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

Saturday, Nov 9: Fiona Sze-Lorrain & Naomi Long Eagleson

Fiona Sze-Lorrain writes and translates in English, Chinese, and French. Her new collection of poetry, My Funeral Gondola, is published as a Mãnoa Books title by El Léon Literary Arts in 2013. Her debut poetry title, Water the Moon, appeared in 2010. In addition to her books of translation of contemporary Chinese poets from Zephyr Press and prose translations of Hai Zi (forthcoming from Tupelo), she has translated Romanian-born French poet Ghérasim Luca and American poet Mark Strand (Almost Invisible/Presque invisible, 2012). With Frank Stewart, she has co-edited Sky Lanterns: New Poetry from China, Formosa and Beyond (2012) and On Freedom: Spirit, Art and State (2013), both from the University of Hawai‘i Press. With Gao Xingjian, she co-authored Silhouette/Shadow (Contours, 2007). A co-founder of Cerise Press, and a contributing editor of Mãnoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, she is an editor at Vif Éditions in Paris, France. Also a zheng harpist, she has performed worldwide. www.fionasze.com

Naomi Long Eagleson was born in Korea and raised in the U.S. She is the author of Radiant Field, a chapbook published by Tinfish Press. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA in English from the University of Hawai‘i, and was a Zora Neal Hurston fellow at the Naropa Summer Writing Program. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Arts & Letters, Words without Borders, and Tinfish Journal, and the anthologies Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America and most recently On Freedom: Spirit, Art, and State, both published by Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. She lives in Los Angeles where she works as a freelance book editor.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Doors open 7. Reading at 7:30pm.

Poetic Reseach Bureau 

@ 951 Chung King Rd

Chinatown, Los Angeles

Joshua Beckman & Anthony McCann, Sunday Oct 27, 5pm

 

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of nine books, including The Inside of an Apple, Take It, Shake, Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Micrograms, by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 Meters of Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York. 

Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of I ♥ Your Fate (Wave Books, 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these three collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He has taught English as a Second Language in the former Czechoslovakia, South Korea and Nicaragua, as well as in New York City. Currently he lives in Los Angeles, where he works with Machine Project and teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. 

Sunday, October 27 @ Poetic Research Bureau.

Doors open at 5:00. Reading at 5:30.

951 Chung King Rd, Chinatown, Los A.

Lysette Simmons & AJ Urquidi: Saturday, October 26, 7pm

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

Lysette Simmons & AJ Urquidi

Saturday, October 26 2013
Doors open at 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ TELIC Arts

951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Lysette Elizabeth Simmons was born and raised in California, where she studied Creative Writing and Music History at UCLA. She recently earned her M.F.A. in Poetry form Brooklyn College. Her works have appeared in elimae, Weird Deer, Why I Am Not a Painter, EOAGH, and The Claudius App. Lysette's first chapbook, Dear Robert, won the Wild and Wyrd Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by CA Conrad, in 2011, and was published this spring by Mad Hat Press. Lysette lives in the East Village, and when she isn't making paper snowflakes out of old Playboys, you can find her shamelessly improvising every week at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.

AJ Urquidi was created and nurtured into adulthood in Monterey, California. He studied Creative Writing and Film at UCLA and spent two years practicing writing in the streets of NYC. He is currently working towards his MFA in Poetry from CSU Long Beach. His poems have appeared numerous times in Westwind Literary Journal, Matchbox Magazine (UC Santa Cruz), and autolycus: rogue literary journal and have been nominated for the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Prize. He spends his mid-twenties in East Long Beach studying post-structuralist nonsense, recording avant-electro-noise-rock compositions, and developing the blueprints for a future outsider literary review for West Coast sound, found, and visually conceptual poetry.

Sommer Browning, Noah Eli Gordon & Fred Moten: Sunday Oct 20, 4pm

 

Fred Moten, Sommer Browning and Noah Eli Gordon read Sunday afternoon at the Poetic Research Bureau at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown.

Doors open, 3:30pm.

Reading @ 4pm.

Fred Moten works at the intersection of black studies, performance studies, poetry, and critical theory. He is author of Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000), In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), I ran from it but was still in it. (Cusp Press, 2007), Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2008), B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010), and The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions, 2013).

Sommer Browning writes jokes, makes comics and does poetry. She's the author of Either Way I’m Celebrating (Birds, LLC, 2011) and a collection of drawings and one-liners, The Presidents (and Other Jokes) (Future Tense, 2013). With Tony Mancus, she founded the handmade poetry chapbook press, Flying Guillotine, and with Julia Cohen she curates The Bad Shadow Affair, a monthly reading series. She works as a librarian in Denver and lives with the poet Noah Eli Gordon and their baby, Georgia.

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of eight books, including The Year of the Rooster (Ahsahta Press, 2013), The Source (Futurepoem, 2011), and Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series and subsequently chosen for the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award. Gordon is the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions, an editor with The Volta, and an Assistant Professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing at The University of Colorado–Boulder, where he currently directs Subito Press.

TRAUM UND TRAUMA! A PRB Group Reading, Sat Oct 5.

An evening of suffering, shock, wound and collapse—all within the snug confines of a poetry reading. Join fellow agonists Ara Shirinyan, Anna Joy Springer, Michael du Plessis, Janice Lee, and Harold Abramowitz for a pageant of trauma: historical, social, personal, pet peevial, genocidal.

Hosted by Vanessa Place

(There will be an open-mic opportunity for audience members to read in (1) minute (timed) outpourings of poetic injury.)

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Doors open @ 7pm

Saturday, October 5

Poetic Research Bureau

951 Chung King Rd

Chinatown, LA