Upcoming Events
The Golden Mean, a USC & Beyond Baroque Reading Series
Friday, May 16, 2025
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
The Golden Mean, is 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. This edition features Bryan Byrdlong, James Ciano, Blas Falconer, James Fujinami Moore, and Austen Leah Rose. Hosted and curated by L.A. Johnson.
Spring Fundraiser: Poetry & Wine Tasting
Saturday, May 17
6:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Join us for an evening of wine paired with poems. We’ll sample Paso Robles wines from guest winemakers Xochitl Wines and Paco Wines. Each wine will be paired with poems from a Los Angeles poet. Hosted by Beyond Baroque's Board President, Luivette Resto, the evening features readings by Mimi Tempestt, Mariano Zaro, James Cushing, and Cynthia Alessandra Briano. All proceeds will benefit Beyond Baroque's programming and mission.
Dual Book Launch: David Trinidad & Amy Gerstler
Friday, May 23
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Beyond Baroque presents dual book launch readings with longtime friends David Trinidad & Amy Gerstler. Both authors will be reading from their newest collections.
Untitled Theatre Compay Presents: The Man Who Ate Time
Saturday, May 24
1:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
A full-length queer comedy play by Tyler Neufeld. It follows Tom, a writer and closeted trans man, in the midst of a midlife crisis after he accidentally summons the spirit of Time to his apartment. Tom learns to open up about his queerness through spoken word poetry, and heals his relationship with Time through intergenerational dialogue in a trans affinity group at his local LGBT center. The reading will be accompanied by stop-motion animated pixel art!
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Upcoming Workshops
Unpacking History: A generative poetry workshop with Andrew Navarro
Saturday, June 7
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
In this workshop we will explore how history as a subject can act as a valuable toy chest filled with stories footnotes and biographies waiting to be discovered and incorporated into our work. Through our time together we will examine work from poets such as Wisława Szymborska Eavan Boland and Rodger Reeves to see just how expansive poetry can be when infused with history.
Crafting Poetry that Moves with Michael Datcher
Saturday, June 14
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
This craft workshop will interrogate the ways in which unexpected imagery and supple lyricism can create poetry that moves readers in a visceral way. The workshop includes in-workshop exercises rooted in the creation of interesting metaphors, similes and other visual markers—while also incorporating sly assonance and alliteration to enhance the poem's musicality. The workshop will result in at least one strong draft of a poem which the poets will present at the end-of-workshop reading.
Poetry and Memory with Kim Dower
Saturday, June 21
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
This workshop provides an opportunity to mine our memories to awaken new, startling poems. We will explore the rich territory of ideas, people, places, and emotions from our past, and examine how memory can inform and affect our writing. The 3-hour workshop will be a mixture of lecture, reading contemporary poetry based on poets’ memories, and practicing “fever writing” or “automatic writing.
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.
Exhibitions
SEVEN
April 12 - June 7, 2025
Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque presents “Seven” an exhibition for the Mike Kelley Gallery. “Seven” is an exhibition by seven Los Angeles based artists. These seven women have been making work for many years and while Los Angeles, per se is not the theme or subject of their pieces, their surrounds play an important role in their creations. On view are paintings, drawings and mixed media works by Lorraine Bubar, June Edmonds, Linda King, Robin Mitchell, Pam Posey, Fran Siegel & Jody Zellen.
Proxy Gallery Presents
Margaret Morgan: Laocoön
May 9 - June 21, 2025
In the winter of 2024 Morgan exhibited at "Not There Gallery" her work with found twigs and found language. The exhibition was called "Please Try Again." On the wall, made of twigs combined, were words and phrases taken from the various WIFI networks that appeared in her cell phone as she drove around her neighborhood. Morgan then fashioned the twigs into letters and words. The sticks she found on the ground started as natural objects and ended up as symbolic language, but the language itself was also found, floating in the digital air and attaching to nature in unconvincing harmony. This installation, made specifically for the proxy Gallery, spells “Laocoön” with twigs.
For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.
For past Proxy Gallery shows at Beyond Baroque click here.
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