Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons & Lysette Simmons @ Royal/T Cafe

For one night only we're moving the Poetic Research Bureau across town to Culver City, Heart of Screenland, where many an episode of Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang was filmed.

It's a special event put on by my favorite Los Angeles barrista, Yeekai Lim of Cognoscenti Coffee. There will be food, coffee and of course poetry. Though the poetry portion of the evening is free, the food and coffee pairings will be a ticketed event, so please purchase your tickets early.

The readings will start promptly at 7pm.

Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons and Lysette Simmons @ Royal/T Cafe
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Royal/T Cafe
8910 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

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Order tickets via Eventbrite: 
http://coffeexfood-efbeven​t.eventbrite.com/

A unique tasting event featuring seasonal coffees selected by Yeekai Lim of Cognoscenti Coffee and food pairing curated by distinguished cheese monger Sebastian Robin Craig, Jessica Koslow of SQIRL confiture, Na Young of Proof Bakery and Royal/T and a poetry reading by the Poetic Research Bureau (at 7pm).

Each $18 ticket will include the following 3 courses of food paired with coffees (Gratuity not included):

1st Course

Food
Lacinato Kale Salad with SQIRL's preserved Meyer lemons, French radish, toasted pumpkin seeds, Santa Rosa plum dressing, dark rye crispbread and Lou Rey raw sheep Basque cheese

Coffee
Ethiopia Welena Suke Quto, served cold 

Coffee Flavor Profile
Intensely floral fragrances introduce a cup layered with citrus, tangerine, blood oranges, and pink lemonade. A sweet and clear cup. 

2nd Course

Food
Cheese plate featuring: 

- Delice de Bourgogne, Cow milk, Burgundy, France. This is a ripe triple creme. The paste is soft, dense, sweet and lightly peppery.
- Faux Valençay, goat milk, France. Pasteurized mold-ripened chèvre from the Loire Valley in the central western region of France.
- Testun D’Ocelli, goat and cow milk, Piemonte, Italy. The Testun is rinded with nebbiolo must. It is permeated with the scent of dark berries. The paste is dense, flaky and a little sweet.
- SQIRL's homemade pickled vegetables, Loquat/Nocino spread and Proof’s Concord grape focaccia 

Coffee
Kenya Murang'a Theri, served hot & Costa Rica La Concha Typica, served cold

Coffee Flavor Profiles
Kenya - Lychee and candied lemon fragrance introduce bursting key lime acidity in this sweet and creamy cup.
Costa Rica - Apricot blossom and rose fragrances are at the forefront of this coffee, introducing a cup heavy with ripe peach, tangerine and hibiscus.

3rd Course

Food
Pastel Vasco - A rich buttery cake from the Basque region of Spain, filled with SQIRL confitures' strawberry rose jam

Coffee
Colombia Bruselas Libardo Piedrahita ML, served hot.

Coffee Flavor Profile
Green and muscat grape acidity emerge out of a dense cup of cocoa, sweet malt, and molasses. 

PLEASE NOTE THAT NO SUGAR OR CREAM WILL BE SERVED ALONGSIDE YOUR COFFEES. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Farms:
Rancho Del Sol Farms - Meyer Lemons
Flora Bella Farms - Plums
Murray Farms - Concord Grapes
McGrath Farms - Seascape Strawberries
Shear Rock Farms - Pickled Vegetables
Earthtrine Farm - Loquats

Cognoscenti Coffee was founded by architect Yeekai Lim, who launched a pop-up coffeehouse called Cognoscenti Coffee at Urban Eats, a restaurant he designed in Burbank. He transitioned to Blue Dot yogurt shop in Eagle Rock before accepting a permanent residency in the marble-countered confines of Atwater Village’s Proof Bakery, where he brews Four Barrel Coffee.

Sebastian Robin Craig is a cheese monger and restaurant professional who has worked for some of California's most outstanding purveyors of fine cuisine.

Sqirl
Sqirl's owner Jessica Koslow works with farmers within a 200 mile radius of Los Angeles who cultivate their land with the intention of letting the product (many of which are heirloom varietals on the Ark of Taste) speak to its environment. The preserves are then made consciously with minimal organic cane sugar and naturally occurring pectin in copper jam pans handspun by an instate coppersmith. The result is unique; not only portraying the wealth and diversity of California's crops and its generous growing seasons, but also reminding us of the value in the antique process of preservation.
http://www.sqirlla.com/

Proof
In November 2010, Proof Bakery opened its doors with one
very specific vision: to uphold traditional, craft-baking techniques in
creating exceptional baked goods. Combining quality local ingredients
with Chef/Owner Na Young Ma’s passion for perfection, Proof makes each
item in small batches and offers a seasonally-driven menu to provide the
Atwater Village neighborhood with an ever changing array of sweets, savories,
and everything in between.
http://www.proofbakeryla.c​om/

The Poetic Research 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. The Bureau also hosts a reading series at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown. Tonight the Bureau presents the work of writers Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons and Lysette Simmons. The poetry reading will start promptly at 7pm in the back room and it's free. 
http://www.poeticresearch.​com/

Joe Milutis Reading & Lecture

One of the organizing principles of the Poetic Research Bureau is to provide a space for last-minute readings or lectures for poets and scholars who happen to be passing through town. Well we're having our first last-minute reading and lecture this Sunday evening with Joe Milutis. Since it's Sunday night, we'll be starting a little earlier than usual: 6pm. Take note!

Joe Milutis is a writer and media artist who works within a variety of hybrid forms. Recent work includes the glitch media experimental narrative-collaborative writing-"novellina spamflicitata"-installation The Torrent as well as the conceptual-media-essay-with-book-inside The Quiddities, and the sound-poem-translation-politico-porno-novel-manifesto-grotesque Mao Vincit Omnia. He teaches experimental writing and media at the University of Washington-Bothell.

Sunday July 10, 2011

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 5:30pm
Event starts promptly at 6:00pm.

$5 donation requested

June 18: Dodie Bellamy & Sara Wintz

Dodie Bellamy’s most recent book is the buddhist (Publication Studio), an essayistic memoir based on her blog, Belladodie. Her most recent chapbook is Whistle While You Dixie (Summer BF Press). Time Out New York named her chapbook Barf Manifesto (Ugly Duckling) “Best Book Under 30 Pages” for 2009. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam and The Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. She lives in San Francisco with writer Kevin Killian and three cats.

Sara Wintz's writing has appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Jacket, 6X6, Physical Poets, and on Ceptuetics. Her first book, WALKING ACROSS A FIELD WE ARE FOCUSED ON AT THIS TIME NOW, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.

Saturday June 18, 2011

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Event starts promptly at 8:00pm.

$5 donation requested

June 5 at the PRB: Ang, Trevino, Clemons & Webb

Brian Ang is the author of Communism (Berkeley Neo-Baroque, 2011) and Paradise Now (Grey Book Press, 2011). He lives in Oakland, California.

Wendy Trevino clawed her way out of Texas in 2004 and now lives, works and plays in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poems have appeared in Try!, The West Wind Review, Faultline and Makeout Creek.

Dereck Clemons lives in San Francisco with Wendy Trevino. He teaches college English & like most people takes in lots of popular radio & TV & internet & newspapers, & so his poems try to engage that whole thing. And some of those are in Artifice, Try, Lungfull!, West Wind Review & others.

Jeanine Webb's work has appeared in many journals, including the West Wind Review, ZYZZYVA, The Antioch Review, and is forthcoming in Lana Turner. She is one author, with Brian Ang, Joseph Atkins and Tiffany Denman, of the poetry pamphlet Poetry is not Enough.


Sunday June 5, 2011

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Event starts promptly at 8:00pm.

$5 donation requested

At the PRB, June 4: Peter Richards & Jacqueline Waters

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Jacqueline Waters' new book, One Sleeps the Other Doesn't, will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in the fall of 2011. Previous publications include A Minute without Danger (Adventures in Poetry), and two chapbooks, The Garden of Eden a College (A Rest Press) and The Saw That Talked (Minutes Books). She edits The Physiocrats, a pamphlet press.


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Peter Richards is the author of Oubliette (Verse Press/Wave Books, 2001), which won the Massachusetts Center for the Book Honors Award; Nude Siren (Verse Press/Wave Books, 2003); and Helsinki (Action Books, 2011). His poems have appeared in Agni, Colorado Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, FENCE, The Yale Review, and other journals. The University of Montana-Missoula's visiting Hugo Poet Spring Semester 2011, Richards has taught at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Saturday June 4, 2011

The PRB @ The Public School

951 Chung King Rd.

Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm

Event starts promptly at 8:00pm.

$5 donation requested

May 13: Camille Roy, Jen Hofer & Harold Abramowitz

Camille Roy is a writer and performer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Sherwood Forest, a book of poems, is out from Futurepoem in Spring 2011. Her earlier books include Cheap Speech, a play, from Leroy, and Craquer, a fictional autobiography from 2nd Story Books , as well as Swarm (two novellas, Black Star Series), among others. She co-edited Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative with Mary Burger, Robert Glück, and Gail Scott (CoachHouse 2005, re-issued 2010). Earlier books include The Rosy Medallions (from Kelsey St Press) and Cold Heaven (plays, from Leslie Scalapino's O Books). Roy has taught creative writing in multiple genres and forms at several institutions, including San Francisco State University, California State University SummerArts, and Naropa.

Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, and urban cyclist. Her most recent books are the homemade chapbook Lead & Tether (Dusie Kollektiv, 2011); Ivory Black, a translation of Negro marfil by Myriam Moscona (Les Figues Press, 2011); a series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press, 2009); sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008); The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008); and lip wolf, a translation of lobo de labio by Laura Solórzano (Action Books, 2007). She teaches at CalArts, Goddard College, and Otis College, and works nationally and locally as a social justice interpreter.

Harold Abramowitz is a writer and editor from Los Angeles. His recent publications include Not Blessed (Les Figues Press), House on a Hill, Part 3 (Slash Pine Press), and House on a Hill, Part 1 (Insert Press, Parrot Series #2). Harold co-edits the short-form literary press eohippus labs (www.eohippuslabs.com). He also writes and edits as part of the collaborative projects SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and UNFO.

Friday May 13, 2011

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

$5 donation requested

May 6: Christopher Stackhouse & John Keene

Christopher Stackhouse is a writer, curator, and visual artist. He has worked in several media and disciplines including film and video, music recording, theater, painting and drawing. He is the author of Slip (Corollary Press, 2005); and is co-author of image/text collaboration with writer/translator John Keene, Seismosis (1913 press, 2006), which features Stackhouse’s drawings in philosophical discourse with Keene’s texts. His poems have been published in several in literary journals including EOAGH, Octopus, GlitterPony, Aufgabe, Hambone, nocturnes (re)view of literary arts, and The Recluse. Fellowships and awards include Cave Canem Writer Fellow (1997,1999, 2003); Fellow in Poetry, New York Foundation for the Arts (2005); Pocantico Residency at the Marcel Breuer House, Rockefeller Brothers Fund For The Arts (2009). His essays and reviews have appeared in the literary journal American Poet- The Journal of The Academy of American Poets, The Poetry Project Newsletter, A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years Volume 1 Poetry & Non-Fiction; and in arts periodicals Modern Painters, Art In America, and NY Arts Magazine, among other publications. He is an advisory board member at FENCE Magazine, a contributing editor at BOMB Magazine, and a contributing poetry editor at VANITAS Magazine. He has a book of poems forthcoming from Counterpath Press (Denver, CO), and a collection of various texts on art, writing, and culture forthcoming from Sand Paper Press (Key West, FL).

John Keene is the author of Annotations (New Directions) and, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, of the art-text dialogue Seismosis (1913 Press). He has published his poetry, fiction, essays, and translations widely, and has received many honors, including a Whiting Foundation Writers Award and fellowships from the state arts councils of New Jersey and Massachusetts. He divides his time between the northeast and midwest, and teaches at Northwestern University.


Friday, May 6, 2011 at 7:30pm

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

$5 donation requested