Steven Seidenberg & David Abel

STEVEN SEIDENBERG & DAVID ABEL 
Saturday, October 13, 2012 
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School 
951 Chung King Rd. Los Angeles, CA

Steven Seidenberg is a poet and artist living in San Francisco. His work as an academic philosopher and poet has appeared in various literary and scholarly journals. His chapbook, Verge, was recently published by Hidebound Press. He is co-creator and contributing editor (with Elizabeth Robinson) of Pallaksch. Pallaksch., a journal devoted to poetry broadly understood as philosophical in the character of its inquiry, forthcoming from Instance Press. 

David Abel is a poet, editor, and teacher, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop. Three new books were released in the summer of 2012: Float, a collection of collage texts spanning twenty-five years of work (Chax Press); Tether, a chapbook of poems (Barebone books); and Carrier, a sequence of hypergraphics (c_L Books). With Sam Lohmann, he publishes the Airfoil chapbook series, and since 2002 he has published twenty-four issues of the free broadside series Envelope. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Kathryn L.Pringle & Samantha Giles

KATHRYN L. PRINGLE & SAMANTHA GILES

Saturday, September 22, 2012
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School

951 Chung King Rd.

Los Angeles, CA

kathryn l. pringle is an American poet living in Oakland, Ca. She is the author of fault tree (winner of Omindawn’s 1st/2nd book prize selected by CD Wright), RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY (Heretical Texts/Factory School), The Stills (Duration Press), and Temper and Felicity are lovers.(TAXT). Some of her poems can be found in Denver Quarterly, Fence, Phoebe, horse less review, and other journals. Her work can also be found in the anthologiesConversations at the Wartime Cafe: A Decade of War (WODV Press), I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues), and forthcoming in The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books).

Samantha Giles grew up in an industrial section of Santa Monica, California and currently lives in the flatlands of Oakland, CA. She is a graduate of the School of Social Work at San Francisco State and holds an MFA from Mills College where she was managing editor of 580 Split. She is the author ofhurdis addo (displaced press, 2011), a winner of the Sexiest Poem awarded by CAConrad and the forthcoming deadfalls and snares from Futurepoem. Since 2009, she has been the Director of Small Press Traffic.

Francesca Lisette & Samuel Solomon

The Poetic Research Bureau presents....

FRANCESCA LISETTE & SAMUEL SOLOMON
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Doors open @ 8pm, reading @ 8:30pm

951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA

Francesca Lisette holds an MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, where she organised Chlorine Readings in Brighton between 2009 and 2010. Her first book Teens collects work written and published 2007 – 2010 and is available from Mountain Press. Extracts of her work can be found in Better than Language: An Anthology of New Modernist Poetries (Ganzfeld, 2011). An essay on the poetry of Ariana Reines and Lisa Robertson has just been published in the third issue of The Paper Nautilus, a UK magazine devoted to the work of experimental female poets. She is currently working on a project combining poetry and live art entitled sub rosa; or, “The Book of Metaphysics”. She lives and works in London.

Samuel Solomon lives in Los Angeles. His poems, essays, and translations have been published or are forthcoming in differences, Décalages, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, htmlgiant, Lana Turner, Hi Zero, Inkwell, Five Fingers Review, Lyric Review, and Narrative. His chapbookLife of Riley was released this June from Bad Press and a long excerpt of his work-in-progress, Special Subcommittee, is due out in August from Veer Books' first set of Viersomes.

Julia Bloch & Frank Montesonti

The Poetic Research Bureau presents....

Julia Bloch & Frank Montesonti
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Doors open @ 7:30pm, reading @ 8pm

951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA

Julia Bloch grew up in Northern California and Sydney, Australia, earned an MFA at Mills College and a PhD at University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson (published by Sidebrow Books in April 2012). She is the recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and the William Carlos Williams Prize for Poetry, is an editor of Jacket2, and recently moved to Los Angeles to teach literature in the Bard College MAT program.

Frank Montesonti is the author of Blight, Blight, Blight, Ray of Hope (Barrow Street Press), winner of the 2012 Barrow Street book contest, and the chapbook A Civic Pageant (Black Lawrence Press, 2009). He has been published in literary journals such as Tin House, Black Warrior Review, AQR, Poet Lore, and Poems and Plays, among many others. He has an MFA from the University of Arizona and teaches poetry at National University. A longtime resident of Indiana, he now lives in Los Angeles, California.

Abigail Child & Diane Ward, Saturday, March 31

The Poetic Research Bureau presents:

Abigail Child & Diane Ward
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Doors open @ 7, reading @ 7:30pm

The PRB @ the Public School
951 Chung King Road, Chinatown, LA

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Abigail Child is in town to show some film and video at the Redcat, and is so mighty good as to stop by our little alleycat kennel to give a reading and throw up some projections on our wall. How often do you get to kick your feet up on the weekend and do home movies with Abigail?

Joining her is one the PRB's favorite LA scribblers -- urban explorer and all-around swell gal, Diane Ward. This one's a calendar highlight, folks. Hope to see you there!

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Abigail Child: feats and deeds.  |  Diane Ward: histories and triumphs.

Saturday, March 24: Cal Bedient & Hillary Granvendyk

The Poetic Research Bureau presents:

Calvin Bedient & Hillary Gravendyk
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Doors open @ 7, reading @ 7:30pm

951 Chung King Rd, Chinatown, LA

Calvin Bedient is the author of three books of poetry—Candy Necklace (Wesleyan), The Violence of the Morning (University of Georgia Press), and Days of Unwilling (Saturnalia Books)—with a fourth book coming out from Omnidawn in the fall. He is the co-editor of Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion. He lives in Santa Monica.

Hillary Gravendyk is the author of Harm (Omnidawn Press), out last fall. She is the two-time winner of the Eisner Prize in Poetry and her chapbook, The Naturalist, was published by Achiote Press in 2008..  Hillary is currently working on a critical book, Chronic Poetics, that explores intersubjectivity and embodiment in the poetic works of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, George Oppen, and Larry Eigner. She often collaborates with the photographer Benjamin Burrill and is interested in mixed-media forms. She lives in Claremont, California.

Phoebe Giannisi & Amanda Ackerman

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

PHOEBE GIANNISI & AMANDA ACKERMAN

Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 6:00pm
The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 5:30pm
Reading starts at 6:00pm

$5 donation

Phoebe Giannisi (Athens, Greece,1964) is a poet and a PhD architect. She works as an Assistant Professor at Volos Department of Architecture (University of Thessaly, Greece) where she teaches design and literature poetics related to urban space and landscape. She is involved in public art practices. She is interested in the performative and acoustic dimension of poetry, and she organizes in situ poetic performances in public spaces. In 2010 she was co-curator for the Greek Pavilion of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (La Biennale di Venezia) (www.greekark.com).

Amanda Ackerman is the author of four chapbooks: Sin is to Celebration (co-author, House Press), The Seasons Cemented (Hex Presse), I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck (Insert Press Parrot #8), and Short Stones (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press). She is co-publisher and co-editor of the press eohippus labs. She also writes collaboratively as part of the projects SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and U.N.F.O. (The Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization), whose audio text project Explanation as Composition was recently featured at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.