Chris Tysh & Eve Fowler: Sat, Mar 8

CHRIS TYSH & EVE FOWLER

Guest emcee: Andrea Quaid

Plus, an orchestrated group reading, including:

Litia Perta
Lauren Mackler
Mariah Garnett
Laida Aguirre
Kate Wolf
Anna Joy Springer
Sylke Meyer
Harold Abramowitz

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Doors open 7pm

Reading at 7:30pm

Presented by Les Figues Press

The Poetic Research Bureau @ 951 CKR

951 Chung King Rd

Chinatown, Los Angeles

Chris Tysh is the author of several collections of poetry and drama, including, most recently, Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic (Les Figues Press, 2013), Night Scales (United Artists, 2010) and Molloy: The Flip Side (BlazeVox, 2012). A recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Kresge Foundation, she lives in Detroit and teaches at Wayne State University. Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic is the second volume of her three-part project, Hotel des Archives, inspired by the French novels of Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Marguerite Duras.

http://www.lesfigues.com/author/chris-tysh/

Eve Fowler lives and works in Los Angeles. A graduate of Temple University (BA,1986), and Yale University (MFA, 1992), Fowler is co­founder of Artist Curated Projects in Los Angeles. She has had a solo shows at Horton Gallery, New York; Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles; and Julie Saul Gallery, New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at Tulane University Art Gallery, New Orleans; Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, New York; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Her work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the New Museum, New York; and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Her work was included in Greater LA and the California Biennial and will appear in a billboard project, Manifest Destiny, organized by LAND in 2013/­14. Fowler recently showed collaborative projects with Sam Gordon at Feature and Printed Matter in New York. Her book Anyone Telling Anything Is Telling That Thing was published by Printed Matter in September of 2013. Her second book, Hustlers, will be published by Capricious in the Spring of 2014.

http://www.evefowler.com/ABOUT-EVE-FOWLER

Jackqueline Frost & Evan Kennedy: Feb 15, 2014 7:30pm

Jackqueline Frost is the author of The Antidote (Compline Press) and You Have the Eyes of a Martyr (O'clock Press). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Rethinking Marxism, Hi Zero, Lana Turner, Elderly, LIT, Steamer, and LIES: a journal of materialist feminism. Currently, she is editing the Uncollected Poems of the text artist Zach Houston, and curates the queer reading series, Red Element, in Oakland.

Evan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Terra Firmament (Krupskaya), Shoo-Ins to Ruin (Gold Wake Press), and Us Them Poems (BookThug). http://dirtyswan.wordpress.com/

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Saturday, February 15, 2014
Doors open 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau @ 951 CKR
951 Chung King Rd
Chinatown, Los Angeles

Dan Thomas-Glass, Cassandra Gillig & Nathaniel Otting

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

DAN THOMAS-GLASS
CASSANDRA GILLIG
& NATHANIEL OTTING

Friday, January 17, 2014
Doors open 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau @ TELIC Arts
951 Chung King Rd
Chinatown, Los Angeles 

Dan Thomas-Glass is the author of The Great American Beatjack Volume I (Perfect Lovers Press), Kate & Sonia (in the months before our second daughter's birth) (Little Red Leaves' Textile Series), Seaming (Furniture Press), and 880 (Deep Oakland Editions). Daughters of your century, his first full-length book of poems, will be released by Furniture Press this year. He edits the occasional journal of post-industrial poetics With + Stand, and just moved to Los Angeles with his wife Kate and their daughters Sonia and Alma.

Cassandra Gillig is a Poetic Research Bureaucrat at Same Text, a new press devoted to Hannah Weiner et al. Her album leaked here: http://blackcakerecords.bandcamp.com/album/sex-beach

Nathaniel Otting is always between Robert Seydel's "There's an occult meaning in initials." & Madeline Gins' REMOVE ALL INITIAL LETTERS. He will mail you something: http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013/08/nathaniel-otting.html

Sophia Dahlin & Feliz Lucia Molina

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

Sophia Dahlin
& Feliz Lucia Molina

Saturday, January 11 2014
Doors open at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ TELIC Arts

951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Sophia Dahlin is a poet in Iowa who was in Oakland, where she “curated” the Poem Talks series at n/a gallery. Her writing has appeared in Fence and Octopus, and is forthcoming in Textsound and dusie. Her chapbook, Toy Weather, can be handed to you at the reading.

Feliz Lucia Molina is the author of Hair Hearts Flip (Gauss PDF) and UNDERCASTLE (Magic Helicopter Press). With Ben Segal and Brett Zehner she co-wrote The Wes Letters forthcoming from Outpost19 in 2014. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley she now resides in Los Angeles and is an editor for continent. Find her at stripmallheaven.tumblr.com

Jacket2 Profiles the Poetic Research Bureau

A short primer on the PRB since 1999. Thanks to Harold Abramowitz and Andrea Quaid for assembling this compendium of Los Angeles - based literary haunts and habituées.

Events on the Weekend of Dec. 13 & 14

Hey poets, poet lovers & poetasters --

We've got 2 events for you this weekend at the Poetic Research Bureau.

Friday

Farnoosh Fathi
Kristen Gleason
& Ossian Foley will read

Thank You Rosekind
& The Bushes will perform

Everything will kick off at 7pm sharp 

-- we need to be done with the music by 10pm

Saturday

Sara Mumolo
& Karen Rigby

Doors open 7pm
Reading at 7:45pm

Poetic Reseach Bureau @ TELIC Arts

951 Chung King Rd
Chinatown, Los Angeles

Please try to come to one or both events!

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Great Guns (Canarium Books, 2013). She's the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Poetry Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the MacDowell Colony, and her poems, translations, and prose have appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Everyday Genius, Poetry, Jacket2, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland, California.

Ossian Foley's first book, OF: Vol. I, will be published this fall by Ugly Duckling Presse. Ossian attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is now a doctoral student at Florida State University. With James Longley, Ossian edits LVNG Magazine, published by Flood Editions. He lives in Tallahassee, FL and Port Townsend, WA, with his dog, Satchel.

Kristen Gleason is 2013-2014 Grand Tumbler of Mont. Squire. Her poems and fiction can be found online and print at HTML Giant and Versal and R.I.P. Michael Jackson We Love You. She lives in a powdered baby circle of Athens, Georgia.

Michael G. Bauer has performed music throughout the United States with his motivational pop band Thank You Rosekind at spaces such as Human Resources in Los Angeles, Issue Project Room in Brooklyn and WQED studio is Pittsburgh. He studied art at UCLA and is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Currently, he is pursuing graduate work in Marital Family Therapy, Clinical Art Therapy at Loyola Marymount University.www.michaelgeraldbauer.com

The Bushes is Ry Rocklen & Nick Lowe

https://myspace.com/thebushes
http://thankyourosekind.bandcamp.com/
http://www.canarium.org/farnoosh-fathi/

Sara Mumolo is the author of Mortar (Omnidawn, 2013) and the Program Manager for the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of CA. With Alisa Heinzman she is the co-editor of the chapbook series, Calaveras. She created and curated the Studio One Reading Series in Oakland, CA from 2008-2012 , and Cannibal Books published her chapbook, March, in 2011. Poems have appeared in 1913: a journal of forms, Action Yes, Lana Turner, The Offending Adam, Real Poetik, and Volt,among others. She lives in Oakland, CA.

Karen Rigby was born in 1979 in Panama City, Panama. She is the author of Chinoiserie (2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, Ahsahta Press, 2012). Awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, she has been published in venues including Poetry Daily, Washington Square, Field, Black Warrior Review, and New England Review. Her poetry is anthologized in Best New Poets 2008 and The Arcadia Project, among others. In 2013, she participated in the Flying House Project.

Saturday, Dec 7: Teresa Carmody & Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma is the author of four poetry collections: Bliss to Fill, The Opening Question, Infamous Landscapes, and the recent Undergloom (2013). She was a recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award. She is a professor of English at the University of Montana.

Teresa Carmody is the author of Requiem (Les Figues, 2005). She is also the author of I Can Feel (Insert Press, 2012), Eye Hole Adore (PS Books, 2008), and the chapbook Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne (Woodland Editions, 2009). She is a co-founding editor of Les Figues Press, and the co-editor of its recent anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (2012).

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Saturday, December 7 2013

Doors open at 7pm

Reading at 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ TELIC Arts

951 Chung King Rd.

Los Angeles, CA