Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM to Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Celebrate 25 years of the Poetic Research Bureau in Los Angeles with a marathon poetry reading plus small press book and ephemera fair. With Insert Press, Make Bow Books, nueoi press, Material Editions, X Artists’ Books, Semiotext(e), and HEXENTEXTE, and tarot readings by Angi Brzycki. And readers: Diane Ward, Christopher Soto, Corina Copp, Jos Charles, Deborah Meadows, Syd Staiti, Rosie Stockton, Elaine Kahn, Sophia Le Fraga, Sarah Yanni, Feliz Lucia Molina, Anthony McCann, Sophie Appel, Kyle Dacuyan, Anahid Nersessian, Emji Saint Spero, Emily Simon, Mathew Timmons, Ara Shirinyan, Tom Comitta, Danny Snelson, Brian Kim Stefans, Angela Peñaredondo, Ben Segal, Brian Ang, Johanna Drucker, Gabrielle Civil, Ted Dodson, Brent Armendinger, Tilghman Goldsborough, Isabel Boutiette, Giulia Bencivenga, Jeanetta Rich, Jack Skelley, Nikki Ochoa, Ivanna Baranova, Carson Jordan, Nata Perla-Ward, Mary Clark, John Tottenham, imogen xtian smith, Zara Schuster, David Horvitz, Kim Calder, Paul Maziar, Alex Gootter, Hedi El Kholti, Jolie Mayers, Mashinka Firunts-Hakopian + more ~ According to archival record, the first Los Angeles reading hosted by the Poetic Research Bureau took place in February of the year 2000 at a gallery called The Lab on Spring Street in downtown LA. The readers were American poet and novelist Fanny Howe and poet-publisher Tom Raworth, over from the UK. Join us 25 years later as we host more than 40 poets and writers from Los Angeles and elsewhere for a marathon reading—plus a curated selection of local art and poetry presses. All ticket purchases support the Poetic Research Bureau's programming initiatives and are tax-deductible donations. The Poetic Research Bureau is a 501(c)(3) organization.