Poetic Research Bureau: STEP & REPEAT: Friday-Sunday nights, July 17-19 @ Geffen Contemporary

For the second year, the Poetic Research Bureau has partnered with MOCA on the literary component of Step & Repeat, MOCA's annual festival of live performance. The festival spans three nights, with poetry and performance beginning at 6pm each night.

Friday night (July 17) features Mashinka Firunts & Danny Snelson from Philadelphia, Raquel Gutierrez & Adam Garcia from SF/LA, and Harryette Mullen from Los Angeles.

Saturday night (July 18) brings out Nathaniel Mackey from North Carolina and Maged Zaher down from Seattle.

Sunday night (July 19) concludes with a visit from New York experimental literary collective TROLL THREAD, with Holly Melgard, Joey Yearous-Algozin and Chris Sylvester.

INFO: moca.org/stepandrepeat
FREE for MOCA members; $12 general admission; $30 for all three nights

THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY @ MOCA
152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Full lineup below:

FRIDAY

Harryette Mullen | Raquel Gutiérrez with Adam Garcia | Mashinka Firunts and Danny Nelson | Geo Wyeth | Jibz Cameron and Kate Berlant | Lafawndah | WAND | Mike B. and DJ Zo with KRN FX | Adam Linder

SATURDAY

Nathaniel Mackey | Maged Zaher | Juliana Huxtable | Casey Jane Ellison | Baron Vaughn | Ho99o9 | Kodak to Graph | Azul | Mustache Mondays with Rosé Hernandez, Santiago Salazar and Zakmatic | Adam Linder

SUNDAY

TROLL THREAD | Nao Bustamante | Kristina Wong | Brent Weinbach | James Fauntleroy with special guests | Open Mike Eagle | DJ set by Juliana Huxtable | Adam Linder

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

Friday, July 17, 2015

STEP & REPEAT: Friday-Sunday nights, July 17-19 @ Geffen Contemporary

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