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March 8, 2016
The Sky Isn’t Blue Book Release / April 9
The Sky Isn’t Blue Book Release
Chiwan Choi
Sara FinnertyJanice Lee
@ Poetic Research Bureach, Los Angeles, CA
More details TBA
March 2, 2016
THE SKY ISN'T BLUE available for preorder
Coming March 11 from Civil Coping Mechanisms.
The Sky Isn't Blue
March 1, 2016
Two Dollar Radio/CCM/Entropy/Action Books/Writ Large #AWP16 READING / April 1
Two Dollar Radio/CCM/Entropy/Action Books/Writ Large #AWP16 READING @These Days Gallery
8PM, Friday, April 1
Indian Alley
118 Winston Pl – Indian Alley, Los Angeles, CA
Join Two Dollar Radio, Civil Coping Mechanisms, Entropy, Action Books, and Writ Large Press for a night of literary readings, booze, socially awkward mingling, shenanigans, metal, metal, and, oh yeah, a raffle!
Expect readings by Mark de Silva, Colin Winnette, Janice Lee, Sean H. Doyle, Dolan Morgan, Ashley Farmer, Alexandra Naughton, Johannes Göransson, Don Mee Choi, Yideum Kim, Valerie Mejer, Wendy C. Ortiz, Rachel McLeod Kaminer, Traci Akemi Kato-kiriyama, Ashaki M. Jackson, and more.
AWP Offsite: Black Radish, Tinfish, eohippus labs, Staging Ground / March 31
Sponsored by Small Press Distribution.
Featuring:
Black Radish Books
Tinfish Press
eohippus labs
Staging Ground
~
with
Carrie Hunter
Sarah Mangold
Valerie Witte
David James Miller
Brittany Billmeyer-Finn
Eireene Nealand
Janice Lee
Michelle Detorie
Allison Carter
Tim Dyke
Deborah Meadows
Julia Wieting
Donovan Kuhio Colleps
Daniel Tiffany
and Will Alexander
~
Thursday, March 31
7pm
Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Chinatown
Los Angeles, CA
Always in Translation: Trans Pacific Poetry & Prose / March 30
8PM, Wednesday, March 30
Writ Large Press presents:
ALWAYS IN TRANSLATION: TRANS PACIFIC POETRY & PROSE
featuring
Kim Kyung Ju (trans. Jake Levine) / Kim Yi-Deum (trans. Jiyoon Lee) / Chiwan Choi / Eunsong Kim / Janice Lee / Hannah Sanghee Park.
@
Document Coffee Bar
3850 Wilshire Blvd #107, Los Angeles, CA 90010
in Koreatown, one block from the Wilshire/Western train stop.
KIM KYUNG JU is a Seoul-based poet and performance artist. He has written and translated over ten books of poetry, essays, and plays. He is the recipient of the Korean government’s Today’s Young Artist Prize and the Kim Soo Young Contemporary Poetry Award. His first book of poetry, I Am A Season That Does Not Exist In This World, has been excerpted in the US in Boston Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Drunken Boat, Circumference, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Black Ocean Press will release the English-language translation of I Am a Season that Does Not Exist in this World (trans. Jake Levine) around Christmas 2015.
KIM YI-DEUM has published five books of poetry – A Stain in the Shape of a Star (2005), Cheer up, Femme Fatale (2007), The Unspeakable Lover (2011), Song of Berlin, Dahlem (2013), and Hysteria (2014) – and the novel Blood Sisters (2011). Her work has been adapted into a play (The Metamorphosis, 2014) and a film (After School, 2015). She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the Poetry & the World Literary Award (2010), the Kim Daljin Changwon Award (2011), the 22nd Century Literary Award (2015) and the Kim Chunsoo Award (2015). She teaches at Gyeongsang National University.
CHIWAN CHOI is the author of two collections of poetry, The Flood (Tía Chucha Press, 2010) and Abductions (Writ Large Press, 2012). His two most recent projects are Ghostmaker, a book he wrote, presented, and destroyed in 2015, and The City is My Book, a novel to be written on a series of utility boxes in downtown LA in March 2016. Chiwan is also one of the founding partners of Writ Large Press, an indie publisher that uses the book to resist, disrupt, and transgress.
EUNSONG KIM is a writer and educator residing in southern California. Her essays on literature, digital cultures, and art criticism have appeared and are forthcoming in: Scapegoat, Lateral, The New Inquiry, Model View Culture, AAWW’s The Margins, and in the book anthologies, Global Poetics and Reading Modernism with Machines. Her poetry has or will have been published in: Denver Quarterly, Seattle Review, Feral Feminisms, Minnesota Review, Interim, Iowa Review, and Action Yes. Her first book of poems will be published by Noemi Press in 2017.
JANICE LEE is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, Forthcoming 2016). She also has several chapbooks: Red Trees, Fried Chicken Dinner (Parrot/Insert Press), The Other Worlds (Eohippus Labs), and The Transparent As Witness (Solar Luxuriance), a collaboration with Will Alexander. She is Editor of the # RECURRENT Novel Series, Assistant Editor at Fanzine, Executive Editor of Entropy, and CEO/Founder of POTG Design. She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts and Pitzer College.
JI YOON LEE is a poet and translator whose most recent publication is a book of translation, Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2015). She is the author of Foreigner’s Folly (Coconut Books, 2014), Funsize/Bitesize (Birds of Lace, 2013), and IMMA (Radioactive Moat, 2012). She is the winner of the Joanna Cargill prize (2014), and her manuscript was a finalist for the 1913 First Book Prize (2012). Her poems and translations have appeared in Asymptote, Eleveneleven, The Volta, PANK, Bambi Muse, Seven Corners, The Animated Reader, &Now Awards 3, and more. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame.
JAKE LEVINE translated Kim Kyung Ju’s I AM A SEASON THAT DOES NOT EXIST IN THE WORLD from the Korean and a book of experimental writing, Tomas Butkus’ GOD / THING, from the Lithuanian. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, including funding from the Korean Translation Institute, a Korean Government scholarship, and a Fulbright scholarship, his translations, essays, and writing have appeared in places such as The New York Times, Boston Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review. Additionally, he writes a series of syndicated articles in the Korean literary magazine Munjang. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks, an editor at Spork Press, and is currently getting his PhD in comparative literature at Seoul National University.
HANNAH SANGHEE PARK is the author of The Same-Different (LSU Press, 2015), the 2014 winner of The Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. She holds degrees from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Writing for Screen & Television Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. A former U.S. Fulbright Scholar and recipient of artist grants from Washington and Iowa, Park received fellowships from The Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, and elsewhere. Park was a 2015 CBS Writers Program Fellow. She was named one of Variety’s “110 Students to Watch” for her film and television writing.
January 27, 2016
Jason Snyder, Amina Cain, Harold Abramowitz at PRB / Feb 6
JASON SNYDER
AMINA CAIN
& HAROLD ABRAMOWITZ
hosted by
JANICE LEE
~
Saturday, February 6 2016
7:30pm
Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
90012
Jason Snyder is the founding editor of Sidebrow Books. His fiction has appeared in New York Tyrant, Sleepingfish, American Letters & Commentary, and Harp & Altar, among other publications. He lives in Portland with his wife and twins. Family Album is his first novel.
Amina Cain is the author, most recently, of CREATURE (Dorothy, a publishing project). Her stories and essays have appeared in BOMB, n+1, The Paris Review Daily, Full Stop, Two Serious Ladies, and other places. She lives in Los Angeles where she is working on a novel.
Harold Abramowitz is author and co-author of books of poetry and narrative, including Blind Spot, UNFO Burns A Million Dollars, Not Blessed, and Dear Dearly Departed. Harold co-writes, edits, and curates as part of the collaborative literary projects eohippus labs, SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and UNFO.
December 6, 2015
Cultural Weekly Live / Dec 13
FREE ADMISSION! We can’t wait to see you and celebrate with you! Cultural Weekly Live will feature an eclectic celebration of the arts through live music, poetry readings, and cultural panel discussions. Special menu and drinks, too.
The Program
3:00 pm Music by Lilly Flor Del Valle
3:35 pm In The Ultimate Sex Shop Of Our Imaginations… Poetry performed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Rich Ferguson, Rick Lupert
4:30 pm Gatekeeping vs Holding Space: Editing, Publishing & Curating as Social Justice Work. With Skira Martinez (CIELO Galleries), Zoë Ruiz (The Rumpus, Kaya Press), Janice Lee (Entropy), and Yago S. Cura (Hinchas de Poesia). Panel moderated by Chiwan Choi
5:25 pm Music by Isaac Takeuchi
6:05 pm Dare to Dance: Choreographer/Director Sarah Elgart Wants to Challenge Your Idea of What Dance Is, Where It lives, and Who Can Do It
6:35 pm Beginnings and Endings: How Do You Know Where to Start, and How Do You Know It Is Ready? Featuring Amy Ziering (producer, The Hunting Ground), Carl Louisville (Guerilla Atelier), Allon Schoener (cultural historian, curator). Panel moderated by Adam Leipzig
7:25 pm LA, Writ Large: Varied Voices, Poetry performed by Rocío Carlos, F Douglas Brown, Alima Sherman, Melora Walters, TK Le
8:20 pm Music by ThE CoNcEnTr8s
December 1, 2015
Coffee & Conversation Series (University of Denver) / Jan 15
Please join the Department of English and the Creative Writing program for the next Coffee & Conversation event featuring visiting writer, Janice Lee in conversation with Lindsey Drager.
When: Friday, January 15th, 1pm
Where: The University of Denver / Sturm Hall, Room TBD
November 10, 2015
Manifestos / Nov 21
It’s a celebration! A book release!
A reading and performance!
A public writing workshop followed by an open mic!
A two-day literary event celebrating 10 years of Les Figues Press and the release of TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time.
Featuring: Dodie Bellamy, Allison Carter, Lily Hoang, Pam Ore, Frances Richard, Stephanie Taylor, Matias Viegener, and Janice Lee & Michael du Plessis performing the work of Sissy Boyd.
Saturday, November 21, 2015
4:00 pm: Performance
Sunday, November 22, 2015
1-3:30 pm: Writing workshops (free)
4 pm: Femifestos & Open Mic!
Writing workshops will be facilitated by Allison Carter, Lily Hoang, Frances Richard, and Dodie Bellamy. Participation is free and open to the public, though RSVP to guarantee your spot because space is limited. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12XJ7F7aRF-vrwTzhrqOTyRAEWrVOoJtV_IZ9Y2mZ9wE/viewform?c=0&w=1
This event is made possible by the City of West Hollywood, though a City Arts Grant. It is also supported in part by Poets & Writers through grants it has received from The James Irvine Foundation and the Hearst Foundations.
The events are being curated by the 2015 Les Figues Kathy Acker Fellow, Margaret Rhee.
