Poetic Research Bureau: November 2011

Monday, November 14, 2011

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.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

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.

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