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.