Poetic Research Bureau: Saturday, Oct 29: David Lau, Brian Ang & Molly Bendall

Celebrating the release of David Lau's Still Dirty: Poems 2009-2015 just out on Commune Editions.

David Lau is the author of the new book Still Dirty (Commune Editions/AK Press) as well as the chapbook Bad Opposites and Virgil and the Mountain Cat. His poetry and essays have appeared widely, including in New Left Review, Boston Review, Armed Cell, Los Angeles Review of Books, and A Public Space. A lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, he is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and editor of the journal Lana Turner.

Brian Ang’s current poetic project is The Totality Cantos for Atelos. Recent essay is “Post-Crisis Poetics”: desire for a poetics adequate to the present, the world since the 2008 economic crisis. Current editing project is a series on post-crisis poetics (postcrisispoetics.blogspot.com) and he continues to edit ARMED CELL in Oakland.

Molly Bendall’s fifth book, Watchful, is out from Omnidawn this fall. Her reviews and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Lana Turner, Boston Review, Free Verse Journal, Pool, and the Wesleyan Anthology--American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement. She teaches at the University of Southern California.

Saturday, October 29 2016
Doors 7:30pm
Reading 8pm

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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, October 29, 2016

Saturday, Oct 29: David Lau, Brian Ang & Molly Bendall

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