Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Bl. Venice, CA 90291
Phone 1-310-822-3006 Fax 1-310-827-7432
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News:
OCTOBER 2011
ATTENTION POETS:
WE PROUDLY ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS OF BEYOND BAROQUE’S ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST
First Place: Michelle Bitting
Second Place: Beth Ruscio
Third Place: Zanni Schauffler
Some of the winning poems will be published soon!
Please join us on October 16, Sunday at 4:00 PM when JOYCE JENKINS, editor/publisher of POETRY FLASH will present prizes to the winners of the second Annual Beyond Baroque Poetry Contest who will read their winning poems. Winners will be published in the POETRY FLASH and honored, along with five runners-up at this reading and reception at L.A.’s preeminent literary center.
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JULY 2011
Special thank you to Amelie Frank for organizing the Poets' Yard Sale at Beyond Baroque last month!
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JUNE 2011
July 2, Saturday - July 31, Sunday 2011
GANG OF SIX - Art Exhibition
Opening Reception on July 9, Saturday 1:00 PM
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405 Freeway Closure!
DETOUR PLANS
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MAY 2011
Open to CA residents only:
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BEYOND MUSIC is a new and innovative series promoting music specifically of genres outside (beyond) those that are more commonly heard at commercial venues, such as clubs. Although it is primarily a curated series, proposals may be submitted by sending a CD accompanied by a description of performers and technical requirements to Beyond Music at Beyond Baroque. Please do not email your information with links to a website where your music can be heard. Beyond Baroque appreciates proposals it receives from composers and performers; however, please be advised that limited series dates for the current season and dates already scheduled for future seasons prevent Beyond Music from programming everything of interest. We hope you will come and enjoy the series. Check our web calendar for the music events listings.
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Check out our huge bookstore sale! An inexpensive way of acquiring quality, previously-archived, out-of-print books covering:
- Art
- Criticism
- Philosophy
- Bios
- Literary Essays
- History
- Theater & Plays
- Classic fiction
- and more
Book store hours are Fridays from 11AM - 6PM and during our events.
We are looking forward to seeing you soon!
For special inquiries about inventory, please call the bookstore at 310-822-3006 or email your questions to lenka@beyondbaroque.org
APRIL 2011
April = Poetry Month! Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture.
Thanks for your support!
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MARCH 2011
JUST IN:
March 25, Friday 7:30 PM
RAINDOG AND MICHAEL PAUL*
plus: CLAUDIA LICHT, Certified Massage Therapist, will be providing Chair Massage on a donation basis
before and after the Beyond Baroque event on Friday, March 25, 2011.
Claudia will donate all proceeds to Beyond Baroque and its mission of being a community center for the literary arts.
Read more about it on our blog!
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FEBRUARY 2011
From the Palisadian-Post/ Pacific Palisades:
First Beyond Music event, 2-25-11 at 8PM
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Venice resident James Berkowitz, has been selected to appear in the debut issue of the international publication Blood & Honey Review. Read all the exciting news in our blog entry!
James Berkowitz
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'Beyond Baroque, Venice's Unique Poetry Center' - Beachhead blog posting from
November 1, 2010 talking about the origin of our name and
the beginnings of our workshops. Enjoy!
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NOVEMBER 2010
A New Team at Beyond Baroque!
Beyond Baroque's board elected new officers: Sherman Pearl, President; Gloria Vando, Vice President; Doug Knott, Treasurer; Suzanne Lummis, Secretary.
And Richard Modiano carries on as Executive Director.
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OCTOBER 2010
The winners have been announced of
BEYOND BAROQUE'S FIRST EVER POETRY CONTEST
Final Judge: Tony Barnstone
(Professor at Whittier College, NEA Fellow, Pushcart Prize winner)
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More than 300 poets, almost all from the Greater Los Angeles Area, submitted entries to our First Annual Beyond Baroque Poetry Contest. Essentially, there were no losers. Each was a valuable contributor to Beyond Baroque's efforts to become an even more vital center of our literary community. We thank all the contestants who participated. We're pleased to announce the winners: |
Bodily Knowledge
By Brenda Yates
This, too, will end badly: one of us will leave.
I'll scatter your ashes, or you mine, and count
moments, trying to keep what matters. Will
you want that black night--Texas, I think it
was--pulled off the road? We got out as
headlights flickered and died, as the world
disappeared into a dark, silent bell. My body
faded like a thing imagined, and I felt
the emptiness of stars, glistening and falling.
Then, your hand found me, and the world
returned: the reassuring clicks of engine;
the outline of you; and your breath, warm
as the familiar shape of your body pressed
into mine, blocking out stars. Or that
September afternoon--in fields of noisy
bees, cotton higher than our waists, buds
beside frothy pink blooms, leaves green as
the fat caterpillars, and bolls clamped tight
or in outbursts of white, nearly inseparable
from the hard, oily seeds--and a dusk like
so many others, with its taste of ashes. Or
those brief days, pale as watered silk, of sun
making its low circles, bringing snow
and moonlight to woods where once
in tangled shadows, we had been frightened
as children; where then when we shook
the branches, ice rained like stars. Or
tonight, as your breathing lulls me to sleep
in the shush of rain--a prayer in two voices
from this our book of hours, of days, of years,
shaping the foretold that lies beside us--bodily
knowledge prophetic as the child who comes
like morning, slipping into bed between us
with sleep-damp hair that smells of the earth.
Plum
by Shannon Philips
I stood in the break room with him while
he rambled on about flight reservations and
accrued vacation hours.
It was like waiting for water to still,
for the image to stop rippling,
for when I could finally focus.
The membrane of his lip was so delicate
I almost expected to catch a tiny flutter of a pulse
like at the dip in the bone where his throat
merged with his pectoral plate.
His lower lilp in particular such a ripened grape,
if I barely made a tiny slice with perhaps, say,
an Exacto knife:
It would burst.
A couple of coworkers everyone
speculated were sleeping together
returned from a smoke break.
"Hey, do you want this plum?"
He was cleaning out his lunch box; I'm sure he'd hate
to throw away something that was still good.
I plucked it from him,
wrapped it in a paper towel to keep it
from getting marred, and stashed it in my purse.
What a man needed a mouth like that for, I don't know.
Snapdragons
by Peter Nash
It's not right, of course,
to say these flowers--
these tall stalky snapdragons,
the white ones, the reds, yellows and pinks
swaying in the wind's easy embrace--
would not exist without these words. But still,
long after they have shed their splendor,
colors melted into the ground,
the garden gone to seed, dried out--
without these words
who could imagine
their slim, nodding dance,
glances thrown over the wind's shoulder,
forever chatting to each other
with their painted, hinged mouths,
white, red, yellow, pink.
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