Event Archive

The Poetic Research Bureau has hosted over 600 events. Most of them are listed here. Many years of bios and images can also be found on our original event blog, for the curious.

SUMMER 2022

July 10: Air/Light Magazine Launch with bridgette bianca, Alex Espinoza, Edan Lepucki, Naomi Hirahara, Lilliam Rivera, Lynne Thompson, Ben Loory

SPRING 2022

June 17: Elisabeth Houston

June 9: Cookie Mueller Book Launch with Michelle Tea, Nikki Darling, Ron Athey, Drew Arriola-Sands, DL Alvarez

June 2: Mady Schutzman & Ursula Brookbank

May 21: Elaine Kahn, Jeanetta Rich, Anthony Aguero

May 15: Next Words, CalArt MFA Reading

April 30: Jared Joseph, Kendall Grady, Angie Sijun Lou, Jordan Nakamura

April 28: Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, Susan Bee

April 16: Colleen Louise Barry, Giulia Bencivenga, JoAnna Novak, Leah Clancy

April 15: Big Memory, Artists Who Write with Estelle Araya-S, Clarissa Ebigwu, Yatta Zoker, & Andrea Sisson

WINTER 2022

March 20: Gabrielle Civil with Sharon Bridgforth, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones & z.No Scott

March 6: @SEA, Damage/Salvage with Nicole Hewitt, Jennifer Nelson, Gary Hankins, Prageeta Sharma, Edgar Jorge Baralt, Rodrigo Toscano, Ruben Bellinkx

March 5: Sprawl, CalArts MFA Reading

February 3: Christina Catherine Martinez: How to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age

FALL 2021

December 11: Joanna Fuhrman, Brian Kim Stefans, Rick Snyder

December 10: Madison McCartha, Evan Kleekamp, Ava Hofmann

December 1: In Case of Emergency launch with translator Mariam Rahmani, Christina Catherine Martinez, Michelee Lhooq (Casual Encounters)

November 20: Sophia Le Fraga, Sophia Dahlin, Violet Spurlock

November 17: Mohammed El-Kurd, aja monet, Clarissa Bitar

November 12: Rosie Stockton, Carlos Lara with Ceremonial Abyss, Jeremy Kennedy

November 6: Kate Durbin, Carribean Fragoza, Stephen van Dyck

November 4: Sesshu Foster

October 29: Emji Spero, Paul Outlaw, Pau S. Pescador, J. Shelley Harrison, Alsea Diana

October 26: Dodie Bellamy with Michelle Tea

October 24: @SEA #22, Stateless, with Julia Sanches, Ara Shirinyan, Zaina Bseiso, Želimir Žilnik, Gelare Khoshgozaran

October 10: Andrea Abi-Karam, Jackie Ess, Fargo Tbakhi

October 3: Harmony Holiday & Jackie Wang

October 1: Gabrielle Civil & Janice Lee

Sept 26: @SEA #26 “Suspension” with Eloy Neira, Lucy Kerr, Julie Murray, Steven Zultanski

SPRING/SUMMER 2021

August 22: Feliz Lucia Molina, Steven Zultanski, Josef Kaplan, Holly Melgard (Zoom reading with Make Now Books)

May 7: Ted Dodson & Rosie Stockton (Zoom reading in collaboration with Wonder Press)

–– COVID-19 Pandemic ––

WINTER 2020

March 8: Alan Bernheimer, Aaron Kunin, Martha Ronk

February 29: Maricela Guerrero, Cristián Gómez Olivares, David Shook, Stalina Villarreal & Ilana Dann Luna

February 28: Nick Toti screening of Ryan Darbonne’s I AM TX

February 22: Steve Benson, Michael Smoler, Alexis Krasilovsky

February 21: JoAnna Novak, Sophia Le Fraga, Joshua Escobar & Emily Brandt

February 20: Lucy Blagg & Lizzy Crawford

February 13-16: Frieze LA 

  • Feb 15 (4-6pm): Alli Warren & Divya Victor

  • Feb 16 (12-2pm): Prageeta Sharma & Jibade-Khalil Huffman

February 7: Demeter Appel-Riehle, LOVE TALK: A Mirror Talk Event with Jonah Henry, Semilore Ola, Christina Miles, Virginia Villalta

February 1: James Sherry, Bruna Mori, Ross Goodwin

January 31: Kate Ingold, Fred Schmalz, Chad Sweeney

January 26: @SEA “DOMINION” w/ Anthony McCann, Juan Pablo Gonzalez, Mina Kim Fitzpatrick, Roy Scranton

January 25: Suzanne Stein & Claudia La Rocco

January 18: Nik De Dominic & MC Hyland

January 11: Matthew Klane, Mal Young

FALL 2019

November 23: Rodrigo Bravo & Sean Negus

November 22: David Rattray event w/ Robbie Dewhurst, Chris Kraus

November 16: Jeremy Kennedy, Benjamin Bekey & Chelsea Rector

November 9: Eric Sneathen, Jean Vaccarro, Jacob Kahn

November 2: Emmalea Russo, Fiona Duncan, Corina Copp & Kate Durbin

October 26: Patrick Durgin, Evan Kleekamp & Devin King

October 25: Brent Armendinger, Sarah Rosenthal, Janet Sarbanes, Sesshu Foster & Valerie Witte

October 20: Current:LA w/ Saehee Cho (Barnsdall Art Park)

October 19: Jared Joseph, Cathy Thomas, Jose Antonio Villarán, Kirstin Wagner

October 18: Dan Poppick & Feliz Lucia Molina

October 12: Angelica Freitas & Hilary Kaplan

October 11: Rob Fitterman & Kim Calder

October 6: Current:LA wi/ Ara Shirinyan (Barnsdall Art Park)

October 5: Johanna Drucker & Anna Wolfe-Pauly

September 27: LAMBDA Lit Fest, Our Families, Our Stories: Writing and Parenting in the Trenches

September 26: LAMBDA Lit Fest with Myriam Gurba, Sophia Le Fraga, Ryka Aoki, & JoAnna Novak, hosted by Kate Durbin

September 21: Jorge Ortega (trans.: Anthony Seidman and Johnny Payne)

September 7: Sophia Dahlin, Turner Capehart Canty, Joseph Mosconi

SUMMER 2019

June 23: Kevin Killian Memorial Reading

June 22: Marinna Benzon, Lilly Safarian, Carla Sameth, Stephanie Adams Santos

June 21: Lisa Locascio, Diana Arterian, Lisa Lee, Katya Apekina, Sarah LaBrie, and Allie Rowbottom

SPRING 2019

June 8: William E. Jones, M Kitchell, Jarett Kobek

June 1: Anne Lesley Selcer & Tom Comitta 

May 25: Screening of Zachary Oberzan’s The Great Pretender (Nick Toti hosts)

May 18: Adam Tedesco, Amie Zimmerman, Natalie Graham, Librecht Baker

May 10: The Wild Great Wall with Zhu Zhu 

May 5: (3pm) Samuel Ace & Ali Liebgott

April 27: Mark Johnson, Tom Trudgeon, Kate Robinson

April 25: RAD! Residency with Gillian Osborne & Michelle Detorie

April 19: Ally Harris, Lucy Blagg, Josh Fadem

April 14: Ben Fama, Ted Dodson, Rachel Rabbit White, Anton Ivanov

April 13: Francesca Capone, Elaine Kahn, Kristin George Bagdanov

April 12: Benjamin Lord 

April 11: RAD! Residency with Gillian Osborne and Laura Vena

April 10: Maya Weeks & Sophie Reiff

April 7: @SEA 19: communities // colonies (David de Rozas, Sesshu Foster, Hadley Meares, Billie Soo Hoo)

April 6: Jordan Davis & Justin Jamail

April 5: Rocío Carlos, bridgette bianca, & T.K. Le

March 23: Shiv Kotecha & Ed Steck

WINTER 2019

March 16: DieDieMaoMao presents Creatures of Yes

March 3: @SEA 18: colonies / communities (Sanmu Lin, Jan Lin, Janalyn Guo, Jorge Jacome)

February 23: Vernon Keeve III  & Stephen Van Dyck

February 22: Gabrielle Civil, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, Jess Arndt & Madhu H. Kaza 

February 21: RAD! Residency with Will Alexander  (Part 3)

February 19: J. Gordon Faylor & Lily Bartle

February 15: Kristen Nelson, Sam Cohen, Bernadette McComish, Wendy C. Ortiz & Samantha Bounkeua

February 8: Suzanne Stein, Steve Benson & Jermane Cooper

February 2: GennaRose Nethercott & Jos Charles

January 31: Will Alexander & Carlos Lara (RAD! Residency Part 2)

January 29: Tess Brown-Lavoie, Harmony Holiday, Tommy Pico

January 26: Teresa Carmody & Anna Joy Springer

January 18: Samuel Breslin, Andrea Sisson, Estelle Srivijittakar & Miko Revereza

January 17: RAD! Residency with Will Alexander & Neelanjana Banerjee

FALL 2018

December 14: Jasmine Dreame Wagner w/ sound accompaniment by Sondra Sun-Odeon, Natasha Young w/ musical accompaniment by George Jensen, Claire Cronin w/musical accompaniment by Ezra Buchla

December 7: Susan Gevirtz, Pablo Lopez & Steve Dickison 

December 1: Andrew Choate & Patrick Shiroishi

November 30: Alias: Alexander Nemser, Mandy Kahn, Mike Goetzman, KK Wootton, and music by Blair Tefkin & Clem Creevy (Cherry Glazerr)

November 17: Daniel Owen, Kim Calder & Corina Copp

November 10: Elizabeth Treadwell, Michelle Detorie, Deborah Poe

November 9: Noah Warren, Elizabeth Metzger, Will Brewer (Elizabeth canceled due to fire)

October 20: Sandra Simonds & Geoffrey G. O’Brien

October 18: Rajnesh Chakrapani, Gabrielle Civil & Anca Roncea 

September 22: Emmalea Russo, Pascalle Burton, Katherine Coldiron

SUMMER 2018

September 15: blake nemec, Ash Ponders, Eric Saenz

September 8: Rodney Koeneke, Jos Charles & Julian Talamantez Brolaski

September 7: Carla Harryman &  Deborah Meadows

August 25: Joshua Edwards, Vi Khi Nao, Lynn Xu

August 3: alex cruse, Paul Ebenkamp, Kevin Lo, Niko Kommodore

July 21: Nick Montfort, Sophia Le Fraga & Aaron Winslow

June 30: Precious Okoyomon & Feliz Lucia Molina

June 23: Elisa Wouk Almino, Magdalena Edwards, Alana Levinson-LaBrosse & André Naffis-Sahely

SPRING 2018

CANCELED/MOVED June 2: Sesshu Foster, Xochitl Julisa Bermejo & Kenji Liu

CANCELED/MOVED May 27: Trevor Joyce, Jason Magabo Perez & David Lloyd

CANCELED/MOVED May 26: Stacey Tran, Amanda Choo Quan & Ana Cecilia Alvarez

May 25: Stella Corso, Zack Haber, Giulia Bencivenga

May 19: Hillary Gravendyk book launch for The Soluble Hour w/ Cindy Arrieu King 

May 18: Jennifer Firestone & A Maxwell (hosted by Andrea Quaid)

May 11: Andrea Quaid & Margaret Rhee hosting event  w/ Tia Blassingame, Ching-In Chen, Gabrielle Civil, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Mashinka Firunts, Brenda Iijima, erica kaufman, Janice Lee, Eireene Nealand, Jennifer Scappettone, Celina Su & Adrienne Walser

May 10: Celina Su, Diane Ward, SA Smythe (hosted by Andrea Quaid)

May 5: Paul Hoover & Emily Liebowitz

May 4: Next Words, the CalArts MFA Reading

April 28: Johnnie Jungleguts, Patrick Staff & Asal Shahindoust

April 21: Emily Skillings, Morgan Parker & Kate Durbin

April 14: Adam Stutz & Adam Deutsch

April 13: Kim Calder, Greg Curtis & Evan Kleekamp

April 7: Harmony Holiday & Will Alexander

April 6: James Meetze & Katy Bohinc

April 5: Amanda Ackerman & Maya Weeks

March 31: The 90s w/ Emily Lacy, Christina Catherine Martinez, Deenah Vollmer & Scott Barber

March 30: Angela Veronica Wong, Amy Lawless & Jeff Alessendrelli

March 28: Sam Solomon & Chris Chen

March 24: Diana Arterian, Manuel Paul López, Joseph Rios, Vanessa Villarreal

March 23: Jaap Blonk, Pauline Gloss & Tom Comitta 

WINTER 2018

March 18: @SEA 17: “Inventory” w/ Luke Fischbeck, Natalie Haeusler, Robert Todd

March 17: Melissa Mack, an. cinquepalmi & Elisabeth Houston (Baby)

March 10: Eileen G’Sell, JoAnna Novak, Elizabeth Hall

March 3: Gillian Conoley & Martha Ronk 

Feb 24: From Our Hearts to Yours: New narrative as Contemporary Practice w/ Rob Halpern, Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Robbie Dewhurst, Amanda Davidson  

Feb 17: Micah Tasaka, Angela Peñaredondo, Muriel Leung, Claudia Rodriguez, Sabrina Im, Karineh Mahdessian

Feb 10: Holly Pester & Danny Snelson

Feb 9: The Raincoats 33 ⅓ book author Jenn Pelly + Simon Reynolds

Jan 20: Andrew Kenower, Sarah Heston & Justin Clifford Rhody

Jan 6: Jean Day, Johanna Drucker, Mashinka Firunts

FALL 2017

Dec 16: Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Joseph Mosconi, Readers Chorus, Nine Herbs Charm Collective, Sam Cohen

Dec 15: Paige Elizabeth Gretsy, Jeremy Hight, Megan Lent, Rachel Olson, Viva Padilla & Miranda Tsang, with Alexandra Naughton, Grant Leuning & Yesenia Padilla

Dec 9: Margaret Rhee, Claudia Castro Luna, Sean Pessin, Lucy Burns, SA Smythe, Mark Marino, Jessica Ceballos y Campbell

December 1: Technicians of the Sacred launch with Jerome Rothenberg, Will Alexander, Harmony Holiday, Douglas Messerli, hosted by David Shook

Nov 17: The Current, w/ Lusterlit, Deenah Vollmer, Ginger Buswell, Dame Darcy, Jennifer Croft, Lobalam, Sheila McMullin, Alana Amram, Justin Feinstein, DANyDANy

Nov 11: Mingus School celebrates Muhal Richard Abrams

Nov 10: Ghayath Almadhoun, Ramon Garcia & Louise Mathias

Oct 27: David Abel & Mark Wallace

Oct 21: Steffi Drewes, Louise Mathias, Elena Karina Byrne

Oct 15: @SEA 16: Phillipp Schmickl, Chelsea Rector, Jon Davis, Andrew Choate & Jeremy Kennedy

Oct 7: Aldon Nielsen & Will Alexander

SUMMER 2017

September 23: Herman Dune, Emily Lacy, Sean Fabi, Ginger Buswell, Deenah Vollmer, Sam Child, Nicole Valencia, Alan Hanson

September 16: Ted Pearson & Paul Naylor

September 15: Diana Arterian & Muriel Leung

July 28: erica lewis & Franklin Bruno

July 15: Kim Vodicka, Josh Stevens, Kristin Sanders

June 24: Pablo Jofre, David Shook & Anthony Seidman

SPRING 2017

June 18: Rodrigo Toscano, Ed Steck & Sophia Le Fraga @ MOCA Storefront

June 17: Kit Schluter, Bonnie Ruberg & André Naffis-Sahely

June 10: New Narrative Anthology Release (Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, Richard Hawkins, Sheree Rose, Matias Viegener)

June 4: @SEA 15: VENTRILOQUISM (Sarah Kessler, Ross Lipman, Eugene Ostashevsky, Mady Schutzman)

June 3: Bridget Talone & Josef Kaplan

May 20: Alan Felsenthal & Jane Gregory

May 19: Aisha Sasha John, Laura Goode & Kim Calder

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

May 13: Yesenia Padilla & Grant Leuning

May 12: Andrew Wessels, Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel, Nik De Dominic, Xochitl Bermejo

May 5: Oki Sogumi & Jeanine Webb (& Feliz Lucia Molina via Skype)

April 29: Roberto Echavarren, Giancarlo Huapaya, Roman Lujan

April 23: Marie Buck & Anna Vitale @ MOCA Storefront

April 23: @SEA No. 14, 12-2:30pm w/ Thom Andersen, David E James, Susan Silton, Jean-Luc Guionnet (w/ Chelsea Rector)

April 22: Morgan Parker & Harmony Holiday

April 14: Anna Joy Springer, Gabrielle Civil & Douglas Kearney

April 7 - 9: The Desert

March 26: Brandon Brown @ MOCA Storefront 3pm

March 25: Donato Mancini, Anahita Jamali Rad, Danielle LaFrance

March 24: Ari Banias, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

WINTER 2017

March 18: Marisa Crawford, Rose Quezada & Elizabeth Hall

March 17: Kimberly Alidio, Jen Hofer, Micah Tasaka, Sa Whitley, Angela Peñaredondo

March 15: Ariel Goldberg, Grace Dunham, Paul Mpagi Sepuya

March 12: @SEA “CONFESSION” w/ Roee Rosen, Catherine Theis, Matvei Yankelevich

March 11: David Larsen & Kit Robinson

March 10: House of Godzilla, Rare Birds & Further Possibilities

March 9: MUTHA Magazine

March 4: Laura Goldstein & Geneve Chao

March 2: Sesshu Foster & Arturo Romo @ MOCA Storefront 

March 1: Citron Kelly, Andrew Choate, Jeremy Kennedy

Feb 25: Ted Dodson & Mathew Timmons

Feb 24: Nicholas Muellner

Feb 19: SE Barnet & David Buuck

Feb 18: Zoe Ruiz, Brian Evenson, Christopher Higgs

Jan 31: Mohsen Emadi

Jan 29 3-5pm: Magra Books launch: Dennis Phillips, Martha Ronk, Ray DiPalma tribute

Jan 21: Stacey Tran & James Gendron

Jan 16: MOCA Storefront Opening

Jan 14: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta & Lucy Blagg

FALL 2016

Dec 18: IN REAL LIFE @ Hammer Museum (Harmony Holiday, Asher Hartman, CS Giscombe, LA Fog, Kate Dollenmayer, Peter Bo Rappmund, Patty Chang & David Kelley)

Dec 10: Emily Hunt & Sophie Reiff

Dec 9: Emji Spero, Carle Brioso & Andrea Abi-Karam

Dec 3: Angel City Review reading (Will Alexander, Rocio Carlos, Jian Huang, & Sesshu Foster)

Nov 20: Valerie Hsiung & Anne Lesley Selcer

Nov 19: Sarah Riggs & Geneva Chao

Nov 18: Joel Gregory, Clay Kerrigan & Holiday Black 

Nov 13: Open Reading in Solidarity @ Veggie Cloud

Nov 13: @SEA #11 “Flows” w/ Diane Ward, Nerve Macaspac, Peter Bo Rappmund, Courtney Stephens, Michael Webster

Nov 12: Krystal Languell & Jess Arndt

Nov 7: The Bakersfield Fan Forum (at Todd Madigan Gallery, Bakersfield)

Nov 4: Elaine Kahn & Aaron Kunin

Oct 29: David Lau, Brian Ang, Molly Bendall

Oct 21-23: Open Press: Wonder and Krupskaya

Oct 16: @SEA #10 “TRANSPORT” w/ Anal Shah, Courtney Stephens, Olivia Wyatt, Claudia Keelan

Oct 15: Todd Gray

Oct 9: Muriel Leung, Vanessa Villarreal, Angela Peñaredondo

Oct 8: Harold Abramowitz, Jian Huang, Kim Bradford

Sept 25: Elysia Crampton, Emily Lucid, Marcel Alcala

Sept 23: Shane Anderson (Berlin) & A Maxwell

SUMMER 2016

Sept 16: Bard MAT Reading

Sept 11: @SEA #9 “Devotion”: Aaron Kunin, Anal Shah, Adele Horne, Robert Frank

Sept 10: Rae Armantrout & Martha Ronk

Aug 19: Cindy Arrieu-King & Brian Kim Stefans

Aug 13: The Third Rail launch party w/ Nikki Darling, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, DJs B-Rok & JVu

July 23: Lucy Ives & Johanna Jackson

July 9: Elizabeth Hall, Myriam Gurba and Wendy C. Ortiz

SPRING 2016

June 17: Brandon Drew Holmes, Amanda-Faye Jimenez and Miles Preston-Clark 

June 5: @SEA #8: CURSES (Laura Kraning, Laura Moriarty, Jessica Sequeira, Ben White) 

June 4: Amiri Baraka Listening Party w/ Harmony Holiday

May 28: Zack Haber & Ara Shirinyan 

May 14: Marco Antonio Huerta & Marcel Alcalá

May 6: Angelica Freitas, Hilary Kaplan & Kit Schluter

May 7: Joshua Clover book launch (Public School event)

May 1: @SEA #7: MAYDAY (Adele Horne, Humphrey Jennings, Luciano Piazza, The Reader’s Chorus)

April 17 : Rachel Blau DuPlessis 

April 16: Noah Warren, Max Ritvo & Margaret Ross

April 10: 1pm: @SEA #6 "Melodrama" (w/ Ximena Cuevas, Kate Durbin, Matthew Lax, Mark Rappaport, Karen Tongson)

April 9: Janice Lee Book Release party w/ Chiwan Choi, Sara Finnerty

April 2: 

  • 7pm: UDP (Andrew Maxwell, Jen Hofer), Siglio (Danielle Dutton, Richard Kraft & Joe Biel), Dorothy (Amina Cain, Joanna Ruocco), Essay Press (Will Alexander, Jenny Boully) 

  • 9pm: 1913 Press (Cynthia Arrieu-King, Leif Haven, Ronaldo Wilson), Insert Blanc Press (Divya Victor, Joseph Mosconi, Sophia Le Fraga), Les Figues (Michael du Plessis, Chris Tysh, Sean Pessin)

April 1: 

  • 7pm: Krupskaya (Syd Staiti, Eric Sneathen), Wonder (Kate Durbin, Mathew Timmons, Josef Kaplan), Nightboat (Vi Khi Nao, Orlando White and Brenda Iijima) 

  • 9pm: Poor Claudia (Claire Donato, Jamalieh Haley, Greg Purcell), Kelsey St. Press (Jennifer Pilch, Mg Roberts, Anna Morrison and Sueyeun Juliette Lee), Image Text Ithaca (John Keene, Catherine Taylor and Matvei Yankelevich, + Claudia Rankine video) 

March 31: 

  • 7pm: Black Radish (Tim Dyke, Deborah Meadows, Julia Wieting, Donovan Kuhio Colleps), Tinfish (Carrie Hunter, Sarah Mangold, Valerie Witte, David James Miller, Daniel Tiffany and Brittany Billmeyer-Finn), eohippus labs (Eireene Nealand, Janice Lee, and Allison Carter), Staging Ground (Will Alexander) 

  • 9pm: Station Hill Clark Coolidge book release “ledge it glow”: A Celebration of Clark Coolidge’s Selected Poems: 1962-1985

    This group reading celebrates the publication of Clark Coolidge’s Selected Poems: 1962-1985, published (fall 2016 release) by Station Hill Press. Advance copies will be available at the reading. The readers will include, among others, Bill Berkson, Brandon Downing, Joanna Drucker, Andrew Maxwell, Michael Palmer, Jerome Rothenberg, Michael Ruby, Sam Truitt and Diane Ward.  

March 16-19: Mingus Pop-Up School hosted by Harmony Holiday (screenings, performances, readings)

WINTER 2016

March 6: @SEA #5: “Ideoplasty” (Rebecca Baron, Gaëlle Cintré, Harry Dodge, Doug Goodwin, Abigail Han)

March 5: Baby (Elisabeth Houston)

February 27: Hearts Of Palm no. 5, Tom Trudgeon & Pablo Lopez

February 26: Alex Chaves & Grace Dunham

February 20: Tisa Bryant, Erica Kaufman & Litia Perta (hosted by Andrea Quaid)

February 13: Angel Dominguez Book Release w Eric Sneathen & Angela Ina Penaredondo

February 12: Image Text Ithaca (Earl Gravy, Anna Moschovakis, Nicholas Muellner, Suzanna Zak)

February 7: @SEA #4 “Exhaustion”: Alessandro De Francesco, Christian Hite, Steve Reinke, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Tania Chen + Jon Leidecker

February 6: Jason Snyder, Harold Abramowitz, Amina Cain (hosted by Janice Lee)

January 29: Román Luján, Omar Pimienta & Carlos Soto Román

January 16: HEARTS OF PALM w/ Cathy Linh Che, Harmony Holiday & Melissa R. Sipin

FALL 2015

December 11: Anna Joy Springer, CALArts/UC San Diego MFA Mixer

December 6: @SEA w/ Solomon Shrarach Turner, Linda Norton, Jeff Solomon, Nora Sweeney

December 5: HEARTS of PALM w/ Sandra & Ben Doller

November 23: Christian Bok & Genève Chao

November 20/21: Poetry Faire @ Commonwealth & Council

November 8: @SEA w/ Eve Luckring, Carmina Escobar, Guy Bennett, Jan Wagner

October 24: HEARTS of PALM w/ Kenji Liu & Margaret Rhee

October 4: @SEA w/ Brandon Som, films by Leslie Thornton, Alexander Keefe, Gregory Reynolds (live score) + Nitin Mukul (film)

October 9-11: Open Press w/ Timeless Infinite Light @ PRB on Oct 9

October 15: Anne Boyer & Fred Moten (@ Church of the Epiphany)

October 17: The Book of Feral Flora Book Launch and Live Plant Concert (Amanda Ackerman w/ Harold Abramowitz, Michelle Detorie, Nancy Fumero, Carribean Fragoza & Dan Richert)

SUMMER 2015

September 5: HEARTS OF PALM w/ Kendall Grady & Emily Toder

August 29: Michael O’Leary & Rick Snyder

August 22: Nick Montfort & Thomas Trudgeon

August 15: Dodie Bellamy, Christopher Russell, Tirza True Latimer

August 1: Cheena Marie Lo & Tessa Micaela-Grasmuck

July 25: Rob Halpern & Jennifer Scappettone

July 17, 18, 19: Step & Repeat (Nate Mackey, Maged Zaher, Troll Thread, Danny Snelson, Mashinka Firunts, Harryette Mullen, Raquel Gutierrez)

July 16: Trans Planet tour: Die Dragonetti, manuel arturo abreu, Jos Charles, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Sara June Woods

July 11: Erika Staiti & Lindsey Boldt

SPRING 2015

June 20: Matthew Klane & Harold Abramowitz

June 28: Lonely Christopher & Jacob Steinberg

June 13: Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, Caleb Beckwith & Kate Robinson

June 6: Michael Friedman & Matt Reeck

June 5: Enter>text: Clearing

May 30: Mira Gonzalez & Melissa Broder

May 23: Andrew Choate, Chelsea Rector & Mathew Timmons

May 16: Thomas Devaney & Amy Gerstler

May 9: Harmony Holiday & Paul Vangelisti

April 25: Kristen Gallagher & Chris Alexander

April 18: Tom Comitta & Suzanne Stein

April 11: Gelare Khoshgozaran, Susan Schultz & Daniela Seel

April 4: Corina Copp, Lanny Jordan Jackson & Andrew Maxwell

March 14: Allison Carter & Sandra Doller

March 18: Nikki Darling & Jibade-Khalil Huffman

March 21: Mike Young, Lucy Tiven, Luke Bloomfield

March 26: &Now offsite (Carlos Soto Roman, Andy Fitch, Amaranth Borsuk, Carla Harryman, Laynie Browne and Katy Bohinc)

March 27: &Now Offsite (Lara Glenum, Ronaldo Wilson, Kate Durbin, Doug Kearney, Aaron Kunin, Lucas de Lima, Johannes Göransson)

March 31: Book Launch and Discussion: These Scenes of UnBecoming - a conversation with 

John Paul Ricco, Nasrin Himada and Etienne Turpin 

WINTER 2015

Jan 10: Felix Bernstein & Cecilia Corrigan

Jan 16: Shiv Kotecha & Diana Hamilton (offsite)

Jan 17: James Sherry, Brian Kim Stefans & Diane Ward

Jan 23: Andrew Maxwell book launch

Jan 24: Rodney Koeneke & Anthony McCann

Jan 31: Andrew Durbin, Ben Fama & Anna Moschovakis

Feb 15: Animal overseers: Molly Bendall, Laurence Rickels, and Rachel Mayeri (video)

Feb 21: Michelle Detorie, Amanda Ackerman & John Sakkis

Feb 22: Amiri Baraka film screening

Feb 28:  Bridgette Bates, Claudia Keelan & Martha Ronk

FALL 2014

September 13: Rae Armantrout & Vanessa Place (@ MOCA, STEP & REPEAT)

September 20: Trisha Low, Aaron Kunin & Fred Moten (@MOCA, STEP & REPEAT)

September 27: Rod Smith & Will Alexander (@ the Geffen)

October 4: Tan Lin, Kate Durbin & Jibade-Khalil Huffman (@ MOCA, STEP & REPEAT)

October 11: (4-7pm) Graham Foust, Jane Gregory & Todd Colby (all Song Cave poets)

Part of "open press" weekend w/ eohippus, Insert & Les Figues

Nov 1: Timeless, Infinite Light (Emji Spero, Joel Gregory, Olive Blackburn and Zoe Tuck)

Nov 7: Andrew Zawacki & Laura Moriarty

Nov 8: Laura Jaramillo & Chris Kraus

Nov 22: Gregory Betts, Mark Johnson & Jennifer Tamayo

Dec 13: Divya Victor & Brad Flis

SUMMER 2014

June 14: Newer York

June 21: Kevin Killian & Dodie Bellamy

June 28: Peter Tieryas Liu & Melissa Broder

July 12: Tan Lin, Keith J. Varadi & Phil Davis

July 19: Wes Letters launch

August 2: Kit Schluter, Elaine Kahn & Thomas Trudgeon

WINTER/SPRING 2014

Jan 11: Sophia Dahlin & Feliz Lucia Molina

Jan 17: Nathaniel Otting & Cassandra Gillig (+ open crowd)

Jan 31: Sarah Neely talk, Anne Colvin presents poems and films of Margaret Tait (January)

Feb 1: Harry Dodge, Frances Richard & Evan Burrows

Feb. 15: Jackqueline Frost & Evan Kennedy

March 8: Chris Tysh & Eve Fowler

March 15: Chris Nealon & Daniel Tiffany

March 22: Brian Blanchfield & Matias Viegener

March 28 (Friday): CA Conrad & Laura Rivera

March 30 (Sun 4pm): Julie Carr & Gillian Conoley

April 12: Taylor Brady & Dan Thomas-Glass

April 25: David Buuck, Rachel Levitsky & Jeff Derksen

May 10: Giovanni Singleton & Christine Wertheim

May 11: Fred Moten, Frank Sherlock & Emerson Whitney

May 17: Madeline Gins Tribute (co-organized with LACMA)

May 31/June 1: Juliana Spahr, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover

FALL 2013

September 14: Lauren Shufran & Juliana Leslie, hosted by Harold Abramowitz & Andrea Quaid

September 28:  Group reading (“Burnt Norton”) where folks read other folks work – first event would be from the group of writers dropped between editions of the Norton Postmodern

October 5: Vanessa Place’s night of “trauma” poetry; Readers: Tisa Bryant, Douglas Kearney, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Ara Shirinyan, Anna Joy Springer

October 20: Sommer Browning, Noah Eli Gordon, Fred Moten

October 26: Lysette Simmons & AJ Urquidi

October 27: Joshua Beckman & Anthony McCann

November 9: Naomi Long Eagleson & Fiona Sze-Lorrain

December 7: Teresa Carmody & Prageeta Sharma

December 13: Farnoosh Fathi, Ossian Foley, Thank You Rosekind & The Bushes

December 14: Karen Rigby, Sara Mumolo

SUMMER 2013

July 20: Sandra Simonds & Jeanine Webb

July 27: Claire Donato, Amina Cain & Jeff T. Johnson

August 2: Adam Fitzgerald, Stuart Krimko, Kate Durbin (surprise guest), Tom Healey, Robert Polito, Mark So, Andrew Durbin, Dorothea Lasky

August 10: Julie Doxsee & Andrew Wessels

August 30: Stephen Boyer, Zack Haber & Sophie Sills

August 18: Lina Bo Bardi animation event

SPRING 2013

June 15: LIFE SENTENCES: Guy Bennett, Charles Bernstein, Aaron Kunin, Andrew Maxwell, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Matvei Yankelevich, Maged Zaher

May 25: François Luong & Chet Wiener

May 15: Patrick Durgin, Melanie Noel, film by Don Mee Choi

April 20: Anthology launch (The Sonnets: Translating & Rewriting Shakespeare) w/ Julia Bloch, Kate Durbin, Kelli Anne Noftle, Martha Ronk

March 28: Diana Arterian, Jibade-Khalil Huffman & Simone White

March 16: Jared Stanley & Laura Wetherington

March 15: Natalia Fedorova w/ Vanessa Place (co-hosted by Les Figues Press)

February 28: CA Conrad & Brian Kim Stefans

February 16: Ana Bozicevic & Michael Du Plessis

February 6: Deborah Poe, Bonnie Jones & LA Fog performance

January 23: Geoffrey Dyer & Lauren Eggert-Crowe

FALL 2012

November 9: Peter Jaeger & Ara Shirinyan

November 2: Corina Copp & Joseph Harrington

October 21: Franck André Jamme in conversation w/ Lisa Pearson

October 13: Steven Seidenberg & David Abel

September 22: Kathryn L. Pringle & Samantha Giles

SUMMER 2012

August 1: Francesca Lisette & Samuel Solomon

SPRING 2012

June 23: Julia Bloch & Frank Montesonti

March 31: Abigail Child & Diane Ward

March 24: Calvin Bedient & Hillary Gravendyk

March 11: Phoebe Giannisi & Amanda Ackerman

March 2: Jaap Blonk & Mathew Timmons (+ weekend sound poetry workshop)

February 26: Dorothea Lasky & Anthony McCann

FALL 2011

December 17: Insert Blanc Press fundraiser (@ Weekend Gallery)

November 18: Tony Trigilio

November 5: Hillary Granvendyk & Claudia Rankine (POSTPONED)

October 22: Daniel Borzutsky & Tisa Bryant

October 8: Peter Gizzi (@ Charlie James Gallery)

SUMMER 2011

June 18: Dodie Bellamy & Sara Wintz

June 5: Brian Ang, Dereck Clemons, Wendy Trevino, Jeanine Webb

June 4: Peter Richards & Jacqueline Waters

July 10: Joe Milutis reading/lecture

August 3: Kate Durbin, Lysette Simmons, Matthew Timmons (Culver City)

SPRING 2011

May 13: Harold Abramowitz, Jen Hofer, Camille Roy

May 6: John Keene & Christopher Stackhouse

April 30: Brent Cunningham, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Craig Santos Perez

April 14: Philippe Beck & Guy Bennett

March 21: Lisa Fishman & Richard Meier

March 12: Aaron Kunin & Anna Moschovakis

February 26: James Meetze & Aaron Peck

February 19: Brandon Brown & Alli Warren

January 9: Aaron Belz, A Maxwell, Deborah Meadows, Susan Schultz

January 8: 69 Poets MLA Reading

January 2: Nada Gordon & K. Lorraine Graham

Winter 2010

December 11: Jon Cotner, Andy Fitch, Grace Krilanovich



–– PRB MOVES TO CHINATOWN ––


SUMMER 2010

July 11: Steven Farmer & Thom Donovan

SPRING 2010

January 24: Difficult Musics Festival

February 4: Joseph Lease & Donna de la Perriere

February 7: Alan Bernheimer & Mathew Timmons

February 14: Ariana Reines & Jon Leon

February 21: Zbigniew Karkowski, Ulrich Krieger, Damion Romero, John Wiese

March 14: Mel Nichols & Rod Smith (cancelled)

March 18: Joel Lewis & Sophie Sills

March 21: Macgregor Card & Brandon Downing

May 23: Erica Lewis & Stuart Krimko

FALL 2009

September 13: CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock

September 24: Tom Raworth, Kevin Killian & Gabriela Jauregui

October 15: CJ Martin, Julia Drescher & Michelle Detorie

November 1: Kate Greenstreet & Aaron Kunin

November 5: Mark Nowak

November 22: Lindsay Boldt & John Sakkis

SUMMER 2009

June 6: Brandon Downing, Brian Kim Stefans & Stan Apps

June 26: Bruce Andrews & Deborah Meadows

June 27: K. Lorraine Graham, Amaranth Borsuk & Hugh Behm-Steinberg

August 13: Sandra Simonds & Joseph Thomas

August 23: Amina Cain & Amarnath Ravva

SPRING 2009

January 24: Kit Robinson & Diane Ward

January 31: Lisa Robertson, Yedda Morrison & Sophie Robinson (w/ Les Figues @connectspace)

March 29: Benefit Reading for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund w/ David Lloyd

May 9: Magdalena Zurawski, Jocelyn Saidenberg & Therese Bachand

WINTER 2008

December 20: Dodie Bellamy & Vanessa Place

SUMMER 2008

June 8: Gabriela Jauregui (book release party for Controlled Decay)

June 28: David Buuck & Harold Abramowitz

July 19: Anna Moschovakis & Allison Carter

August 16: Aaron Kunin & Franklin Bruno

August 24: Doug Nufer (book release party for We Were Werewolves)

September 13: Bill Luoma (BBQ at Ara’s in-laws house)

SPRING 2008

April 13: Ara Shirinyan (book release party for Your Country Is Great)

May 16: Rob Fitterman & Jane Sprague


–– PRB MOVES TO GLENDALE STOREFRONT/THEATER ––


FALL 2007

October 20: Demosthenes Agrafiotis & Deborah Meadows (BBQ at Ara’s in-laws house)

2003-2006: (actual dates lost)

Eugene Ostashevsky, Macgregor Card, Allyssa Wolf, Brandon Downing

Mary Burger, Camille Roy, Renee Gladman

Fall 2003 

Oct 5: Charles North (NYC) and Eileen Myles (San Diego)

Oct 19: Chris Edgar, Sarah Manguso and Jordan Davis (NYC)

Nov 9: Karen Volkman & Molly Bendall (LA)

Spring 2003

Feb 23: Jerome Rothenberg (San Diego) and Walter K. Lew (L.A.)

Mar 16: Rachel Levitsky (NYC), Dan Machlin (NYC) and Franklin Bruno (LA)

Apr 5: Michel Bulteau, Christophe Fiat, Benjamin Hollander, Cole Swensen

Apr 6: Yves di Manno, Stacy Doris, Eric Giraud, Nathalie Quintane

Apr 20: Ryoko Sekiguchi (Paris) and Abdellatif Laabi (Morocco)

May 18: George Albon (SF) and Daniel Tiffany (LA)

June 1: Jena Osman (Philadelphia) and E. Tracy Grinnell (NYC)

Fall 2002

Sept 15: Marc Cholodenko (France) and Kent Johnson (Illinois)

Oct 27: John Tranter (Sydney) and Susan Wheeler

Nov 10: Cecilia Vicuña and Stacy Doris (SF)

Nov 17: Serge Fauchereau (Paris) and Douglas Messerli (L.A.)

Nov 24: Judith Goldman & Jocelyn Saidenberg (SF)

Dec 8: Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian (SF)

Spring 2002

Jan 20: Karen MacCormack & Steve McCaffery (Toronto, both)

Feb 3: Mary Jo Bang (St Louis), Jeff McDaniel (LA) & Chris Stroffolino (Oakland)

Feb 22: Rae Armantrout (San Diego) & Tom Raworth (UK)

Mar 10: Sarah Anne Cox (SF) & Ange Mlinko (NYC)

Mar 15: Stephen Rodefer and Jacques Roubaud (Paris, both)

Mar 29: Michael Davidson (San Diego) & Peter Gizzi (Northampton, MA)

Apr 19: Michael Palmer (SF)

Apr 28: Lisa Lubasch, Barbara Henning & Deborah Meadows (LA)

Fall 2001

Sept 9: Summi Kaipa and Taylor Brady (Bay Area) with Standard Schaefer (L.A.)

Sept 23: Laura Moriarty and Brent Cunningham (Bay Area)

Sept 30: Alvin Lu (SF), Janie Geiser and Lewis Klahr (L.A.)

Oct. 14: Pascalle Monnier and Jacques Darras

Oct. 21: Philippe Beck (Nantes) and Guy Bennett (L.A.)

Oct. 28: Mark Nowak, Martin Nakell and Pasquale Verdicchio

Nov. 11: Roberto Tejada and Kristen Gallagher (Buffalo, NY)

Nov. 18: Prageeta Sharma, Katie Dagentesh and Franklin Bruno

Dec. 2: Jean Fremon and Douglas Messerli (L.A.)

Dec. 9: Charles Alexander (Tuscon)

Spring 2001

Feb 25: Caroline Bergvall (UK) & Martha Ronk (LA)

Mar 18: Ben Friedlander (Maine) & Leonard Schwartz (NYC)

Mar 25: Jen Hofer (Mexico City) and Harryette Mullen (LA)

Apr 1: Tom Devaney (Brooklyn) and Paul Vangelisti (LA)

Apr 22*: Harry Mathews (N.Y.) and Douglas Messerli (L.A.)

Apr 29: Philip Lamantia (SF), John Olson (Seattle) & Will Alexander (L.A.)

May 6: Marcella Durand (N.Y.) and Susan Schultz (Hawaii)

May 13: Norma Cole (SF) and Caroline Crumpacker (NYC)

June 3: Julian Semilian (N.C.) and Mark Salerno (L.A.)

–– PRB MOVES TO DAWSON’S BOOKS IN LARCHMONT ––

WINTER  2001

Jan 27: Tony Lopez (UK) and Dennis Phillips (LA)

Feb 10: Chris Tysh (Detroit) and Joe Ross (San Diego)

FALL 2000

Sept 9: Brandon Downing (SF) and David Larsen (Oakland)

Sept 16: Elizabeth Treadwell (SF) and Andrew Maxwell (LA)

Sept 23: Elizabeth Robinson (SF) and Faith Barrett (LA)

Sept 30: Yedda Morrison and Diane Ward (LA)

Oct 14: Jean Day (SF) and Elizabeth Willis (Mass)

Oct 21: Juliana Spahr (Hawaii) and Bill Luoma (NY)

Oct 28: Cole Swenson (Denver) and Todd Baron (LA)

Nov 12: Pattie McCarthy and Kevin Varrone (Phillly) with Therese Bachand (LA)

Nov 18: Barbara Guest and Andrew Joron (Berkeley) with Catherine Daly (LA)

Nov 25: Jennifer Moxley (Maine) and Stephen Cope (San Diego)

SPRING 2000

Feb 26: Fanny Howe (San Diego) and Tom Raworth (UK)

Mar 18: Jeff Clark (SF) and Brian Lucas (SF)

Apr 8 : Carol Mirakove (LA) and Jordan Davis (NYC)

Apr 13: Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith (Austin)

Apr 22: Rae Armantrout (San Diego) and Eileen Myles (NY)

Apr 29: John Ashbery (NY) and Peter Gizzi (Santa Cruz) (+ "Odilon Redon" by Guy Maddin)

May 6 : Robert Gluck (SF) and Chris Kraus (LA)

May 20: Avery Burns (SF) and George Albon (SF)



–– PRB SERIES BEGINS AT THE LAB ON SPRING ST ––