Poetic Research Bureau: 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

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

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Joe Milutis Reading & Lecture

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