The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

K. Lorraine Graham, Amaranth Borsuk & Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Saturday, June 27 2009 at 4:00pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm

$5 donation requested

We will be celebrating the release of K. Lorraine Graham's new book TERMINAL HUMMING just out from Edge Books.

K. Lorraine Graham is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Terminal Humming (Edge Books, June 2009) and several chapbooks, including Large Waves to Large Obstacles, forthcoming from Take Home Project. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Traffic, Area Sneaks, Foursquare and elsewhere. She currently lives in southern California with her partner, Mark Wallace, and Lester Young, a pacific parrotlet. You can find her online at terminalhumming.blogspot.com

Amaranth Borsuk is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She is currently collaborating with Gabriela Jauregui on translations and transversions of Oulipo poet Paul Braffort's My Hypertropes. Selections from that project have appeared or are forthcoming in New American Writing and Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, including Denver Quarterly, Pool, Columbia, ZYZZYVA, and CRATE, among others. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in Writing Technologies, Slope, and International Journal of Women's Studies. She is interested in digital poetics and textual materiality, and works part time in the letterpress studio at Otis College of Art and Design.

Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and two chapbooks, Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv) and The Great Wheel (MaCaHu Press). He teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

BRUCE ANDREWS & DEBORAH MEADOWS

Friday, June 26 2009 at 7:00pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

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

$5 donation requested

Bruce Andrews is "a performance artist and poet whose texts are some of the most radical of the Language school; his poetry tries to cast doubt on each and every 'natural' construction of language" (The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English). A founding editor of the key journalL=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Andrews has maintained a consistent position at the radical edge of the literary avant-garde. Author of over thirty volumes of poetry, and a collection of innovative critical essays (Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis, with a load of books, shorter texts, interviews, essays, recordings & commentary online at the Electronic Poetry Center, Ubu, PennSound, Eclipse, Jacket & Wikipedia). He has lived in New York City since 1975, teaching political science at Fordham University (see YouTube for his 5 minute dust-up with Bill O’Reilly), and since the mid-80s has been Music Director & sound designer for Sally Silvers & Dancers. [Sally, by the way, is in town performing with Yvonne Rainer at Red Cat this week, June 25 to 28.]

Deborah Meadows teaches in the Liberal Studies department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her most recent book of poetry is from Shearsman Press entitled Goodbye Tissues. Other works of poetry include: involutia (Shearsman Press, UK, 2007), The Draped Universe(Belladonna* Books, 2007), Thin Gloves (Green Integer, 2006), Representing Absence (Green Integer, 2004), Itinerant Men (Krupskaya, 2004), and two chapbooks, Growing Still (Tinfish Press, 2005) and “The 60’s and 70’s: from The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick” (Tinfish Press, 2003). Her Electronic Poetry Center author page is located: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/meadows/

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

BRIAN KIM STEFANS, BRANDON DOWNING & STAN APPS

Saturday, June 6 2009 at 4pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

Doors open at 3:00pm
Reading starts at 4pm

$5 donation requested

Wine and snacks served before the reading

Brian Kim Stefans' recent books include Kluge: A Meditation, and other works (Roof, 2007), What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School, 2006), and Before Starting Over: Essays and Interviews (Salt Publishing, 2007). His digital works such as "The Dreamlife of Letters" and "Star Wars, One Letter at a Time" have been shown in gallery settings worldwide; many of these can be found at his website, www.arras.net. He is an Assistant Professor of English at UCLA, specializing in poetry and electronic writing.

Brandon Downing is a videomaker, visual artist, and writer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry collections include The Shirt Weapon (Germ, 2002), and Dark Brandon (Faux, 2005). An online gallery featuring his photographic work can be seen online at http://brandondowning.org. A feature-length DVD collection of recent video works, Dark Brandon // Eternal Classics, was released in 2007, and a monograph of his literary collages, Lake Antiquity, will be published by Fence Books this fall.

Stan Apps writes poems and essays. His books include: God's Livestock Policy (Les Figues, 2008), Handbook of Poetic Language (eohippus labs, 2008), Grover Fuel (Scantily Clad e-book, 2009) and Info Ration (Make Now, 2007). A chapbook of Sonnets is forthcoming soon from Peachpit Press, and his essays will be collected as The World As Phone Bill (Combo Books) late this year. Stan's poetry emphasizes direct statement, obviousness, economics, and the phatic nature of the self-explanatory.

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI, JOCELYN SAIDENBERG & THÉRÈSE BACHAND 

Saturday, May 9 2009 at 5:30pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206
Doors open at 5:00pm
Reading starts at 5:30pm

$5 donation requested

MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI lives in Durham, NC, where she is studying 19th-century American literature at Duke. Her first book The Bruise, out now from Fiction Collective Two, is the winner of the 2006 Ronald Sukenick prize for innovative fiction. 

JOCELYN SAIDENBERG is the author of Mortal City (Parentheses Writing Series), CUSP (Kelsey St. Press), winner of the Frances Jaffer Book Award, Negativity (Atelos) and Dispossessed (Belladonna). She is the founding editor of KRUPSKAYA Books. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in San Francisco and works as a catalog librarian for the San Francisco Public Library.

THÉRÈSE BACHAND is the author of the just published luce a cavallo, chosen by Luigi Ballerini for a Green Integer Gertrude Stein Award.  She has been anthologized in various PIP Anthologies, and her collection Daughter of the Ephemeral Word is forthcoming from i.e. press.  Her poems have appeared in the journals Area Sneaks, Aufgabe, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, and Primary Writing, among others; Ms. Bachand--as her 4 to 6 year old students at the UCLA Lab School know her--lives in Los Angeles.

David Lloyd & The PRB present...

A Benefit Reading for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund

featuring:

Will Alexander
Guy Bennett
Paul Vangelisti
Diane Ward
Ben Ehrenreich
Ara Shirinyan
Andrew Maxwell
Sesshu Foster
Douglas Kearny
Roberto Leni
David Lloyd
Estrella del Valle
Seth Michelson
Dennis Philips
Saba Razvi
Martha Ronk
Matthew Shenoda
Daniel Tiffany
Molly Bendall
& more?

Sunday, March 29, 2009
Free, but please donate generously!
Event starts at 4pm.

The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Rd.
Glendale, CA
91204
www.poeticresearch.com

The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is a medical charitable organization providing humanitarian and medical services to children in Palestine and the Middle East. The P.C.R.F. is a registered non-political, non-profit, 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization that was established in 1991 by concerned people in the U.S. to address the medical and humanitarian crisis facing Palestinian youths in the Middle East. It has since expanded to help suffering children from other Middle Eastern nations, based only on their medical needs. The P.C.R.F. helps to locate free medical care for children from the Middle East who are unable to get the necessary and specialized treatment in their homeland.

Their website is www.pcrf.net

Les Figues & the PRB present...

MY THREE SONS

With
Lisa ROBERTSON
Yedda MORRISON
Sophie ROBINSON

Saturday, January 31, 2008
$5 suggested donation
Doors 7:00pm
Reading starts at 7:30pm
compactspace
105 East 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90016
www.compactspace.com

LISA ROBERTSON’s books include Debbie: An Epic, XEclogue, The Weather, Occasional Works and Seven Walks from The Office for Soft Architecture, The Men. Coach House Press, in Toronto, is about to publish Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip, a miscellany of poems. Robertson is currently a visiting artist at California College of the Arts. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montreal based writer and visual artist

YEDDA MORRISON is the author of Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Editions, 2008). Her other books include My Pocket Park (Dusie Press, 2007), Co (Collaborations with Bruce Andrews, Roof Books, 2006) and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). From 1998-2005 Morrison co-edited Tripwire: a Journal of Experimental Poetics and Visual Art. Morrison has exhibited her visual work throughout the US and Canada and is represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC.

SOPHIE ROBINSON is the author of a, forthcoming from Les Figues Press. In 2006, she received the Phillipa Hicks award for Creativity and Innovation from the University of London, and her first chapbook, Killin’Kittenish! was published by yt communication in 2006. Her creative and critical work has also been published in Pilot, How2, Dusie and the Openned anthology.

compactspace is an international artist collective affiliated with its sister space, compactlab, in Geneva, Switzerland. This innovative organization, previously located in LA’s Pico-Union district, has recently re-located to historic downtown LA, where it promotes a multi-media arts program that features emerging and mid-career artists. compactspace LA is made possible by the contributions of the University of California San Diego’s Visual Arts Department.

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

KIT ROBINSON & DIANE WARD
Saturday, January 24 2009 at 4:30pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm

$5 donation requested

Kit Robinson is celebrating the publication of his new book The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry, 2009). A co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 (Mode A, ongoing), he is also the author of 9:45 (The Post Apollo Press, 2003), The Crave (Atelos, 2002) and Democracy Boulevard (Roof, 1998).

Diane Ward was born in Washington, DC and currently lives in Santa Monica, California. She has published ten books of poetry including, most recently, Flim-Yoked Scrim (Factory School, 2006), When You Awake (New York: Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), Portrait As If Through My Own Voice (Los Angeles: Margin to Margin, 2001) and Portraits and Maps with Michael C. McMillen (Italy: ML & NLF Editions, 2000). She has been included in numerous anthologies, among them: MOVING BORDERS: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, edited by Mary Margaret Sloan (New Jersey: Talisman House, Publishers, 1998) and OUT OF EVERYWHERE: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK, edited by Maggie O’Sullivan (London: Reality Street Editions, 1996).