LIFE SENTENCES: Aaron Kunin

 

Aaron Kunin reads from Grace Period.  June 15, 2013. Life Sentences festival.

LIFE SENTENCES: An Afternoon of the Epigrammatic – June 15th, 2013

The Poetic Research Bureau concludes its spring season the weekend after next with a long run at the short form.

LIFE SENTENCES: An Afternoon of the Epigrammatic
4 hours, 8 readers, 800+ statements

w/

Guy Bennett, Charles Bernstein,
Aaron Kunin, Andrew Maxwell,
Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place,
Matvei Yankelevich, Maged Zaher

Saturday June 15th, 2013 1pm - 5pm
@ Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd, Chinatown, LA

Gnomes, aphorisms, propositions, fragments,
maxims, phrases, epigrams, mottoes, curses,
koans, haiku, quips, dry tweets, pensées.

In sequence, relentlessly, toward 1000 sentences.
Live readers, video people, giving the compressed
form its due, by mouth and by pixel.

Chet Wiener & Francois Luong

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

CHET WIENER & FRANCOIS LUONG

Saturday, May 25 2013
Doors open @ 7pm, reading starts @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ Telic Arts
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Chet Wiener writes poetry in English and French. He is the author of a book of poems in French, Devant l’abondance (P.O.L) and the chapbook WalkDontWalk (Potes and Poets). He has translated Félix Guattari and Pierre Alferi, among others into English, co-edited, with Stacy Doris, the collection of translations: Christophe Tarkos; Ma Langue est Poétique (Roof Books), and his poems, translations and essays on translation appear in publications in the United States and France. He lives in San Francisco. 

Originally from Strasbourg, France, françois luong currently lives in San Francisco. Poems and translations can be found or are forthcoming in Aufgabe, Verse, LIT, West Wind Review, Dandelion, Mantis, and elsewhere. In 2010, he edited a segment of “Eleven Poets from Québec” for New American Writing. He has also translated the work of Esther Tellermann, François Turcot, and Rémi Froger.

Patrick Durgin, Melanie Noel & a film by Don Mee Choi

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

PATRICK DURGIN, MELANIE NOEL 
& THE CALIFORNIA FILM 1985
by DON MEE CHOI

Saturday, May 18 2013
Doors open @ 7pm, reading starts @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ Telic Arts
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Patrick Durgin wrote a published PQRS earlier this year and is also coauthor of The Route (Atelos, 2008, with Jen Hofer). He has published numerous chapbooks, including Imitation Poems (2006) and Color Music (2002). Durgin is also editor of Hannah Weiner's Open House and The Early and Clairvoyant Journals of Hannah Weiner. He teaches critical theory, literature, and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Melanie Noel is the author of The Monarchs (Stockport Flats, 2013). Her work has appeared in Weekday, LVNG, La Norda Especialo and THE ARCADIA PROJECT. She's also written poems for short films and installations, and co-curated APOSTROPHE, a dance, music, and poetry series. She now curates Impala, a reading series that takes place in her grandmother's car.

Don Mee Choi is the author of The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), and the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award. She is also a translator of contemporary Korean writing including, most recently Kim Hyesoon’s Princess Abandoned (Tinfish, 2012) and All the Garbage of the World Unite! (Action Books, 2011), winner of the 2012 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize.

Don Mee Choi writes:

The California Film 1985 (15 mins.)

In 1980, I was still living with my family in Hong Kong. In May of that year, my father filmed numerous anti-dictatorship demonstrations in Seoul, South Korea and the triumphant beginning of the pro-democratic uprising led by students and civilians in the city of Kwangju. Just before the Kwangju massacre in which about 2000 were killed by South Korean troops, all foreign news staff were given an order to leave the country. My father safely returned to Hong Kong. My brother was still in Seoul, caught up in the wave of nation-wide demonstrations. After what he had seen that year and the massacre that took place in Kwangju, my father thought that we could never return to South Korea, that the military rule would never end. We all had to go somewhere and find a place to live. My father’s job allowed him to relocate with my mother and younger brother to Frankfurt, Germany. My older brother was able to leave South Korea and landed in Australia. My sister stayed in Hong Kong to finish her studies, then left for Australia. I was actually the first one to depart from Hong Kong in order to find a “place”—a year after the Kwangju uprising. The place I landed was Los Angeles. At CalArts, I began working with super8 and 16mm films shortly after producing some series of sculptures/installations. I was most moved by Straub’s and Huillet’s film, History Lessons (1972). I was struck not only by the powerful dissonance of image and sound, but also how the film so effectively disrupted conventional cinematic expectations, especially setting—a sense of place. I wanted to show in my films how dissonant my new external surroundings were to my internal ones—the places I had left behind in South Korea and Hong Kong. For me, a place was and still is not seamless. I wanted to convey in my films a sense of disorientation, dislocation, and placelessness. The California Film 1985 was shot entirely hand held, and my artist friend, Claudia Ryan, kindly agreed to be in it. Melanie Noel, my poet friend, will be projecting the film with a hand-held projector onto various unconventional, transitory surfaces.

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...
 
The Sonnets: Translating & Rewriting Shakespeare
Edited by Sharmila Cohen & Paul Legault


Featuring readings by:

Kate Durbin
Martha Ronk
Kelli Anne Noftle
Julia Bloch

and via technology Paul Legault

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Saturday, April 20 2013
Doors open @ 7pm, reading starts @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ Telic Arts
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

The Sonnets, edited by the founding editors of the translation journal Telephone, pairs 154 poet-translators with each of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets--literally rewriting history, or at least the great Bard's poetic oeuvre. This collection of English-to-English "translations" includes work by Rae Armantrout, Mary Jo Bang, Jen Bervin, Paul Celan, Tan Lin, Harryette Mullen, Ron Padgett, Donald Revell, Jerome Rothenberg, Juliana Spahr, and many others.

In the tradition of Ezra Pound's Cathay or Jack Spicer's After Lorca, these versions explore the themes of their originals while completely re-authoring them--imagining a new Shakespeare, self-described in his dedication to The Sonnets as: "THE WELL-WISHING. ADVENTURER ... SETTING FORTH."

http://distranslation.com/index.php?/the-sonnets/the-sonnets/

Diana Arterian, Jibade-Khalil Huffman & Simone White

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

 
DIANA ARTERIAN, JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN & SIMONE WHITE

Thursday, March 28 2013
Doors open @ 7pm, reading starts @ 7:30pm

The Poetic Research Bureau @ Telic Arts
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA


DIANA ARTERIAN was born and raised in Arizona. She currently resides in Los Angeles where she is pursuing her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. Diana is founding editor of Ricochet, a publisher of non-traditional/genre-less poetry and prose chapbooks. Her chapbook Death Centos is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse, and her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in H_NGM_N, trnsfr, Two Serious Ladies and The Volta, among others.

JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN is the author of 19 Names For Our Band (Fence, 2008) and James Brown Is Dead (Future Plan and Program, 2011). His art and writing projects have been exhibited and performed at MoMA/P.S.1, Southern Exposure, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art and Machine Project, among others. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

SIMONE WHITE was born in 1972 in Middletown, Connecticut and grew up in Philadelphia. Her most recent chapbook is Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse, Dossier Series, 2013). She is also the author of House Envy of All of the World (Factory School, 2010) and Dolly (Q Ave Press, curated by Ross Gay, with the paintings of Kim Thomas), and her work has appeared in The Claudius App, Aufgabe, The Recluse, Callaloo, Ploughshares, and Tuesday; An Art Project, among other places. She lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Les Figues & Natalia Fedorova + Jared Stanley, Laura Wetherington

UPDATE: Sandra Simonds needed to cancel. We'll reschedule soon. Jared Stanley & Laura Wetherington will still be reading so come on out!

The Poetic Research Bureau presents two great events this week:

• Friday, March 15: Natalia Fedorova with Vanessa Place hosted by Les Figues Press

• Saturday, March 16: Jared Stanley & Laura Wetherington

Both events will begin around 7pm (though if you have attended our events in the past, you know we are not exactly punctual -- we try to allow some time for latecomers and the usual bad Los Angeles traffic).

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Natalia Fedorova with Vanessa Place
Hosted by Les Figues Press

Friday, March 15, 2013
Doors open @ 6:30pm, reading @ 7pm

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Sandra Simonds, Jared Stanley & Laura Wetherington

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

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The Poetic Research Bureau @ Telic Arts
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

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Natalia Fedorova is a new media artist, writer, literary scholar and translator. Natalia holds a PhD in literary theory from Herzen State University (St-Petersburg). She is an author of publications on avant-garde poetry, kitetic poetry, concrete poetry, hyperfiction, literary text generators and video poetry, as well as a curator and creator of VIDEO.txt, videopoetry festival in St- Petersburg. During 2011 – 2012 Natalia was a Fulbright postdoctoral researcher at the Trope Tank, MIT. Natalia is an author of hyperfiction piece with multiple endings «7», and a boutes-rime novel Madame Ebaressa and a Butterfly, co-written with Sergeij Kitov, and a number of short prose fragments. In collaboration with Taras Mashtalir she founded Machine Libertine, a media poetry project (Snow Queen, In Your Voice,Machine Poetry Manifesto, Whoever You Are, Light Duty, Memory). Currently Natalia is a SPIRE postdoctorate researcher with the ELMCIP group at the University of Bergen (Norway) and an editor of e-lit and new media writing column in Rattapallax magazine (NY).

Technologies of Conceptualism Moscow conceptualism is classic. There is Prigov room in the Hermitage 20/21. Conceptualism is alive in the Innovation Contemporary Art Prize’s shortlist (Boris Groys Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited and Jury Albert Moscow Conceptualism. The Beginning). Laboratory of Poetic Actionism is realizing poetry in the collective action borrowing Moscow conceptualists’ language to translate it via video into repoliticized poetry. Native of St-Petersburg conceptualism is more abstract, prone to asciiticism, performed by the matrix printer (Ivan Khimin Abstract Conceptualism). With a mirror of iPad or notepad, microphone or video editing Natalia Fedorova is collecting the collective by means of writing on the languages she finds herself in.

View some of Natalia's videos online:

Memory

SnowQueen

In Your Voice

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Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008) and Mother Was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012). She is assistant professor of English and Humanities at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia.

Jared Stanley is the author of two books of poetry, The Weeds and Book Made of Forest, both from Salt Publishing. He is a member of the public art group Unmanned Minerals, and co-edits Mrs. Maybe, a Journal of Skeptical Occultism. Stanley is a 2012-2014 Research Fellow at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art and he lives in Reno. 

Laura Wetherington's first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. She co-founded and edits textsound.org. Wetherington teaches creative writing at Sierra Nevada College and is at work on a series of fake translations.