Geoffrey Dyer & Lauren Eggert-Crowe

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

GEOFFREY DYER & LAUREN EGGERT-CROWE
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

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

Geoffrey Dyer is the author of The Dirty Halo of Everything (Krupskaya, 2003). His poems and prose have been published in Fourteen Hills, Parthenon West Review, Double Room, Involuntary Vision: After Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Bay Poetics, Sand Canyon Review, Mirage/Periodical, and other literary journals. Geoffrey received his MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in 2003 after earning his Bachelor's from The University of California at Santa Cruz. He currently teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at Taft College where he is faculty adviser to the student-edited literary publication A Sharp Piece of Awesome.

Lauren Eggert-Crowe's writing has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Diagram, Interrupture, and Sixth Finch, among others. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: The Exhibit and In the Songbird Laboratory. 

Peter Jaeger & Ara Shirinyan

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PETER JAEGER & ARA SHIRINYAN
Friday, November 9, 2012
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

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

Peter Jaeger is a Canadian poet, literary critic and text-based artist now living in the UK. His published work includes the poetry books Power Lawn (Coach House Books 1999), Prop (Salt 2007), Rapid Eye Movement (Reality Street Editions 2009), and The Persons (information as material 2011). He is currently writing a book on John Cage, which is set to be published by Continuum Press next year. Jaeger teaches poetry and literary theory at Roehampton University in London.

Ara Shirinyan is a poet based in Los Angeles. He is the publisher of Make Now Press and the co-director of the Poetic Research Bureau. His books include Syria Is In the World (Palm Press, 2007), Your Country Is Great (Futurepoem, 2008), and Handsome Fish Offices (Insert Press, 2008). 

Corina Copp & Joseph Harrington

  

 

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

CORINA COPP & JOSEPH HARRINGTON
Friday, November 2, 2012
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

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

Corina Copp is most recently the author of Pro Magenta/Be Met (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), with publications forthcoming from Bad Press, Minutes Books, and Trafficker Press. Poetry, performance texts, and critical writing can be found soon or now at The Claudius App, The Cambridge Literary Review, Hi Zero, Boston Review, BOMB, SFMOMA's Open Space, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a performance trilogy based on the works of Marguerite Duras, entitled The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love. Part one, SUSANSWERPHONE, was presented this October at the CUNY Graduate Center's three-day PRELUDE.12 Festival. She is a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter (2009–11), and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir) (Wesleyan Poetry 2011), a mixed-genre work relating the twinned narratives of the Watergate scandal and his mother's cancer, which was a Rumpus magazine Poetry Book Club selection; the chapbook Earth Day Suite (Beard of Bees Press 2010 - available as free PDF); and the critical study Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern US Poetics (Wesleyan UP 2002). His creative work also has appeared in BathHouse, 1913: a journal of forms, Hotel Amerika, No Tell Motel, With+Stand, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, and P-Queue, among others; and he has published articles on modernism, political philosophy, and the cultural history of poetry in the U.S., in journals such as Jacket2, American Literary History, and American Literature. He is currently at work on a four-volume mixed-genre and -media account of his mother's life and times. He teaches at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, USA.

Oct 21: Franck André Jamme; Lisa Pearson in conversation

 

The Poetic Research Bureau  presents a Reading + Franck André Jamme in Conversation with Lisa Pearson.

Sunday, October 21, doors open at 5. Reading & conversation at 5:30pm.
PRB at The Public School, 951 Chung King Road. (CHiNATOWN)

 
It could be a cult classic: the debut edition of Siglio Press’s Tantra Song—one of the only books to survey the elusive tradition of abstract Tantric painting from Rajasthan, India—sold out in a swift six weeks. The works depict deities as geometric, vividly hued shapes and mark a clear departure from Tantric art’s better-known figurative styles. They also resonate uncannily with lineages of twentieth-century art—from the Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism to Minimalism—as well as with much painting today. Rarely have the ancient and the modern come together so fluidly.

—Lauren O’Neill-Butler, THE PARIS REVIEW DAILY

 

 

Franck André Jamme is one of France’s leading contemporary poets and the author of more than a dozen books. His publications in English (translated by John Ashbery, Charles Borkhuis, David Kelley, Norma Cole, and Michael Tweed) include New Exercises (Wave Books), Another Silent Attack, The Recitation of Forgetting, Extracts from the Life of a Beetle (Black Square Editions), and Moon Wood (Sélavy Press). Described by Henri Michaux as “a writer of rare quality,” Jamme has also collaborated with a number of artists including Phillippe Favier, Suzan Frecon, Acharya Vyakul, and Hans Schimansky, as well as translated the works of John Ashbery and Lokenath Bhattacharya. A specialist in art brut, Tantric and tribal arts of India, he has curated and contributed to exhibitions at The Drawing Center, Centre Georges Pompidou, Galerie du Jour, and Beaux-Arts de Paris, among others.

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

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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.