Angeles; Acorn Gallery, Los Angeles; Pond, San Francisco; and Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona. In addition to presenting his work in numerous readings, he has writing online at PennSound, LA-Lit and Drunken Boat #10, and work forthcoming in Encyclopedia vol. 2, and Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. He is on the board of advisors for nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts and is a curator at Betalevel.
Friday, August 14, 2009
The Poetic Research Bureau recommends...
Aimé Césaire: A Voice of HistoryMon, Aug 17 9pm @ Downtown Independent Theater
Part of this year's Downtown Film Festival in Los Angeles, this documentary introduces American audiences to the celebrated Martinican author who coined the term negritude and launched the movement called the "Great Black Cry." Euzhan Palcy, the internationally acclaimed director of Sugarcane Alley and A Dry White Season, weaves Césaire's life and poetry into a vast study featuring many of the most important artistic and intellectual figures of the 20th century. André Breton, the high priest of surrealism, described Césaire as “a black man who embodies not simply the black race but all mankind, who will remain for me the prototype of human dignity." Césaire moves to Paris and, with Leopold Senghor, first president of Senegal and the French Guyanese poet Léon Damas, develops the concept of negritude - a worldwide re-vindication of African values. John Henrik Clarke and Howard Dodson of the Schomburg Center discuss the profound impact of black American authors like Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and Claude McKay as well as jazz and the Harlem Renaissance on this primarily Francophone movement.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
Sandra Simonds & Joseph Thomas
Thursday, August 13 2009 at 8:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 7:30pm
Reading starts at 8:00pm
$5 donation requested
Thursday, August 13 2009 at 8:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 7:30pm
Reading starts at 8:00pm
$5 donation requested
A libertine of unimpeachable taste, Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. is an assistant professor of English at San Diego State University’s National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. He is the author of two books, Poetry’s Playground: The Culture of Contemporary American Children’s Poetry (Wayne State UP, 2007) and Strong Measures (Make Now Press, 2007). Poetry’s Playground was named a 2009 honor book by the Children’s Literature Association.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
A Benefit Reading for Palm Press
with Rob Halpern, Kristin Palm, David Buuck, Harold Abramowitz & Dana Teen Lomax
Friday, July 17 2009 at 7:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm
$5 donation requested
Rob Halpern is the author of Rumored Place (Krupskaya Books, 2004) and Disaster Suites (Palm Press, 2009). His collaboration with Taylor Brady, Snow Sensitive Skin (Atticus / Finch 2007), will soon be reissued by Displaced Press. Music for Porn is also forthcoming. Currently, he’s co-editing the poems of the late Frances Jaffer together with Kathleen Fraser, and translating the early essays of Georges Perec, the second of which, “Commitment or the Crisis of Language," appears in the Review of Contemporary Fiction alongside his own essay on Perec. Rob is an active participant in the Nonsite Collective. He lives and teaches in San Francisco.
Kristin Palm’s book, The Straits (two long poems about Detroit, her former hometown), was published last year by the serendipitously named Palm Press. Her writing has also appeared in various journals, including Boog City, Chain, There, Dusie and LVNG, the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), and numerous magazines and newspapers. Kristin lives in San Francisco, where she works at a children’s art museum and teaches poetry in the public schools.
David Buuck lives in Oakland. He is the author of The Shunt & several booklets of cross-genre writing. He is the founder of BARGE (the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics) & a writing teacher.
Harold Abramowitz is a writer and editor from Los Angeles. His books and chapbooks include Not Blessed (forthcoming Les Figues Press, 2009), Sin is to Celebration (collaboration with Amanda Ackerman, House Press, 2009), Dear Dearly Departed (Palm Press, 2008), Sunday, or A Summer’s Day (PS Books, 2008), and Three Column Table (Insert Press, 2007). Harold co-edits the short-form literary press eohippus labs, and co-curates the experimental cabaret event series Late Night Snack.
Dana Teen Lomax is the author of Disclosure (Dusie, 2009), Curren¢y (Palm Press, 2006), Room (a+bend press, 1999), and the co-editor of Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Books, 2008). She is currently editing Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, & Stories for Children and teaching at Marin Juvenile Hall and San Francisco State University.
Monday, June 22, 2009
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
K. Lorraine Graham, Amaranth Borsuk & Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Saturday, June 27 2009 at 4:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
We will be celebrating the release of K. Lorraine Graham's new book TERMINAL HUMMING just out from Edge Books.
Saturday, June 27 2009 at 4:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
We will be celebrating the release of K. Lorraine Graham's new book TERMINAL HUMMING just out from Edge Books.
K. Lorraine Graham is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Terminal Humming (Edge Books, June 2009) and several chapbooks, including Large Waves to Large Obstacles, forthcoming from Take Home Project. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Traffic, Area Sneaks, Foursquare and elsewhere. She currently lives in southern California with her partner, Mark Wallace, and Lester Young, a pacific parrotlet. You can find her online at terminalhumming.blogspot.com
Amaranth Borsuk is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She is currently collaborating with Gabriela Jauregui on translations and transversions of Oulipo poet Paul Braffort's My Hypertropes. Selections from that project have appeared or are forthcoming in New American Writing and Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, including Denver Quarterly, Pool, Columbia, ZYZZYVA, and CRATE, among others. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Writing Technologies, Slope, and International Journal of Women's Studies. She is interested in digital poetics and textual materiality, and works part time in the letterpress studio at Otis College of Art and Design.
Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and two chapbooks, Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv) and The Great Wheel (MaCaHu Press). He teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
BRUCE ANDREWS & DEBORAH MEADOWS
Friday, June 26 2009 at 7:00pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm
$5 donation requested
Bruce Andrews is "a performance artist and poet whose texts are some of the most radical of the Language school; his poetry tries to cast doubt on each and every 'natural' construction of language" (The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English). A founding editor of the key journalL=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Andrews has maintained a consistent position at the radical edge of the literary avant-garde. Author of over thirty volumes of poetry, and a collection of innovative critical essays (Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis, with a load of books, shorter texts, interviews, essays, recordings & commentary online at the Electronic Poetry Center, Ubu, PennSound, Eclipse, Jacket & Wikipedia). He has lived in New York City since 1975, teaching political science at Fordham University (see YouTube for his 5 minute dust-up with Bill O’Reilly), and since the mid-80s has been Music Director & sound designer for Sally Silvers & Dancers. [Sally, by the way, is in town performing with Yvonne Rainer at Red Cat this week, June 25 to 28.]
Deborah Meadows teaches in the Liberal Studies department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her most recent book of poetry is from Shearsman Press entitled Goodbye Tissues. Other works of poetry include: involutia (Shearsman Press, UK, 2007), The Draped Universe(Belladonna* Books, 2007), Thin Gloves (Green Integer, 2006), Representing Absence (Green Integer, 2004), Itinerant Men (Krupskaya, 2004), and two chapbooks, Growing Still (Tinfish Press, 2005) and “The 60’s and 70’s: from The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick” (Tinfish Press, 2003). Her Electronic Poetry Center author page is located: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/meadows/
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm
$5 donation requested
Bruce Andrews is "a performance artist and poet whose texts are some of the most radical of the Language school; his poetry tries to cast doubt on each and every 'natural' construction of language" (The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English). A founding editor of the key journalL=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Andrews has maintained a consistent position at the radical edge of the literary avant-garde. Author of over thirty volumes of poetry, and a collection of innovative critical essays (Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis, with a load of books, shorter texts, interviews, essays, recordings & commentary online at the Electronic Poetry Center, Ubu, PennSound, Eclipse, Jacket & Wikipedia). He has lived in New York City since 1975, teaching political science at Fordham University (see YouTube for his 5 minute dust-up with Bill O’Reilly), and since the mid-80s has been Music Director & sound designer for Sally Silvers & Dancers. [Sally, by the way, is in town performing with Yvonne Rainer at Red Cat this week, June 25 to 28.]
Deborah Meadows teaches in the Liberal Studies department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her most recent book of poetry is from Shearsman Press entitled Goodbye Tissues. Other works of poetry include: involutia (Shearsman Press, UK, 2007), The Draped Universe(Belladonna* Books, 2007), Thin Gloves (Green Integer, 2006), Representing Absence (Green Integer, 2004), Itinerant Men (Krupskaya, 2004), and two chapbooks, Growing Still (Tinfish Press, 2005) and “The 60’s and 70’s: from The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick” (Tinfish Press, 2003). Her Electronic Poetry Center author page is located: http://epc.buffalo.edu/
Monday, May 25, 2009
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
BRIAN KIM STEFANS, BRANDON DOWNING & STAN APPS
Saturday, June 6 2009 at 4pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 3:00pm
Reading starts at 4pm
$5 donation requested
Wine and snacks served before the reading
Brian Kim Stefans' recent books include Kluge: A Meditation, and other works (Roof, 2007), What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School, 2006), and Before Starting Over: Essays and Interviews (Salt Publishing, 2007). His digital works such as "The Dreamlife of Letters" and "Star Wars, One Letter at a Time" have been shown in gallery settings worldwide; many of these can be found at his website, www.arras.net. He is an Assistant Professor of English at UCLA, specializing in poetry and electronic writing.
Brandon Downing is a videomaker, visual artist, and writer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry collections include The Shirt Weapon (Germ, 2002), and Dark Brandon (Faux, 2005). An online gallery featuring his photographic work can be seen online at http://brandondowning.org. A feature-length DVD collection of recent video works, Dark Brandon // Eternal Classics, was released in 2007, and a monograph of his literary collages, Lake Antiquity, will be published by Fence Books this fall.
Stan Apps writes poems and essays. His books include: God's Livestock Policy (Les Figues, 2008), Handbook of Poetic Language (eohippus labs, 2008), Grover Fuel (Scantily Clad e-book, 2009) and Info Ration (Make Now, 2007). A chapbook of Sonnets is forthcoming soon from Peachpit Press, and his essays will be collected as The World As Phone Bill (Combo Books) late this year. Stan's poetry emphasizes direct statement, obviousness, economics, and the phatic nature of the self-explanatory.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI, JOCELYN SAIDENBERG & THÉRÈSE BACHAND
Saturday, May 9 2009 at 5:30pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 5:00pm
Reading starts at 5:30pm
$5 donation requested
MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI lives in Durham, NC, where she is studying 19th-century American literature at Duke. Her first book The Bruise, out now from Fiction Collective Two, is the winner of the 2006 Ronald Sukenick prize for innovative fiction.
JOCELYN SAIDENBERG is the author of Mortal City (Parentheses Writing Series), CUSP (Kelsey St. Press), winner of the Frances Jaffer Book Award, Negativity (Atelos) and Dispossessed (Belladonna). She is the founding editor of KRUPSKAYA Books. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in San Francisco and works as a catalog librarian for the San Francisco Public Library.
THÉRÈSE BACHAND is the author of the just published luce a cavallo, chosen by Luigi Ballerini for a Green Integer Gertrude Stein Award. She has been anthologized in various PIP Anthologies, and her collection Daughter of the Ephemeral Word is forthcoming from i.e. press. Her poems have appeared in the journals Area Sneaks, Aufgabe, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, and Primary Writing, among others; Ms. Bachand--as her 4 to 6 year old students at the UCLA Lab School know her--lives in Los Angeles.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
David Lloyd & The PRB present...
A Benefit Reading for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund
featuring:
Will Alexander
Guy Bennett
Paul Vangelisti
Diane Ward
Ben Ehrenreich
Ara Shirinyan
Andrew Maxwell
Sesshu Foster
Douglas Kearny
Roberto Leni
David Lloyd
Estrella del Valle
Seth Michelson
Dennis Philips
Saba Razvi
Martha Ronk
Matthew Shenoda
Daniel Tiffany
Molly Bendall
& more?
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Free, but please donate generously!
Event starts at 4pm.
The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Rd.
Glendale, CA
91204
www.poeticresearch.com
featuring:
Will Alexander
Guy Bennett
Paul Vangelisti
Diane Ward
Ben Ehrenreich
Ara Shirinyan
Andrew Maxwell
Sesshu Foster
Douglas Kearny
Roberto Leni
David Lloyd
Estrella del Valle
Seth Michelson
Dennis Philips
Saba Razvi
Martha Ronk
Matthew Shenoda
Daniel Tiffany
Molly Bendall
& more?
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Free, but please donate generously!
Event starts at 4pm.
The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Rd.
Glendale, CA
91204
www.poeticresearch.com
The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is a medical charitable organization providing humanitarian and medical services to children in Palestine and the Middle East. The P.C.R.F. is a registered non-political, non-profit, 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization that was established in 1991 by concerned people in the U.S. to address the medical and humanitarian crisis facing Palestinian youths in the Middle East. It has since expanded to help suffering children from other Middle Eastern nations, based only on their medical needs. The P.C.R.F. helps to locate free medical care for children from the Middle East who are unable to get the necessary and specialized treatment in their homeland.
Their website is www.pcrf.net
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Les Figues & the PRB present...
MY THREE SONS
With
Lisa ROBERTSON
Yedda MORRISON
Sophie ROBINSON
Saturday, January 31, 2008
$5 suggested donation
Doors 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm
compactspace
105 East 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90016
www.compactspace.com
LISA ROBERTSON’s books include Debbie: An Epic, XEclogue, The Weather, Occasional Works and Seven Walks from The Office for Soft Architecture, The Men. Coach House Press, in Toronto, is about to publish Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip, a miscellany of poems. Robertson is currently a visiting artist at California College of the Arts. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montreal based writer and visual artist
YEDDA MORRISON is the author of Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Editions, 2008). Her other books include My Pocket Park (Dusie Press, 2007), Co (Collaborations with Bruce Andrews, Roof Books, 2006) and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). From 1998-2005 Morrison co-edited Tripwire: a Journal of Experimental Poetics and Visual Art. Morrison has exhibited her visual work throughout the US and Canada and is represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC.
SOPHIE ROBINSON is the author of a, forthcoming from Les Figues Press. In 2006, she received the Phillipa Hicks award for Creativity and Innovation from the University of London, and her first chapbook, Killin’Kittenish! was published by yt communication in 2006. Her creative and critical work has also been published in Pilot, How2, Dusie and the Openned anthology.
compactspace is an international artist collective affiliated with its sister space, compactlab, in Geneva, Switzerland. This innovative organization, previously located in LA’s Pico-Union district, has recently re-located to historic downtown LA, where it promotes a multi-media arts program that features emerging and mid-career artists. compactspace LA is made possible by the contributions of the University of California San Diego’s Visual Arts Department.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
KIT ROBINSON & DIANE WARD
Saturday, January 24 2009 at 4:30pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
Kit Robinson is celebrating the publication of his new book The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry, 2009). A co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 (Mode A, ongoing), he is also the author of 9:45 (The Post Apollo Press, 2003), The Crave (Atelos, 2002) and Democracy Boulevard (Roof, 1998).
Diane Ward was born in Washington, DC and currently lives in Santa Monica, California. She has published ten books of poetry including, most recently, Flim-Yoked Scrim (Factory School, 2006), When You Awake (New York: Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), Portrait As If Through My Own Voice (Los Angeles: Margin to Margin, 2001) and Portraits and Maps with Michael C. McMillen (Italy: ML & NLF Editions, 2000). She has been included in numerous anthologies, among them: MOVING BORDERS: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, edited by Mary Margaret Sloan (New Jersey: Talisman House, Publishers, 1998) and OUT OF EVERYWHERE: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK, edited by Maggie O’Sullivan (London: Reality Street Editions, 1996).
Saturday, January 24 2009 at 4:30pm
@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm
$5 donation requested
Kit Robinson is celebrating the publication of his new book The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry, 2009). A co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 (Mode A, ongoing), he is also the author of 9:45 (The Post Apollo Press, 2003), The Crave (Atelos, 2002) and Democracy Boulevard (Roof, 1998).
Diane Ward was born in Washington, DC and currently lives in Santa Monica, California. She has published ten books of poetry including, most recently, Flim-Yoked Scrim (Factory School, 2006), When You Awake (New York: Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), Portrait As If Through My Own Voice (Los Angeles: Margin to Margin, 2001) and Portraits and Maps with Michael C. McMillen (Italy: ML & NLF Editions, 2000). She has been included in numerous anthologies, among them: MOVING BORDERS: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, edited by Mary Margaret Sloan (New Jersey: Talisman House, Publishers, 1998) and OUT OF EVERYWHERE: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK, edited by Maggie O’Sullivan (London: Reality Street Editions, 1996).
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