Sat, Feb 20: Tisa Bryant, eric kaufman & Litia Perta

 

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

TISA BRYANT
ERICA KAUFMAN
& LITIA PERTA

hosted by
ANDREA QUAID

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Saturday, February 20 2016
7:30pm

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

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Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), a collection of essays on myth-making and black presences in film, literature, and visual art, and co-editor and publisher of The Encyclopedia Project. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Viz. InterArts: Interventions, Body Forms: On Queerness and the Essay the Reanimation Library's Word Processor series, the new arts blog contemptorary, and in Letters to the Future: An Anthology of Experimental Writing by Black Women, among others. She is currently working on a novel, The Curator, and a work of nonfiction on grief, desire, longing and the archive. Bryant teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the California Institute of the Arts.

erica kaufman is the author of INSTANT CLASSIC (Roof Books, 2013) and censory impulse (Factory School, 2009). she is also the co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (Venn Diagram, 2009), and of Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968-1974 (Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, 2014). Prose and critical work can be found in: Rain Taxi, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Jacket2, Open Space/SFMOMA Blog and in The Color of Vowels: New York School Collaborations (ed. Mark Silverberg, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). Additional critical work is forthcoming in Despite the Possible: 15 American Women Poets (ed. Mary Biddinger, University of Akron Press, 2015) and in the MLA Guide to Teaching Gertrude Stein (eds. L. Esdale and D. Mix). kaufman holds a Ph.D. in English (with a focus in Composition & Rhetoric and Contemporary Poetics) from the CUNY Graduate Center. she is the Associate Director of the Institute for Writing & Thinking at Bard College, and teaches in both the Master of Arts in Teaching and First Year Seminar Programs.

Litia Perta is a writer and teacher who lives in Los Angeles. Her work considers art and education and arts educations and she is a professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine. Her website can be found here: litiaperta.com