Saturday, July 23: Lucy Ives & Johanna Jackson

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

LUCY IVES & JOHANNA JACKSON

Saturday, July 23, 2016
Doors open 7:00pm, reading at 7:30.

LUCY IVES is the author of five books of poetry and prose, including The Hermit, a book of aphorisms and extremely short stories, recently published by The Song Cave. Her first full-length novel, Impossible Views of the World, will be published by Penguin Press in 2017.


JOHANNA JACKSON is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. She has a BA in English Literature and Art History from the University of Maryland and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. She is interested in making objects out of feelings. Her work is in the permanent collections of the SFMoMA, Henry Art Gallery, Hammer Museum and the Portland Art Museum.

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Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Chinatown
Los Angeles, CA
900012

Elizabeth Hall, Myriam Gurba & Wendy C. Ortiz

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

A book release party for Elizabeth Hall's new book

from Tarpaulin Sky Press

I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris

ELIZABETH HALL

MYRIAM GURBA

& WENDY C. ORTIZ

Saturday, July 9 2016

7:30pm

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Elizabeth Hall was born in Louisiana and raised in Georgia. She is the author of the book I HAVE DEVOTED MY LIFE TO THE CLITORIS (Tarpaulin Sky Press) and the chapbook Two Essays (eohippus labs). She currently lives in San Pedro, California where she plays bass with the band Pine Family.

A native Californian, Myriam Gurba earned a BA with honors from UC Berkeley. Her first book, Dahlia Season, won the Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. She is also the author of Wish You Were Me (Future Tense), menudo & Herb (self-published), and A White Girl Named Shaquanda (self-published). She blogs at lesbrain and often for The Rumpus and Radar Productions.

Wendy C. Ortiz is a Los Angeles native. She is the author of EXCAVATION: A MEMOIR (Future Tense Books, 2014), HOLLYWOOD NOTEBOOK (Writ Large Press, 2015), and the forthcoming BRUJA (Civil Coping Mechanisms, late 2016). She wrote the year-long, monthly column "On the Trail of Mary Jane" about medical marijuana dispensary culture in Southern California for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Wendy was co-founder and curator of the Rhapsodomancy Reading Series between 2001 and 2015.

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Poetic Research Bureau 

951 Chung King Rd. 

Chinatown 

Los Angeles, CA

900012