Upcoming Events
AWP Panel, Literary Archives: Practices for Institutions, Communities & Individuals
Thursday, March 27
9:00 AM PT
Must be registered to AWP Conference to attend
Featuring Johanna Drucker, Jennifer Johnson, Quentin Ring, and Gregory Williams. Beyond Baroque, LA’s oldest literary institution, placed its literary archive at Cal State Dominguez Hills this year. This panel uses that acquisition as a case study for a broad discussion on preserving cultural production of literary movements. It brings together archivists, historians, institutional leaders, and bookdealers to discuss the intellectual, physical, legal, cultural, and aesthetic considerations faced by communities and individual writers in preserving archival legacies.
AWP Offsite Event What Books Press: A Celebration of Small Presses from LA and Beyond
Thursday, March 27
6:00 PM PT
In Person at Telescope Studios
Join us at Telescope Studios with Beyond Baroque Books, Tía Chucha Press, Walton Well Press. El Martillo Press, Magra, 7.13 Books What Books Press & Giant Claw. Beyond Baroque poets will read starting around 7:30 pm, and include Shonda Buchanan, jimmy vega, Will Alexander, and Elisabeth Houston.
AWP Panel, Poets in the City of Movies
Friday, March 28
3:20 PM PT
Must be registered to AWP Conference to attend
Featuring Suzanne Lummis, William Archila, Ramon Garcia, Dorothy Barresi, and Ron Koertge. As a complement to the anthology, Poetry Goes to the Movies (Pacific Coast Poetry Series, imprint of Beyond Baroque Books), five longtime poets and teachers/professors of poetry in Los Angeles will explore the potential power of movies to generate poems—via visuals, scenes, theme, dialogue, sound, mood, and other cinematic elements—as well as the occasional influence imparted by the surrounding movie industry on our poetry.
AWP Offsite Event Anthology Launch: Poetry Goes to the Movies
Friday, March 28
7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Beyond Baroque Books presents a new anthology celebrating the magic and complexity of cinema. Edited by Suzanne Lummis, Poetry Goes to the Movies invites you to experience film through a poet’s lens. This anthology brings together 100 established and emerging poets who engage with film capturing the vast, evocative power of movies and the movie-going experience. Several contributors will read their texts in Beyond Baroque's Wanda Coleman Theater.
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Upcoming Workshops
En-chant-ment: a generative poetry workshop with Sarah Maclay
Saturday, March 22
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
Ready to give yourself an inner break? To create a little bubble of temporary sanity? In this generative workshop with Sarah Maclay, we’ll come to understand the link between the middle syllable of the word “enchantment” and a key craft technique that has ties to meditative practices and that, in the right hands, can further the sense of magical engagement that the word implies, as well as a temporary suspension from our more distracting and vexing inner narratives.
Beyond Baroque's Fifth Annual 30 in 30 Workshop with Brendan Constantine
Saturdays March 29 - April 26
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PT
All workshops will be held online via Zoom.
Poet Brendan Constantine returns to Beyond Baroque for National Poetry Month and his popular 30/30 Challenge Workshop! Beginning on the last Saturday of March and through every Saturday in April, participants will engage in projects and discussions to inspire even the most reluctant writer. At the end of each session, everyone receives a packet of prompts and materials to keep you writing a poem a day! This is its fifth popular year in a row and spaces will go fast, so reserve today!
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
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. Facilitated by Tom Laichas via Zoom. Registration required.
Current Exhibitions
Ansel Krut
26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Images
February 1 - April 5, 2025
Book Launch, Conversation, & Exhibition Closing Reception
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 3:00 PM PT
Join us for the launch of Ansel Krut’s new artist's book 26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Images, as well as the closing of the exhibit by the same name in the Mike Kelley Gallery. The launch will feature Krut in conversation with the artist Richard Nielsen, as well as a reception and a chance to view the exhibition.
The exhibition shows the progress of the book 26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Imagesfrom its initial conception through the various trial runs at the designers and printers till the final printing. The exhibition includes the first texts, wet proofs, front and back cover options, original drawings and other leftovers as the book made its way towards publication.
Proxy Gallery Presents: Lorraine Bubar and Jody Zellen
March 17 - May 3, 2025
Closing Reception, Saturday, May 3, 3-5 pm
Lorraine Bubar and Jody Zellen’s Call and Response is a collaborative project that began in the early days of Covid 19 and is shown in an exhibition for the first time. Bubar and Zellen began their exchange in 2020 and have continued to send each other collages almost bi-weekly since then: the result is more than 500 digital artworks. For their Proxy exhibition Lorraine and Jody combed through all the images from their collaboration looking for pairs that resonated. They output them as lenticular prints — images that oscillate between two collages — which are presented along with mirrors to create a labyrinthine effect. A colorful poster with a grid of 100 images that showcases the range of the project will also be on view.
For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.
For past Proxy Gallery shows at Beyond Baroque click here.
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