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— 40TH ANNIVERSARY 2008-2009 —

Our Bookstore is open Fridays from 11 AM - 6 PM.

FREE workshops run year-round. See schedule below.

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7 February , Sunday - 5 PM
Open Reading with MAJA TROCHIMCZYK and BETH CHENG
MAJA TROCHIMCZYK's books of poetry are Rose Alwaysand Miriam’s Iris (Moonrise), featuring her own photographs. BETH CHENG's poetry has appeared in online lit zines Ears XXI and poetic diversity, as well as the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly. She has published the music studies After Chopin, The Music of Louis Andriessen, and Polish Dance in California (Columbia), and articles, essays, liner notes, and interviews. Sign-up at 4:45 PM. FREE.

13 February, Saturday – 1 PM 
Community Celebration of the life of CAROL FONDILLER BERMAN
CAROL FONDILLER BERMAN was a writer, poet, community activist, and a founder of the Free Venice Beachhead. Her writings, both humorous and profound, can be found in nearly every issue since 1969. Carol was a lifelong advocate for low-income housing. Reception at 1pm. Program from 2-4pm. FREE.

19 February, Friday - 7:30 PM 
ENRIQUE CASTILLO performs the poetry of BILL LANSFORD
BILL LANSFORD served  in WWII and the Korean War before publishing his first book, Pancho Villa (Sherbourne Press), that became a major motion picture. He authored over 10 theatrical and television movies, wrote over 300 prime-time TV episodes and has recently published a book of poems, The Masks of Quetzalcoatl, inspired by the work of the pre-Columbian Nahua poets. ENRIQUE CASTILLO has worked with film directors Tony Scott (Déjà Vu), Stephen Frears (The Hi-Lo Country), Oliver Stone (Nixon), and Tim Burton (Mars Attacks) and played numerous lead roles on stage, notably the lead in Zoot Suitstaged by El Teatro Campesino. He is founding member of the Latino Theater Company. Hosted by Richard Beban.

20 February, Saturday – 7:30 PM
RED(D)RESS: JADE SHAMES, GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI, and ELIZABETH IANNACI
BRENDAN CONSTANTINE presents a new poetry series, RED(D)RESS, featuring poets selected by poets. JADE SHAMES is an award-winning poet/playwright/screenwriter whose latest chapbook, Atoms for Peace, comments on, but is not limited to political theory, science and it's relation to "God", bizarre fantasies, and war. GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is author of Apocalyptic Swing (Karen & Michael Braziller Books), and The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart ( Persea Books). ELIZABETH IANNACI is author of Passion's Casualties (Fate's Creation Press). She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, her work has been widely anthologized, and you probably owe her lunch. Hosted by Brendan Constantine, music by Rick Lupert.

26 February, Friday – 7:30 PM
An Evening of Poetry & Music with  DAVID ST. JOHN, GAIL WRONSKY, and BRIAN MICHAEL TRACY
DAVID ST. JOHN's most recent book of poems is The Face: A Novella in Verse (HarperCollins). He lives in Venice and continues to wear black. GAIL WRONSKY is author of eight books of poetry and prose including Bling & Fringe (What Books) co-authored with Molly Bendall, Blue Shadow Behind Everything Dazzling, Poems from India (Hollyridge Press), Poems for Infidels (Red Hen Press), and Dying for Beauty (Copper Canyon). She is currently the Director of Creative Writing and Syntext at Loyola Marymount University. BRIAN MICHAEL TRACY's books of poetry are Driving With Dante and The Distance Between Shores and has produced two critically acclaimed CD's of music and poetry, Midnight Tea and Blackbird Ballads. His work recently appeared in The Wallace Stevens Journal and California Quarterly and on spoken word radio programs throughout the United States and Canada.

27 February, Saturday – 7:30 PM
VANESSA PLACE, CHRISTINE WERTHEIM, WILLIAM POUNDSTONE, DONATO MANCINI and GREGORY BETTS
VANESSA PLACE is a writer, lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. Recent and forthcoming books include The Guilt Project (Random House), La Medusa (The University of Alabama), and with Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms (UDP). CHRISTINE WERTHEIM is the author of  +|'me'S-pace (Les Figues), 4 LUV ALONE, and Corpus (Triage). She has edited the anthologies Feminaissance and with Matias Veigener, Seancé, and The /n/oulipian Analects.  WILLIAM POUNDSTONE has written 12 nonfiction books, most recently Priceless and Gaming the Vote (Hill and Wang). His electronic literature has been featured in The Believer and many web publications. DONATO MANCINI, hailing from Vancouver, B.C., is author of two books of procedural and visual poetry, Ligature (New Star) and Æthel (New Star), both nominated for the ReLitAward and will publish Buffet World (New Star) in 2010. He co-directed the world's first in-world avatar documentary AVATARA (2003). GREGORY BETTS is a poet, scholar, editor, and curator from St. Catharines, Ontario. His books include If Language (Book Thug) and The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar). This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation. Hosted by Mathew Timmons in association with Les Figues Press.  

5 March, Friday – 7:30 PM
Reading and Project Room Opening of "Salt Water Credentials" with KEVIN OPSTEDAL and DUNCAN MCNAUGHTON
KEVIN OPSTEDAL is author of over 20 books of poetry, most recently Maybe Ocean Street (Seven Fingers). He is publisher of Blue Press Books, a venture started 12 years ago with the poet Michael Price. The series, "Salt Water Credentials," is a collaboration in word and image of mixed media paintings by Pamela Dewey and poems handlettered by Kevin Opstedal. PAMELA DEWEY is a photographer and mixed-media artist whose work explores the interactions between people and nature. Salt Water Credentials is one of several collaborations with poet Kevin Opstedal. Poet, critic, teacher and editor DUNCAN MCNAUGHTON is the author of 15 books of poetry. Most recently Bounce (First Intensity Press) and Altoon’s Frog (Blue Press). Originally from Massachusetts McNaughton resides in San Francisco.

7 March, Sunday – 5 PM
Open Reading with ALICIA ADAMS and SUZANNE FROST
ALICIA ADAMS is soon to graduate from CSU Long Beach MFA program. Her chapbook, In the Orchard of the Poison Apples and Other Stories (Noble Swine) is forthcoming and she hosts Prose and Cons, on the World Wide Word Radio Network. SUZANNE FROST was senior editor/publisher of Sage Trail Poetry Magazine and is producer of poetry series "The Poetry Zone" in Santa Barbara, CA. Sign up at 4:45 PM. FREE.

12 March, Friday – 7:30 PM
MARK EDWARD RHODES, MICHAEL C. FORD and LAURA COPELIN
MARK EDWARD RHODES is a Santa Monica poet whose recent and forthcoming books include his Selected Poems: Towards A Field In County Fermanagh and The Plains Of Mayo. He has written fifteen plays with staged readings and productions in New York, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Hollywood, CA and will be giving a dramatic reading and discussion of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" later this spring. MICHAEL C. FORD's recent books of poetry and prose include To Kiss the Blood off our Hands (Ion Drive Publishing), The Demented Chauffer (Ion Drive Publishing), and The Marilyn Monroe Concerto (Pitchfork Press). His fifth recording project is under the banner of Hen House Studios. LAURA COPELIN received two BFA's in Art and Creative Writing from UCLA, was published in Westwind, and received high honors for her undergraduate poetry thesis "Subject of the Object (domestic participant)." 

13 March, Saturday – 7:30 PM
MEL NICHOLS, K. LORRAINE GRAHAM, MARK WALLACE and ROD SMITH
MEL NICHOLS is author of Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon(National Poetry Series finalist), Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha), The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge), and Day Poems (Edge). Other recent work can be found in Poetry, New Ohio Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. She teaches at George Mason University. K. LORRAINE GRAHAM is a writer and artist. Recent and upcoming books include Terminal Humming (Edge) and Large Waves to Large Obstacles (Take-Home Project). Her work has appeared in Traffic, Area Sneaks,  Foursquare and elsewhere. MARK WALLACE is author of over fifteen books of poetry, fiction, and essays including Temporary Worker Rides A Subway (Green Integer) winner of the 2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award, Felonies of Illusion (Edge), the short story collection Walking Dreams (BlazeVOX), and a forthcoming novel, The Quarry and The Lot.  His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and he has co-edited two essay collections, Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s (University of Alabama), and A Poetics of Criticism (Leave).  He teaches at California State University San Marcos. ROD SMITH is author of Deed (University of Iowa Press), Music or Honesty (Roof ), The Good House (Spectacular Books), Protective Immediacy (Roof), In Memory of My Theories (O Books) and a CD of his readings, Fear the Sky (Narrow House Recordings). He is editor/publisher of Edge Books and is also editing, with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris, The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley (University of California). Smith is a Visiting Professor in Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for the Spring 2010 semester.  

19 March, Friday – 7:30 PM
SUSAN WHEELER and CLAUDIA RANKINE
SUSAN WHEELER is author of five books of poetry, most recently Assorted Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and novel, Record Palace (Graywolf). Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Princeton University. CLAUDIA RANKINE published four collections of poetry including, Don't Let Me Be Lonley (Graywolf) and the play, The Provenance of Beauty, created in collaboration with Melanie Joseph of the Foundry Theater. 

20 March, Saturday – 7:30 PM
MARCIA COHEE, BRUCE BOSTON and CHARLES BIVINS
MARCIA COHEE is the author of 6 chapbooks and 4 books of poetry, most recently Story (Tebot Bach). She received her MFA from University of Massachusettes where she studied under James Tate. BRUCE BOSTON, nominated for a Pushcart in 2006, received his MFA from UC Irvine. His works have appeared in such magazines as Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Western Humanities REview, Ploughshares, Blackbird and various anthologies. His recent book is By All Lights (Tebot Bach) and he is co-poetry editor for Poetry International  At San Diego State University. CHARLES BIVINS is the author of The Cloisters (Suburban Wilderness Aural Library) and Music in Silence (Heat Press). His work has appeared in The World, The Stone, Poetry loves Poetry and Anthology of LA Poets. He is the subject of a minidocumentary Savage Rose by Linda Janakos. 

26 March, Friday- 7:30 PM
INDIA RADFAR and LEE ANN BROWN
INDIA RADFAR's recent book of poetry, Position & Relation (Station Hill/Barrytown Books), is a formal farewell to the rivers and mountains of the Catskill region of New York State. She currently lives in L.A., a member of California-Poets-in-the-Schools and the National Association for Poetry Therapy,  and is completing her next book, I Thought Joan Miro Was a Woman. LEE ANN BROWN is the author of Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press) winner of New American Poetry Series Award, and The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan University Press).  She is editor and publisher of Tender Buttons press,  holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University and is currently Associate Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City.  Her song cycle, The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time and other readings can be found online at PENNSOUND and The Electronic Poetry Center. 

27 March, Saturday – 7:30 PM
RED(D)RESS: ARIANA KELLY, JULIANNA MCCARTHY, and STEVEN ROOD
BRENDAN CONSTANTINE presents a new poetry series, RED(D)RESS, featuring poets selected by poets. ARIANA KELLY currently teaches at Harvard-Westlake School and is working on a book length manuscript of poems. JULIANNA MCCARTHY is a prize winning poet based in Southern California's Los Padres National Forest. Her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Alehouse, Boxcar Poetry Review and others. STEVEN ROOD is a much loved poet and student of the immortal Jack Gilbert. He lives and works in Oakland.

28 March, Sunday – 4 PM
WANTED: The Art of ROBERT BRANAMAN,
A celebration of the life and work of artist, film maker and poet ROBERT BRANAMAN. A Kansas native, Branaman was an integral part of the WichitaVortex, a group of the beat generation that involved Bruce Conner, Charles Plymell, Roxie Powell, Michael McClure and Dave Haselwood. His work includes etchings, paintings, films, books, and most recently a series of limited edition digital/traditional prints. He showed at the legendary Batman Gallery in San Francisco, was part of Michael McClure’s play ! The Feast ! and his paintings were featured in Oliver Stone’s film The Doors.  His films include Ginsberg (1966) and Goldmouth(1965) starring Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He presently lives and works in Santa Monica. Bob will screen select films. Presentations by S.A. Griffin, Mike Watt and other surprise guests. Hosted by Richard Modiano.

3 April, Saturday - 7:30 PM
CHARLES HARPER WEBB and CATHY COLMAN
CHARLES HARPER WEBB's latest book is Shadow Ball: New & Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press). Recipient of grants from the Whiting and Guggenheim foundations, Webb directs Creative Writing at California State University, Long Beach. CATHY COLMAN is the author of Borrowed Dress (UW Press) winner of the 2001 Felix Pollak Prize for Poetry and Beauty's Tattoo (Tebot Bach). Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Colorado Review, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, Pool and elsewhere. 

4 April, Sunday – 5 PM
Open Reading with HANNAH WEHR and SCOTT C. KAESTNER
HANNAH WEHR is a student in the Creative Writing Program at UC Irvine, an active member of the Orange County and Los Angeles spoken word scene and teaches poetry workshops at various juvenile incarceration facilities. SCOTT C. KAESTNER is author of The Great Charade, and Angeleno A Go Go (Wasteland). He hosts a monthly reading series at L’KEG gallery in Echo Park and is a guest poet at Occidental College’s Upward Bound Program. Sign-up at 4:45 PM. FREE.

9 April, Friday – 7:30 PM
GERRY FIALKA  presents MESSIN' WITH BECKETT
Lit-critter GERRY FIALKA probes Samuel Beckett's mock-tragic heroes, their revelations of human destiny, and the poetic interconnections with McLuhan, James Joyce and Edgar Allen Poe's "effects precede causes." Includes live readings, rare film clips and The Impossible Itself, a documentary by Jacob Adams on the 1957 San Quentin prison performance of Waiting For Godot. Why do the possible? No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. 

18 April, Sunday – 3 PM
Four Wordsmen of the Apocalypse: an evening with S.A. GRIFFIN, MICHAEL C. FORD, FRANK T. RIOS and F.N. WRIGHT
MICHAEL C. FORD's recent film projects include The Signature Of All Things: A Kenneth Rexroth Centenary, a documentary filmed before a live audience at Beyond Baroque in December of 2005. His debut spoken word vinyl, Language Commando (SST), earned a Grammy nomination in 1986. S.A. GRIFFIN is a Carma Bum starting from zero. He is editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, editor/publisher for Black Ace 8, Call by francEyE, and The Electric Yes Indeed! by Scott Wannberg and author of upcoming They Swear We Don’t Exist (Bottle of Smoke). He is preparing a U.S. tour with his Poetry Bomb this spring. Bronx born FRANK T. RIOS came to Venice in the late 50’s, startling everyone with his black vision of holy pain. Rios has published several books, edited Black Ace Book 5 and in 2002 released Memoirs of A Street Poet. F.N.WRIGHT is a poet, writer, artist and Vietnam veteran who published 3 poetry/art chapbooks and 4 novels including the underground classic, The Whorehouse (Young-Davis) . His poems, short stories, and art have been appeared in several print and online magazines.

23 April, Friday – 7:30 PM
Santa Monica Review presents JIM KRUSOE, DIANE LEFER and STEVE DE JARNATT
Celebrate the bi-annual magazine's spring issue. JIM KRUSOE is the founder of SMR and author of Blood Lake (Boaz), and Erased (Tin House). DIANE LEFER is author of the award-winning collection California Transit.  A SMR short story by STEVE DE JARNATT, writer/director of the film Miracle Mile, appeared in Best American Short Stories 2009. 

24 April, Saturday – 7:30 PM
RED(D)RESS: ANDREA SCARPINO, MINDY NETTIFEE, and RON KOERTGE
BRENDAN CONSTANTINE presents a new poetry series, RED(D)RESS, featuring poets selected by poets. ANDREA SCARPINO is the author of the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press). She teaches with the Union Institute and University’s Cohort Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies and is West Coast Correspondent for the blog Planet of the Blind. MINDY NETTIFEE is writer and director of the Write Now Poetry Society.  Her upcoming book of poetry is Rise of the Trust Fall (Write Bloody Press). RON KOERTGE taught English at Pasadena City College from 1965 to 2001 and is the author of such favorites  as Fever, Diary Cows, Life on the Edge of the Continent, and Making Love to Roget's Wife (University of Arkansas Press).

Frances Elizabeth Dean Smith, aka francEyE
1922 - 2009

Poet. Muse. Activist. Precocious Child. WWII Vet. Beauty. Mother. 20
Workshop Co-Founder. Citizen. Christian. Timekeeper. Bus Rider.
Grandmother. Venice Beat. Choir Singer. Rabblerouser. Visionary.
Survivor. Lover of French Fries. Great-Grandmother. Reader. Listener.
Advisor. Crone. Goddess. Companion. Snaggletooth. Our Bearded Witch of Ocean Park. Beloved. Friend. francEyE.
                                   – Amelie Frank

francEyE was born March 19, 1922 as Frances Elizabeth Dean in San Rafael, Ca. Feared, respected, and loved for her uncompromising honesty, she was one of the most avid supporters of poets and poetry I have ever known, her tenure as a Southern California poetry legend dating back to at least the early 1960s. With no car of her own, francEyE would somehow manage to get herself to all parts of Southern California where one would usually find her eagerly waiting front row, beaming like a child waiting for Christmas. Widely anthologized, she had three books
of poetry and one book of short stories published during her lifetime,
Snaggletooth in Ocean Park (1996 Sacred Beverage), Amber Spider (2004 Pearl), Grandma Stories (Short stories, 2008 Conflux) and her last
book, Call (2008 Rose of Sharon). A mother, grandmother, and great
grandmother, francEyE served in the U.S. Army during WWII and was
active on many political fronts. In 2004 she was honored with the
Church in Ocean Park’s Communitas Award. francEyE was a pacifist who believed poetry had the ability to change people: “My job is
to be myself and encourage people to be themselves. Things aren’t going to change until people change, one person at a time.” Dedicated to the muse her entire life, she went out singing, writing wonderful, solid
verse until only a few weeks before her death on June 2, 2009.
                                   - S.A. Griffin

One for Old Snaggle-Tooth
I know a woman
who keeps buying puzzles
chinese
puzzles
blocks
wires
pieces that finally fit
into some order.
she works it out
mathematically
she solves all her
puzzles
lives down by the sea
puts sugar out for the ants
and believes
ultimately
in a better world.
her hair is white
she seldom combs it
her teeth are snaggled
and she wears loose shapeless
coveralls over a body most
women would wish they had.
for many years she irritated me
with what I considered her
eccentricities---
like soaking eggshells in water
(to feed the plants so that
they'd get calcium).
but finally when I think of her
life
and compare it to other lives
more dazzling, original
and beautiful
I realize that she has hurt fewer
people than anybody I know
(and by hurt I simply mean hurt).
she has had some terrible times,
times when maybe I should have
helped her more
for she is the mother of my only
child
and we were once great lovers,
but she has come through
like I said
she has hurt fewer people than
anybody I know,
and if you look at it
like that,
well,
she has created a better world.
she has won.

Frances, this poem is for
you.
~ Charles Bukowski

from Love Is A Dog From Hell, Black Sparrow Press, 1977
published on line with the permission of the Bukowski Estate and Linda
Lee Bukowski

copyright Linda Lee Bukowski

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PROJECT ROOM: Open Monday - Friday 11 am - 6 pm, Saturday & others by appointment

Opens March 13, 2009

television 14:6

An exhibition of still & moving pictures by Mathew Mars

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FREE WORKSHOPS & OPEN READINGS
Since 1969, Beyond Baroque has provided a free workshop and open-reading program as a gathering place for writers to develop their voice, find support, build communities, and experiment. Bring copies of your work.

1ST SUNDAY FREE OPEN READINGS except Aug., Sept., Jan.
5 PM, sign-up 4:45. Hosted by MARIE LECRIVAIN.

MONDAY NIGHT LITERARY AND EXPERIMENTAL FICTION - 8 PM FREE.
First and third Mondays of each month. Bring copies of short pieces or sections of longer work. With ANGIE KIRK.

TUESDAY NIGHT CREATIVE NON-FICTION - 8 PM FREE.
Bring works of creative non-fiction, memoir, and prose. With TO NGA NGUYEN, JOE EDWARDS.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY - 8 PM FREE.
The West Coast's legendary and longest running free poetry workshop. FALL: ELLYN MAYBE.

THURSDAY ALT.SCREENPLAY - 7 PM FREE.
Documentary, narrative, art film scripts. Independent projects only. With MATT BYRNES.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON POETRY - 1:30 PM FREE.
Bring a poem & 10 copies. With BOB FOSTER.

2ND AND 4TH SATURDAY MORNING PROSE & POETRY - 11 AM FREE.
Workshop for publication. Bring 10 copies. With ANNETTE ROBINSON.

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LIFE STORIES Performance Workshop -  5 & 10 week workshops, tuition-  $200/$400, classes Sat 10:30 - 1:30 or Sun 11 - 2.
Call 310.281.3175. Writing workshop utilizing spontaneous writing, music, movement, and drawing to mine autobiographical stories for memoir or performance. All levels welcome. Culminates with Work-In-Progress performance at Beyond Baroque. TERRIE SILVERMAN is Artist in Residence at Beyond Baroque.

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Staff, Board, Funders and Patrons

BEYOND BAROQUE STAFF: Executive/Artistic Director: Fred Dewey o Membership and PR: Tetra Balestri o Technical Director: Jim Fleck o Bookstore / Archive Manager: Lenka Minkowski o Bookkeeping etc: Francesca Corrado, Deb McFarland o Internet: Annette Geisler o Open-reading curator: Marie Lecrivain ooo Wednesday Workshop Poet in Residence: Ellyn Maybe oo Monday Fiction: Angie Kirk oo Tuesday Non-Fiction: To Nga Nguyen, Joe Edwards oo Thursday alt/screenplay: Matt Byrnes oo Saturday Poetry: Bob Foster oo Saturday Publication Workshop: Annette Robinson ooo Interns: Lee Prester, Ashley Lundford ooo Artist in Residence: Terrie Silverman ooo Garden & Landscaping: Marina Borawick o Gardener: Miguel Aguilar o Building Services: Chris Urgeleit

BEYOND BAROQUE BOOKS: Editor/Publisher/Design: Fred Dewey o Marketing Outreach: Will Alexander oo Printing: LETTRA; Distributor: SPD

SPECIAL THANKS: to Susan Slyomovics, Amy Bruinooge, and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Photos Lynda Koolish, Sheila Scott Wilkinson, Lisa Stefenson and others, thank you!

BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Fred Dewey, Steven Flusty, Amelie Frank, Jerry Garcia, Grace Godlin, Elaine Katzenberger, David Matlin, Richard Modiano, Paul Sawyer, Amanda Seward, V. Vale ooo NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL: Nancy Agabian, Ammiel Alcalay, Wanda Coleman, Jeremiah Day, Simone Forti, Bill Mohr, Lucas Reiner, Brooks Roddan, Jerome Rothenberg, George Drury Smith (BB Founder), David St. John, Judith Taylor, Paul Vangelisti ooo LOS ANGELES ADVISORY COUNCIL: Mike Bonin,
Laurel Ann Bogen, Marina Borawick, Gerry Fialka, Michael C Ford, SA Griffin, Jen Hofer, John Kertis, Chris Kraus, Jim Krusoe, Pegarty Long, Linda Lucks, Suzanne Lummis, Jerry & Jan Manpearl, Harry Northup, Holly Prado, Suzanne Thompson, Rick Tuttle, Roy Ulrich, Emily Winters. ooo

BEYOND BAROQUE IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY: The City of LA Department of Cultural Affairs, LA County Arts Commission, Lawrence Lipton Trust, The Murray & Grace Nissman Foundation, and the Dibble Foundation.ooo 

ANGELS ABOVE & BEYOND: Anonymous, Ed Ruscha, Phil Jackson, Brooks Roddan, John Baldessari, Jeff Beall ooo

ANGELS BEYOND: Gillian McCain, Astrid &
Howard Preston, Venice Properties, Gloria & Bill Vando/Hickok, Daniel & Juanita Saucedo/Davis, Sue Kaplan, Bill & Constance Berkson/Lewallen, G.D. Smith, Chaparal & Uncle Don B. Ireland/Fanning, Stanley Grinstein, Richard & Lisa Grossman/Lyons, Gerald Locklin, Richard Milazzo, Wayne
Lindberg, Terry McCarty, Jane & Anselm Dalrymple/Hollo, Lucas Reiner & Maud Winchester, George Day, Frances Dewey, and John Dewey.

o TO ALL OUR MEMBERS: A very special thank you. o

POETS NEEDED!

The Saturday Afternoon Poetry Workshop has room for several additional poets, beginners to advanced. Focussed on feedback in a smaller encouraging envirnoment, every Saturday afternoon 1:30 - 4:30 in the bookstore. Call Bob Foster, 323-848-9671 for more info, or come with original poem and ten copies.