LIFE SENTENCES: Matvei Yankelevich

Matvei Yankelevich reads Davenport, Šalamun, Yankelevich and others at the PRB's Life Sentences festival.

LIFE SENTENCES: Guy Bennett

Guy Bennett reads from Flaubert, de la Serna, Schmidt, and Bennett @ the Life Sentences festival, June 15, 2013.

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

~

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/