Poetic Research Bureau: Ariana Reines & Jon Leon

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

A Valentine's Day Gift from

Ariana Reines & Jon Leon

Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 4:00pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3706 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

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

$5 donation requested

Ariana Reines is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize, FenceBooks: 2006), Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar: 2007), Mercury (forthcoming, FenceBooks: 2011), and the play "Telephone", commissioned by The Foundry Theatre and mounted in February 2009, with two Obies. Her full-length translations include My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire, (Mal-O-Mar: 2009) and The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal by Jean-Luc Hennig, (Semiotext(e): 2009). She was Virginia C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at UC Berkeley in Spring 2009.

Jon Leon is a Los Angeles-based poet and novellaist. His books include Right Now the Music and the Life Rule (Hathaway, 2006), Hit Wave (Kitchen Press, 2008), Alexandra (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2008), and The Hot Tub w/ Dan Hoy's Glory Hole (mal-o-mar editions, 2009). He is an occasional contributor to Art in America.

About the Bureau

The Poetic Research Bureau is a valise fiction and portable literary service in Northeast Los Angeles.

Our living room at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown hosts an extended community of autodidacts and guessworkers caught up in language, inquiry and the unguarded arts. Just as it is: a community free school by day, and by night, a non-professional public forum for presentations, readings, screenings and sundry intellectual exchanges.

As an out-of-pocket California milk-crate boosterist enterprise, the PRB also serves as the irregular literary umbrella for projects such as occasional poetry journal The Germ ('97-'05), edited by Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card; and art-lit mag Area Sneaks, edited by Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi.

As a research bloc, the 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 of stupidly incomparable price and value.

Several reading series are hosted at 951 CKR, and we welcome writers whose work lacks the 'commercial tendency' while harboring the bright, high-minded intentions that often lead to broad panic, righteous perversions, improbable arguments, and the ill-served cul-de-sacs of genius. The series are coordinated by the aforementioned Messrs Maxwell and Mosconi. If you're sympatico, passing through town, or need a megaphone, 50 seats and a big blank space, give us a write.

contact: directors@poeticresearch.com

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Ariana Reines & Jon Leon

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