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- Project Room Opening MARK CHEKA
681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Sunday, November 22 at 4:00pm - An Evening with LES FIGUES and...
681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Saturday, November 21 at 7:30pm - PATTY SEYBURN and JUDITH TAYLOR
681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Friday, November 20 at 7:30pm - Beyond Baroque 40th Anniversar...
681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Saturday, November 14 at 7:30pm - An Evening with the GLASS TABL...
681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Friday, November 13 at 7:30pm - Beyond Baroque 40th Anniversar...
681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Thursday, November 12 at 7:30pm - BRENDAN CONSTANTINE and CECILI...
Beyond Baroque
Sunday, November 8 at 7:30pm - SINAAN ANTOON and FADY JOUDAH
Beyond Baroque
Saturday, November 7 at 7:30pm - Bi-Lingual TRIBUTE TO POET MAH...
Beyond Baroque
Friday, November 6 at 7:30pm - FREE- OPEN READING NOVEMEBER 1st
Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd. Ven...
Sunday, November 1 at 5:00pm
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center Join us in a tribute to MARK CHEKA (1923-2004), a poet & painter Jack Hirschman says “still carries the seed of rebirth.” Cheka pioneered many different painting styles (he showed with us in 1972) and starred in Stanton Kaye's underground film classic, GEORG, as well as serving as Frank Zappa's first manager. Poetry by... S.A. GRIFFIN, YAMA LAKE, ELLYN MAYBE and musical offerings, as well as THRESHOLD: a Theatrical Invocation for Mark, by GEORGE HERMS. There will be a showing of the seldom seen GEORG. Hosted by THE TEMPLE OF MAN.
Time:4:00PM Sunday, November 22nd
Location:681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center PATTY SEYBURN and JUDITH TAYLOR on Friday Nov. 20... An evening with Les Figues and Sidebrow presses on Saturday Nov. 21.... come one come all.
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center Join us for an evening with West Coast publishers Sidebrow (SF) and Les Figues (LA). ANNA JOY SPRINGER has toured the US and Europe as a singer for punk bands and with the legendary Sister Spit. Her first novel is The Vicious Red Relic, Love. PAUL HOOVER is author of eleven books of poetry including Sonnet 56, Edge and... Fold, Winter, Rehearsal in Black, Totem and Shadow: New & Selected Poems, Viridian, and The Novel: A Poem. He is editor of Postmodern American Poetry (Norton) and, with Maxine Chernoff, New American Writing. His collection of essays is Fables of Representation (U. of Michigan). AMINA CAIN is author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues). Her work appears in 3rd Bed, Denver Quarterly, La Petite Zine, Sidebrow, and Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers. She lives in Los Angeles. HAROLD ABRAMOWITZ’s books and chapbooks include Not Blessed (forthcoming Les Figues), Sin is to Celebration (collaboration with Amanda Ackerman, House), Dear Dearly Departed (Palm), Sunday, or A Summer’s Day (PS), and Three Column Table (Insert). Harold co-edits the short-form literary press eohippus labs.
Time:7:30PM Saturday, November 21st
Location:681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center JUDITH TAYLOR is the author of Curios and Selected Dreams from the Animal Kingdom, as well as editor of Air Fare, an anthology of work about flying. She co-edits POOL: A Journal of Poetry, now online at poolpoetry.com. PATTY SEYBURN has published three books of poems: Hilarity (New Issues), Mechanical Cluster (Ohio Sta...te), and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine). Her poems are forthcoming in Boston Review, DIAGRAM, and Hotel Amerika.
Time:7:30PM Friday, November 20th
Location:681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center Amiri Baraka returns to Beyond Baroque! Thursday November 12 @ 7:30.
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center Painter and LA-native DON BACHARDY has published six books, including October, a collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, One Hundred Drawings, and Drawings of the Male Nude (all Twelvetrees), 70 X 1 (Illuminati), Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood (Faber and Faber), and Stars in My Eyes (Wisconsin). A recent film... of his relationship with Isherwood is Chris and Don: A Love Story. BILL BERKSON is a poet, critic, editor, and has long collaborated with prominent and emerging visual artists. He lives in San Francisco and New York. His recent books include Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006, Goods and Services, BILL, with drawings by Colter Jacobsen, and Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems. He was a Distinguished Fellow at Skowhegan and received a 2008 Goldie from the SF Bay Guardian.
Time:7:30PM Saturday, November 14th
Location:681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center Come for a launch of the new GLASS TABLE COLLECTIVE, What Books. A collective of diverse writers and artists have come together to create, promote, and celebrate new books of literary writing and art. Readers will include ALICIA PARTNOY, KAREN KEVORKIAN, RAMON GARCIA, GAIL WRONSKY, MOLLY BENDALL, KATHARINE HAAKE, and CHUCK ROSENTHAL. Artwork by GRONK.
Time:7:30PM Friday, November 13th
Location:681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center Returning to Beyond Baroque, AMIRI BARAKA is one of the leading figures in poetic and political culture in the United States. He has over forty books of essays, poems, drama, music history, criticism, magazines, and anthologies. Baraka founded the Black Arts movement and his recitations and lectures span the globe. Fro...m his early membership in the beats to his work for African-American independence and power, continuing through his commitment to neighborhood, site and his history in Newark, to expressing in a poem, as Poet Laureate of New Jersey, public questions about 9/11, Baraka is one of the greatest and most revolutionary of our cultural elders. His books include Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, The Dead Lecturer, The Dutchman, The System of Dante's Hell, Home: Social Essays, Blues People, The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader, Transbluesency, Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems, Tales of the Out and Gone, and Digging. Special admission $10.
Time:7:30PM Thursday, November 12th
Location:681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center AMIRI BARAKA returning to Beyond Baroque! Thursday November 12th at 7:30.
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center BRENDAN CONSTANTINE presents new poetry and selections from his recent book, Letters to Guns (Red Hen). His work has appeared in numerous journals, most notably Ploughshares, The Cortland Review and Runes and he’s led the Beyond Baroque Wednesday Workshop. CECILIA WOLOCH debuts her new collection, Carpathia (Boa), base...d partly on her experiences in the mountains of southeastern Poland. Woloch has traveled and lived widely, from Idyllwild and Kentucky to Paris and Krakow.
Time:7:30PM Sunday, November 8th
Location:Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center
FADY JOUDAH is a Palestinian-American poet and physician. He is 2007 winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for The Earth in the Attic. He is translator of Mahmoud Darwish's The Butterfly's Burden (Copper Canyon), which was short-listed for the PEN awards and won the TLS translation prize, a...nd his most recent translation of Darwish's lyric epics, If I Were Another, is available from FSG. He is currently based in Houston, Texas, and is member of Doctors Without Borders. Iraqi poet, novelist, editor, and translator SINAN ANTOON is author of the recent satire I' jam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (City Lights). His poems, prose, and essays (in English and Arabic) have appeared widely in the Arab world. His book Baghdad Blues was published by Harbor Mountain and he returned to his native Baghdad to co-direct/produce the documentary About Baghdad. Anton is active on several editorial boards and consults widely on issues of translation and cultural transmission. This event is made possible with the generous support of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Time:7:30PM Saturday, November 7th
Location:Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center
A Bi-Lingual TRIBUTE TO POET MAHMOUD DARWISH with SINAAN ANTOON, FADY JOUDAH, JEFF SACKS, and guests
MAHMOUD DARWISH (1941-2008), a Palestinian poet, remains the prolific and preeminent Middle Eastern thinker of his time, his poems memorized by people across the Levantine world for their capacity to put culture, struggl...e, and beauty into lyrical and existential terms. His work has only recently been translated extensively into English. In memorial
tribute to Darwish, we feature some of these poet/translators for an
evening of work in Arabic and English. Darwish received numerous
international awards, among them the Chevalier of French Arts and
Letters, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award, and the Prins Claus Award from Holland. His most recent book in English is If I Were Another,
from Farrar Strauss Giroux. Tonight’s tribute features poets and
translators SINAN ANTOON, FADY JOUDAH, (for Antoon and Joudah bios, see below) and JEFF SACKS, who has translated Darwish’s essays and what is considered Darwish’s masterpiece, a poetry collection Why Did You Leave The Horse Alone? (Archipelago).
This event is made possible with the generous support of the UCLA
Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Time:7:30PM Friday, November 6th
Location:Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center 6 November, Friday - 7:30 PM A Bi-Lingual TRIBUTE TO POET MAHMOUD DARWISH with SINAAN ANTOON, FADY JOUDAH, JEFF SACKS, and guests!
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center
Open Reading with RAY LANTHIER and PAUL KAREEM TAYYAR
RAY LANTHIER is a classical musician, poet, artist, and was a member of Bob Flanagan’s Beyond Baroque Wednesday workshop. He has been featured by the Valley Contemporary poets and was published in their 2002 anthology. PAUL KAREEM TAYYAR’s books include Postmark Atla...ntis (Level 4), Everyday Magic (West-Coast Bias) and Scenes From A Good Life (Tebot Bach). He is founding editor of World Parade Books that has published Gerald Locklin, Edward Field, Lyn Lifshin, and Rafael Zepeda. Sign-up 4:45 PM. FREE.
Time:5:00PM Sunday, November 1st
Location:Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
Beyond Baroque Literary/ Arts Center
JANET HOLMES is author of five books of poetry, most recently The Ms of My Kin (Shearsman) and F2F (U of Notre Dame). She is editor and director of Ahsahta Press and lives in Idaho. CATHERINE DALY is author of eight books of poetry, most recently Vauxhall (Shearsman) with two titles forthcoming. KATE GREENSTREET’s seco...nd book, The Last 4 Things (Ahsahta), includes a DVD containing two short films based on sections from the book. She is author of Case Sensitive (Ahsahta) and three chapbooks, most recently This is why I hurt you (Lame House). Her work has appeared in jubilat, VOLT, Denver Quarterly, Fence, and Court Green.
Time:7:30PM Friday, October 30th
Location:Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd. Venice, CA
