Poetic Research Bureau: Saturday, June 13th: Robinson, Rosenthal & Beckwith @ The PRB

Kate Robinson is a poet and intermedia book artist living in Oakland, CA where she co-founded the Manifest Reading/Workshop Series and artist book press. Since 2014, she has been performing as half of The Third Thing, a collaborative feminist performance duo with a chapbook forthcoming on Yo-Yo Labs.

Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal is a nerd-based artist and sometime switch. She is the author of three chapbooks, Ri Ri (Re)Vision (Publication Studio), This Is The ENDD (Wilner Books), and Close (Sibling Rivalry Press). She has performed at the New Museum, Public Fiction, the &Now Festival of Innovative Writing, Rutgers, SAIC, and the McDonalds on Sunset & Fountain. Her criticism appears regularly in Art in America and Rhizome.org.

Formerly of Philadelphia, Caleb Beckwith is a poet and editor living in Oakland, CA. He is a Senior Editor at The Conversant with work published/forthcoming from Jacket 2, Essay Press and Gauss PDF.

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Saturday, June 13, 2015
Doors open at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

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

About the Bureau

The Poetic Research Bureau is a valise fiction and portable literary service in Northeast Los Angeles.

Our living room at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown hosts an extended community of autodidacts and guessworkers caught up in language, inquiry and the unguarded arts. Just as it is: a community free school by day, and by night, a non-professional public forum for presentations, readings, screenings and sundry intellectual exchanges.

As an out-of-pocket California milk-crate boosterist enterprise, the PRB also serves as the irregular literary umbrella for projects such as occasional poetry journal The Germ ('97-'05), edited by Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card; and art-lit mag Area Sneaks, edited by Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi.

As a research bloc, the Bureau attempts to cultivate composition, publication and distribution strategies that enlarge the public domain. It favors appropriations, impersonations, 'compost' poetries, belated conversations, unprintable jokes and doodles, 'unoriginal' literature, historical thefts and pastiche. The publication emphasis is on ephemeral works, short-run magazines and folios, short-lived reprints and excerpts in print-on-demand formats, and the occasional literary fetish objects of stupidly incomparable price and value.

Several reading series are hosted at 951 CKR, and we welcome writers whose work lacks the 'commercial tendency' while harboring the bright, high-minded intentions that often lead to broad panic, righteous perversions, improbable arguments, and the ill-served cul-de-sacs of genius. The series are coordinated by the aforementioned Messrs Maxwell and Mosconi. If you're sympatico, passing through town, or need a megaphone, 50 seats and a big blank space, give us a write.

contact: directors@poeticresearch.com

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Saturday, June 13th: Robinson, Rosenthal & Beckwith @ The PRB

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