Ana Božičević ́ & Michael Du Plessis

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

ANA BOZICEVIC & MICHAEL DU PLESSIS

Saturday, February 16, 2013
Doors open @ 6:30pm, reading @ 7pm

**PLEASE NOTE: CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES will be taking place all day in Chinatown. Some ROADS MAY BE CLOSED and PARKING may be hard to find. Consider parking a few blocks away from Chinatown and walking down to Chung King Road. Or better yet, take the METRO GOLD LINE, which has a stop in Chinatown. Or ARRIVE EARLY and enjoy the festivities before the reading.

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Ana Božičević ́ was born in Croatia in 1977,and emigrated to New York when she was nineteen. Her debut book of poems, Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press), was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award. She completed her MFA at Hunter College, and is now a PhD Candidate in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she helps run the Annual Chapbook Festival, Lost&Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and the Transculturations Seminar. Her newest book, Rise In the Fall, is just out from Birds, LLC Press.

Michael Du Plessis teaches comparative literature and English at the University of Southern California. His novel The Memoirs of JonBenet By Kathy Acker was recently published by Les Figues Press. He has written about a wide variety of subjects, from Goth culture to the French fin-de-siecle, and has also performed, amongst other venues, at Highways and at the MAK Center/Shindler House.

Deborah Poe, Bonnie Jones & LA Fog

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

DEBORAH POE, BONNIE JONES & LA FOG

Saturday, February 9, 2013
Doors open @ 5:30pm, reading @ 6pm

**Note Earlier Time**

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too (2013), Elements (2010), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (2008), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (2012). In addition, Deborah is co-editor of Between Worlds: An Anthology of Fiction and Criticism (2012) and In/Filtration: An Anthology of InnovativeHudson Valley Poetry (2013). Her poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Handsome, Eccolinguistics, 1913, Shampoo, Denver Quarterly, and Mantis. Deborah is assistant professor of English at Pace University, Westchester, and founder and curator of the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit. http://www.deborahpoe.com/

Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. Bonnie creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken, visual). She is interested in how people perceive, “read” and interact with these sounds and texts given our current technological moment. Bonnie has received commissions from the London ICA and has presented her work in the US, Europe, and Asia and collaborates frequently with writers and musicians including Ric Royer, Carla Harryman, Andy Hayleck, Joe Foster, Andrea Neumann, Liz Tonne, and Chris Cogburn. She received her MFA at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.http://www.bonniejones.wordpress.com/

LA Fog is:

Kelly Coats (flute) 
Kathleen Kim (violin) 
Giles Miller (baritone sax) 
Jonathan Silberman (tenor sax)

Check them out on Bandcamp:

http://lafog.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-human-resources

Geoffrey Dyer & Lauren Eggert-Crowe

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

GEOFFREY DYER & LAUREN EGGERT-CROWE
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Geoffrey Dyer is the author of The Dirty Halo of Everything (Krupskaya, 2003). His poems and prose have been published in Fourteen Hills, Parthenon West Review, Double Room, Involuntary Vision: After Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Bay Poetics, Sand Canyon Review, Mirage/Periodical, and other literary journals. Geoffrey received his MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in 2003 after earning his Bachelor's from The University of California at Santa Cruz. He currently teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at Taft College where he is faculty adviser to the student-edited literary publication A Sharp Piece of Awesome.

Lauren Eggert-Crowe's writing has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Diagram, Interrupture, and Sixth Finch, among others. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: The Exhibit and In the Songbird Laboratory. 

Peter Jaeger & Ara Shirinyan

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PETER JAEGER & ARA SHIRINYAN
Friday, November 9, 2012
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Peter Jaeger is a Canadian poet, literary critic and text-based artist now living in the UK. His published work includes the poetry books Power Lawn (Coach House Books 1999), Prop (Salt 2007), Rapid Eye Movement (Reality Street Editions 2009), and The Persons (information as material 2011). He is currently writing a book on John Cage, which is set to be published by Continuum Press next year. Jaeger teaches poetry and literary theory at Roehampton University in London.

Ara Shirinyan is a poet based in Los Angeles. He is the publisher of Make Now Press and the co-director of the Poetic Research Bureau. His books include Syria Is In the World (Palm Press, 2007), Your Country Is Great (Futurepoem, 2008), and Handsome Fish Offices (Insert Press, 2008). 

Corina Copp & Joseph Harrington

  

 

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

CORINA COPP & JOSEPH HARRINGTON
Friday, November 2, 2012
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Corina Copp is most recently the author of Pro Magenta/Be Met (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), with publications forthcoming from Bad Press, Minutes Books, and Trafficker Press. Poetry, performance texts, and critical writing can be found soon or now at The Claudius App, The Cambridge Literary Review, Hi Zero, Boston Review, BOMB, SFMOMA's Open Space, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a performance trilogy based on the works of Marguerite Duras, entitled The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love. Part one, SUSANSWERPHONE, was presented this October at the CUNY Graduate Center's three-day PRELUDE.12 Festival. She is a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter (2009–11), and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir) (Wesleyan Poetry 2011), a mixed-genre work relating the twinned narratives of the Watergate scandal and his mother's cancer, which was a Rumpus magazine Poetry Book Club selection; the chapbook Earth Day Suite (Beard of Bees Press 2010 - available as free PDF); and the critical study Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern US Poetics (Wesleyan UP 2002). His creative work also has appeared in BathHouse, 1913: a journal of forms, Hotel Amerika, No Tell Motel, With+Stand, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, and P-Queue, among others; and he has published articles on modernism, political philosophy, and the cultural history of poetry in the U.S., in journals such as Jacket2, American Literary History, and American Literature. He is currently at work on a four-volume mixed-genre and -media account of his mother's life and times. He teaches at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, USA.

Oct 21: Franck André Jamme; Lisa Pearson in conversation

 

The Poetic Research Bureau  presents a Reading + Franck André Jamme in Conversation with Lisa Pearson.

Sunday, October 21, doors open at 5. Reading & conversation at 5:30pm.
PRB at The Public School, 951 Chung King Road. (CHiNATOWN)

 
It could be a cult classic: the debut edition of Siglio Press’s Tantra Song—one of the only books to survey the elusive tradition of abstract Tantric painting from Rajasthan, India—sold out in a swift six weeks. The works depict deities as geometric, vividly hued shapes and mark a clear departure from Tantric art’s better-known figurative styles. They also resonate uncannily with lineages of twentieth-century art—from the Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism to Minimalism—as well as with much painting today. Rarely have the ancient and the modern come together so fluidly.

—Lauren O’Neill-Butler, THE PARIS REVIEW DAILY

 

 

Franck André Jamme is one of France’s leading contemporary poets and the author of more than a dozen books. His publications in English (translated by John Ashbery, Charles Borkhuis, David Kelley, Norma Cole, and Michael Tweed) include New Exercises (Wave Books), Another Silent Attack, The Recitation of Forgetting, Extracts from the Life of a Beetle (Black Square Editions), and Moon Wood (Sélavy Press). Described by Henri Michaux as “a writer of rare quality,” Jamme has also collaborated with a number of artists including Phillippe Favier, Suzan Frecon, Acharya Vyakul, and Hans Schimansky, as well as translated the works of John Ashbery and Lokenath Bhattacharya. A specialist in art brut, Tantric and tribal arts of India, he has curated and contributed to exhibitions at The Drawing Center, Centre Georges Pompidou, Galerie du Jour, and Beaux-Arts de Paris, among others.

Steven Seidenberg & David Abel

STEVEN SEIDENBERG & DAVID ABEL 
Saturday, October 13, 2012 
Doors open @ 7pm, reading @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ The Public School 
951 Chung King Rd. Los Angeles, CA

Steven Seidenberg is a poet and artist living in San Francisco. His work as an academic philosopher and poet has appeared in various literary and scholarly journals. His chapbook, Verge, was recently published by Hidebound Press. He is co-creator and contributing editor (with Elizabeth Robinson) of Pallaksch. Pallaksch., a journal devoted to poetry broadly understood as philosophical in the character of its inquiry, forthcoming from Instance Press. 

David Abel is a poet, editor, and teacher, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop. Three new books were released in the summer of 2012: Float, a collection of collage texts spanning twenty-five years of work (Chax Press); Tether, a chapbook of poems (Barebone books); and Carrier, a sequence of hypergraphics (c_L Books). With Sam Lohmann, he publishes the Airfoil chapbook series, and since 2002 he has published twenty-four issues of the free broadside series Envelope. He lives in Portland, Oregon.