Poetic Research Bureau

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

LIFE SENTENCES: Vanessa Place

Vanessa Place's Poetry Logos debuted at the PRB's Life Sentences festival of epigrammatic literature on June 15, 2013.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

LIFE SENTENCES: Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein reads "perversely aphoristic" selections from Recalculating at the PRB's Life Sentences festival of epigrammatic literature, June 15, 2013.

LIFE SENTENCES: Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson reads from new work at the PRB's Life Sentences festival of epigrammatic literature, June 15, 2013.

LIFE SENTENCES: Andrew Maxwell

Andrew Maxwell reads from 4 epigrammatic works (Life X, Ottolineal, Peeping Mot and Beggars of Life) at the PRB's Life Sentences festival of epigrammatic literature, June 15, 2013.

LIFE SENTENCES: Matvei Yankelevich

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

Monday, June 17, 2013

LIFE SENTENCES: Guy Bennett

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

Thursday, June 13, 2013

LIFE SENTENCES: Aaron Kunin

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

About the Bureau

The Poetic Research Bureau is a valise fiction and portable literary service in Northeast Los Angeles.

Our living room at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown hosts an extended community of autodidacts and guessworkers caught up in language, inquiry and the unguarded arts. Just as it is: a community free school by day, and by night, a non-professional public forum for presentations, readings, screenings and sundry intellectual exchanges.

As an out-of-pocket California milk-crate boosterist enterprise, the PRB also serves as the irregular literary umbrella for projects such as occasional poetry journal The Germ ('97-'05), edited by Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card; and art-lit mag Area Sneaks, edited by Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi.

As a research bloc, the Bureau attempts to cultivate composition, publication and distribution strategies that enlarge the public domain. It favors appropriations, impersonations, 'compost' poetries, belated conversations, unprintable jokes and doodles, 'unoriginal' literature, historical thefts and pastiche. The publication emphasis is on ephemeral works, short-run magazines and folios, short-lived reprints and excerpts in print-on-demand formats, and the occasional literary fetish objects of stupidly incomparable price and value.

Several reading series are hosted at 951 CKR, and we welcome writers whose work lacks the 'commercial tendency' while harboring the bright, high-minded intentions that often lead to broad panic, righteous perversions, improbable arguments, and the ill-served cul-de-sacs of genius. The series are coordinated by the aforementioned Messrs Maxwell and Mosconi. If you're sympatico, passing through town, or need a megaphone, 50 seats and a big blank space, give us a write.

contact: directors@poeticresearch.com