Poetic Research Bureau: PRB: New Collaborations

Just a note that the Poetic Research Bureau, after a summer hiatus, is beginning to peep up from its burrow, and will be hosting some visiting writers later this fall. Keep the ears pricked!

We our currently in the process of relocating our modest library from the Luna Playhouse, which is housing a new theater company that will soon begin programming in earnest, making for a slightly more crowded accommodation for the Bureau. We wish Luna well, and may occasionally do events there in the future, but most of our events will take place elsewhere.

One such place is Alias Books East, finely-curated by Patrick Paeper in Atwater Village. Patrick has agreed to let us host an event or two a month on Sundays thru Thursdays, so if you are passing through the LA basin, give the directors a write (directors@poeticresearch.com) and we'll see what's available.

Simultaneously, we are discussing possibilities for a more permanent mailing address with likeminded projects in Chinatown and elsewhere. Let us know if you hatch a scheme.

About the Bureau

The Poetic Research Bureau is a valise fiction and portable literary service in Northeast Los Angeles.

Our living room at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown hosts an extended community of autodidacts and guessworkers caught up in language, inquiry and the unguarded arts. Just as it is: a community free school by day, and by night, a non-professional public forum for presentations, readings, screenings and sundry intellectual exchanges.

As an out-of-pocket California milk-crate boosterist enterprise, the PRB also serves as the irregular literary umbrella for projects such as occasional poetry journal The Germ ('97-'05), edited by Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card; and art-lit mag Area Sneaks, edited by Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi.

As a research bloc, the Bureau attempts to cultivate composition, publication and distribution strategies that enlarge the public domain. It favors appropriations, impersonations, 'compost' poetries, belated conversations, unprintable jokes and doodles, 'unoriginal' literature, historical thefts and pastiche. The publication emphasis is on ephemeral works, short-run magazines and folios, short-lived reprints and excerpts in print-on-demand formats, and the occasional literary fetish objects of stupidly incomparable price and value.

Several reading series are hosted at 951 CKR, and we welcome writers whose work lacks the 'commercial tendency' while harboring the bright, high-minded intentions that often lead to broad panic, righteous perversions, improbable arguments, and the ill-served cul-de-sacs of genius. The series are coordinated by the aforementioned Messrs Maxwell and Mosconi. If you're sympatico, passing through town, or need a megaphone, 50 seats and a big blank space, give us a write.

contact: directors@poeticresearch.com

Friday, October 8, 2010

PRB: New Collaborations

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