Peter Jaeger & Ara Shirinyan

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

PETER JAEGER & ARA SHIRINYAN
Friday, November 9, 2012
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Peter Jaeger is a Canadian poet, literary critic and text-based artist now living in the UK. His published work includes the poetry books Power Lawn (Coach House Books 1999), Prop (Salt 2007), Rapid Eye Movement (Reality Street Editions 2009), and The Persons (information as material 2011). He is currently writing a book on John Cage, which is set to be published by Continuum Press next year. Jaeger teaches poetry and literary theory at Roehampton University in London.

Ara Shirinyan is a poet based in Los Angeles. He is the publisher of Make Now Press and the co-director of the Poetic Research Bureau. His books include Syria Is In the World (Palm Press, 2007), Your Country Is Great (Futurepoem, 2008), and Handsome Fish Offices (Insert Press, 2008). 

Corina Copp & Joseph Harrington

  

 

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

CORINA COPP & JOSEPH HARRINGTON
Friday, November 2, 2012
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Corina Copp is most recently the author of Pro Magenta/Be Met (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), with publications forthcoming from Bad Press, Minutes Books, and Trafficker Press. Poetry, performance texts, and critical writing can be found soon or now at The Claudius App, The Cambridge Literary Review, Hi Zero, Boston Review, BOMB, SFMOMA's Open Space, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a performance trilogy based on the works of Marguerite Duras, entitled The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love. Part one, SUSANSWERPHONE, was presented this October at the CUNY Graduate Center's three-day PRELUDE.12 Festival. She is a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter (2009–11), and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir) (Wesleyan Poetry 2011), a mixed-genre work relating the twinned narratives of the Watergate scandal and his mother's cancer, which was a Rumpus magazine Poetry Book Club selection; the chapbook Earth Day Suite (Beard of Bees Press 2010 - available as free PDF); and the critical study Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern US Poetics (Wesleyan UP 2002). His creative work also has appeared in BathHouse, 1913: a journal of forms, Hotel Amerika, No Tell Motel, With+Stand, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, and P-Queue, among others; and he has published articles on modernism, political philosophy, and the cultural history of poetry in the U.S., in journals such as Jacket2, American Literary History, and American Literature. He is currently at work on a four-volume mixed-genre and -media account of his mother's life and times. He teaches at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, USA.

Oct 21: Franck André Jamme; Lisa Pearson in conversation

 

The Poetic Research Bureau  presents a Reading + Franck André Jamme in Conversation with Lisa Pearson.

Sunday, October 21, doors open at 5. Reading & conversation at 5:30pm.
PRB at The Public School, 951 Chung King Road. (CHiNATOWN)

 
It could be a cult classic: the debut edition of Siglio Press’s Tantra Song—one of the only books to survey the elusive tradition of abstract Tantric painting from Rajasthan, India—sold out in a swift six weeks. The works depict deities as geometric, vividly hued shapes and mark a clear departure from Tantric art’s better-known figurative styles. They also resonate uncannily with lineages of twentieth-century art—from the Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism to Minimalism—as well as with much painting today. Rarely have the ancient and the modern come together so fluidly.

—Lauren O’Neill-Butler, THE PARIS REVIEW DAILY

 

 

Franck André Jamme is one of France’s leading contemporary poets and the author of more than a dozen books. His publications in English (translated by John Ashbery, Charles Borkhuis, David Kelley, Norma Cole, and Michael Tweed) include New Exercises (Wave Books), Another Silent Attack, The Recitation of Forgetting, Extracts from the Life of a Beetle (Black Square Editions), and Moon Wood (Sélavy Press). Described by Henri Michaux as “a writer of rare quality,” Jamme has also collaborated with a number of artists including Phillippe Favier, Suzan Frecon, Acharya Vyakul, and Hans Schimansky, as well as translated the works of John Ashbery and Lokenath Bhattacharya. A specialist in art brut, Tantric and tribal arts of India, he has curated and contributed to exhibitions at The Drawing Center, Centre Georges Pompidou, Galerie du Jour, and Beaux-Arts de Paris, among others.

Steven Seidenberg & David Abel

STEVEN SEIDENBERG & DAVID ABEL 
Saturday, October 13, 2012 
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School 
951 Chung King Rd. Los Angeles, CA

Steven Seidenberg is a poet and artist living in San Francisco. His work as an academic philosopher and poet has appeared in various literary and scholarly journals. His chapbook, Verge, was recently published by Hidebound Press. He is co-creator and contributing editor (with Elizabeth Robinson) of Pallaksch. Pallaksch., a journal devoted to poetry broadly understood as philosophical in the character of its inquiry, forthcoming from Instance Press. 

David Abel is a poet, editor, and teacher, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop. Three new books were released in the summer of 2012: Float, a collection of collage texts spanning twenty-five years of work (Chax Press); Tether, a chapbook of poems (Barebone books); and Carrier, a sequence of hypergraphics (c_L Books). With Sam Lohmann, he publishes the Airfoil chapbook series, and since 2002 he has published twenty-four issues of the free broadside series Envelope. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Kathryn L.Pringle & Samantha Giles

KATHRYN L. PRINGLE & SAMANTHA GILES

Saturday, September 22, 2012
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School

951 Chung King Rd.

Los Angeles, CA

kathryn l. pringle is an American poet living in Oakland, Ca. She is the author of fault tree (winner of Omindawn’s 1st/2nd book prize selected by CD Wright), RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY (Heretical Texts/Factory School), The Stills (Duration Press), and Temper and Felicity are lovers.(TAXT). Some of her poems can be found in Denver Quarterly, Fence, Phoebe, horse less review, and other journals. Her work can also be found in the anthologiesConversations at the Wartime Cafe: A Decade of War (WODV Press), I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues), and forthcoming in The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books).

Samantha Giles grew up in an industrial section of Santa Monica, California and currently lives in the flatlands of Oakland, CA. She is a graduate of the School of Social Work at San Francisco State and holds an MFA from Mills College where she was managing editor of 580 Split. She is the author ofhurdis addo (displaced press, 2011), a winner of the Sexiest Poem awarded by CAConrad and the forthcoming deadfalls and snares from Futurepoem. Since 2009, she has been the Director of Small Press Traffic.

Francesca Lisette & Samuel Solomon

The Poetic Research Bureau presents....

FRANCESCA LISETTE & SAMUEL SOLOMON
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Doors open @ 8pm, reading @ 8:30pm

951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA

Francesca Lisette holds an MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, where she organised Chlorine Readings in Brighton between 2009 and 2010. Her first book Teens collects work written and published 2007 – 2010 and is available from Mountain Press. Extracts of her work can be found in Better than Language: An Anthology of New Modernist Poetries (Ganzfeld, 2011). An essay on the poetry of Ariana Reines and Lisa Robertson has just been published in the third issue of The Paper Nautilus, a UK magazine devoted to the work of experimental female poets. She is currently working on a project combining poetry and live art entitled sub rosa; or, “The Book of Metaphysics”. She lives and works in London.

Samuel Solomon lives in Los Angeles. His poems, essays, and translations have been published or are forthcoming in differences, Décalages, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, htmlgiant, Lana Turner, Hi Zero, Inkwell, Five Fingers Review, Lyric Review, and Narrative. His chapbookLife of Riley was released this June from Bad Press and a long excerpt of his work-in-progress, Special Subcommittee, is due out in August from Veer Books' first set of Viersomes.

Julia Bloch & Frank Montesonti

The Poetic Research Bureau presents....

Julia Bloch & Frank Montesonti
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Doors open @ 7:30pm, reading @ 8pm

951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA

Julia Bloch grew up in Northern California and Sydney, Australia, earned an MFA at Mills College and a PhD at University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson (published by Sidebrow Books in April 2012). She is the recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and the William Carlos Williams Prize for Poetry, is an editor of Jacket2, and recently moved to Los Angeles to teach literature in the Bard College MAT program.

Frank Montesonti is the author of Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope (Barrow Street Press), winner of the 2012 Barrow Street book contest, and the chapbook A Civic Pageant (Black Lawrence Press, 2009). He has been published in literary journals such as Tin House, Black Warrior Review, AQR, Poet Lore, and Poems and Plays, among many others. He has an MFA from the University of Arizona and teaches poetry at National University. A longtime resident of Indiana, he now lives in Los Angeles, California.

Abigail Child & Diane Ward, Saturday, March 31

The Poetic Research Bureau presents:

Abigail Child & Diane Ward
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Doors open @ 7, reading @ 7:30pm

The PRB @ the Public School
951 Chung King Road, Chinatown, LA

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Abigail Child is in town to show some film and video at the Redcat, and is so mighty good as to stop by our little alleycat kennel to give a reading and throw up some projections on our wall. How often do you get to kick your feet up on the weekend and do home movies with Abigail?

Joining her is one the PRB's favorite LA scribblers -- urban explorer and all-around swell gal, Diane Ward. This one's a calendar highlight, folks. Hope to see you there!

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Abigail Child: feats and deeds.  |  Diane Ward: histories and triumphs.

Saturday, March 24: Cal Bedient & Hillary Granvendyk

The Poetic Research Bureau presents:

Calvin Bedient & Hillary Gravendyk
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Doors open @ 7, reading @ 7:30pm

951 Chung King Rd, Chinatown, LA

Calvin Bedient is the author of three books of poetry—Candy Necklace (Wesleyan), The Violence of the Morning (University of Georgia Press), and Days of Unwilling (Saturnalia Books)—with a fourth book coming out from Omnidawn in the fall. He is the co-editor of Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion. He lives in Santa Monica.

Hillary Gravendyk is the author of Harm (Omnidawn Press), out last fall. She is the two-time winner of the Eisner Prize in Poetry and her chapbook, The Naturalist, was published by Achiote Press in 2008..  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.

Phoebe Giannisi & Amanda Ackerman

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

PHOEBE GIANNISI & AMANDA ACKERMAN

Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 6:00pm
The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 5:30pm
Reading starts at 6:00pm

$5 donation

Phoebe Giannisi (Athens, Greece,1964) is a poet and a PhD architect. She works as an Assistant Professor at Volos Department of Architecture (University of Thessaly, Greece) where she teaches design and literature poetics related to urban space and landscape. She is involved in public art practices. She is interested in the performative and acoustic dimension of poetry, and she organizes in situ poetic performances in public spaces. In 2010 she was co-curator for the Greek Pavilion of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (La Biennale di Venezia) (www.greekark.com).

Amanda Ackerman is the author of four chapbooks: Sin is to Celebration (co-author, House Press), The Seasons Cemented (Hex Presse), I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck (Insert Press Parrot #8), and Short Stones (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press). She is co-publisher and co-editor of the press eohippus labs. She also writes collaboratively as part of the projects SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and U.N.F.O. (The Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization), whose audio text project Explanation as Composition was recently featured at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.

Jaap Blonk & Mathew Timmons + Sound Poetry Workshop

Punxsutawney Phil may have predicted 6 more weeks of winter back in Penn's Woods, but out here on the New Coast spring has sprung (we reject groundhogs; we prefer our resident wild dog, John the Wolf King of LA).

Friday, we welcome Jaap Blonk and Mathew Timmons.

JAAP BLONK & MATHEW TIMMONS
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 7:00pm
The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 6:30pm
Reading starts at 7:00pm

$5 donation

Jaap will be holding a sound poetry workshop the following afternoon.

VOICE/TEXT-SOUND/IMPROVISATION
A workshop by Jaap Blonk

A workshop for vocalists and performers who want to explore the inner depths and outer reaches of voice, text, music and sound in an exploratory improvisational framework. We will work in a playful way, using games and improvisational structures. Sometimes we will use short sound poems from the history of that genre and work on interpretations of them.

Working collaboratively, participants will develop materials and strategies for pushing formal and conceptual boundaries to create improvisational compositions.

On the way, we will encounter and practice many extended vocal techniques.

Depending on participants' interests and wishes, we can also go into notation possibilities and writing strategies.

Some vocal ability and the willingness to improvise and explore, are the only prerequisites.

Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 12:00pm
The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

$5 donation


Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a self-taught composer, performer and poet. He went to university for mathematics and musicology but did not finish those studies. In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music. A few years later he discovered his potential as a vocal performer, at first in reciting poetry and later on in improvisations and his own compositions. For almost two decades the voice was his main means for the discovery and development of new sounds. From around the year 2000 on Blonk started work with electronics, at first using samples of his own voice, then extending the field to include pure sound synthesis as well. He took a year off of performing in 2006. As a result, his renewed interest in mathematics made him start a research of the possibilities of algorithmic composition for the creation of music, visual animation and poetry. 

Mathew Timmons' book Joyful Noise for three or more voices was just released from Jaded Ibis press. His other works include: The New Poetics (Les Figues 2010), CREDIT (Blanc Press 2009), and The Archanoids (a CD of solo and collaborative sound poetries 2010). His visual and performance work has been shown at Human Resources Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Public Fiction, François Ghebaly Gallery, (323) Projects, LACE, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, California College of Art, Outpost for Contemporary Art, ArtSpeak Vancouver, LACMA, and the UCLA Hammer Museum. An active editor and curator, Mathew works as the General Director of General Projects and editor of Insert Blanc Press in Los Angeles.

February 26: Dorothea Lasky & Anthony McCann

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

DOROTHEA LASKY & ANTHONY MCCANN

Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 6:00pm

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

Doors open at 5:30pm
Reading starts at 6:00pm

Dorothea Lasky is the author of Black Life, AWE, and the forthcoming Thunderbird, all from Wave Books. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). She currently lives in New York City and can be found online at www.birdinsnow.com. 

Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of  I ♥ Your Fate  (Wave Books, 2011),  Moongarden  (Wave Books, 2006) and  Father of Noise  (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these three collections, he is one of the authors of  Gentle Reader!  (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer.