Tuesday, March 6, 2012

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.