Saturday, April 25: Kristen Gallagher & Chris Alexander

KRISTEN GALLAGHER
& CHRIS ALEXANDER

Saturday, April 25, 2015
Doors open at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

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

Kristen Gallagher's most recent poetry collection is We Are Here (2011). She is currently working on a long manuscript titled Florida. Excerpts of the work have been released in the form of a chapbook, also titled "Florida," from Well Greased Press, and a digital file titled "Dossier on the Site of a Shooting" on GaussPDF. More is forthcoming in The Printed Web, edited by Paul Soullelis. Her essay “Cooking A Book with Low Level Durational Energy; or, How to Read Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies” just came out in Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry from The University of Alabama Press, and her essay “Teaching Freire and CUNY Open Admissions” was recently anthologized in Class and the College Classroom: Essays on Teaching. She is Professor of English at City University of New York LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York.

Chris Alexander is the author of Panda (2010/2012) and McNugget (2013). He is no longer really on Facebook.

Saturday, April 18: Suzanne Stein & Tom Comitta

SUZANNE STEIN
& TOM COMITTA

Saturday, April 18, 2015
Doors open at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

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

Suzanne Stein’s publications include The Kim Game (Area Sneaks 2015), TOUT VA BIEN (Displaced Press 2012), and Hole in Space (OMG! 2008). Poems, talk performances, and prose have appeared in War and Peace, ON:Contemporary Practice, Counterpath; and at New Langton Arts, Artists Television Access, the Berkeley Art Museum and elsewhere; audio performances are archived at PennSound.

Tom Comitta is the author of ◯ (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), SENT (Invisible Venue, 2014) and ___ _____ __ _______ (Aggregate Space, 2014). From 2011-12, he co-wrote and co-conducted nine operas with The San Francisco Guerrilla Opera Company. These operas were staged at numerous sites around the Bay Area, including Civic Center BART and the Berkeley Art Museum. In 2012, he staged National Novel Writing Night Month (NaNoWriNiMo), a futurist improvement on the write-a-novel-in-a-month contest in which he composed and published novels written in a night. Comitta lives in Oakland, CA where he works as a book designer and facilitates multimedia writing workshops at elementary schools. Forthcoming work includes First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011-2014 (Gauss PDF) and The City of Nature (Make Now Books).

Saturday, April 11: Gelare Khoshgozaran, Susan Schultz & Daniela Seel

Gelare Khoshgozaran is an artist, a writer and translator, and a video-editor working from a cubicle somewhere in Burbank where she is writing this short bio in third person. She has contributed to multiple Persian and English publications including Parkett, The Enemy, TripWire, Jadaliyya, Ajam Media Collective, Mardomak and ZanNegaar Journal of Women Studies. Gelare lives, works and fears dying in Los Angeles; the last time she crossed an international border was in August 2009.

Susan Schultz's books include Aleatory Allegories (Salt), And Then Something Happened (Salt), Memory Cards & Adoption Papers (Potes & Poets), Dementia Blog (Singing Horse), Memory Cards: 2010-2011 Series (Singing Horse), A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and edited collections on John Ashbery (Alabama) and on multiformalisms (Textos), the latter with Annie Finch. Tinfish Press recently published Jack London is Dead: Euro-American Poetry of Hawai`i (and some stories), which she edited (2013). He newest book is volume two of Dementia Blog, "She's Welcome to Her Disease" (Singing Horse Press, 2013). Tinfish Press can be found at tinfishpress.com

Daniela Seel, born 1974 in Frankfurt/Main, is a poet, publisher, translator, editor, host, and mentor. In 2000 she was co-founder of KOOKread, the literary branch of the artists' network KOOK ‒ together with fellow authors Jan Böttcher, Alexander Gumz, Karla Reimert, and Uljana Wolf. Emerging from KOOK, and supported by book artist and illustrator Andreas Töpfer as Art Director, in 2003 she founded kookbooks – Lab for Poetry as Life Form. Her first collection of poems ich kann diese stelle nicht wiederfinden / i cannot find this place again was published by kookbooks in 2011. Her poems have been translated into Polish, English, Slovak, French, Norwegian, Italian, Dutch, Serbian, and Croatian. She has collaborated with musicians, dancers, visual artists, and fellow poets. In her current project was weißt du schon von prärie / what do you know about prairie, actually she tries to further explore the relations between voice, space, textures, and movement, how they evolve from one another and change over time, thus perhaps creating a "four-dimensional poetry room". She lives in Berlin.

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Saturday, April 11 2015
Doors open 7, reading: 7:30pm

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

Saturday, April 4: Corina Copp, Lanny Jordan Jackson & Andrew Maxwell

CORINA COPP is a writer and theater artist based in New York. Her first full-length book of poems, The Green Ray, has just been published by Ugly Duckling Presse. Recent work can be found in Cabinet, BOMB, Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism (Triple Canopy), SFMOMA’s Open Space, and elsewhere. Excerpts of her three-part play, The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love, have have been presented in a group show, Un, Deux, Trois, at Home Alone 2 Gallery (09/14, performed with Lanny Jordan Jackson); at the NYC Prelude Festival, Dixon Place, and through the support of the LMCC Workspace program. Copp is a curator at the Segue Foundation.

LANNY JORDAN JACKSON is a filmmaker, writer, artist, and performer living in New York. He is the author of the chapbooks VILLI (2010), Dear Swimmer (2011), the films Vivian (2013), Triple Shark Cerberus (2013), Scorpio vs. Glass Door Restaurant (2014), and variety of performance pieces.

ANDREW MAXWELL's recent collections of aphorism and poetry include Peeping Mot (Apogee, 2013) and Candor is the brightest shield (Ugly Duckling, 2014). An artist's book with illustrator Nathan Gelgud, Beggars of Life, is forthcoming later this year. He lives in Los Angeles, where he co-directs the Poetic Research Bureau reading series and DJs a weekly radio show of outernational obscurites, The Dream of Harry Lime.

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Saturday, April 4 2015
Doors open 7, reading: 7:30pm

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