Poetic Research Bureau: Dan Thomas-Glass, Cassandra Gillig & Nathaniel Otting

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

DAN THOMAS-GLASS
CASSANDRA GILLIG
& NATHANIEL OTTING

Friday, January 17, 2014
Doors open 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

Poetic Research Bureau @ TELIC Arts
951 Chung King Rd
Chinatown, Los Angeles

Dan Thomas-Glass is the author of The Great American Beatjack Volume I (Perfect Lovers Press), Kate & Sonia (in the months before our second daughter's birth) (Little Red Leaves' Textile Series), Seaming (Furniture Press), and 880 (Deep Oakland Editions). Daughters of your century, his first full-length book of poems, will be released by Furniture Press this year. He edits the occasional journal of post-industrial poetics With + Stand, and just moved to Los Angeles with his wife Kate and their daughters Sonia and Alma.

Cassandra Gillig is a Poetic Research Bureaucrat at Same Text, a new press devoted to Hannah Weiner et al. Her album leaked here: http://blackcakerecords.bandcamp.com/album/sex-beach

Nathaniel Otting is always between Robert Seydel's "There's an occult meaning in initials." & Madeline Gins' REMOVE ALL INITIAL LETTERS. He will mail you something: http://www.everyday-genius.com/2013/08/nathaniel-otting.html

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

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Dan Thomas-Glass, Cassandra Gillig & Nathaniel Otting

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