Poetic Research Bureau: May 17: Adrienne Herr, Kayla Ephros, Alix Vollum & Dayton Castleman

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

ADRIENNE HERR
KAYLA EPHROS
ALIX VOLLUM
& DAYTON CASTLEMAN

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Adrienne Herr is an artist and writer; her poetry readings often include elements of performance and video. She has most recently read at Motto Books (Berlin, DE) and Picture Room (Nyc). A book of her found-poetry, Namesake, will be published by TABLOID Press in Summer 2017. Adrienne currently lives in New York City. http://adriennes.site/

Kayla Ephros is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. Her book of poems, Maple Shade, can be found at Ooga Booga in LA and McNally Jackson in NYC. Kayla's work has most recently appeared in Dizzy Magazine and Poems for Peace (A Smart Girl Club publication). She received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in December 2016, and is working towards her first solo exhibition which will take place in June, 2017. Kayla was born and raised in New Jersey.

Alix Vollum (b. 1989) is an artist from Portland, OR. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Her website is http://alixjeanvollum.net/

Dayton Castleman is an artist (b. 1988, Odessa, TX) who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. In 2016, he co-organized exhibitions at Kimberly-Klark (Queens, NY) and VI Dancer (San Francisco, CA). http://ifeelmarginalized.com/

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, May 16, 2017

May 17: Adrienne Herr, Kayla Ephros, Alix Vollum & Dayton Castleman

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