Saturday, Sept 10: Rae Armantrout & Martha Ronk

The Poetic Research Bureau presents

RAE ARMANTROUT & MARTHA RONK

Saturday, September 10, 2016
Doors open 7:30pm, reading at 8 sharp.

RAE ARMANTROUT has published 13 books of poetry. Her most recent collection, Partly: New and Selected Poems, was published by Wesleyan U.P. in 2016. Her poems have recently been collected in Spanish editions: Necromancia (Spain, 2015): and Rae Armantrout: Poemas (Spain, 2014). In 2015 she was awarded the Levinson Prize for best poems in Poetry Magazine. Her book Versed (2009) received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010. She was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 and A Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award in 2007. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies.

MARTHA RONK's forthcoming collection of poetry Ocular Proof from Omnidawn focuses on photography and comes out this fall. A recent chapook, familiar/unfamiliar, was released by Magra Books this summer, and her 2015 volume Transfer of Qualities was long-listed for National Book Award last year. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is professor at English at Occidental College.

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Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Chinatown
Los Angeles, CA
900012

Friday, August 19: Cindy Arrieu-King & Brian Kim Stefans

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

CINDY ARRIEU-KING & BRIAN KIM STEFANS

Friday, August 19, 2016
Doors open 7:30pm, reading at 8 sharp.

CYNTHIA ARRIEU-KING is an associate professor of creative writing at Stockton University and a former Kundiman fellow. Her book written with Hillary Gravendyk, Unlikely Conditions, was published by 1913 Press this past spring. Her work will appear this year in Fence, the Volta and jacket2 and an Asian Anglophone edition of dusie magazine.

BRIAN KIM STEFANS's latest chapbook is "For a New Urbanism," forthcoming from Make Now Books. His other books of poetry include "Viva Miscegenation”: New Writing (Make Now Books, 2013), Kluge: A Meditation and other works (Roof Books, 2007), and What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Heretical Texts, 2006). He teaches new media studies, poetry, experimental fiction and other classes in the English Department at UCLA.

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Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Chinatown
Los Angeles, CA
900012

The Third Rail Issue 8 Launch Party

Please join us Saturday night, August 13 for the LA launch and exhibition of Issue 8 of The Third Rail, a special issue composed entirely of black-and-white posters by artists addressing various facets of the political shipwreck. 

The event will feature sets by DJs B-Rok and JVu and readings by Nikki Darling and Jibade-Khalil Huffman. 

7:30pm-10pm

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“With this,” writes The Third Rail, “we interrupt our regular programming so as to respond as a publication to the political turmoil of the present moment, USA today, in crisis, only instead of issuing a programmatic statement we decided to invite a plurality of statements by artists who each had a poster or sign to work with.” The posters are free to take home.

Issue 8 features posters by Aaron Anderson & Eric Timothy Carlson, Lise Haller Baggesen, Gina Beavers, Judith Bernstein, A.K. Burns, Dante Carlos, Cameron Keith Gainer, Sam Gould, Albert Herter & Hiro Kone, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Alfredo Jaar, Chris Kasper, Devin Kenny, Justin Lieberman, Jordan Nassar & Brendan Fowler, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Peter Rostovsky, Bruce Tapola, Jonathan Thomas, Voider, Christine Wang, and C. Spencer Yeh.

www.thirdrailquarterly.org
@thirdrailquarterly

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The Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Chinatown
Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, July 23: Lucy Ives & Johanna Jackson

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

LUCY IVES & JOHANNA JACKSON

Saturday, July 23, 2016
Doors open 7:00pm, reading at 7:30.

LUCY IVES is the author of five books of poetry and prose, including The Hermit, a book of aphorisms and extremely short stories, recently published by The Song Cave. Her first full-length novel, Impossible Views of the World, will be published by Penguin Press in 2017.


JOHANNA JACKSON is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. She has a BA in English Literature and Art History from the University of Maryland and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. She is interested in making objects out of feelings. Her work is in the permanent collections of the SFMoMA, Henry Art Gallery, Hammer Museum and the Portland Art Museum.

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Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Chinatown
Los Angeles, CA
900012

Elizabeth Hall, Myriam Gurba & Wendy C. Ortiz

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

A book release party for Elizabeth Hall's new book

from Tarpaulin Sky Press

I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris

ELIZABETH HALL

MYRIAM GURBA

& WENDY C. ORTIZ

Saturday, July 9 2016

7:30pm

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Elizabeth Hall was born in Louisiana and raised in Georgia. She is the author of the book I HAVE DEVOTED MY LIFE TO THE CLITORIS (Tarpaulin Sky Press) and the chapbook Two Essays (eohippus labs). She currently lives in San Pedro, California where she plays bass with the band Pine Family.

A native Californian, Myriam Gurba earned a BA with honors from UC Berkeley. Her first book, Dahlia Season, won the Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. She is also the author of Wish You Were Me (Future Tense), menudo & Herb (self-published), and A White Girl Named Shaquanda (self-published). She blogs at lesbrain and often for The Rumpus and Radar Productions.

Wendy C. Ortiz is a Los Angeles native. She is the author of EXCAVATION: A MEMOIR (Future Tense Books, 2014), HOLLYWOOD NOTEBOOK (Writ Large Press, 2015), and the forthcoming BRUJA (Civil Coping Mechanisms, late 2016). She wrote the year-long, monthly column "On the Trail of Mary Jane" about medical marijuana dispensary culture in Southern California for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Wendy was co-founder and curator of the Rhapsodomancy Reading Series between 2001 and 2015.

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Poetic Research Bureau 

951 Chung King Rd. 

Chinatown 

Los Angeles, CA

900012

Brandon Drew Holmes, Amanda-Faye Jimenez & Miles Preston-Clark

Brandon Drew Holmes is the only son of Mia Vaughn and Baskerville Holmes. He makes work about white people for Black people.

Amanda-Faye Jimenez is a writer who lives in Los Angeles, but does not have a web-series yet. Her rejection letter from the PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship said her application stood out as one of the stronger submissions. She's totally going to submit again next year, but in the meantime she's going to continue writing, entertaining her 800+ Facebook friends almost daily with her astute observations, and letting her dogs kiss her on the mouth even though everyone keeps telling her that's some white people shit. amandafayejimenez.com

Miles Preston-Clark is a Black writer and interdisciplinary artist from Georgia. His writing has been published in Hobart, Spork Press, Pioneertown, Reality Hands, Wu-Wei Magazine and elsewhere.milesprestonclark.com 

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Friday, June 17th

7:30pm

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Poetic Research Bureau 

951 Chung King Rd. 

Chinatown 

Los Angeles, CA

900012

@SEA #8: "CURSES" w/ Kraning, Moriarty, Sequeira & White

The eighth edition of @SEA, the Poetic Research Bureau's monthly live magazine, concludes its spring season with a calling down of the theme of curses: bad luck, bad lots, hexes and misfortune; low speech, profanities, brought down trouble and malediction. A quartet of ensorcellement at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown! 

@SEA #8: Curses! @ Poetic Research Bureau
Sunday, June 5, 2016 – Doors open at 1pm

Event 1:30-3:30pm is free.

• SCREENING: Devil's Gate, a film by Laura Kraning
• TALK:  “Ensorcellment and Hex in Robert Duncan’s Poetics” by Laura Moriarty
• READING: Jessica Sequeira, fiction and recent translations of Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia) and Sara Gallardo (Argentina)
• PERFORMANCE: Ben White presents the performance ritual *Take Away Their Victory*

Laura Kraning’s moving image work navigates landscape as a repository for memory, cultural mythology, and the technological sublime. Exploring absence and the fluidity of time, she evokes liminal spaces of neither past, nor present, but a landscape of the imagination. Laura’s work has screened widely at international film festivals, such as New York, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Antimatter, Visions du Réel, and Festival du Nouveau Cinema, among others.  Laura currently teaches in the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts. Tracing the metaphysical undercurrents of a Southern California landscape scarred by fire, her film Devil's Gate unearths a subconscious of the landscape, as the echoes of the past reverberate in the present and infect our perception and experience of place.

Laura Moriarty lives in the East Bay. Her recent books are Fugitive Notebook from Couch Press, Who That Divines and A Tonalist, from Nightboat, A Semblance, Selected Poetry 1976-2007 from Omnidawn and the novel Ultravioleta from Atelos. She has taught at Mills College, Naropa University and elsewhere and is currently Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution.  

Jessica Sequeira, originally from California, attended Harvard and Cambridge, and now lives in Buenos Aires. She has published essays, stories and translations in The Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Modern Poetry in Translation, Berfrois, Litro Magazine, Palabras Errantes, The Missing Slate, Ventana Latina and other publications. Her version of the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi's short stories will be published by Dalkey Archive Press later this year, and her collection of Bolivian poetry is out with Smokestack Books in 2017. 

Ben White is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and is host of art and culture show "The People" on KCHUNG radio 1630AM. Take Away Their Victory is a performance exercise in ancient world curses and binding spells, and will allow an opportunity for viewers to ostracize a member of the Los Angeles community for ten years.