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.

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.

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/