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.

AWP Panel, Literary Archives: Practices for Institutions, Communities & Individuals

Thursday, March 27, 2025, 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, 2025, 6:00 PM PT

We're joining with seven other presses to throw a big party and reading in DTLA during AWP!

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.

Additional featured poets and friends include Luis J. Rodriguez, Luivette Resto, Chuck Rosenthal, Holaday Mason, Paul Lieber, David Quiroz, Bill Mohr, Dennis Phillips, Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Matthew Cuban Hernandez, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Ceasar K. Avelar, Karen Kevorkian, and more! Taco, beverages, and a party throughout the evening!

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, 2025, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & 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.

A Night of Poetry with Mystic Boxing Commission

Friday, April 4, 2025, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Join Mystic Boxing Commission editors S.A. Griffin and Richard Modiano as they celebrate some of the creative wordsmiths they've published, including Sasha Brenner, Rich Ferguson, Kathleen Florence, Michael C Ford, Nelson Gary, Adelaide Jarnot, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, K.R. Morrison, Kennon B. Raines, Jeanne Marie Spicuzza, Dig Wayne, Daniel Yaryan & surprise special guests!

Ansel Krut Book Launch, Conversation, & Exhibition Closing Reception

Saturday, April 5, 2025, 3:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque

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.

Walton Well Press Double Book Launch: Karen Kevorkian, Gail Wronsky & Gronk

Friday, April 11, 2025, 8:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Walton Well Press celebrates the release of two new poetry collections: Karen Kevorkian's Here In My Body It Feels Crowded and Born In A Barn On Venus, a collaborative book between poet Gail Wronksy and artist Gronk. The authors will read from their newest collections with special performances in The Wanda Coleman Theater accompanied by Logan Metz--former band member of Lukas Nelson's group, Promise of the Real--and L.A. based musician Lincoln Mendell.

Linda J. Albertan Poetry Fellow Reading & Celebration

Saturday, April 12, 2025, 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

To celebrate the fellowship we'll present readings and introduce the winner of the fellowship at this event. More details here soon.

Book Launch: Angel City Review Ten Years of Poetry in L.A.

Saturday, April 12, 2025, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Angel City Review's Ten Years of Poetry in L.A. anthology brings together 44 Los Angeles-based and connected poets that have been in the journal over the past decade serving both as a best of poetry collection as well as a focused survey of the city's poetry in the last decade. Contributors to the anthology will read their texts in The Wanda Coleman Theater.

Poet Film Stage

Friday, May 2, 2025, 7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube

Poet Film Stage is coming to Beyond Baroque! Experience a night of poetry with moving images beyond the page and dynamic performances by multi-talented Los Angeles authors. Featuring Phil Abrams, Michelle Bitting, Brendan Constantine, Nicelle Davis, Kathleen Florence, Rich Ferguson, S.A. Griffin, Susan Hayden, Eric Morago, Harry E. Northup, abbi page, Jeremy Ra, Amy Raasch, David A. Romero, Lynne Thompson and jimmy vega.