Saturday, March 9, 2013 Doors open @ 6:30pm, reading @ 7pm
The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School 951 Chung King Rd. Los Angeles, CA
CAConrad is the author of TRANSLUCENT SALAMANDER (TROLL THREAD, 2013), A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: New (Soma)tics (WAVE, 2012), The Book of Frank (WAVE, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He is a 2011 PEW Fellow, a 2012 UCROSS Fellow, and a 2013 BANFF Fellow. He is a 2012 and 2013 visiting faculty member for the Summer Writing Program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Read some poems athttp://CAConrad.blogspot.com/ Brian Kim Stefans is a poet and critic based in Los Angeles. He has published several books of poetry including Free Space Comix (Roof Books, 1998), Gulf (Object Editions, 1998, downloadable at ubu.com), Angry Penguins (Harry Tankoos, 2000), What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School, 2006), and Before Starting Over: Selected Writings and Interviews 1994-2005 (Salt, 2006). Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics (Atelos, 2003) is a collection of essays, poetry and interviews. His latest book, Viva Miscegenation, is just out from Make Now Press.
ANA BOZICEVIC & MICHAEL DU PLESSIS Saturday, February 16, 2013 Doors open @ 6:30pm, reading @ 7pm **PLEASE NOTE: CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES will be taking place all day in Chinatown. Some ROADS MAY BE CLOSED and PARKING may be hard to find. Consider parking a few blocks away from Chinatown and walking down to Chung King Road. Or better yet, take the METRO GOLD LINE, which has a stop in Chinatown. Or ARRIVE EARLY and enjoy the festivities before the reading.
The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School 951 Chung King Rd. Los Angeles, CA Ana Božičević ́ was born in Croatia in 1977,and emigrated to New York when she was nineteen. Her debut book of poems, Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin
Sky Press), was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award. She
completed her MFA at Hunter College, and is now a PhD Candidate in
English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she helps run the Annual
Chapbook Festival, Lost&Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and the Transculturations Seminar. Her newest book, Rise In the Fall, is just out from Birds, LLC Press. Michael Du Plessis teaches comparative literature and English at the University of Southern California. His novel The Memoirs of JonBenet By Kathy Acker was recently published by Les Figues Press. He has written about a wide variety of subjects, from Goth culture to the French fin-de-siecle, and has also performed, amongst other venues, at Highways and at the MAK Center/Shindler House.
Saturday, February 9, 2013 Doors open @ 5:30pm, reading @ 6pm **Note Earlier Time**
The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School 951 Chung King Rd. Los Angeles, CA
Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too (2013), Elements (2010), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (2008), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (2012). In addition, Deborah is co-editor of Between Worlds: An Anthology of Fiction and Criticism (2012) and In/Filtration: An Anthology of InnovativeHudson Valley Poetry (2013). Her poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Handsome, Eccolinguistics, 1913, Shampoo, Denver Quarterly, and Mantis. Deborah is assistant professor of English at Pace University, Westchester, and founder and curator of the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit.http://www.deborahpoe.com/
Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. Bonnie creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken, visual). She is interested in how people perceive, “read” and interact with these sounds and texts given our current technological moment. Bonnie has received commissions from the London ICA and has presented her work in the US, Europe, and Asia and collaborates frequently with writers and musicians including Ric Royer, Carla Harryman, Andy Hayleck, Joe Foster, Andrea Neumann, Liz Tonne, and Chris Cogburn. She received her MFA at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.http://www.bonniejones.wordpress.com/
LA Fog is:
Kelly Coats (flute) Kathleen Kim (violin) Giles Miller (baritone sax) Jonathan Silberman (tenor sax)
