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Explore upcoming programs at Beyond Baroque, including readings, performances, workshops, exhibitions, and community events.
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L.A. Book Launch: Wolf Cut by Anna Journey
Wolf Cut gathers nearly twenty years of work by Anna Journey
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
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 with Rooja Mohassessy
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Rooja Mohassessy
What Remains: Erasure as Resistance and Reclamation: A generative workshop with Elina Katrin
This generative workshop invites you to inhabit the contradictory truths, exploring the craft of erasure alongside the liberation or fear the form can evoke.
Table Reading
Join us for a session of careful, attentive live reading and interpretation of “What is Authority” by Hannah Arendt and The School of Public Life by the late Fred Dewey.
L.A. Premiere: The Figures, An Abstract on Geoffrey Young
A screening of the documentary "The Figures."
Boricua Poetry Night: Paola Capó García, Margarita Pintado, Guillermo Rebollo Gil
celebration of Latinx Heritage Month
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
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 with Rooja Mohassessy
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Rooja Mohassessy
Poetry & Baseball: Henry Schipper & Teddy Tannenbaum
Double book launch for Henry Schipper's "The Ball Dreams of The Sky"
Music and the Muse: Joe Raffi Wartanian and the Sér Ensemble
Music and the Muse: Joe Raffi Wartanian and the Sér Ensemble
Poetry & The Archive: Creating Poetry From Photographs
Poetry & The Archive: Creating Poetry from Photographs
Table Reading
Join us for a session of careful, attentive live reading and interpretation of “What is Authority” by Hannah Arendt and The School of Public Life by the late Fred Dewey.
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop with Rooja Mohassessy
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Rooja Mohassessy
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
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.
X: On the Road & At the Crossroads 1980-2024 Photographs by Michael Hyatt
X: On the Road & At the Crossroads 1980-2024
Photographs by Michael Hyatt
September 5 - October 17, 2026
L.A. Book Launch: Pyrrhic Symphony by Adam O. Davis
Beyond Baroque presents the L.A. book launch for Adam O. Davis
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop with Rooja Mohassessy
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Rooja Mohassessy
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
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 with Rooja Mohassessy
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Rooja Mohassessy
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
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 with Rooja Mohassessy
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Rooja Mohassessy
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
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 with Rooja Mohassessy
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Rooja Mohassessy
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
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 with Rooja Mohassessy
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Rooja Mohassessy.
Double Book Launch: Michelle Bitting & James Meetze, joined by Lynne Thompson
Double Book Launch: Michelle Bitting & James Meetze, joined by Lynne Thompson
Skulls & Stairs: Will Alexander, Emdash, Bri Stokes, & Keith Carr Walsh
Skulls & Stairs: Bri Stokes, Keith Carr Walsh, Emdash, Will Alexander
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop with Martin Jago
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Martin Jago
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
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.
Salsa, Sabor, & Sonnets: Fundraiser for Beyond Baroque
Salsa, Sabor, & Sonnets: Fundraiser for Beyond Baroque
Flash Photography by Genesis Perez: 5th Anniversary Celebration
Join us in celebrating five years of Flash Photography by Genesis Perez.
Beat Poetry & Poetry in Translation: Michael Amitin & Doreen Stock
Michael Amitin reads from his new collection Rainy Night Paris
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop with Martin Jago
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Martin Jago
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
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.
Table Reading
Join us for a session of careful, attentive live reading and interpretation of “What is Authority” by Hannah Arendt and The School of Public Life by the late Fred Dewey.
A Night of Blues & Poetry with M.L. Liebler & Special Guests
Detroit poet M.L. Liebler celebrates the release of Hound Dog: A Poet's Memoir of a Revolutionary Poet with a reading from his new memoir.
Beyond Certainty: Poetry as Prismatic Inquiry
Three Southern California poets at Beyond Baroque: Eve Wood, Ed Schad and David Starkey.
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop with Martin Jago
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.
This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting. Each week's new sign up page will be shared via our mailing list and linked below. Sign up on Eventbrite.
Facilitators are rotated quarterly. Current Facilitator: Martin Jago
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
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.