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

Thursday, April 14: Philippe Beck & Guy Bennett, 7:30pm

French poet Philippe Beck¹s first collection, Garde-manche hypocrite, came out in 1996, and since then he has published thirteen more books, including Garde-manche Deux, Élégie Hé, Chants populaires, as well as an intellectual biography, Beck l¹impersonnage, and a prose work, Un Journal. He has collaborated with Gérard Pesson and Philippe Mion in the composition of several operatic and choral pieces, and teaches both at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and the Centre Atlantique de Philosophie at the University of Nantes. In 1990 Philippe Beck was a founding editor of Alter, a journal of phenomenology, and in 2000 he founded and became editor-in-chief of the poetry journal Quaderno.

Guy Bennett is the author of several works of poetry, non-poetry, and numerous translations. Recent publications include the chapbooks 32 Snapshots of Marseilles and the big e, a translation of Ernst Jandl's monovocalic poem das große e, and a new collection of poetry, Self-Evident Poems. His writing has been featured in magazines and anthologies in the United States and abroad, and presented in poetry and arts festivals internationally. Publisher of Mindmade Books (formerly Seeing Eye Books) and co-editor of Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, he lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.

March 12, 7:30pm: Aaron Kunin & Anna Moschovakis

Anna Moschovakis's most recent books are You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, a book of poems; and The Jokers, a translation of a novel by Egyptian writer Albert Cossery. Based in Brooklyn and the wilds of upstate New York, she is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse and teaches at Pratt Institute and in Bard's interdisciplinary MFA program.

Aaron Kunin is recently the author of The Sore Throat and Other Poems. Grace Period, a collection of aphorisms, sketches, and fragments, is forthcoming. He lives in Los Angeles.

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You know these two -- these sage and canny kids are our faves. Aaron's reading new work, Anna's gotta new book. They school us consistently, so natch, we put 'em in our School: Headmaestros.

Don't doubt it.

Saturday, March 12, 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