No real information on the Poetic Research Bureau website (and I’m too busy to collect it myself) but this looks like a great reading and meeting of the coasts (and countries). These three are all old friends of mine so this will be especially fun, kind of a reunion of “post-Language” poets from the 90s.

Jeff Derksen was early associated with the Kootenay School in Vancouver and is now an achieved scholar of globalization (and poetics) up at Simon Fraser with several great books of poems under his belt. Rachel Levitsky is also very accomplished and the editor of the Belladonna publishing series. And of course David Buuck is just a nut who often attacks podiums when performing – most of you in L.A. who regularly attend poetry readings have probably seen him standing on his head.

I’m being flip, more real information later…

Please join us for a reading by poets CAConrad and Laura V. Rivera.

Friday, March 28
Doors open 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm

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

CAConrad writes: “The son of white trash asphyxiation, my childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for my mother and helping her shoplift. I am the author of six books of poetry, and I am a 2014 Lannan Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, and I conduct workshops on (Soma)tic poetry and Ecopoetics.” Conrad’s titles include Ecodeviance, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, and the Book of Frank.

Laura V. Rivera is a Los Angeles based writer and performer originally from Puerto Rico. She is the founding editor of online poetry journal, Circle. Her works include “You Will Close Your Eyes,” a live group hypnosis, and a chapbook of photographs and poetry documenting a transmigration (City of the Soul). Her new chapbook of poems, Apartment Complex, features work written during periods of experimental hermitism. She is a UCLA Creative Writing alumn and is approaching studies in clinical psychology and traditional psychoanalysis. She is interested in effecting altered states, making bad video, and amateurish brain surgery.