Sat, Feb 28th, 7:30pm: Claudia Keelan, Bridgette Bates & Martha Ronk

Bridgette Bates’ debut collection, What Is Not Missing Is Light, is the winner of Rescue Press’ Black Box Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Fence, jubilat, PEN Poetry Series, VERSE, and elsewhere.  Originally from Nashville, she lives in Los Angeles where she writes for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and is a features contributor to Kirkus Reviews. 

Claudia Keelan is the author of six books poetry, most recently the verse drama O, Heart (Barrow Street 2014). A book of translations Truth of My Songs: The Poems of the Trobairitz is forthcoming from Omnidawn this spring.  Her honors include the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books (Utopic, 2001) and The Jerome Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review.  She is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Programs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she edits the journal Interim.

Martha Ronk is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Transfer of Qualities (2013), a National Book Award long-list selection; Partially Kept (2012); Vertigo (2007), chosen by C.D. Wright for the National Poetry Series; and In a landscape of having to repeat (2004), winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award. Her prose includes Glass Grapes: And Other Stories (2008), and Displeasures of the Table: memoir as caricature (2001).

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Saturday, February 21, 2015
Doors 7pm
Reading 7:30pm

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

Amiri Baraka's The New-Ark

Join Harmony Holiday & Paul Vangelisti at the Poetic Research Bureau for a screening of Amiri Baraka's recently rediscovered documentary "The New Ark".  

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Sunday, February 22

6pm

The Poetic Research Bureau

951 Chung King Rd.

Los Angeles, CA

90012

Sat, Feb 21, 7:30pm: Ackerman, Detorie & Sakkis

AMANDA ACKERMAN is the author of the chapbooks The Seasons Cemented (Hex Presse), I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck (Insert Press Parrot #8), and Short Stones (Dancing Girl Press). She has co-authored Sin is to Celebration (House Press), the Gauss PDF UNFO Burns a Million Dollars, and the forthcoming novel Man’s Wars And Wickedness (Bon Aire Projects). 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 UNFO. Her book The Book of Feral Flora is forthcoming from Les Figues press.
 
MICHELLE DETORIE is the author of numerous chapbooks including Fur Birds (Insert Press), How Hate Got Hand (eohippus labs), and Bellum Letters (Dusie). She also makes visual poems, poetry objects, time-based poetry, and curates the public art project, The Poetry Booth. Her first full-length collection, After-Cave, is just out with Ahsahta Press. She recently completed The Sin in Wilderness, a book-length erasure about love, animals, and affective geography. Her current project is a series of swamp poems narrated by dragons and bitchy ghosts.

JOHN SAKKIS is the author of The Islands (Nightboat Books, 2015) and Rude Girl (BlazeVOX Books 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks and ephemera. Since 2005 he has edited BOTH BOTH, a little magazine of poetry and art. With Angelos Sakkis he has translated four books by Athenian poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis: most recently Y'es and Diaeresis (forthcoming Dusie Press, 2015); their translation of Agrafiotis's Maribor (The Post-Apollo Press, 2011) was awarded the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. He lives in Oakland.

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Saturday, February 21, 2015
Doors 7pm
Reading 7:30pm

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

The Animal Relation: Molly Bendall, Rachel Mayeri & Laurence Rickels, Sunday Feb 15, 2pm

Variations on a theme: some talk, some verse, some video. Focus on the human-animal relation. New time, same place: Poetic Research Bureau, Sunday February 15, 2pm.

Molly Bendall is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Under the Quick (Parlor Press, 2009). Her new collection Watchful is forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2016. She has also co-authored with the poet Gail Wronsky, Bling & Fringe (What Books), and has done several collaborative projects with L.A. artist John O’Brien. She teaches at the University of Southern California.

Rachel Mayeri is a Los Angeles-based artist working at the intersection of science and art. Her videos, installations, and writing projects explore topics ranging from the history of special effects to the human animal. For the past several years, she has been working on a series of experimental videos exploring the primate continuum entitled Primate Cinema.

Laurence A. Rickels, in 2011, after thirty years teaching at the University of California, accepted the professorship in art and theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe as successor to Klaus Theweleit. He is also the Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Among Rickels’s many books there are cult classics like The Case of California (1991), The Vampire Lectures (1999), Nazi Psychoanalysis (2002), and The Devil Notebooks (2008). A review of SPECTRE, his 2013 study of James Bond: “The provocations of Rickels’s genius combustion engine – Kulturindustrie, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, German idealism, and Shakespeare – lures us into introjection from the mindless mass media projection Sensurround riding Bond’s technological wave” (The Huffington Post). In the course of his investigations into the condition he termed, already in his first book Aberrations of Mourning (1988), “unmourning,” Rickels has also explored the animal relation, notably in sections of his books Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography of Art Cinema (2008), I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick (2010), and his brand new endopsychic genealogy of the Cold War era: Germany. A Science Fiction. For more information please visit his personal website: www.larickels.com

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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Doors open at 1:45pm, Event at 2pm

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