Saturday, January 30, 2010

Lease & Perriere :: Bernheimer & Timmons















TWO readings for the first week of February.

first up...

Joseph Lease & Donna de la Perriere

Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 7:30pm
Doors open at 7:30pm
Reading starts at 8:00pm

and then....

Alan Bernheimer & Mathew Timmons

Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 4:00pm
Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

$5 donation requested

Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Broken World (Coffee House Press) and Human Rights (Talisman House, forthcoming). His poem "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribner). His poems have also been featured on NPR and published in Bay Poetics, No Gender, and elsewhere.

Donna de la Perrière is the author of True Crime (Talisman House, 2009) and the forthcoming St. Erasure (Talisman House, 2010). Her poems have appeared in No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press/Belladonna Books, 2009) and Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006). She teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at both California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University, and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series at San Francisco’s The Lab gallery and performance space.

Alan Bernheimer was born a New Yorker. Coastal inclination since. Europe before the age of reason. Graduated from Yale and worked with words at various jobs. High-tech marketing for a long spell. Now solar. Bay Area resident for 30 some years. Adventures in Poetry published The Spoonlight Institute last fall. Earlier books include Billionesque and Café Isotope, both from The Figures.

Mathew Timmons has published prose, poetry and criticism in various places including: P-Queue, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Or, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, Artillery, The Magazine, X-TRA and The Encyclopedia Project. A chapbook, Lip Service (Slack Buddha), and an 800 page full color, large-format, hardbound book, CREDIT (Blanc Press), was recently published. His first full-length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press) and his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books) are forthcoming.

Monday, January 18, 2010

January 24: Difficult Music, In Spades


Having tested out the Luna Playhouse for sound insulation and absorption last Halloween, and finding it decidedly sympathetic to some stranger vibrations, here comes another test. Sunday, January 24th, from 3pm to 10pm, sound & conceptual artists, power electronics enthusiasts and rogue amplificados from Berlin to Baltimore descend on the the PRB's inner sanctum for some third ear massage. Nine acts, six hours, and three million ways to cry uncle.

The lineup (early show):

Sudden Infant
(Berlin, more here), video
The Haters (GX Jupitter-Larsen, LA), video
R. Jencks (Bay Area), video
Cleanse (Detroit/LA, AKA Hive Mind)
John Wiese (LA)
Damion Romero (LA)

The lineup (late show):

Ear Nose & Throat (Baltimore, members of:
Matmos & Leprechaun Catering)
Wobbly (San Francisco)
Dimmer (LA, Thomas Dimuzio + Joseph Hammer)

Sunday, December 13, 2009

The PRB Recommends...

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Brian Kim Stefans, recent Los Angeles emigrant, is beginning an investigative archival project on endogenous/indigenous Angeleno poet-innovators, and posting some of his finds to his blog, Free Space Comix. The initial digs are well-worth your time.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Lindsey Boldt & John Sakkis















The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

Lindsey Boldt & John Sakkis

Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 4:00pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm

$5 donation requested

Lindsey Boldt lives in San Francisco where she is a practicing poetess, cultural worker, vaudeville-style entertainer, elementary after-school teacher, human jukebox and assistant editor with The Post-Apollo Press. She is the author of the chapbook Oh My, Hell Yes and is currently working on two prose projects related to two very dated 80's movies.

John Sakkis's first full length book, Rude Girl, is just out from BlazeVox Books. He is the author of numerous chapbooks including most recently: Gary Gygax, The Moveable Ones and Rude Girl. With Angelos Sakkis he translates the work of Athenian multimedia artist/ poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis; their translation of Agrafiotis's Maribor is forthcoming from The Post-Apollo Press as well as Chinese Notebook forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. Recent work has appeared in Area Sneaks, Action, Yes and Octopus. He lives in the Lower Haight and works at Small Press Distribution in Berkeley.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Mark Nowak










The Poetic Research Bureau presents....

Mark Nowak

Thursday, November 5, 2009 @ 8:00pm

Doors open at 8:00pm
Reading starts at 8:30pm

$5 donation requested

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

Mark Nowak is a poet, social critic, labor activist, and author of, among others, Coal Mountain Elementary and Shut Up Shut Down, a New York Times "Editor's Choice." His work has also been included in Goth: Undead Subculture and American Poets in the 21st Century: the New Poetics. Nowak is "regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature," encouraging students to engage in all forms of poetry and expression, not just those found in mainstream literature and art. He is also the editor of the journal, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Kate Greenstreet & Aaron Kunin
















The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

Kate Greenstreet & Aaron Kunin

Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 4:00pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm

$5 donation requested

Kate Greenstreet's second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press and includes a DVD containing two short films based on the two sections of the book. Ahsahta published Greenstreet's case sensitive in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recentlyThis is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008). Find her poems in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, VOLT, the Denver Quarterly, Fence, Court Green, and other journals. Visit her online at kickingwind.com.

Aaron Kunin is the author of a book of poems, Folding Ruler Star, and a novel, The Mandarin. Another collection, The Sore Throat and Other Poems, is forthcoming. He will be reading from a new chapbook, Cold Genius. He lives in Los Angeles.