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 ––