Upcoming Events
Eath Day Cabaret
Saturday, April 20
2:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque
Join us for an exploration in word, music & song, and metaphysical vaudeville in celebration of planet earth. Hosted by Gregory Bell and featuring performances by poets & musicians.
International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2024: Opening Night
Friday, April 26,
7:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque presents the third season of the International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles. This year’s Opening Night features a special screening of Life is a Saxophone, a documentary that captures legendary poet Kamau Daáood as he considers survival as an oral poet in an electronic age, filmed in 1984 and shot in 16 mm. After the screening, hear from S. Pearl Sharp, Roberto Miguel Miranda, and Gale Fulton Ross in a conversation and audience Q&A moderated by poet Benin Lemus.
International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2024: Official Selection
Saturday, April 27,
1:00 - 6:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque
The third annual International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, at Beyond Baroque features screenings of nearly 40 poetry-based films from around the world, including selections from France, India, Belgium, Ireland, and U.S. Selected by festival director Lynn Holley and Beyond Baroque, the films will be screened in The Wanda Coleman Theater.
The Intimacies of Roots & Wards
Saturday, May 4,
7:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque
Celebrating newly published poetry collections, authors Diana Khoi Nguyen (Root Fracstures, 2024), Dindy Juyoung OK (Root Toward, 2024), and Taneum Bambrick (Intimacies, Received, 2022) will be reading from their latest works at Beyond Baroque! Book signings will follow after the readings.
Interart and Iconotexts: Five Poets Read Images
Saturday, May 11,
7:00 PM PT
In person at Beyond Baroque
Interart and Iconotexts features five dynamic authors, Joanna Roche, Ed Rosenthal, Ed Schad, David Starkey, and Eve Wood reading their original work with references and inspirations by painters like Liat Yossifor, Joseph Cornell, and Caravaggio. Visual artwork will accompany each of the authors’s readings, and will culminate in a discussion with the group and Q&A open to the audience.
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Upcoming Workshops
Unlock Your Sonnet: The Restraint of a Fourteen-line Music Box
Saturday, May 4
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In this generative workshop we will attempt to write contemporary sonnets - not traditionally rhymed, metered and structured like a Shakespearean or a Petrarchan sonnet - but those with a vestige of the form, fourteen lines with a volta or turn here and there, maybe some internal rhymes. We will look at examples by Diane Seuss, Terrence Hayes, Wanda Coleman, and others, and pay close attention to how they get inventive with the form. Finally, we will follow the discussion with creating our own first and strong drafts of sonnets. To go beyond the tradition, we need to inhabit the ghost of the sonnet. Like the Charles Mingus song, you “better get hit in your” sonnet.
The Ecopoetics of Deep Matter with Amanda Ackerman
Saturday, May 11
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
What are the poetics of fused, aggregate, and interdependent aliveness? Of new community arrangements that decenter and diverge from human-only subject, and that recognize and destigmatize the ways we lean on, into, and remake each other? In this workshop we will create and uncover the syntaxes of symbiosis that exist in relational poetic form: mutualism, commensalism (neutrality), and parasitism. We will gather in the Beyond Baroque garden to work directly with the plants and flowers.
Ongoing Free Workshops
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
Mondays 7:30 PM PT
Via Zoom
A community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring 2-3 pages of fiction to read and receive feedback. Facilitated by Raquel Baker via Zoom. Registration required.
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop with L. A. Johnson
Wednesdays 8:00 PM PT
Via Zoom
The West Coast’s longest-running free poetry workshop welcomes new and seasoned poets to share new work and provide feedback. Please be prepared to share one poem.
Exhibitions
Upcoming
Gilah Yelin Hirsch
Radiance: Murmurations and Emanations
March 17 – April 28, 2024
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