Saturday, March 3: Gillian Conoley & Martha Ronk

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

GILLIAN CONOLEY
& MARTHA RONK

Saturday, March 3 2018

Doors 7:30pm
Reading 8pm

Gillian Conoley was born in Austin, Texas and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she has lived for more than twenty years. She is the author of eight books of poetry, including Peace (2014), The Plot Genie (2009) and Profane Halo (2005), as well as being the editor of the poetry magazine VOLT. Conoley was the 2017 winner of the Poetry Society of America’s prestigious Shelley Memorial Award. Her most recent book, Preparing One’s Consciousness for the Avatar, is just out from Magra Books.

Martha Ronk is the author of several collections of poetry, including Ocular Proof (Omnidawn, 2016); Transfer of Qualities (Omnidawn, 2013); Partially Kept (Nightboat, 2012); Vertigo (Coffee House Press, 2007), which was selected by C.D. Wright as a part of the National Poetry Series; and Desire in LA (University of Georgia Press, 1990). She is also the author of two chapbooks.

Saturday, February 24: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice

Join us for the L.A. launch of
FROM OUR HEARTS TO YOURS
New Narrative as Contemporary Practice
(published by ON Contemporary Practice)

The first comprehensive anthology of essays on New Narrative writing and community practices by a younger generation of poets and poet-scholars.

Tonight's line-up will feature editors
ROB HALPERN
& ROBIN TREMBLAY-MCGAW

together with contributors
AMANDA DAVIDSON
& ROBERT DEWHURST

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Saturday, February 24 2018
Doors 7:30pm
Reading 8pm

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Rob Halpern lives between San Francisco and Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he teaches at Eastern Michigan University and Huron Valley Women’s Prison. His books of poetry include Common Place (2015) and Music for Porn (2012). Weak Link is forthcoming later this year (Atelos).

Robin Tremblay-McGaw lives in San Francisco, writes about poetry and poetics, and teaches at Santa Clara University and at Bard College as part of the Institute for Writing and in the Language & Thinking Program. Robin is the author of Dear Reader (Ithuriel’s Spear 2015).

Amanda K. Davidson walks in LA. The Sissy Goes for a Swim, her latest chapbook, was recently published by The Elephants. Visit amandakdavidson.com for fiction, comics, and more.

Robert Dewhurst is a poet and scholar; he holds a PhD in English from the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where he participated in the Buffalo Poetics Program. With Joshua Beckman and CAConrad, he coedited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books, 2015). Currently, he is writing a literary biography of Wieners. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles, CA
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Saturday, February 17: Micah Tasaka's Expansions

A book release party for

EXPANSIONS
by
MICAH TASAKA
with
ANGELA PEÑAREDONDO
MURIEL LEUNG
CLAUDIA RODRIGUEZ
SABRINA IM
& KARINEH MAHDESSIAN

Saturday, February 17 2018
Doors 7:30pm
Event 8pm

**NOTE: The annual Chinese New Year's Celebration will be happening in Chinatown this Saturday. Parking may be difficult! Please consider parking outside of Chinatown and walking down, or taking the Gold Line, which has a Chinatown stop.

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951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012

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Micah Tasaka is a queer mixed Japanese poet from the Inland Empire exploring the intersections of identity, spirituality, gender, and sexuality. They received their undergraduate degree in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside. Since then, Micah has been sharing their poetry on stage and traversing the spoken word and open mic scenes. Their debut chapbook, Whales in the Watertank, was self-published in 2014, and they just released their first full-length manuscript, Expansions, on Jamii Publications. Micah is also a healer, community organizer, and writing teacher. www.micahtasaka.com

Born in Iloilo City, Philippines, Angela Peñaredondo is a Pilipinx/Pin@y poet and artist. Peñaredondo is the author of All Things Lose Thousands of Times (Inlandia Institute, 2016), winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize and the chapbook, Maroon (Jamii Publications). Her work has appeared in Asian American Writers' Workshop: The Margins, Drunken Boat, Four Way Review, Cream City Review, Southern Humanities Review and elsewhere. Angela resides in Southern California, drifting between deserts, beaches, lowly cities and socially engineered suburbs. https://www.apenaredondo.com/

Muriel Leung is the author of Bone Confetti, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer, her writing can be found or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Drunken Boat, The Collagist, Fairy Tale Review, and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She is a contributing editor to the Bettering American Poetry anthology and is also Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at University of Southern California. She is from Queens, NY.

Claudia Rodriguez is a community scholar, educator, creative writer and performer from Compton. She published her first collection of poetry Everybody’s Bread in 2015 with Korima Press. For the past twenty years, she has developed work for/about and with marginalized communities. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. http://rodriguezwriter.blogspot.com/

Sabrina Im is a daughter of Khmer refugees, and a poet who often writes of the "in-betweens" she finds herself in. She received her BA in World Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and currently resides in Los Angeles. Sabrina hopes to continue using the written and performing arts as a means for mediating inter-generational narratives, and mobilizing others to explore their art too. Her work is forthcoming in Issue Seven of TAYO Literary Magazine.

Saturday, February 10: Holly Pester & Danny Snelson

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

HOLLY PESTER
& DANNY SNELSON

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Doors 7:30pm
Reading 8pm

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Holly Pester is a poet and educator. Pester has featured in readings, performances and sound installations at, dOCUMENTA 13, Fiac! 15, the Serpentine Poetry Marathon and BBC Radio. Her book, go to reception and ask for Sara in red felt tip is a collection of poetry and experimental fictions written in response to the Women's Art Library archives (Book Works 2015) and her album, Common Rest (Test Centre 2016) is a collection of collaborative lullabies and sound poems. Her work has featured in Poetry London, The White Review, The Believer online and The Poetry Review. She is lecturer in Poetry and Performance at University of Essex.

Danny Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist. His online editorial work can be found on UbuWeb, PennSound, Eclipse, and the EPC. He is the publisher of Edit Publications and founding editor of the Jacket2 Reissues project. Some books include Radios (Make Now, 2016), EXE TXT (Gauss PDF, 2015), Epic Lyric Poem (Troll Thread, 2014), and Inventory Arousal with James Hoff (Bedford Press/Architectual Association, 2011). With Mashinka Firunts and Avi Alpert, he performs as one-third of the academic performance group Research Service. He is currently developing a manuscript on a poetics of digital formats in the little database. Most recently, he joined the faculty at UCLA as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English. See also: http://dss-edit.com/

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Los Angeles, CA
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Fri, Feb 9: The Raincoats: Film & Video presented by Jenn Pelly

Join The Raincoats 33 1/3 book author Jenn Pelly (and special guests) as she screens archival film and video of British post-punk band The Raincoats.

Jenn Pelly is a Contributing Editor at Pitchfork and author of The Raincoats. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The Village Voice, The Wire, and Teen Vogue. She lives in New York.

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Friday, 7:30pm

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951 Chung King Road

Chinatown, LA

Saturday, Jan 20: Andrew Kenower, Sarah Heston & Justin Clifford Rhody

Join the Poetic Research Bureau this Saturday night as we celebrate Justin Clifford Rhody's new book A Horse With A Name from Rebel Hands Press. Joining Justin will be Sarah Heston, from Los Angeles, and Andrew Kenower, from Berkeley.

Andrew Kenower runs the audio archive A Voice Box, has designed books for Trafficker Press, Despite Editions, and Travelin Lite, and with Paul Ebenkamp curates the reading series Woolsey Heights in Berkeley, CA where he also calls home. Check out his SoundCloud.

Sarah Heston’s manuscript-in-progress, Daughter of Endtimes, is a true-crime, survivalist memoir that details a daughter-father relationship built on apocalyptic end-of-days scenarios in Los Angeles. Her nonfiction can be found in Tin House, The Iowa Review and elsewhere, while her criticism on redefining the history and aesthetic of western memoir away from concepts of the self can be found or is forthcoming in ASAP/Journal, the LA Review of Books, and Assay.

Justin Clifford Rhody is a photographer and poet currently based in Oakland, CA. His work has been seen widely online, through exhibits, traveling slideshows, and in publications, including two different monographs of his work created in Central America between 2009 and 2012: Zona Urbana and Dec. 21st, 2012: Chichicastenango (Mirro Editions). Recent works include Married To America (Hidden Eye Press), Slow Boat To China and Alone Together (with collagist Abigail Smith), as well as a collection of found-language poetry titled A Horse With A Name (Rebel Hands Press). Rhody also organizes a public slideshow series of found 35mm photo slides called Vernacular Visions and is co-founder of the White Leaves Artist Residency in El Rito, New Mexico.
( https://www.justincliffordrhody.com/)

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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Doors 7:30pm
Reading 8pm

 

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Saturday, January 6: Jean Day, Johanna Drucker & Mashinka Firunts

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

JEAN DAY
JOHANNA DRUCKER
& MASHINKA FIRUNTS

Saturday, January 6, 2018

Doors 7:30pm
Reading 8pm

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Jean Day is a poet, union activist, and editor whose Daydream is just out from Litmus Press. Recent poems can also be seen in Chicago Review, The Delineator, Across the Margin, Open House, Breather, and Jongler (French)--as well as in her Triumph of Life, soon to appear from Insurance Editions. Earlier works include Early Bird (O’Clock, 2014) and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry, 2006), among other books, and her work has also appeared in many anthologies, including, most recently, Resist Much/Obey Little (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017) and Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street, 2015). She lives in Berkeley, where she works as managing editor of Representations, an interdisciplinary humanities journal published by UC Press.

Johanna Drucker is an artist, writer, and scholar who holds the Breslauer Professor chair at UCLA in the Department of Information Studies. She published her first book of creative prose, Dark, in 1972 and in addition to her more than three-dozen artist’s books, widely held in library, museum, and private collections, she has published more than a dozen works of creative fiction including Dark Decade (Detour Press, 1995), Italy (the Figure, 1980), From Now (Cuneiform, 2007), and Fabulas Feminae (Litmus, 2015). She is also widely known for her academic and critical writing in digital humanities, contemporary art, visual poetics, artists’ books, and information visualization. She has two books forthcoming in 2018, Downdrift: An Eco-fiction (Three Rooms Press) and The General Theory of Social Relativity (The Elephants), from which she will read.

Mashinka Firunts is an artist, writer, and PhD candidate in the University of Pennsylvania’s History of Art department. She is a founding member of the performance group Research Service with Avi Alpert and Danny Snelson, with whom she has performed at the Palais de Tokyo, the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, and the Drawing Center New York. She is the co-editor of Present Tense Pamphlets, a publishing platform for score-based performance released through Northwestern University and the Block Museum of Art. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, Performance Research Journal, Shifter, and elsewhere.