Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center presented the second annual International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles. Please visit poetryfilmfestival.org to view the selected winners of this year's festival. If you're interested in being a part of the third season next year, be sure to check out more details on the website to submit your poem-based film.

Co-founded by Lynn Holley, the two-day festival offers a platform to showcase the works of filmmakers and poets merging poetry and film. On Friday, April 28, for the festival’s opening night, Beyond Baroque featured a screening of Thomas Antonic’s feature-length documentary One More Step West is The Sea on the legendary beat poet, ruth weiss. To introduce the evening, bay area author K.R. Morisson read ruth weiss’s poetry accompanied by bassist Christian Camacho and Q&A with the director moderated by S.A. Griffin.

On Saturday, April 29, 43 international poem-based films comprising the Official Selection of the Poetry Film Festival Los Angeles, 2023, screened in the Experimental, Narrative, Animation, Documentary & Original Score categories. The selected winners in each category are currently on view at poetryfilmfestival.org