Join us for The Lit Show starring Suzy Williams and Brad Kay!

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.

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.

Three Southern California poets at Beyond Baroque: Eve Wood, Ed Schad and David Starkey.

Book Launch of Rey M. Rodríguez's poetry collection, Todos Somos Sagrados.

An afternoon of book celebrations with Charles Harper Webb and Ron Koertge.

Poetry reading organized around the principle that fútbol.

Book launch for féi iká shumarí’s Chabóchi Doll.

The Sun Has Fallen is an epic fantasy poem and Tyler Neufeld's authorial debut.

In celebration of Pride month at Beyond Baroque, join us for a day-long festival of poetry, music, art, and community celebrating the legacy of Federico García Lorca!

In celebration of Pride month at Beyond Baroque, join us for a day-long festival of poetry, music, art, and community celebrating the legacy of Federico García Lorca!

Join us for a Psychedelic Art Party celebrating the James Joyce Multi-Verse of Finnegans Wake & Ulysses.

Join us for the book launch of Rogue Astronaut by Mitchell Jacobs.

Back Porch Blues, a live acoustic concert featuring lead vocalist Tom Nolan of The Tom Nolan Band and lead guitarist Robert Resnick of the band 1969.

Derrick C. Brown, Brendan Constantine, Aman K. Batra, and Micah Bournes read from their new collections in The Wanda Coleman Theater.

Beyond Baroque presents a reading and celebration of Harry E. Northup's To Ask For Love (Cahuenga Press).

William Archila’s Canícula/Dog Days is a bilingual selection of his first two books of poetry that chart the emergence of a newcomer in the chorus of Latine Poetry.

The L.A book launch of The Life, Literature, and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez features readings and Q&A with Luis J. Rodríguez.

Convergence: Poetry on the Environmental Impacts of War, offers a vital perspective that has rarely been considered: war’s destruction of the more-than-human environment.

Join us in the Poets’ Garden at Beyond Baroque for our spring fundraiser! Enjoy an evening of wine tastings paired with poetry, with all proceeds supporting Beyond Baroque’s programming and its mission to expand opportunities for a diverse literary community.

UCLA’s Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association, in partnership with Beyond Baroque, is pleased to present Women of the World, an evening of commemoration for the struggles of women around the world.

Join us for a celebration of Amy Shimshon-Santo's newest collection, Piecework: Ethnographies of Place (Unsolicited Press).

To culminate the exhibit of Judy Kleinberg’s visual poetry now on view in the Mike Kelley Gallery, Beyond Baroque invites you to a lively reading with Judy Kleinberg, poet Suzanne O’Connell, and essayist Liz Stephens.

Join us for the Los Angeles launch of Without the Consent of the People, a posthumous collection by Fred Dewey (Beyond Baroque Executive Director, 1996 - 2010), published by IFSF Publishing.

Poet Film Stage returns to Beyond Baroque for a one-night performance. This year’s theme, Outlaws & Angels, unfolds as a 75-minute program

In her haunting new poetry collection, Hovering, Carol V. Davis explores how disease steals what makes us human.

Join us for a poetry reading celebrating These Spaceships Weren’t Built For Us, the new collection by Alan Chazaro. In this book, Chazaro reimagines space travel through the lens of his experience as the son of Mexican immigrants.

Trenches Full of Poets, a long-running open mic series hosted at Page Against The Machine in Long Beach, is coming to Beyond Baroque!

The 2026 Linda J. Albertano Poetry Fellowship Reading & Celebration

Beyond Baroque is proud to present a reading and reception celebrating the third annual Linda J. Albertano Poetry Fellowship, named in honor of the late Linda J. Albertano. The recipient of the 2026 Linda J. Albertano Poetry Fellowship will be announced in the coming days. To celebrate the fellowship, we will present readings by our fellow winner and the 2025 Linda J. Albertano Poetry Fellow Nikki Ochoa plus more TBA!