Tuesday, January 20, 2015

January 24, 7:30pm: Rodney Koeneke & Anthony McCann




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Saturday, January 24, 2015
Doors at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm
Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012
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Rodney Koeneke’s Etruria is just out from Wave Books. Earlier books include Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006) and Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003). A new chapbook, Seven for Boetticher & Other Poems, will appear any second now from Oakland's Hooke Press. Recent work can be found in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Granta, Gulf Coast, The Nation, and at Harriet, where he was August’s Featured Writer.  He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches British and World History at Portland State.

Anthony McCann is the author of the poetry collections Thing MusicI Heart Your FateMoongarden and Father of Noise. In addition to these books he is one of the authors (along with Matthew Rohrer and Joshua Beckman) of Gentle Reader!,  a collection of erasures of the English Romantics.  Originally from upstate New York he lives in Los Angeles where he irregularly acts as Poet Laureate of Machine Project, a Los Angeles art and performance space. With Machine he has co-curated poetry events in major art museums, private living rooms, secret public closets, the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean (in a boat). Anthony is a member of the faculty at the University of California at Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program. He also teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. 

Thursday, January 15, 2015

January 17, 7:30pm: James Sherry, Brian Kim Stefans & Diane Ward


James Sherry is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose most recently Oops! Environmental Poetics, essays on a new model of environmental culture. His next collection of poetry, Entangled Bank, is forthcoming from Chax Press. He is the publisher of Roof Books and founder of the Segue Foundation in New York City.

Diane Ward's recent published work includes the visual poem "InHouse" in Confluence, edited by Lee Ann Brown, 2012 and "love pivots" in Love Poems, 2014, with Italian translation by Milli Graffi. Roof Books published several collections of her writing beginning in the 1980s. She is currently working on her PhD in Geography at UCLA, focusing on urbanization and conceptions of the human-nature relationship.

Brian Kim Stefans' books include Viva Miscegenation: New Writing (MakeNow, 2013), Kluge: A Meditation and other works (Roof, 2007), What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Heretical Texts, 2006), Angry Penguins (Harry Tankoos, 2000), Gulf (Object Editions, 1998) and Free Space Comix (Roof, 1998), Before Starting Over: Selected Interviews and Essays 1994-2005 (Salt Publishing, 2006) and Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics (Atelos, 2003). His animated poem "The Dreamlife of Letters" among other works can be viewed at his website arras.net. Recent critical writing include “Conceptual Writing: The L.A. Brand” published by Area Sneaks Sheets, and the series “Third Hand Plays” for the website of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art concerning electronic literature. He is a professor of English at UCLA.


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JAMES SHERRY
BRIAN KIM STEFANS
& DIANE WARD

Saturday, January 17, 2015
Doors open at 7pm, Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

January 10, 7:30pm: Felix Bernstein & Cecilia Corrigan



Felix Bernstein debuted on YouTube with his real and satirical Coming Out Video in 2008 and went on to play characters from Amy Winehouse to Lamb Chop to Leopold Brant. His critical and uncritical writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Htmlgiant, GaussPDF, Boston Review, The Believer, Hyperallergic, and Bomb. His first book Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry is forthcoming from Insert Blanc Press. With Gabe Hoot Rubin, he made the films Unchained Melody and Boyland. Together they directed and starred in Red Krayola’s opera Victorine at the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and lead the band Tender Cousins. He’s always on the nose at www.felixbenstein.com.

Cecilia Corrigan is a writer and performer based in New York. Her debut book, Titanic (Northwestern University Press, 2014) was awarded the Madeleine P. Plonsker Prize. Titanic was on Flavorwire’s Top Ten Academic Press books and Flavorwire’s Top Ten Poetry books of 2014. She has previously worked on HBO's Luck for show-runner David Milch, and recently finished her first feature screenplay. She also writes fiction and performs stand up comedy.


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Saturday, January 10, 2015
Doors at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012