PRB Video: Sandra Simonds

Sandra reads from recent work on July 20, 2013 at the PRB. Jeanine Webb to come.

(Note: the fidelity of these videos should get better in the future – we're losing some crispness in the conversion and upload to Youtube.)

DEMON MISO/FASHION IN CHILD by Joseph Mosconi

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Reading, Sat August 10: Julie Doxsee & Andrew Wessels

Julie Doxsee is the Canadian-American author of three books of poetry: The Next Monsters (Black Ocean 2013), Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean 2010), and Undersleep (Octopus Books 2008). She holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2007) and an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2002). In 2007 she moved to Istanbul, where she teaches academic writing, creative writing, and literature courses at Koç University.

Andrew Wessels has lived in Houston, Cambridge, and Las Vegas. Currently, he splits his time between Istanbul and Los Angeles. He has held fellowships from Poets & Writers and the Black Mountain Institute. His poems, translations, and collaborations can recently be found in VOLT, Witness, Fence, Colorado Review, The Journal, Washington Square Review, Grist, and Handsome. He is the managing editor of Les Figues Press and edits the poetry and poetics journal The Offending Adam.

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JULIE DOXSEE & ANDREW WESSELS

Saturday, August 10, 2013
Doors open @ 7pm, reading starts @ 7:30pm

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

Fitzgerald, Durbin, Krimko, Polito, Healy & So

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

ADAM FITZGERALD, ANDREW DURBIN, STUART KRIMKO
ROBERT POLITO, TOM HEALY, MARK SO
+SURPRISE GUEST

Friday, August 2 2013
Doors open @ 7pm, reading starts @ 7:30pm

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

Adam Fitzgerald is the author of The Late Parade, his debut collection of poetry from W. W. Norton’s historic Liveright imprint. His poems, essays and interviews have appeared in A Public Space, The American Reader, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, Fence, and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of the poetry journal Maggy, and the small artisan press Monk Books, publishing Mark Strand’s prose poems with original collages as well as Bernadette Mayer’s translations of Catullus. This fall, he will co-curate the immersive-environment exhibit “John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among Things” for Loretta Howard Gallery in Chelsea, New York. He teaches at The New School and Rutgers University. He lives in the East Village. 

Andrew Durbin is the author of several chapbooks, including Reveler (Argos Books 2013) and The Standard (Insert Blanc Press, forthcoming). He co-edits Wonder, a publishing and events platform focused on poetry and new media art, and curates the Queer Division reading series on the Lower East Side. He lives in New York.

Stuart Krimko is the author of Hymns and Essays (mal-o-mar editions) and The Sweetness of Herbert (Sand Paper Press), and the translator of The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley and Belleza y Felicidad: Selected Writings by Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Pavón.

Robert Polito’s poetry includes Hollywood & God (2009); a renowned poet, scholar, biographer, and essayist, he directs Creative Writing at The New School. This year he was appointed President of The Poetry Foundation. - See more at: http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/poets#sthash.PT7LDYKK.dpuf

Tom Healy is a writer, poet, and chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which oversees the Fulbright program worldwide. His first book, What the Right Hand Knows (Four Way Books), was a finalist for the 2009 L.A. Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. His second book, Animal Spirits, was released earlier this year from Monk Books. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. He is a professor at New York University and is a visiting professor at the New School. His website is: www.tomhealy.net.

Mark So's work explores ordinary situations in various open frames of perception and action through simple means of recording/transcription/reading, as well as changing experiences of silence. He has produced a vast output of scores—primarily (but not exclusively) text based—grounding diverse experiences of straightforward literacy, where suitable action emerges between complete adequacy and pure discovery. Some 300 pieces alone concern the poems of John Ashbery. In addition to extensive musical activities, he has collaborated on unique projects with a range of artists including Rick Bahto, Adam Fitzgerald, Chris Girard, Julia Holter, Eileen Myles, Julie Tolentino & Stosh Fila. His work often takes place in anonymous, open environments, and realizations have ranged from instrumentals, spoken texts, and performed actions, to tapes, films, quasi-installations, and other, more fanciful/obscure manifestations.

Claire Donato, Amina Cain & Jeff T. Johnson

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

CLAIRE DONATO, AMINA CAIN & JEFF T. JOHNSON

Saturday, July 27 2013
Doors open @ 6:30pm, reading starts 7pm

NOTE: Perform Chinatown is happening on the same night. We will be starting promptly at 7pm to accommodate a performance in our space at 8pm. Stick around after the reading to see Sheree Rose perform.

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

Claire Donato is the author of the novel Burial, from Tarpaulin Sky Press. She grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her fiction, poetry, and lyric essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Boston Review, Aufgabe, Encyclopedia, Evening Will Come, Octopus, and 1913: a journal of forms. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Someone Else’s Body (Cannibal Books), and was recently a finalist for the National Poetry Series. For more information, visit somanytumbleweeds.com. 

Amina Cain is the author of Creature (Dorothy, a publishing project, fall 2013) and I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009). Stories have appeared in places such as Denver Quarterly and the Encyclopedia Project and are forthcoming in BOMB and n+1. You can read more about her at aminacain.com.

Jeff T. Johnson’s poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in coconut, smoking glue gun, and Newark Review 3.0, and he holds a digital residency at The Organism for Poetic Research. Critical writing has appeared in The Aviary, Poetry Project Newsletter, Sink Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. With Claire Donato, he collaborates on SPECIAL AMERICA. He lives in Brooklyn, is Editor in Chief at LIT, and edits Dewclaw. He teaches at The New School and St. John's University. For more information, visit jefftjohnson.com.

Burnt Norton: Readings of Authors Deleted from the 2nd Edition of the Norton PAP Anthology

The Poetic Research Bureau's "Burnt Norton Project" features readings from lost canons, "de-selected" and "un-collected" authors, and those who've otherwise fallen out of the peculiar taxonomies of literary certainty.

Reading John Wieners

Reading John Godfrey

Reading David Shapiro

Feel free to submit your own readings and recoveries to our box-fort mailbox at: directors@poeticresearch.com. 

Sandra Simonds & Jeanine Webb

SANDRA SIMONDS & JEANINE WEBB

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

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

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008) and Mother Was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012) as well as the forthcoming House of Ions (Bloof Books, 2014) and The Glass Box (Saturnalia, 2015). She is assistant professor of English and Humanities at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia.

Jeanine Webb's poems have appeared in many journals, most recently in Lana Turner and The Capilano Review. Her recent writing on poetry and the U.S. occupations can be found on the Harriet blog. She has helped organize San Diego's Agitprop Reading Series, and edits the cartonera-style journal TACOCAT. She is a PhD student in Literature and teaches writing at the University of California San Diego.