Poetic Research Bureau: March 16-19: After Mingus

Improvising the Mingus School: Session One, March 16-19 2016 : The Jazz Workshop for Radical Poetics / We done worked a Root

WEDNESDAY 3/16 : Listening as a form

6:30 – 8:30pm With Fred Moten, Harmony Holiday, Feliz Molina, Pablo Lopez, and some raw coconuts on deck

Close listening to Nesuhi Ertegun’s interview with Mingus along with LPs :

Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Ah, Um

We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln)

Black Spirits (Amiri Baraka)

Thursday 3/17

6 – 8pm

Screening: Life is a Saxophone (Documentary on LA poet Kamau Daaood)

Discussion of Horace Tapscott and Post Central Ave Jazz heyday Collectives, Community Theater, Jazz and Poetics working together in Black Arts and the telos from then to now’s iterations in the form of albums like Kendrick Lamar’s most recent.

Friday 3/18

5 – 8pm

Mingus Sessions with Paul Vangelisti, workshop and listening

Saturday 3/19

6 – 8pm

Screening of Jackie McLean’s Life on Mars

Sun Ra Listening Session post and Mythscience Impossible Events ephemera showing

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

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

March 16-19: After Mingus – Improvising the Mingus School

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