Beyond Baroque
February 2020
The Beauty of the Beast: Queer Poetry Night
LOS ANGELES, CA, February 28th 2020—As a part of Influx’s free monthly queer poetry reading series, the series’ February 28th event will begin at 8pm at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts (681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90291) and will feature LA based queer poets: Ryka Aoki, Cori Bratby-Rudd, Féi Hernandez, Christine Imperial, Hank Henderson, among others. This particular event is unique—Influx Collectiv is collaborating with Dissonance Press and all performing queer poets are therefore also contributors to Dissonance’s first anthology,…
Find out more »Beyond Baroque presents This Is Your Poem
Featuring: Jesse Bliss, Sean Hill, Peter J. Harris, Conney Williams. "this is my house and you make me happy so this is your poem" - Nikki Giovanni.
Find out more »March 2020
Beyond Baroque presents Doreen Stock and Stephen Kessler
Doreen Stock and Stephen Kessler bring their latest works from Northern California and beyond. Poet, essayist, memoir practitioner, Doreen Stock has been exploring creative nonfiction for thirty plus years from the feminine point of view. Her latest work is My Name is Y, an anti-nuclear memoir. Stephen Kessler is the author of more than 30 books of poetry, translation, essays and fiction since he began publishing during the mimeo revolution of the late 1960s.
Find out more »Beyond Baroque presents Kevin Ridgeway, Wendy Rainey, and Curtis Hayes
An evening of poetry made in Long Beach as three exceptionally talented poets from one of Southern California’s creative hotbeds read new work.
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