Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
The **Poetic Research Bureau** presents the Los Angeles launch of *Caetano*, a new book of poems by Alexis Almeida just out on Ugly Duckling Presse. Joining Alexis is local favorite Corina Copp, plus others to be announced. Imagined as a series of experiments in autobiography, *Caetano* invokes the name of the author’s grandfather to write toward the mystery of family, originals, and their ruptures, breaks, and re-imaginings. Written from distinct positions in time, the poems in this collection think about the (im)possibility of faithful reproduction, the space between an original and its translation, and the moving target of a portrait as it moves through different narrative forms. ∆ **Alexis Almeida** is the author of *I Have Never Been Able to Sing* (Ugly Duckling Presse), and *Things I Have Made a Fiction* (winner of the Oversound Chapbook Prize). She is most recently the translator of Roberta Iannamico’s *Many Poems* (The Song Cave), and her translation of Laura Fernández’s *There’s a Monster in the Lake* will be out with Graywolf in late 2026. She lives in New York and edits 18 Owls Press. **Corina Copp** is the author of the poetry collection, *The Green Ray* (2015, Ugly Duckling Presse); and the North American translator of the memoir, *My Mother Laughs* (2019, The Song Cave), and the play, *Night Lobby*, both by filmmaker Chantal Akerman. She has written about film, art, and literature for Frieze, Cabinet, Film Comment, BOMB, Film Quarterly, Metrograph Journal, America: Films From Elsewhere (2019, The Shoestring Press), and elsewhere. In 2021, she founded Rotations, a film-screening series focused on the detours of nonfiction feminist filmmaking and artist cinema; and she is 1/4 of the reading series, Language Garden, which takes place in warm weather at artist David Horvitz's 7th Ave Garden. She received her MFA in Playwriting at Brooklyn College – CUNY and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. She lives in LA, where she is Special Faculty at the California Institute of the Arts School of Film/Video.