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Insert Blanc Press Benefit & Holiday Party

Saturday December 17 from 6-12pm

Weekend Gallery

4634 Hollywood Blvd 

Los Angeles, CA 90027

Donation at the door of $10 or more more

Matt Timmons would like to invite you to the Insert Blanc Press Benefit & Holiday Party at Weekend Gallery, 4634 Hollywood Blvd, LA, CA 90027 on Saturday December 17 from 6-12pm.

All donations will help cover expenses for Insert Blanc Press future and current projects and operations). Additionally, throughout the month of December Insert Blanc Press will run various tempting discounts on the whole catalog of books, all of which will also be available at the Holiday Party—many authors will be on-hand to sign copies of their books.

Artists & Writers performing at the Insert Press Benefit & Holiday Party include: Harold Abramowitz, Brian Ang, Allison Carter, Brian Joseph Davis, Robin Dicker, Kate Durbin, K. Lorraine Graham, Daniel Hockenson, Jen Hofer, Garrick Hogg, js makkos, Joseph Mosconi, Adam Overton, Christopher Russell, Ara Shirinyan, Brian Kim Stefans, Mark Wallace, and our special guests Dodie Bellamy, David Buuck & Kevin Killian.

Insert Blanc Press has published and promoted the work of over 60 artists and writers since it's humble beginnings in 2005. The PARROT series alone will publish the work of 23 writers over the course of its run and features the design work of the brilliant printer Margaret Lomeli. Blanc Press has recently published the enigmatic project (!x==[33]) Book 1 Volume 1 by .UNFO and has garnered attention by publishing the three volume series Tragodía by Vanessa Place.

Over the course of December Matt hopes to raise $5,000 for Insert Blanc Press in sales and donations to fund printing and press operations in 2012. He hopes to raise $2000 of the goal at the party on Saturday December 17. $2000 will go principally to funding the printing of the remainder of the PARROT series, which, if that goal is met, he hopes to have out by summer 2012. An additional $1500 will go to moving all of Blanc Press' publications to a new printer and distributor which will give us international distribution and access to sites like Amazon and actually lower the price of the books. Any additional money raised to meet our total goal of $5,000 will go towards publishing new projects in 2012, including Bruna Mori's Poetry for Corporations, Kate Durbin's E! Entertainment Diamond Edition, Joseph Mosconi's GRRR ARRRGH as well as a forthcoming project by Christopher Russell and many other projects I just can't tell you about quite yet.

Whether or not you can make it to the party, donations can be made to Insert Blanc Press anytime.

Past and current Insert Blanc Press artists include: Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Will Alexander, Brian Ang, Stan Apps, Janine Armin, Gary Barwin, Guy Bennett, Gregory Betts, Amaranth Borsuk, Franklin Bruno, Amina Cain, Allison Carter, Teresa Carmody, Marcus Civin, Ginny Cook, Dorit Cypis, Brian Joseph Davis, Katie Degentesh, Michelle Detorie, Robin Dicker, Sandy Ding, Kate Durbin, Bradney Evans, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon, K. Lorraine Graham, Nicholas Grider, Daniel Hockenson, Jen Hofer, Gabriella Juaregui, Maxi Kim, Janice Lee, Margaret Lomeli, Michael Magee, Joseph Makkos, Donato Mancini, Elana Mann, Sharon Mesmer, K. Silem Mohammad, William Moor, Bruna Mori, Joseph Mosconi, Jeffrey Joe Nelson, Julie Orser, adam overton, Vanessa Place, Amar Ravva, Dan Richert, Stephanie Rioux, Christopher Russell, Kim Schoen, Ara Shirinyan, Rod Smith, Michael Smoler, Brian Stefans, Stephanie Taylor, Jason Underhill, Mark Wallace, Christine Wertheim, and Allyssa Wolf.

Currently on view at Weekend Gallery: Jay Erker - This Is So Much Better - Erker's work often manipulates subjects from readily available popular imagery which, in a simple and personal way, investigates the notion of identity in public space, hierarchies of dissemination, and the desire for meaning in contemporary life.

November 18: Tony Trigilio

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

TONY TRIGILIO

Friday, November 18, 2011 at 7:00pm

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

Tony Trigilio’s books include the poetry collections Historic Diary (BlazeVOX Books, 2011) and The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles Press, 2006). With Tim Prchal, he co-edited the anthology, Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press, 2008). Recent poems are published or forthcoming in 1913 a journal of forms, Denver Quarterly, Poemeleon, Rattle, Salt Hill, Sixth Finch, South Dakota Review, and Spinning Jenny, and next year in the anthologies Villanelles (Knopf) and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press). He is a member of the core poetry faculty at Columbia College Chicago and is a co-founder and co-editor of Court Green.

POSTPONED: Gravendyk & Rankine @ the PRB

Tonight's reading with Hillary Gravendyk and Claudia Rankine has been postponed until later next year.  Hillary was suddenly notified of a suitable donor, and is receiving a critical lung transplant. We at the PRB wish her well with her operation and recovery.

The PRB presents: Hillary Gravendyk & Claudia Rankine, Saturday Nov 5th

Hillary Gravendyk is the author of Harm (Omnidawn Press), out this week. She is the two-time winner of the Eisner Prize in Poetry and her chapbook, The Naturalist, was published by Achiote Press in 2008. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Barnstorm, The Bellingham Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Colorado Review, The Eleventh Muse, FOURTEENS HILLS, MARY, 1913: A JOURNAL OF FORMS, Octopus Magazine,Tarpaulin Sky and other venues.  Hillary is currently working on a critical book, Chronic Poetics, that explores intersubjectivity and embodiment in the poetic works of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, George Oppen, and Larry Eigner. She often collaborates with the photographer Benjamin Burrill and is interested in mixed-media forms. She lives in Claremont, California.

Claudia Rankine has published four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004), Plot (2001), The End of the Alphabet (1998) and Nothing in Nature is Private (1994), which won the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. With Juliana Spahr, Rankine co-edited American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (2002) and, with Lisa Sewell, American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (2007). Her poems have been included in the anthologies Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (2003), Best American Poetry (2001), and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry (1996). Her play Detour/South Bronx premiered in 2009 at New York’s Foundry Theater.

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Saturday, November 5th, 2011

Poetic Research Bureau @ the Public School
951 Chung King Road, Chinatown, LA

Doors open @ 7:00pm, readings at 7:30pm

October 22: Tisa Bryant & Daniel Borzutzky

After opening the season with a swell reading at Charlie James with P-Gizzi, the PRB returns to its cozy niche in the Public School just a few doors down at 951 Chung King Road in Chinatown. We welcome Daniel Borzutzky, out from Chicago, and Tisa Bryant, from our own up-in-the-ether, down-in-the-jowls megalopolis. Hope to see you all this weekend before the fog rolls in.

  

Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007). An excerpt from her novella, [the curator], was published by Belladonna Books in 2009, in a companion volume with writer Chris Kraus. She is also the author of the chapbook, Tzimmes (A+Bend Press, 2000), a prose poem collage of narratives including a Barbados genealogy, a Passover seder and a film by Yvonne Rainer. She is co-editor, with Ernest Hardy, of War Diaries, an anthology of black gay male desire and survival, from AIDS Project Los Angeles, which was nominated Best LGBTQ anthology by the LAMBDA Literary Awards. She is also co-editor/publisher of the hardcover cross-referenced literary/arts series, The Encyclopedia Project, which recently released Encyclopedia Vol. 2 F-K. She lives in Los Angeles. 

Daniel Borzutzky is the author of The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011); The Ecstasy of Capitulation (BlazeVox, 2007) and Arbitrary Tales (Triple Press, 2005). His translations include Raúl Zurita's Song for his Disappeared Love (Action Books, 2010) Jaime Luis Huenún's Port Trakl (Action Books, 2010), and One Year and other stories by Juan Emar (Review of Contemporary Fiction, 2007). His work has been anthologized in, among others, A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence Books); Seriously Funny (University of Georgia Press, 2010); and Malditos Latinos Malditos Sudacas: Poesia Iberoamericana Made in USA (El billar de Lucrecia, 2010). Journal publications include Fence, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Chicago Review, TriQuarterly, and many others. Chapbooks include Failure in the Imagination (Bronze Skull, 2007) and One Size Fits All (Scantily Class Press, 2009). He is a contributing editor to Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas. He lives in Chicago.

Poetic Research Bureau @ the Public School

951 Chung King Road, Chinatown, LA

Doors open @ 7:00pm, readings at 7:30pm

 

The PRB Presents: Peter Gizzi @ Charlie James Gallery, Sat Oct 8

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Peter Gizzi comes to town the second weekend of October, and the PRB is joining with its neighbor on Chung King Road, the Charlie James Gallery, to host him for a single, solo gig in the LA basin.

He's bringing a new book, Threshold Songs, his fifth collection, and it's a deep internal rumble of wintry lyrical abstraction. And don't let a word like 'lyrical' get you all wicked snuffy, Angelenos. True, LA may be the sweaty whalebone undergarment of 'conceptual writing practice' -- but Pete's a dude who can write small weepies about foundling creatures and appear in Against Expression all in the same lifetime. Honestly can't say I know anyone who reads more broadly in poetry than Pete, and it comes across, direct and punchward clear. You'd be a stiff to ditch this one.

You also don't want to miss Richard Kraft's exhibition in the Gallery. Perfect complement, named after a line in one of Pete's poems. It's like five years of mail art landed in your postbox on the same day, blew up roseate like a perfect novel, and gave you the righteous shiver. It's yours for the taking, kiddos.

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Saturday October 8, 2011

The PRB @ Charlie James Gallery
975 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Event starts promptly at 7:30pm.

Fall is Icumen In

Just a note that your mole-ish and absentee Directors are coming out of their summery haze and putting together the fall playlist for the PRB this week. Shindigs begin in October, and should play out through fall and into the holidays.

Not everything is completely finalized yet -- and as always we welcome wayfaring strangers and last minute appeals. The Bureau is your 99th nervous occasional plateau, so make your own. If you dig our scene, we got room in the middle.

Two gigs are for certain in October. We're joining up with the Charlie James Gallery just a couple doors down from the Public School to host Peter Gizzi, out from Western Mass with his new book Threshold Songs, on October 8 (7:30pm). He'll be cohabiting with Richard Kraft's new exhibition in the Gallery, a fixed explosive novel named Something With Birds in It. Then, two weeks later, on October 22 (7:30pm), we'll be hosting Chicago's Daniel Borzutsky, a poet, translator and fiction writer who recently came out with a new collection: The Book of Interfering Bodies. He'll be accompanied by LA's own Tisa Bryant.

Keep a close watch on the little floating calendar in the upper right of the PRB blog. That's where it all takes shape, as irregularly as ever.

Hugs, yr PRB Directors.

Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons & Lysette Simmons @ Royal/T Cafe

For one night only we're moving the Poetic Research Bureau across town to Culver City, Heart of Screenland, where many an episode of Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang was filmed.

It's a special event put on by my favorite Los Angeles barrista, Yeekai Lim of Cognoscenti Coffee. There will be food, coffee and of course poetry. Though the poetry portion of the evening is free, the food and coffee pairings will be a ticketed event, so please purchase your tickets early.

The readings will start promptly at 7pm.

Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons and Lysette Simmons @ Royal/T Cafe
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Royal/T Cafe
8910 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

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Order tickets via Eventbrite: 
http://coffeexfood-efbeven​t.eventbrite.com/

A unique tasting event featuring seasonal coffees selected by Yeekai Lim of Cognoscenti Coffee and food pairing curated by distinguished cheese monger Sebastian Robin Craig, Jessica Koslow of SQIRL confiture, Na Young of Proof Bakery and Royal/T and a poetry reading by the Poetic Research Bureau (at 7pm).

Each $18 ticket will include the following 3 courses of food paired with coffees (Gratuity not included):

1st Course

Food
Lacinato Kale Salad with SQIRL's preserved Meyer lemons, French radish, toasted pumpkin seeds, Santa Rosa plum dressing, dark rye crispbread and Lou Rey raw sheep Basque cheese

Coffee
Ethiopia Welena Suke Quto, served cold 

Coffee Flavor Profile
Intensely floral fragrances introduce a cup layered with citrus, tangerine, blood oranges, and pink lemonade. A sweet and clear cup. 

2nd Course

Food
Cheese plate featuring: 

- Delice de Bourgogne, Cow milk, Burgundy, France. This is a ripe triple creme. The paste is soft, dense, sweet and lightly peppery.
- Faux Valençay, goat milk, France. Pasteurized mold-ripened chèvre from the Loire Valley in the central western region of France.
- Testun D’Ocelli, goat and cow milk, Piemonte, Italy. The Testun is rinded with nebbiolo must. It is permeated with the scent of dark berries. The paste is dense, flaky and a little sweet.
- SQIRL's homemade pickled vegetables, Loquat/Nocino spread and Proof’s Concord grape focaccia 

Coffee
Kenya Murang'a Theri, served hot & Costa Rica La Concha Typica, served cold

Coffee Flavor Profiles
Kenya - Lychee and candied lemon fragrance introduce bursting key lime acidity in this sweet and creamy cup.
Costa Rica - Apricot blossom and rose fragrances are at the forefront of this coffee, introducing a cup heavy with ripe peach, tangerine and hibiscus.

3rd Course

Food
Pastel Vasco - A rich buttery cake from the Basque region of Spain, filled with SQIRL confitures' strawberry rose jam

Coffee
Colombia Bruselas Libardo Piedrahita ML, served hot.

Coffee Flavor Profile
Green and muscat grape acidity emerge out of a dense cup of cocoa, sweet malt, and molasses. 

PLEASE NOTE THAT NO SUGAR OR CREAM WILL BE SERVED ALONGSIDE YOUR COFFEES. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Farms:
Rancho Del Sol Farms - Meyer Lemons
Flora Bella Farms - Plums
Murray Farms - Concord Grapes
McGrath Farms - Seascape Strawberries
Shear Rock Farms - Pickled Vegetables
Earthtrine Farm - Loquats

Cognoscenti Coffee was founded by architect Yeekai Lim, who launched a pop-up coffeehouse called Cognoscenti Coffee at Urban Eats, a restaurant he designed in Burbank. He transitioned to Blue Dot yogurt shop in Eagle Rock before accepting a permanent residency in the marble-countered confines of Atwater Village’s Proof Bakery, where he brews Four Barrel Coffee.

Sebastian Robin Craig is a cheese monger and restaurant professional who has worked for some of California's most outstanding purveyors of fine cuisine.

Sqirl
Sqirl's owner Jessica Koslow works with farmers within a 200 mile radius of Los Angeles who cultivate their land with the intention of letting the product (many of which are heirloom varietals on the Ark of Taste) speak to its environment. The preserves are then made consciously with minimal organic cane sugar and naturally occurring pectin in copper jam pans handspun by an instate coppersmith. The result is unique; not only portraying the wealth and diversity of California's crops and its generous growing seasons, but also reminding us of the value in the antique process of preservation.
http://www.sqirlla.com/

Proof
In November 2010, Proof Bakery opened its doors with one
very specific vision: to uphold traditional, craft-baking techniques in
creating exceptional baked goods. Combining quality local ingredients
with Chef/Owner Na Young Ma’s passion for perfection, Proof makes each
item in small batches and offers a seasonally-driven menu to provide the
Atwater Village neighborhood with an ever changing array of sweets, savories,
and everything in between.
http://www.proofbakeryla.c​om/

The Poetic Research 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. The Bureau also hosts a reading series at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown. Tonight the Bureau presents the work of writers Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons and Lysette Simmons. The poetry reading will start promptly at 7pm in the back room and it's free. 
http://www.poeticresearch.​com/

Joe Milutis Reading & Lecture

One of the organizing principles of the Poetic Research Bureau is to provide a space for last-minute readings or lectures for poets and scholars who happen to be passing through town. Well we're having our first last-minute reading and lecture this Sunday evening with Joe Milutis. Since it's Sunday night, we'll be starting a little earlier than usual: 6pm. Take note!

Joe Milutis is a writer and media artist who works within a variety of hybrid forms. Recent work includes the glitch media experimental narrative-collaborative writing-"novellina spamflicitata"-installation The Torrent as well as the conceptual-media-essay-with-book-inside The Quiddities, and the sound-poem-translation-politico-porno-novel-manifesto-grotesque Mao Vincit Omnia. He teaches experimental writing and media at the University of Washington-Bothell.

Sunday July 10, 2011

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 5:30pm
Event starts promptly at 6:00pm.

$5 donation requested

June 18: Dodie Bellamy & Sara Wintz

Dodie Bellamy’s most recent book is the buddhist (Publication Studio), an essayistic memoir based on her blog, Belladodie. Her most recent chapbook is Whistle While You Dixie (Summer BF Press). Time Out New York named her chapbook Barf Manifesto (Ugly Duckling) “Best Book Under 30 Pages” for 2009. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam and The Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. She lives in San Francisco with writer Kevin Killian and three cats.

Sara Wintz's writing has appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Jacket, 6X6, Physical Poets, and on Ceptuetics. Her first book, WALKING ACROSS A FIELD WE ARE FOCUSED ON AT THIS TIME NOW, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.

Saturday June 18, 2011

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Event starts promptly at 8:00pm.

$5 donation requested

June 5 at the PRB: Ang, Trevino, Clemons & Webb

Brian Ang is the author of Communism (Berkeley Neo-Baroque, 2011) and Paradise Now (Grey Book Press, 2011). He lives in Oakland, California.

Wendy Trevino clawed her way out of Texas in 2004 and now lives, works and plays in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poems have appeared in Try!, The West Wind Review, Faultline and Makeout Creek.

Dereck Clemons lives in San Francisco with Wendy Trevino. He teaches college English & like most people takes in lots of popular radio & TV & internet & newspapers, & so his poems try to engage that whole thing. And some of those are in Artifice, Try, Lungfull!, West Wind Review & others.

Jeanine Webb's work has appeared in many journals, including the West Wind Review, ZYZZYVA, The Antioch Review, and is forthcoming in Lana Turner. She is one author, with Brian Ang, Joseph Atkins and Tiffany Denman, of the poetry pamphlet Poetry is not Enough.


Sunday June 5, 2011

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Event starts promptly at 8:00pm.

$5 donation requested

At the PRB, June 4: Peter Richards & Jacqueline Waters

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Jacqueline Waters' new book, One Sleeps the Other Doesn't, will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in the fall of 2011. Previous publications include A Minute without Danger (Adventures in Poetry), and two chapbooks, The Garden of Eden a College (A Rest Press) and The Saw That Talked (Minutes Books). She edits The Physiocrats, a pamphlet press.


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Peter Richards is the author of Oubliette (Verse Press/Wave Books, 2001), which won the Massachusetts Center for the Book Honors Award; Nude Siren (Verse Press/Wave Books, 2003); and Helsinki (Action Books, 2011). His poems have appeared in Agni, Colorado Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, FENCE, The Yale Review, and other journals. The University of Montana-Missoula's visiting Hugo Poet Spring Semester 2011, Richards has taught at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Saturday June 4, 2011

The PRB @ The Public School

951 Chung King Rd.

Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm

Event starts promptly at 8:00pm.

$5 donation requested

May 13: Camille Roy, Jen Hofer & Harold Abramowitz

Camille Roy is a writer and performer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Sherwood Forest, a book of poems, is out from Futurepoem in Spring 2011. Her earlier books include Cheap Speech, a play, from Leroy, and Craquer, a fictional autobiography from 2nd Story Books , as well as Swarm (two novellas, Black Star Series), among others. She co-edited Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative with Mary Burger, Robert Glück, and Gail Scott (CoachHouse 2005, re-issued 2010). Earlier books include The Rosy Medallions (from Kelsey St Press) and Cold Heaven (plays, from Leslie Scalapino's O Books). Roy has taught creative writing in multiple genres and forms at several institutions, including San Francisco State University, California State University SummerArts, and Naropa.

Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, and urban cyclist. Her most recent books are the homemade chapbook Lead & Tether (Dusie Kollektiv, 2011); Ivory Black, a translation of Negro marfil by Myriam Moscona (Les Figues Press, 2011); a series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press, 2009); sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008); The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008); and lip wolf, a translation of lobo de labio by Laura Solórzano (Action Books, 2007). She teaches at CalArts, Goddard College, and Otis College, and works nationally and locally as a social justice interpreter.

Harold Abramowitz is a writer and editor from Los Angeles. His recent publications include Not Blessed (Les Figues Press), House on a Hill, Part 3 (Slash Pine Press), and House on a Hill, Part 1 (Insert Press, Parrot Series #2). Harold co-edits the short-form literary press eohippus labs (www.eohippuslabs.com). He also writes and edits as part of the collaborative projects SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and UNFO.

Friday May 13, 2011

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

$5 donation requested

May 6: Christopher Stackhouse & John Keene

Christopher Stackhouse is a writer, curator, and visual artist. He has worked in several media and disciplines including film and video, music recording, theater, painting and drawing. He is the author of Slip (Corollary Press, 2005); and is co-author of image/text collaboration with writer/translator John Keene, Seismosis (1913 press, 2006), which features Stackhouse’s drawings in philosophical discourse with Keene’s texts. His poems have been published in several in literary journals including EOAGH, Octopus, GlitterPony, Aufgabe, Hambone, nocturnes (re)view of literary arts, and The Recluse. Fellowships and awards include Cave Canem Writer Fellow (1997,1999, 2003); Fellow in Poetry, New York Foundation for the Arts (2005); Pocantico Residency at the Marcel Breuer House, Rockefeller Brothers Fund For The Arts (2009). His essays and reviews have appeared in the literary journal American Poet- The Journal of The Academy of American Poets, The Poetry Project Newsletter, A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years Volume 1 Poetry & Non-Fiction; and in arts periodicals Modern Painters, Art In America, and NY Arts Magazine, among other publications. He is an advisory board member at FENCE Magazine, a contributing editor at BOMB Magazine, and a contributing poetry editor at VANITAS Magazine. He has a book of poems forthcoming from Counterpath Press (Denver, CO), and a collection of various texts on art, writing, and culture forthcoming from Sand Paper Press (Key West, FL).

John Keene is the author of Annotations (New Directions) and, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, of the art-text dialogue Seismosis (1913 Press). He has published his poetry, fiction, essays, and translations widely, and has received many honors, including a Whiting Foundation Writers Award and fellowships from the state arts councils of New Jersey and Massachusetts. He divides his time between the northeast and midwest, and teaches at Northwestern University.


Friday, May 6, 2011 at 7:30pm

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

$5 donation requested

April 30: Brent Cunningham, Brandy Nalani McDougall & Craig Santos Perez

Brent Cunningham is a writer, publisher and visual artist currently living in Oakland with his wife and daughter. He has worked for Small Press Distribution in Berkeley since 1999. His first book of poetry, Bird & Forest, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2005, and his second, Journey to the Sun, is forthcoming in 2011 from Atelos. He and Neil Alger founded and run Hooke Press, a chapbook press dedicated to publishing short runs of poetry, criticism, theory, writing and ephemera.

Born and raised on Maui, Brandy Nālani McDougall is of Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiʻi, Maui, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi lineages), Chinese, and Scottish descent. She is the author of a poetry collection, The Salt-Wind, Ka Makani Paʻakai (2008), and a chapbook, “Return to the Kula House,” featured in Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, edited by Allison Hedge Coke (2009). She currently teaches Hawaiian and Pacific literatures at the Kamehameha Schools, but will serve as assistant professor of indigenous studies in the American studies department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in fall 2011.

Craig Santos Perez, a Chamoru originally from Guahan (Guam), is the author of two poetry books: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008) and from unincorporated territory [saina]
(Omnidawn Publishing, 2010). This fall, he will begin his quest for tenure as an assistant professor of creative writing in the English department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 7:30pm

The PRB @ The Public School

951 Chung King Rd.

Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm

Reading starts at 7:30pm

$5 donation requested

Thursday, April 14: Philippe Beck & Guy Bennett, 7:30pm

French poet Philippe Beck¹s first collection, Garde-manche hypocrite, came out in 1996, and since then he has published thirteen more books, including Garde-manche Deux, Élégie Hé, Chants populaires, as well as an intellectual biography, Beck l¹impersonnage, and a prose work, Un Journal. He has collaborated with Gérard Pesson and Philippe Mion in the composition of several operatic and choral pieces, and teaches both at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and the Centre Atlantique de Philosophie at the University of Nantes. In 1990 Philippe Beck was a founding editor of Alter, a journal of phenomenology, and in 2000 he founded and became editor-in-chief of the poetry journal Quaderno.

Guy Bennett is the author of several works of poetry, non-poetry, and numerous translations. Recent publications include the chapbooks 32 Snapshots of Marseilles and the big e, a translation of Ernst Jandl's monovocalic poem das große e, and a new collection of poetry, Self-Evident Poems. His writing has been featured in magazines and anthologies in the United States and abroad, and presented in poetry and arts festivals internationally. Publisher of Mindmade Books (formerly Seeing Eye Books) and co-editor of Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, he lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.

Friday Fools? : Lisa Fishman & Richard Meier open April @ the PRB

Lisa Fishman lives in Orfordville and Madison, Wisconsin and directs the MFA and BA programs in poetry writing at Columbia College, Chicago. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Current (Parlor Press, 2011), The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta Press, 2007); Dear, Read (Ahsahta, 2002); The Deep Heart’s Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues Press, 1996), with another, Flowercart, to be published later this spring by Ahsahta Press. at the same time as scattering, a chapbook, was recently published by Albion Books. In Orfordville, she lives on a farm and orchard she and her husband, Henry Morren, started in 1998; in Madison, they live with the poet Richard Meier near the Yahara River. She has a six-year-old son, James Fishman-Morren.

Richard Meier is the author of Terrain Vague, selected by Tomaž Šalamun for the Verse Prize in 2000 and published by Verse Press (now available from Wave Books) and Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar, published by Wave Books in 2006. He is currently collaborating on slope.org’s “The Weather at Five O’Clock" with Brandon Shimoda, Jared Stanley, Lisa Fishman, Lucas Farrell, Rick Meier, Sandra Doller, Sara Mumolo. He lives in Chicago and Madison and is writer-in-residence at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI.

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Friday, April 1, 2011 at 7:30pm

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

$5 donation requested

March 12, 7:30pm: Aaron Kunin & Anna Moschovakis

Anna Moschovakis's most recent books are You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, a book of poems; and The Jokers, a translation of a novel by Egyptian writer Albert Cossery. Based in Brooklyn and the wilds of upstate New York, she is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse and teaches at Pratt Institute and in Bard's interdisciplinary MFA program.

Aaron Kunin is recently the author of The Sore Throat and Other Poems. Grace Period, a collection of aphorisms, sketches, and fragments, is forthcoming. He lives in Los Angeles.

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You know these two -- these sage and canny kids are our faves. Aaron's reading new work, Anna's gotta new book. They school us consistently, so natch, we put 'em in our School: Headmaestros.

Don't doubt it.

Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 7:30pm

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

$5 donation requested

JAMES MEETZE & AARON PECK

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

JAMES MEETZE & AARON PECK

Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 7:30pm

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

$5 donation requested

James Meetze's book Dayglo was selected by Terrance Hayes as winner of the 2010 Sawtooth Poetry Prize from Ahsahta Press. He is also the author of I Have Designed This For You (2007), and editor, with Simon Pettet, of Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010). The recipient of the 2001 Poet Laureate Award from the University of California, he has taught poetry and creative writing at the University of California, San Diego, California State University, San Marcos, and in the MFA Program at National University. He lives in San Diego with his wife and son

Aaron Peck is the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis and, in collaboration with Düsseldorf-based artists Adam Harrison and Dominic Osterried, Letters to the Pacific. Work has appeared in Golden Handcuffs Review and Maxtrix Magazine, while recent art criticism has appeared inartforum.com, 01 Magazine, Art Papers, Canadian Art, Foam and Fillip. He also has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs in Canada and has had an article appear in La Fábrica's Spanish-language magazine Matador. He lives in Vancouver, BC, where he teaches at Emily Carr University.

BRANDON BROWN & ALLI WARREN

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

BRANDON BROWN & ALLI WARREN

Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 7:30pm

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

$5 donation requested

Brandon Brown is from Kansas City, Missouri. He has two forthcoming books: The Persians By Aeschylus (Displaced Press) and The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus (Krupskaya). Poems and prose have recently appeared in Peacock, Try, and Art Practical. He is currently blogging for the San Francisco MOMA, organizing literary and art events in the Bay Area, publishing small press book under the imprint OMG!, and translating Baudelaire.

Alli Warren was born & raised in California. Recent chapbooks include: Acting Out, Well-Meaning White Girl, and Cousins. From 2008-2010, she co-curated The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand. She lives in Oakland.

Belz, Maxwell, Meadows, Schultz: Sun Jan 9

"A Chavez Ravine Reunion Quartet"

If you weren't one of the 200+ who socked into ArtShare last night to try on 70 poets-in-a-can, which was quite delicious, maybe you want to stretch out this afternoon, and listen to four of them read in the cozier compound of the Poetic Research Bureau in Chinatown.

Aaron Belz, Andrew Maxwell, Deborah Meadows, and Susan Schultz are just four baseball enthusiasts who last were all together for a Dodgers game, and suddenly -- all in one place again in an offseason freeze -- decided to do that other thing they do: scribble and mumble in public.

(Baseball poems not necessarily included.)

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Aaron Belz is the author of three books, including Lovely, Raspberry and The Bird Hoverer.

Andrew Maxwell co-directs the PRB, has edited some magazines and hosts several of his chapbooks at peepingmot.com.

Deborah Meadows is the author of many books, including Goodbye Tissues and involutia.

Susan Schultz edits Tinfish magazine and press, and her books include Dementia Blog and Memory Cards & Adoption Papers.

Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd, Chinatown, LA, CA