X: On the Road & At the Crossroads 1980-2024
Photographs by Michael Hyatt
September 5 - October 17, 2026

Beyond Baroque presents the L.A. book launch for Adam O. Davis

Beyond Baroque at City Lights

Double Book Launch: Michelle Bitting & James Meetze, joined by Lynne Thompson

Skulls & Stairs: Bri Stokes, Keith Carr Walsh, Emdash, Will Alexander

Salsa, Sabor, & Sonnets: Fundraiser for Beyond Baroque

Join us in celebrating five years of Flash Photography by Genesis Perez.

Michael Amitin reads from his new collection Rainy Night Paris

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).