Upcoming Events
The Golden Mean: A USC & Beyond Baroque Reading Series
Friday, March 7
8:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on YouTube
Join us for the first intallment of The Golden Mean, a quarterly reading series that brings together poets from USC's PhD in Creative Writing & Literature program with other notable poets from Los Angeles and beyond. Featuring readings by Alexandria Hall, Elizabeth Metzger, Nicholas Molbert, Chris Santiago, and Jorrell Watkins. Hosted and curated by L.A. Johnson.
Table Reading: What Is Freedom?
Saturday, March 8
11:00 AM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join us for a session of careful, attentive live reading and interpretation of “What Is Freedom?” from Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt. This reading is the 19th installment of a series of Table Reading sessions as part of the Fred Rogers Dewey Legacy Project (FRDLP), hosted by Renée Petropoulos..
Contact Tracing: Authors Reflect on COVID-19 Pandemic
Saturday, March 8
2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
With the publication of Lisa Eve Cheby's chapbook, Contact Tracing, a book-length meditation and witnessing of the early days of lockdown, this program brings together writers and poets to reflect on the challenges, blessings, and the wisdom carried forth from the COVID-19 Pandemic aftermath. The program includes readings & a conversation by Lisa Eve Cheby, Romaine Washington, Hazel Kight Witham, Noriko Nakada, Désirée Zamorano, and Katy Maruyama.
L.A. Book Launch: S is For by William Archila
Saturday, March 8
7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Celebrate the launch of S is For, the newest poetry collection by poet, William Archila.
S is For is an investigation of the Central American migrant crisis haunted by the past of the civil war in El Salvador, the meanings of family spirits, and trees disappearing to urban sprawl—always wielding the voice of the immigrant, the refugee, and the ever-present exile as a weapon against invisibility and displacement. The author is joined by other notable writers of the SoCal region, including Doug Manuel, Arthur Kayzakian, and Cynthia Guardado.
More Upcoming Events
Upcoming Workshops
The Prose Poem: a Workshop with William Archila
Saturday, March 15
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In this workshop we will attempt to write prose poems, a marriage between the lyric and narrative between the image and discourse. To paraphrase William Blake, contraries need each other to exist, just like the narrative and the lyric need each other in the prose poem. We will look at examples of Baudelaire, Simic & Forche, to name a few, and focus on its economy and surprising element. We will then close our circle of prose and poetry by generating our own prose poems.
En-chant-ment: a generative poetry porkshop 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.
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
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: Phyllis Green
February 1 - March 15, 2025
Proxy Gallery is happy to present Phyllis Green’s June 2024. Modeled from earthenware clay and colored with copper metallic surfacer and patina, the work nods to conventional busts and traditional techniques. Over the years Green has presented clothing without bodies, i.e. costumes for a constructed
persona, hair without heads, boobs without torsos, masks without faces. It is as if the revelation
of something is much less meaningful for her than the revelation of something not there. This is
another way to say that form is singularly foregrounded in her sculptures. For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.
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