Tag: Poetry

Poetry From: Short Film Screening + Artist Panel

Poetry leaves the page and enters the frame. Join us for an evening of poetry films, conversation & a look behind the lens.

What happens to a poem when it leaves the page and enters the frame?

Join us at Glass & Quill Gallery next to Sims Library of Poetry for an evening of poetry + film featuring the “Poetry From” series—an ongoing project transforming contemporary poems into short films.

We’ll screen selections from “Poetry From the Garden” and “Poetry From the Kitchen,” alongside works in progress from the newest installment, “Poetry From the Hereafter.”

Between screenings, participating poets and the “Poetry From” team will take us behind the work: how a poem moves from text to screen, what changes in translation, what film can reveal that the page or stage cannot, and where the project goes next.

Come for the poems. See what happens when the camera gets involved. 🎥🍿

Thursday, September 10

Doors: 6 PM

Screening: 7 PM

Glass & Quill Gallery next to Sims Library of Poetry

2614 W. Florence Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043

$10 admission

Poetry & Baseball: Henry Schipper & Teddy Tannenbaum

Double book launch for Henry Schipper’s “The Ball Dreams of The Sky” and Teddy Tannenbaum’s “The Dreamlife of Teddy Baseball”

Join us for a celebration of two collections on the sport of baseball. Both memoir and homage in love of the game, the poets meditate on their experiences as baseball players in the field while navigating their own personal lives. Henry Schipper and Teddy Tannenbaum will read in The Wanda Coleman Theater followed by a book signing & reception.

Henry Schipper’s The Ball Dreams of the Sky compiles autobiographical poems that translates life—all nine innings—into the language and metaphor of the game. Everything from childhood trauma, to early stardom, love, sex, creativity, meditation, midlife crisis, God and more is batted around, lofted high, and tenderly caught like a ball in a glove. Even the ghosts of the Holocaust sometimes haunt the all-embracing field of play. At once memoir, homage, and all-out celebration of the game, this book explores baseball as a mother tongue of the heart that seems capable of wrapping itself around everything.

In Teddy Tannenbaum’s The Life of Teddy Baseball, poetry, paradox, bodhisattvas and the sutras all collide in this first collection of baseball musings written over the past several decades. A combination of studied observations, personal experiences on the field and the whimsy that baseball unabashedly provides are scattered throughout.

Doors Open: 7:00 PM I Readings:7:30 PM

About the authors

Henry Schipper is an award-winning filmmaker in Los Angeles who has written and/or produced over 125 primetime documentaries. He once held the Babe Ruth League record for consecutive no-hitters in Wisconsin. This is his first book of poems.

Teddy Tannenbaum is an executive coach and organizational consultant based in Venice, CA. He is also a founding member of Achievable Health, a primary care facility serving people with developmental disabilities. On most Sundays, you can find him playing baseball on fields around Los Angeles.

About Beyond Baroque

Beyond Baroque is one of the United States’ leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public’s knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968 as an experimental literary magazine, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings and workshops. The building also houses a bookstore with a large collection of new poetry books for sale.

Livestream: If you can’t join us in person the event will be livestreamed on Beyond Baroque’s YouTube channel at the scheduled time of the event. If you are tuning in this way, no ticket purchase is necessary.

If you are attending in person, ticket purchase is required. Tickets will be available at the Beyond Baroque bookstore on the day of the event, but we recommend registering in advance through Eventbrite. Masks are encouraged while inside our center. Please arrive early.

Event attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, staff, fellow attendees, or performers.

Beyond Spanish: Poetry in Basque, Catalan, Galician, & Spanish

A multilingual poetry reading in regional languages of Spain translated to English

Beyond Baroque presents a reading of poetry in Spain’s official languages and their translations into English. Join us for an evening celebrating the rich tapestry of Spain’s linguistic and poetic traditions. Hear poems in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Basque–each paired with their English translations. Readings by: Lourdes Orueta, Josu Baque, Jordi Solsona, Juan Lago, William Archila and Elena Barcia.

Presented in collaboration with The Education Office of the Consulate General of Spain.

Doors Open: 7:00 PM I Readings: 7:30 PM

About Beyond Baroque

Beyond Baroque is one of the United States’ leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public’s knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968 as an experimental literary magazine, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings and workshops. The building also houses a bookstore with a large collection of new poetry books for sale.

Tickets will be available at the Beyond Baroque bookstore on the day of the event, but we recommend registering in advance through Eventbrite. Masks are encouraged while inside our center. Please arrive early.

Event attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, staff, fellow attendees, or performers.

L.A. Book Launch: Paul Vangelisti and Vincent Katz at Beyond Baroque

Paul Vangelisti and Vincent Katzs read from their new collections

Join us for an afternoon with poets Vincent Katz and Paul Vangelisti. Katz will present Daffodil, published by Alfred A. Knopf, as well as Accounts, his collaborative book with painter Richard Bosman, published by Karma Books. Vangelisti will read from his recent book Traveling, published by Shearsman Books in the U.K.

Both poets are prolific writers and translators whose work has been influential in contemporary poetry and the arts. Katz lives in New York City, while Vangelisti, a longtime figure in Los Angeles poetry, lives in Pasadena.

Doors Open: 1:30 PM I Readings: 2:00 PM

About the authors

Vincent Katz is the author of the poetry collections Broadyway for Paul (2020), Southness (2016) and Swimming Home (2015) and of the book of translations The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (2004), which won a National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He is the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art (2002), and his writing on contemporary art and poetry has appeared in publications such as Apollo, Art in America, ARTnews, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. As curator of the “Readings in Contemporary Poetry” series at Dia Chelsea, Katz also edited the anthology Readings in Contemporary Poetry for the Dia Art Foundation. He lives in New York City.

Paul Vangelisti is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, as well as a noted translator from Italian. Just in Time (2024) was published by Lithic Press, and Motive and Opportunity (2020) were published by Shearsman Books in the U.K. In 2015 he edited Amiri Baraka’s posthumous collected poems, S.O.S.: Poems, 1961-2014, for Grove Press. In 2006, Lucia Re’s and his translation of Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations won both the Premio Flaiano in Italy and the PEN-USA Award. In 2010, his translation of Adriano Spatola’s The Position of Things: Collected Poems, 1961-1992 was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. From 1971–1982 he was co-editor, with John McBride, of the literary magazine Invisible City and, from 1993–2002, edited Ribot, the annual report of the College of Neglected Science (CONS). He lives in Pasadena.

About Beyond Baroque

Beyond Baroque is one of the United States’ leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public’s knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968 as an experimental literary magazine, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings and workshops. The building also houses a bookstore with a large collection of new poetry books for sale.

Livestream: If you can’t join us in person the event will be livestreamed on Beyond Baroque’s YouTube channel at the scheduled time of the event. If you are tuning in this way, no ticket purchase is necessary.

If you are attending in person, ticket purchase is required. Tickets will be available at the Beyond Baroque bookstore on the day of the event, but we recommend registering in advance through Eventbrite. Masks are encouraged while inside our center. Please arrive early.

Event attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, staff, fellow attendees, or performers.

Boricua Poetry: Paola Capó-García, Margarita Pintado, Guillermo Rebollo Gil

Join us for a reading in The Wanda Coleman Theater with three Puerto-Rican poets visiting Los Angeles

In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, join us for a night of bilingual poetry in English and Spanish with Puerto Rican poets Guillermo Rebollo Gil, author of To learn to describe the animal, Paola Capó-García, author of CLAP FOR ME THAT’S NOT ME, and Margarita Pintado, author of Ojo en el Cielo/Eye in Heat. The poets will be reading new and selected work in The Wanda Coleman Theater.

Doors Open: 6:30 PM Readings: 7:00 PM

About the authors

Guillermo Rebollo Gil is a writer, sociologist, translator, and attorney. He is the author of To learn to describe the animal (Gasher, 2025). His publications include poetry in AGNI, BOMB, Fence, Poetry Northwest, The Hopkins Review and elsewhere; literary criticism in Cleveland Review of Books, On the Seawall, The Smart Set, Tiny Molecules, and Annulet. In 2020, the Spanish publisher Ediciones Liliputienses published an anthology of his poetry under the title Informe de Logros: poemas 2000-2019. Es el papá de Lucas Imar y Elián Iré.

Paola Capó-García is a poet and educator from San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is the author of CLAP FOR ME THAT’S NOT ME (2018), selected by D.A. Powell as the winner of Rescue Press’ 2017 Black Box Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Volta, The Texas Review, Puerto Rico en mi corazón, Latino Book Review, jubilat, Poetry Society of America, poets.org, and others. In 2020 she served as a mentor for Latinx in Publishing’s inaugural Writers Mentorship Program, and in 2021 she was awarded Teachers & Writers Magazine’s Bechtel Prize for an article detailing her experience teaching creative writing virtually during the pandemic. As a journalist her work has appeared in BOMB, Variety, Remezcla, and ELLE, among others.

Margarita Pintado is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including Una muchacha que se parece a mí/ A Girl Who Looks Like Me, winner of the 2015 Institute of Puerto Rican Culture Poetry Prize; Ojo en celo/ Eye in Heat, winner of the 2023 Ambroggio Prize (The Academy of American Poets and the University of Arizona Press); and La isla se achica/ The Island Shrinks (forthcoming), winner of the 2025 Institute of Puerto Rican Culture Poetry Prize. She is a 2022 Letras Boricuas Fellow (Mellon Foundation.) Her essays on Cuban and Puerto Rican literature and culture have appeared in La Habana Elegante, Incubadora, Rialta Magazine, Revista Cruce, The Puerto Rican Review and El País, among others. Pintado Burgos earned her PhD in Spanish from Emory University and is a professor of literature and creative writing in San Diego, California. She directs the poetry website Distropika.

About Beyond Baroque

Beyond Baroque is one of the United States’ leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public’s knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968 as an experimental literary magazine, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings and workshops. The building also houses a bookstore with a large collection of new poetry books for sale.

Livestream: If you can’t join us in person the event will be livestreamed on Beyond Baroque’s YouTube channel at the scheduled time of the event. If you are tuning in this way, no ticket purchase is necessary.

If you are attending in person, ticket purchase is required. Tickets will be available at the Beyond Baroque bookstore on the day of the event, but we recommend registering in advance through Eventbrite. Masks are encouraged while inside our center. Please arrive early.

Event attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, staff, fellow attendees, or performers.