Upcoming Events
Speaking in Tongues / Hablando en Lenguas conversación y lectura de poesía
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Beyond Baroque hosts a presentation of the binational collection Speaking in Tongues / Hablando en Lenguas: Poesía Mexa-Chicanx, comprised of four books that bring together eight Mexa and Chicanx poets who write and translate one another across Spanish, English, and Spanglish. The collection engages themes such as migration, territory, borderlands, language, politics, memory, and love. Featuring: Minerva Reynosa, Aideed Medina, and hector son of hector.
Poetry Goes To The Movies Reading & Discussion at Burbank Public Library 
Saturday, March 7, 2026
2:00 PM PT
In Person at Burbank Public Library
Taking place the weekend before the 2026 Academy Awards, this reading and conversation at The Burbank Public Library draws from Beyond Baroque’s anthology Poetry Goes to the Movies, which brings together editor and poet Suzanne Lummis with contributing writers Sesshu Foster, Beth Ruscio, and Mariano Zaro in a conversation moderated by author and film scholar Elena Karina Byrne.
Xicanx Futurism: Flash Fiction, Poetry, and Essays Exploring Xicanx Sci-Fi
Friday, March 13, 2026
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for a night of readings from Xicanx Futurism: Gritos for Tomorrow, Codex I. Featuring Natalia Rivas, Elindioartscopyright1985, Peter Lechuga, Henry Madrid, Osmani Ochoa, Brenda Vaca, and Ernesto Ayala. Hosted by Anthology editor, Scótt Rusell Dúncan. The authors will present speculative futurist thought, art, flash fiction, poetry, and essays exploring the Xicanx tomorrow.
Fix Your Hearts or Die: A Twin Peaks/David Lynch Night
Saturday, March 14, 2026
7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Fix Your Hearts or Die is an evening for fans and newcomers to the Twin Peaks series. The Wanda Coleman Theater will turn into the darkly surreal dreamscape of the Lynchian imagination. The evening will begin with the Black Lodge String Quartet: Zoë Edeskuty (Violin I), Nico Nonato (Violin II), Krista Lombardi (Viola) and Ella Magen (Cello) performing classical renditions of the series' theme songs and more! Featured poets CD Eskilson, Mylo Lam, and Joseph Paulson will take the stage, followed by L.A.-based surf punk band The Martian Sunset closing out the night.
Godlike: Richard Hell at Beyond Baroque
Thursday, March 19, 2026
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for a solo presentation by Richard Hell, who will be reading from his novel, Godlike. An outrageous spectacle of love between two untamed poets, a 27-year old man and a teenage boy, written by one of America’s original punks and finest writers. Based on Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine’s notorious affair, but set in the epochal downtown poetry scene of filthy 1970s New York, Godlike is a tribute to poetry and the beauty and mess of art, desire, and New York City. Richard Hell will read excerpts from the novel in The Wanda Coleman Theater. Book signing and reception to follow.
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Intensive Workshops
Beyond Baroque's Sixth Annual 30 in 30 Workshop with Brendan Constantine
Saturdays, March 28 - April 25, 2026
11:00 AM PT
via Zoom
This three-hour generative workshop led by award-winning author, Jami Macarty, teaches writers of all genres how to mine their notebooks for golden images and ideas to inspire new writing and revision techniques. To our maker-space, bring an already-filled up notebook, a new notebook, and a pen full of ink!
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 Martin Jago via Zoom. Registration required.
Exhibitions
Víctor Mortales: Language is a Place
January 17 – March 7, 2026
Performance: Thursday, February 19, 7:30 PM
Language is a Place is a solo exhibition by Oaxaca-based visual artist Víctor Mortales. The exhibition takes its conceptual starting point from the book Language is a Place: 14 Voices that Change Language to Explore Literature and Life in Different Contexts a publication that gathers reflections by writers who explore the conditions, transformations, and possibilities of language across cultures and identities. Víctor Mortales (born 1985, Oaxaca, México) is a visual artist with a background in linguistics whose site-specific practice examines the ephemeral nature of creative processes and the relationships between space, language, and materiality.
More information here.
Proxy Gallery Presents
Sandeep Mukherjee:
Observer, Observed
January 31 to March 14, 2026
Mukherjee’s installation is a fiberglass head, made by rotating in a 3D printer his own profile horizontally 360 degrees. The translucent fiberglass is lit from within. The light is reflected and refracted in many pieces of irregularly broken mirrors affixed to all five surfaces of the proxy gallery. The idea harkens distantly to the 1915 perceptual experiment by Edgar Rubin, the face/vase illusion, where the shapes of two identical profiles facing each other form the shape of a vase in the negative space between them. The concept became very important in gestalt psychology, showing how the human brain organizes information about figure and ground.
For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.
For past Proxy Gallery shows at Beyond Baroque click here.
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