November 18: Tony Trigilio

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

TONY TRIGILIO

Friday, November 18, 2011 at 7:00pm

The PRB @ The Public School
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm

Tony Trigilio’s books include the poetry collections Historic Diary (BlazeVOX Books, 2011) and The Lama's English Lessons (Three Candles Press, 2006). With Tim Prchal, he co-edited the anthology, Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (Rutgers University Press, 2008). Recent poems are published or forthcoming in 1913 a journal of forms, Denver Quarterly, Poemeleon, Rattle, Salt Hill, Sixth Finch, South Dakota Review, and Spinning Jenny, and next year in the anthologies Villanelles (Knopf) and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press). He is a member of the core poetry faculty at Columbia College Chicago and is a co-founder and co-editor of Court Green.

POSTPONED: Gravendyk & Rankine @ the PRB

Tonight's reading with Hillary Gravendyk and Claudia Rankine has been postponed until later next year.  Hillary was suddenly notified of a suitable donor, and is receiving a critical lung transplant. We at the PRB wish her well with her operation and recovery.

The PRB presents: Hillary Gravendyk & Claudia Rankine, Saturday Nov 5th

Hillary Gravendyk is the author of Harm (Omnidawn Press), out this week. She is the two-time winner of the Eisner Prize in Poetry and her chapbook, The Naturalist, was published by Achiote Press in 2008. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Barnstorm, The Bellingham Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Colorado Review, The Eleventh Muse, FOURTEENS HILLS, MARY, 1913: A JOURNAL OF FORMS, Octopus Magazine,Tarpaulin Sky and other venues.  Hillary is currently working on a critical book, Chronic Poetics, that explores intersubjectivity and embodiment in the poetic works of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, George Oppen, and Larry Eigner. She often collaborates with the photographer Benjamin Burrill and is interested in mixed-media forms. She lives in Claremont, California.

Claudia Rankine has published four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004), Plot (2001), The End of the Alphabet (1998) and Nothing in Nature is Private (1994), which won the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. With Juliana Spahr, Rankine co-edited American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (2002) and, with Lisa Sewell, American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (2007). Her poems have been included in the anthologies Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (2003), Best American Poetry (2001), and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry (1996). Her play Detour/South Bronx premiered in 2009 at New York’s Foundry Theater.

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Saturday, November 5th, 2011

Poetic Research Bureau @ the Public School
951 Chung King Road, Chinatown, LA

Doors open @ 7:00pm, readings at 7:30pm

October 22: Tisa Bryant & Daniel Borzutzky

After opening the season with a swell reading at Charlie James with P-Gizzi, the PRB returns to its cozy niche in the Public School just a few doors down at 951 Chung King Road in Chinatown. We welcome Daniel Borzutzky, out from Chicago, and Tisa Bryant, from our own up-in-the-ether, down-in-the-jowls megalopolis. Hope to see you all this weekend before the fog rolls in.

  

Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007). An excerpt from her novella, [the curator], was published by Belladonna Books in 2009, in a companion volume with writer Chris Kraus. She is also the author of the chapbook, Tzimmes (A+Bend Press, 2000), a prose poem collage of narratives including a Barbados genealogy, a Passover seder and a film by Yvonne Rainer. She is co-editor, with Ernest Hardy, of War Diaries, an anthology of black gay male desire and survival, from AIDS Project Los Angeles, which was nominated Best LGBTQ anthology by the LAMBDA Literary Awards. She is also co-editor/publisher of the hardcover cross-referenced literary/arts series, The Encyclopedia Project, which recently released Encyclopedia Vol. 2 F-K. She lives in Los Angeles. 

Daniel Borzutzky is the author of The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011); The Ecstasy of Capitulation (BlazeVox, 2007) and Arbitrary Tales (Triple Press, 2005). His translations include Raúl Zurita's Song for his Disappeared Love (Action Books, 2010) Jaime Luis Huenún's Port Trakl (Action Books, 2010), and One Year and other stories by Juan Emar (Review of Contemporary Fiction, 2007). His work has been anthologized in, among others, A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence Books); Seriously Funny (University of Georgia Press, 2010); and Malditos Latinos Malditos Sudacas: Poesia Iberoamericana Made in USA (El billar de Lucrecia, 2010). Journal publications include Fence, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Chicago Review, TriQuarterly, and many others. Chapbooks include Failure in the Imagination (Bronze Skull, 2007) and One Size Fits All (Scantily Class Press, 2009). He is a contributing editor to Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas. He lives in Chicago.

Poetic Research Bureau @ the Public School

951 Chung King Road, Chinatown, LA

Doors open @ 7:00pm, readings at 7:30pm

 

The PRB Presents: Peter Gizzi @ Charlie James Gallery, Sat Oct 8

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Peter Gizzi comes to town the second weekend of October, and the PRB is joining with its neighbor on Chung King Road, the Charlie James Gallery, to host him for a single, solo gig in the LA basin.

He's bringing a new book, Threshold Songs, his fifth collection, and it's a deep internal rumble of wintry lyrical abstraction. And don't let a word like 'lyrical' get you all wicked snuffy, Angelenos. True, LA may be the sweaty whalebone undergarment of 'conceptual writing practice' -- but Pete's a dude who can write small weepies about foundling creatures and appear in Against Expression all in the same lifetime. Honestly can't say I know anyone who reads more broadly in poetry than Pete, and it comes across, direct and punchward clear. You'd be a stiff to ditch this one.

You also don't want to miss Richard Kraft's exhibition in the Gallery. Perfect complement, named after a line in one of Pete's poems. It's like five years of mail art landed in your postbox on the same day, blew up roseate like a perfect novel, and gave you the righteous shiver. It's yours for the taking, kiddos.

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Saturday October 8, 2011

The PRB @ Charlie James Gallery
975 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA

Doors open at 7:00pm
Event starts promptly at 7:30pm.

Fall is Icumen In

Just a note that your mole-ish and absentee Directors are coming out of their summery haze and putting together the fall playlist for the PRB this week. Shindigs begin in October, and should play out through fall and into the holidays.

Not everything is completely finalized yet -- and as always we welcome wayfaring strangers and last minute appeals. The Bureau is your 99th nervous occasional plateau, so make your own. If you dig our scene, we got room in the middle.

Two gigs are for certain in October. We're joining up with the Charlie James Gallery just a couple doors down from the Public School to host Peter Gizzi, out from Western Mass with his new book Threshold Songs, on October 8 (7:30pm). He'll be cohabiting with Richard Kraft's new exhibition in the Gallery, a fixed explosive novel named Something With Birds in It. Then, two weeks later, on October 22 (7:30pm), we'll be hosting Chicago's Daniel Borzutsky, a poet, translator and fiction writer who recently came out with a new collection: The Book of Interfering Bodies. He'll be accompanied by LA's own Tisa Bryant.

Keep a close watch on the little floating calendar in the upper right of the PRB blog. That's where it all takes shape, as irregularly as ever.

Hugs, yr PRB Directors.

Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons & Lysette Simmons @ Royal/T Cafe

For one night only we're moving the Poetic Research Bureau across town to Culver City, Heart of Screenland, where many an episode of Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang was filmed.

It's a special event put on by my favorite Los Angeles barrista, Yeekai Lim of Cognoscenti Coffee. There will be food, coffee and of course poetry. Though the poetry portion of the evening is free, the food and coffee pairings will be a ticketed event, so please purchase your tickets early.

The readings will start promptly at 7pm.

Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons and Lysette Simmons @ Royal/T Cafe
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Royal/T Cafe
8910 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232

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Order tickets via Eventbrite: 
http://coffeexfood-efbeven​t.eventbrite.com/

A unique tasting event featuring seasonal coffees selected by Yeekai Lim of Cognoscenti Coffee and food pairing curated by distinguished cheese monger Sebastian Robin Craig, Jessica Koslow of SQIRL confiture, Na Young of Proof Bakery and Royal/T and a poetry reading by the Poetic Research Bureau (at 7pm).

Each $18 ticket will include the following 3 courses of food paired with coffees (Gratuity not included):

1st Course

Food
Lacinato Kale Salad with SQIRL's preserved Meyer lemons, French radish, toasted pumpkin seeds, Santa Rosa plum dressing, dark rye crispbread and Lou Rey raw sheep Basque cheese

Coffee
Ethiopia Welena Suke Quto, served cold 

Coffee Flavor Profile
Intensely floral fragrances introduce a cup layered with citrus, tangerine, blood oranges, and pink lemonade. A sweet and clear cup. 

2nd Course

Food
Cheese plate featuring: 

- Delice de Bourgogne, Cow milk, Burgundy, France. This is a ripe triple creme. The paste is soft, dense, sweet and lightly peppery.
- Faux Valençay, goat milk, France. Pasteurized mold-ripened chèvre from the Loire Valley in the central western region of France.
- Testun D’Ocelli, goat and cow milk, Piemonte, Italy. The Testun is rinded with nebbiolo must. It is permeated with the scent of dark berries. The paste is dense, flaky and a little sweet.
- SQIRL's homemade pickled vegetables, Loquat/Nocino spread and Proof’s Concord grape focaccia 

Coffee
Kenya Murang'a Theri, served hot & Costa Rica La Concha Typica, served cold

Coffee Flavor Profiles
Kenya - Lychee and candied lemon fragrance introduce bursting key lime acidity in this sweet and creamy cup.
Costa Rica - Apricot blossom and rose fragrances are at the forefront of this coffee, introducing a cup heavy with ripe peach, tangerine and hibiscus.

3rd Course

Food
Pastel Vasco - A rich buttery cake from the Basque region of Spain, filled with SQIRL confitures' strawberry rose jam

Coffee
Colombia Bruselas Libardo Piedrahita ML, served hot.

Coffee Flavor Profile
Green and muscat grape acidity emerge out of a dense cup of cocoa, sweet malt, and molasses. 

PLEASE NOTE THAT NO SUGAR OR CREAM WILL BE SERVED ALONGSIDE YOUR COFFEES. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Farms:
Rancho Del Sol Farms - Meyer Lemons
Flora Bella Farms - Plums
Murray Farms - Concord Grapes
McGrath Farms - Seascape Strawberries
Shear Rock Farms - Pickled Vegetables
Earthtrine Farm - Loquats

Cognoscenti Coffee was founded by architect Yeekai Lim, who launched a pop-up coffeehouse called Cognoscenti Coffee at Urban Eats, a restaurant he designed in Burbank. He transitioned to Blue Dot yogurt shop in Eagle Rock before accepting a permanent residency in the marble-countered confines of Atwater Village’s Proof Bakery, where he brews Four Barrel Coffee.

Sebastian Robin Craig is a cheese monger and restaurant professional who has worked for some of California's most outstanding purveyors of fine cuisine.

Sqirl
Sqirl's owner Jessica Koslow works with farmers within a 200 mile radius of Los Angeles who cultivate their land with the intention of letting the product (many of which are heirloom varietals on the Ark of Taste) speak to its environment. The preserves are then made consciously with minimal organic cane sugar and naturally occurring pectin in copper jam pans handspun by an instate coppersmith. The result is unique; not only portraying the wealth and diversity of California's crops and its generous growing seasons, but also reminding us of the value in the antique process of preservation.
http://www.sqirlla.com/

Proof
In November 2010, Proof Bakery opened its doors with one
very specific vision: to uphold traditional, craft-baking techniques in
creating exceptional baked goods. Combining quality local ingredients
with Chef/Owner Na Young Ma’s passion for perfection, Proof makes each
item in small batches and offers a seasonally-driven menu to provide the
Atwater Village neighborhood with an ever changing array of sweets, savories,
and everything in between.
http://www.proofbakeryla.c​om/

The Poetic Research 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. The Bureau also hosts a reading series at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown. Tonight the Bureau presents the work of writers Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons and Lysette Simmons. The poetry reading will start promptly at 7pm in the back room and it's free. 
http://www.poeticresearch.​com/