REGULAR ADMISSION
$10 General Admission, $6 Students/Seniors, Members free
Selected events will have a special admission price.

COMMUNITY EVENTS
Suggested Donation $5-10,
no one turned away for lack of funds.

Gathered Dreams: Poetry, Art, & Music from the Wild Orchid Collective

Saturday, January 18, 6:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

The four members of the Wild Orchid Collective, a Los Angeles interdisciplinary artist group, share their music, poetry and visual art in a one-hour program that interweaves readings of poems with the dream-like photographic imagery of Holaday Mason, paintings by James Cushing and Celeste Goyer and music by composer/musician Adrian Baer.

Nancy Miller Gomez, Lynda V.E. Crawford, & Lynne Thompson

Friday, January 24, 8:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Authors Nancy Miller Gomez (Inconsolable Objects), Lynne V.E. Crawford (Washing Water), and Lynne Thompson (Blue on a Blue Palette) are celebrating newly published collections and will be reading from their latest books at Beyond Baroque. 

Mobile Data Mag: A Reading With L.A. Authors

Saturday, January 25, 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Mobile Data Mag is a digital literary journal exclusively on Substack housing a collection of poetry and prose, particularly from authors who are born and raised in California. Hosted by founding editor and author Jesse Tovar, this IRL reading features five poets from all corners of Los Angeles County, with Pam Concepcion, Daryl Gussin, Jennifer “Miss B’ Baptiste, Mauricio “Soul on Fire” Moreno, and Laura Sermeño.

L.A. Book Launch: Saints of Little Faith by Megan Pinto

Saturday, January 25, 7:00 PM PT // POSTPONED, DATE TBA
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Join us for the exciting book launch of Saints of Little Faith (Four Way Books) at Beyond Baroque! Meet the author and grab a signed copy of Megan Pinto's debut poetry collection. The author will be joined by poets Bryan Byrdlong and James Fujinami Moore for a poetry reading in The Wanda Coleman Theater.

L.A. Book Launch: LABOR: The Testimony of Ted Gall by Cecilia Woloch

Thursday, January 30, 8:00 PM PT
rescheduled from January 16
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Join us for Cecilia Woloch’s book launch, Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gall, an extended poem in the voice of coal miner and activist Ted Gall, weaving one man's personal story into the history of work and justice in America, featuring readings by Cecilia Woloch and Harry Northup presenting an immersive multimedia performance that includes archival images and musical interludes.

Ansel Krut
26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Images.

Saturday, February 1, 1:00 - 4:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque

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.

Gunpowder Press: 10 Years and Counting of Dynamite Poetry

Saturday, February 1, 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Gunpowder Press celebrates its 10th anniversary at Beyond Baroque! Published poets by Gunpowder Press read from new and selected work. Featuring Catherine Hodges, Nan Cohen, Nicholas Reiner, Crystal AC Salas, Amelia Rodriguez, and Susan Kelly-DeWitt. Co-editors David Starkey and Chryss Yost are interviewed by George Yatchisin about the press’s origins, its mission, and accomplishments in the literary community it has fostered in its first decade.

Phantom Histories: Transborder Poetics in Video Ar

Saturday, February 1, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Curated by poet and Chicana/o/x Studies Professor at Cal. State Northridge, Ramón García, a screening of various short films by Chicana/o/x and Mexican multidisciplinary artists: Harry Gamboa Jr., Rita Gonzalez, Raul Baltazar, Berta Jottar and Victoria Delgadillo. Calling into question the stability of cultural iconographies and the significance of geographical location, the films reimagine history as the key to a liberatory future. Following the screenings, the artists will be in conversation, moderated by Joshua Javier Guzmán, Vice Chair in the Department of Gender Studies at University of California, Los Angeles.

On The Edge of Reason: Carine Topal & Jan Wesley

Thursday, February 6, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Beyond Baroque invites our community to a special reading celebrating Jan Wesley and her new book of poetry It Wasn't Always Like This. She will read alongside Carine Topal, author of Beyond Baroque Books' In Order of Disappearance. Topal is celebrating her own newest book, Dear Blood. After the readings in the Wanda Coleman Theater, join us for a reception with light refreshments and book signings by this wonderful poetry duo!

L.A. Book Launch: The Accidental Jesus by John O'Kane

Saturday, February 8, 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Join us for the Los Angeles launch of John O’Kane’s latest book, The Accidental Jesus (Europe Books, 2024). After the readings in the Wanda Coleman Theater enjoy a reception with light refreshments and book signing by the author.

Money Talks: Celebrating In the Black In the Red: Poems of Profit & Loss

Saturday, February 8, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Join us for a dynamic celebration featuring some of LA’s most compelling poets: Terri Niccum, Florence Weinberger, Paul Peress, Patti Seyburn, Dorothy Baressi, Anika Paris, Mariano Zaro, Nels Christianson, Suzanne Lummis, Lee Rossi, Greg Bell, Gloria Vando, Lilian Elaine Wilson, and James Ragan.
This anthology is significant as it marks the final book published by Gloria Vando’s Helicon Nine Editions, concluding 48 remarkable years in the publishing world of poetry, fiction, and magazines. Let’s make this an unforgettable performance and celebration of poetry!

L.A. Book Launch: What She Wants by Kim Dower

Friday, February 28, 8:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Following the commercial and literary success of her bestselling poetry collection, I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom: Poems on Motherhood, Kim Dower delivers What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria—turning her keen eye, vibrant imagination, trademark insight, and humor to the intensity of obsessive love. The author will be joined in a reading and conversation with Publisher, Co-founder, and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Kate Gale.