PRB’s core programs include year-round readings, book launches, performances, and talks at our headquarters at 2220 Arts + Archives in Historic Filipinotown. Our programming includes our Communicator Series—a monthly showcase for LGBTQ+ and gender-diverse writers—and our Language Garden Reading Series, which brings outdoor programming to David Horvitz’s 7th Ave. Garden in Arlington Heights, merging poetry with visual art, installation, and community gathering. Both venues are free and open to the public, with honorariums provided to all performing artists.

Regular workshops and study groups foster sustained engagement with poetic practice and theory, serving approximately 15 participants each and led by local writers, educators, and artists. Workshop offerings are expanding as PRB grows its programming capacity.

Our publishing initiatives have included PRB Editions, Make Now Books, the Language Garden Newsletter, poetry journal The Germ, and art-lit magazine Area Sneaks—100% poetry or poetry-adjacent experimental writing, with an emphasis on under-resourced and marginalized voices. PRB also maintains a physical archive of poetry, journals, and ephemera accessible to researchers, students, and the public, preserving experimental literary work that might otherwise go undocumented.

Collaborative programming is central to our model. Ongoing partnerships with Clockshop, Los Angeles Filmforum, The Public School LA, Active Cultures, LACMA, MOCA, the Hammer Museum, and independent presses including Nightboat Books, Ugly Duckling Presse, and Semiotext(e) cross-pollinate audiences and deepen PRB’s roots in Los Angeles’s broader arts ecosystem.