Friday, Sept 23: Shane Anderson & A Maxwell

For almost two decades, poet/publisher Guy Bennett has been consistently producing fascinating and thoughtful experimental collections on his two chapbook presses, Mindmade Books and Seeing Eye – 77 titles to date. Formalist, searching, multilingual – it's a brilliant catalog with a clear point of view.

This Friday night brings two of its recently published authors together for a reading: Shane Anderson, from Berlin, whose Soft Passer was brought out by Mindmade in 2015, and A Maxwell, from the PRB, whose Conversion Table was just issued this month.

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Shane Anderson is the author of Soft Passer (Mindmade Books) and Études des Gottnarrenmaschinen (Broken Dimanche Press). His poems and translations can be found in 6x6, Asymptote, Edit, Triple Canopy, Natalie Czech's Il Pleut series and Mathew Barney's River of Fundament (Skira Rizzoli). He lives in Berlin where he curates the reading series HERE! HERE! THERE!

Andrew Maxwell's recent books include Candor is the Brightest Shield (Ugly Duckling, 2015) and Peeping Mot (Apogee, 2013). Conversion Table, a small collection of remarks without propositional attitudes, was issued this September on Mindmade Books. In LA, he runs the Poetic Research Bureau with Joseph Mosconi, and hosts a weekly radio show of international roots music on KXLU, The Dream of Harry Lime.

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Friday evening, September 23
Doors open @ 7:30pm, reading at 8 sharp.

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

Next Sunday afternoon: @SEA #9 "Devotion"

The ninth edition of @SEA, the Poetic Research Bureau's monthly live magazine, opens the fall season with film, video, poetry, essay and audio on the theme of "devotion" – lighting a candle and pacing the floors for enthusiasm, observance, rooting, piety, constancy, and ritual worship.

• Adele Horne: 16mm short film, "Quiero Ver" 
• Aaron Kunin: remarks on George Herbert's devotional poem "Love (III)" 
• Anal Shah: two videos, "Kabir Song" & "Laxmi at the Gate" 
• Robert Frank: screeening
• Arshia Haq: audio, video and comment on her recent field work on devotional and mystic Sufi practices in Pakistan

Aaron, Adele and Arshia will be in attendance!

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Poetic Research Bureau

Sunday, September 11, 2016 – Doors open at 1pm
Event 1:30-3:30pm is free. 

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