Upcoming Events
Three Omnidawn Poets Celebrate New Books
Thursday, November 20, 2025
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us in the Wanda Coleman Theater for an evening celebrating three new Omnidawn book releases. Featured poets are Molly Bendall, reading from her collection Turncoat, Jennifer Hasegawa, reading from NAOMIE ANOMIE: A Biography of Infinite Desire, and Martha Ronk, reading from CLAY bodies+matter. Reception and book signings to follow.
An Evening With What Books Press & Giant Claw
Friday, November 21, 2025
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Welcoming What Books Press and their imprint, Giant Claw, at Beyond Baroque, join us for an evening showcasing the release of four new collections. Readings from authors Stephen Cooper, Patty Seyburn, Suzanne Lummis, and jimmy vega in The Wanda Coleman Theater.
Alabaster Anniversary: Celebrating 37 Years of The Santa Monica Review
Saturday, November 22, 2025
2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center for readings by four frequent contributors to The Santa Monica Review to mark a special anniversary. Founded by writer/teacher Jim Krusoe and sponsored by Santa Monica College in 1988, The Santa Monica Review celebrates its commitment to Southern California community of writers. Featuring Jeffery Bills-Solomon, Kareem Tayyar, Lisa Alvarez, and Stephen Cooper. Hosted by Andrew Tonkovitch.
Poets of Place & Body
Thursday, December 4, 2025
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Poets of Place & Body is a reading in celebration of Teresa Dzieglewicz’s Something Small of How to See a River (University of Chicago Press, 2025). Poets Meghann Plunkett, Jessica Abughattas, and T Bambrick will read in the Wanda Coleman Theater, exploring strength, care, and radical joy through lyric rooted in the environments they inhabit. A reception and book signings will follow the readings.
Magra Books Inaugural Reading & Book Signing
Saturday, December 6, 2025
2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
With chapbooks by notable American and European poets, from 2016 to 2025, Magra Books embarks on a new course of independent publishing. The debut at Beyond Baroque features readings and discussion by Dennis Phillips, Bill Mohr, and Jessie McCarty, along with introductory remarks by Magra editors S. E. Pessin and Paul Vangelisti. Books will be available for signing by the authors following the readings in The Wanda Coleman Theater.
¡LA DI DADA! 12, West Coast Launch of MAINTENANT 19
Friday, December 12, 2025
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
An evening of provocative, exuberant, eclectic performance and poetry is slated to hit the stage as Three Rooms Press and Beyond Baroque present the Ninth Annual ¡LA DI DADA! Salon: a wild ride of contemporary DADA performance and poetry by leading LA-area maverick artists. The event includes the West Coast launch of the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 19: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (2023, Three Rooms Press), which features more than 230 visual and literary works by artists and writers from six continents. Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t!
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Upcoming Workshops
Manuscript Lab with Sara Ellen Fowler
Application Deadline
December 2, 2025, 11:59 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque’s second Manuscript Lab seeks ten poets who will each revise and complete their first manuscripts over the duration of eight in-person sessions. The lab will create an active space in which peer feedback, one-on-one conferences, and a braintrust of our community is generated and shared among writers who are working on their first full-length manuscript. The Manuscript Lab will focus on building a workshop community centered around collaborative discussion and discovery.
Hosted by author Sara Ellen Fowler, this program is an opportunity to learn with and from an intimate cohort and analyze what compels a successful first book of poetry–the hows and whys of architecture, craft, and thematic energy. Poets will create and develop their first manuscripts in daring new ways which expand the visions of each collection.
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 Jose Hernandaz Diaz via Zoom. Registration required.
Exhibitions
East of Western: Close Ups of Charles Bukowski by Joan Ganny
October 11 - December 20, 2025
Gallery Tour with Joan Ganny:
October 11, 4:00 PM
Opening Conversation with Joan Ganny & Mike Sonksen:
October 11, 5:00 PM
East of Western: Close Ups of Charles Bukowski by Joan Ganny, an extraordinary photography exhibition offering an intimate portrait of the legendary Los Angeles poet.
More information here.
Proxy Gallery Presents
Leo Mondor: Just a Short Distance from Here to the Convenience of Abstraction; rendered four times.
October 18 - November 29, 2025
It is common to assert that form and content are inseparably intertwined, but with this work, the artist launches them into dialogue by presenting a fragment of language, a phrase without a verb. Without other context we cannot know whether abstraction is the opposite of the real, the opposite of representation, or the opposite of “here;” and, what is “convenient” about it.
Language is by definition an abstract system, so its material form becomes singularly important; like a head with an open mouth, the Proxy Gallery pours forth a cascade of letterforms and words repeated and entangled with each other, that in their resistance to being read, call attention to their presentation in a way that is in dialogue with graphic design and communication design.
For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.
For past Proxy Gallery shows at Beyond Baroque click here.
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New arrivals include our new tote bags, zip bags, journals, candles, and of course, our classic Metaphors Be With You shirt. All proceeds support Beyond Baroque programming!
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