STEVEN FARMER & THOM DONOVAN

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

STEVEN FARMER & THOM DONOVAN

Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 4:30pm

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

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

$5 donation requested

Steven Farmer is a San Diego native who migrated to north Oakland in the early '80's. He's worked for years in restaurants, and started a second career in the IT industry, spending the last 10 years at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Books include Coracle, Tone Ward, World of Shields, Standing Water, Medieval, and just out: Glowball (theenk Books, NY, 2010). See also Crayon, Third Factory/Notes to Poetry , Poetics Journal, and Carlos Soto Roman's fabulous Elective Affinities website.

Of Glowball, Sianne Ngai says: "Is the word 'glow' now permanently ominous? What is the future of aesthetic enchantment in the society of the spectacle? In a book where poems become exploding dandelion heads of the spreadsheet and situation room, Steve Farmer radically estranges us from our present as if it were the future’s past. Glowball est a praeclarus quod perago libri."

There is a line in Glowball about Glendale. This will be Farmer's first visit to Glendale.

Thom Donovan lives in NYC where he edits Wild Horses of Fire weblog (whof.blogspot.com) and coedits ON Contemporary Practice. He is a participant in the Nonsite Collective and a curator for the SEGUE reading series. His criticism and poetry have been published widely in BOMB, PAJ: performance + art, Modern Painters, The Brooklyn Rail, and at the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog. Currently he is working on a book of criticism, Sovereignty and US: Critical Objects 2005-2010, and on the Project for an Archive of the Future Anterior (with Sreshta Rit Premnath). His book The Hole is forthcoming with Displaced Press.

ERICA LEWIS & STUART KRIMKO

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

ERICA LEWIS & STUART KRIMKO

Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 4:30pm

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

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

$5 donation requested

erica lewis lives in San Francisco, where she curated the Canessa Gallery Reading Series. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in P-Queue, New American Writing, Little Red Leaves, Parthenon West Review, BOOG CITY, Shampoo, and Word For/Word, among others. Collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein include camera obscura, just out from BlazeVox, and the precipice of jupiter (Queue Books).

Stuart Krimko is the author of The Sweetness of Herbert (2009) and Not That Light (2003), both published by Sand Paper Press in Key West, Florida. He is currently translating Daughters of Hegel, a 1982 novella by the Argentinian writer Osvaldo Lamborghini, into English. In addition to blogging about miscellany for thethepoetry.com and about wine for Embury Cocktails, Krimko is an Associate Director at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, where he lives and works.

Brandon Downing & Macgregor Card

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

BRANDON DOWNING & MACGREGOR CARD

Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 4:30pm

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

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

$5 donation requested

BRANDON DOWNING is a photographer, collagist, filmmaker and poet. A longtime member of the Flarf Collective, his books include Lake Antiquity: Poems 1996-2008 (Fence, 2009), The Shirt Weapon (Germ Monographs, 2002), and Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005). A feature-length collection of his short films, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics, was released on DVD in 2007, with a further installment expected in 2010. Photographic work can be seen at www.brandondowning.org, while recent video projects can often be found at www.youtube.com/user/bdown68. He lives in New York City.

MACGREGOR CARD is a poet, translator and bibliographer living in Jackson Heights, NYC. His first collection, Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, is just out from Fence (December 2009). A new chapbook, The Archers, is forthcoming from Song Cave. With Andrew Maxwell he was co-editor of The Germ: A Journal of Poetic Research, from 1997-2005. He teaches poetry at Pratt Institute and is an associate editor of the MLA International Bibliography.

Joel Lewis & Sophie Sills

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

Doors open at 7:30pm
Reading starts at 8:00pm

$5 donation requested

JOEL LEWIS is the author of Learning From New Jersey (2007), Tasks Of The Youth Leagues (2006) , Vertical’s Currency (1999) and House Rent Boogie (1992). He edited Bluestones and Salt Hay, an anthology of contemporary NJ poets, as well as editing the Reality Prime, the selected poems of Walter Lowenfels and On The Level Everyday: the selected talks of Ted Berrigan. He has also written hundreds of articles, reviews, essays and profiles and currently is a staff writer at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. A social worker by day, he has taught creative writing at the Poetry Project, The Writer’s Voice and Rutgers University. And, for better or worse, he initiated the ill-fated New Jersey Poet Laureate position that was such a headache for Amiri Baraka. With his wife, film theorist Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, he resides in Hoboken.

SOPHIE SILLS recently relocated from San Francisco to Los Angeles after earning her MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College. Here, she writes poetry and literary criticism. She works for a Jewish Non-profit and teaches English at National University. She lives with her cat and she is happy.

CANCELED: Rod Smith & Mel Nichols

We regret to inform the audience that Rod/Mel's flight to Southern California was canceled, and as a result, all of their Los Angeles and San Diego readings with it.

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

ROD SMITH & MEL NICHOLS

Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 4:00pm

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

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

$5 donation requested

ROD SMITH is author ofDeed (University of Iowa Press), Music or Honesty (Roof ), The Good House (Spectacular Books), Protective Immediacy (Roof), In Memory of My Theories (O Books), and a CD of his readings, Fear the Sky(Narrow House Recordings). He is editor/publisher of Edge Books and is also editing, with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris, The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley (University of California). Smith is a Visiting Professor in Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for the Spring 2010 semester.

MEL NICHOLS is author of Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon(National Poetry Series finalist), Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha), The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge), and Day Poems (Edge). Other recent work can be found in Poetry, New Ohio Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. She teaches at George Mason University

Sunday February 21 4pm: Electroacoustic Music from Central Europe & LA

Zbigniew Karkowski * Ulrich Krieger * Damion Romero * John Wiese

Ariana Reines & Jon Leon

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

A Valentine's Day Gift from

Ariana Reines & Jon Leon

Sunday, February 14, 2010 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

Ariana Reines is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize, FenceBooks: 2006), Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar: 2007), Mercury (forthcoming, FenceBooks: 2011), and the play "Telephone", commissioned by The Foundry Theatre and mounted in February 2009, with two Obies. Her full-length translations include My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire, (Mal-O-Mar: 2009) and The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal by Jean-Luc Hennig, (Semiotext(e): 2009). She was Virginia C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at UC Berkeley in Spring 2009.

Jon Leon is a Los Angeles-based poet and novellaist. His books include Right Now the Music and the Life Rule (Hathaway, 2006), Hit Wave (Kitchen Press, 2008), Alexandra (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2008), and The Hot Tub w/ Dan Hoy's Glory Hole (mal-o-mar editions, 2009). He is an occasional contributor to Art in America.