[Crwt-undergrad-info] Fwd: This week: A reading with Anna Journey and David St. John; Poetry on Loss & Healing; Words from Venice Affordable Housing Activists

[Allison Hedge Coke]

A must see, either in-person in LA or online!

Recommend!


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Date: Wed, May 24, 2023 at 3:15 PM
Subject: This week: A reading with Anna Journey and David St. John; Poetry
on Loss & Healing; Words from Venice Affordable Housing Activists
To: <allisonh at ucr.edu>


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Thursday we're wishing a fond farewell to *Anna Journey* and *David St.
John* with *Fairwell, L.A.! A Poetry Reading
<https://cts.vresp.com/c/?BeyondBaroqueFoundat/c7775da42b/53d781fcfe/82268402b9>*.
Friday we're exploring the intersections of poetry and grief with *Grief
Speak: Poetry on Loss & Healing
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Saturday is *The Battle of Lincoln Place
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*an
event remembering Venice residents’ epic struggle to save their homes. Next
Friday will feature a reading with authors recently published by *What
Books Press
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while Saturday will feature a *workshop
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with *Kelsey Bryan-Zwick*, a *multimedia performance
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by *Zeena Pliska*, and an evening of *Latinx digital poetics
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.

You can scroll for details and RSVP links for each event. We look forward
to seeing you!
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Upcoming Events at Beyond Baroque
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Farewell, L.A.!
A Poetry Reading by Anna Journey and David St. John
*Thursday, May 25, 8:00 PM PDT*
*In-Person at Beyond Baroque & Live on Youtube*

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Poets David St. John and Anna Journey will be moving from Los Angeles to
Richmond, Virginia, in June. Come celebrate their years in Venice by
joining us for a casual evening of poetry and tacos on the patio!

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Grief Speak: A Poetry Reading on Loss & Healing
*Friday, May 26, 7:00 PM PDT*
*In person at Beyond Baroque & Live on Youtube*

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Beyond Baroque presents *Grief Speak*, a poetry reading with authors *Diana
Khoi Nguyen, Crystal AC Salas, Nicholas Reiner*, and *Cynthia Guardado*. We
invite audiences to come and hear poetry that inspires transformation in
the multiple phases of grief as well as share in the profound spirit of
hope to continue living, understanding the process of loss, and what can be
done to heal the human spirit through the spoken word. After the readings,
a brief Q&A will follow with the authors, moderated by *Crystal AC Salas*.
Come and enjoy in community a potluck-style reception with light
refreshments before and after the program!

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The Battle of Lincoln Place
*Saturday, May 27, 2:00 PM PDT*
*In person at Beyond Baroque & Live on Youtube*

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Beyond Baroque welcomes author, journalist, and housing activist *Dennis
Hathaway* to present his book *The Battle of Lincoln Place*, followed by a
moderated conversation with local housing activists and former Lincoln
Place residents *Amanda Seward, Sheila Bernard* & *John Raphling*. In
collaboration with *Where Has All The (Affordable) Housing Gone*, a
community-based art project that explores the loss of affordable housing in
Venice, the event will feature an in-depth discussion surrounding the
events at Lincoln Place in the early 2000s that have resonated across LA
ever since. This project was made possible with support from California
Humanities, a partner of the NEH.
Visit www.calhum.org.

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What Book Press Reading
*Friday, June 2, 8:00 PM PDT*
*In person at Beyond Baroque & Live on Youtube*

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Come and celebrate recently published What Books Press authors! Featuring *Jan
Wesley, ash good, Gail Wronsky*, and artist *Gronk*.

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Dear Cairo...my dear Cario:
A performance by Zeena Pliska
*Saturday, June 3, 2:00 PM PDT*
*In person at Beyond Baroque & Live on Youtube*

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*Dear Cairo…my dear Cairo* is a multi-media art exhibition combining
photos, videos, a soundscape of Cairo, Egyptian pop music, and the reading
of the children’s picture book Egyptian Lullaby, by Egyptian-American
artist/children’s book author *Zeena M. Pliska*. The presentation is being
held in conjunction with a photo exhibit of Cairo with the same title,
currently showing at the Los Angeles Public Library Venice branch (501 S.
Venice Blvd.) and at the independent bookstore Village Well Books and
Coffee (9900 Culver Blvd.), with different photos at each venue. It is the
hope of the artist/author that this installation, the photo exhibitions,
and Egyptian Lullaby will normalize Arab culture for those who are
unfamiliar and celebrate it with those who are to counter the demonization
and frequent negative portrayals in the media.

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Los Angeles Review LATINX DIGITAL POETICS:
An Electronic Literature Folio
*Saturday, June 3, 7:00 PM PDT*
*In person at Beyond Baroque & Live on Youtube*

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Los Angeles Review, Letras Latinas, and Beyond Baroque invite you to this
special in-person celebration of the digital anthology LATINX DIGITAL
POETICS: An Electronic Literature Folio. To celebrate this groundbreaking
work, contributors *Anthony Cody *and *J. Michael Martinez* will be
presenting their new works in addition to readings from their most recent
publications. Local poets *Vickie Vertiz* and heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
will be opening the event with a special set of selected readings from
their newest collections. As the evening's guest of honor, Chicano poet and
former L.A. Poet Laureate *Luis J. Rodriguez* will deliver a brief response
to these cutting-edge works transcending language, format, and tradition.
The program will be hosted by Los Angeles Review's Poetry Editor, *Brent
Ameneyro*.

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Adi x Kaya Reading
*Thursday, June 8, 7:00 PM PDT*
*In person at Beyond Baroque*

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ADI Magazine and Kaya Press present an evening of new works from
contributors to ADI Magazine’s Inaugural volume Omens. Readings by* K-Ming
Chang, Ruxandra Guidi, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Taz Ahmed, Mahtem Shiferraw, Jason
Magabo Perez*.
MC’ed by *D’Lo*.

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*Upcoming Workshops*
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The Poem as an Object:
Constructing Poems through the Page
*Saturday, June 3, 11:00 AM PDT*
*In person at Beyond Baroque*

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In this workshop we will explore the physicality of poetry by practicing
forms that challenge the presentation of poetry in traditional
2-dimensional print. As a group we’ll have the chance to read and discuss
examples from poets such as Douglas Kearney, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Jubie
Arriola-Headly. After which we will go through a series of prompts to try
our own hand at forms that subvert the page. In spending this time
exploring the poem as a physical object we will practice writing tactics
that will help us enhance our craft and help to avoid any self-imposed
limitations we may subconsciously be harboring when it comes to creating
poetry.

*Kelsey Bryan-Zwick* is a multi-modal artist and writer, published across
many genres. Their debut collection of poetry, Here Go the Knives (Moon
Tide Press), part memoir, part magical realism, part illustration—focuses
on their decades surviving with debilitating scoliosis. Kelsey is The
Poetry Lab’s Assistant Director, a Los Angeles Poet Society organizer,
Chair of Produced Media for the Stonewall Democratic Club, and a staff
writer for Cultural Daily. Kelsey is a UC Santa Cruz alum (go banana
slugs!) and they’ve been thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and twice
for the Best of the Net. On the gram @theexquisitepoet.

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Chancla Cartography:
A Prose Workshop with Carribean Fragoza
*Saturday, June 17, 11:00 AM PDT*
*In person at Beyond Baroque*

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"Chancla Cartography” is a pedestrian approach to writing that finds rich
subject material in daily environments and interactions. This prose
workshop draws from elements of nonfiction and fiction to call upon
personal and collective narratives embedded in familiar landscapes such as
in a neighborhood or home. Participants will be encouraged to tap into the
complex knowledge contained in its places, objects and people.

*Carribean Fragoza* is a fiction writer and journalist from South El Monte,
CA. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published in
2021 by City Lights and was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. Her co-edited
compilation of essays, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte was
published by Rutgers University Press and her collection of essays Writing
Home: New Terrains of California is forthcoming with Angel City Press. She
has published in Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, Alta, BOMB,
Huizache, KCET, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtNews, and Aperture
Magazine. She is the Prose Editor at Huizache Magazine and Creative
Nonfiction and Poetry Editor at Boom California, a journal of UC Press.
Fragoza is the founder and co-director of South El Monte Arts Posse, an
interdisciplinary arts collective. She lives in the San Gabriel Valley in
Greater Los Angeles.

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Flash in Four MORE: A Creative Writing Experience
*Saturday, August 19, 12:00 AM PDT*
*In person at Beyond Baroque*

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Can you write a story in 1,000 words? How about in 100 words? Not sure?
Here's your chance to try! (Again, if you participated in the previous
experience.) During this four-hour, in-person, creative writing experience
for writers at all levels, you'll learn about flash fiction, flash
nonfiction, micro-fiction, and micro-memoir and have time to practice these
short forms not once, not twice, but four times! We will look at samples
from various online journals, review elements of scene and precise use of
language, play with verbs and point of view. We will practice cutting and
shaping ideas to fit the word count. There will be two opportunities to
share your work.

Chicana Feminist and former Rodeo Queen, *Tisha Marie
Reichle-Aguilera* (she/her)
writes so the desert landscape of her childhood can be heard as loudly as
the urban chaos of her adulthood. She is obsessed with food. A former high
school teacher, she earned an MFA at Antioch University Los Angeles and a
PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern
California. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of
the Net, Best Microfiction, and is spotlighted in Best Small Fictions 2022.
Her short stories have been anthologized in Rural Writers of Color
(EastOver Press 2023), Made in L.A. Volume 4 and 5 (Resonant Earth 2022 and
2023), Ramblings & Reflections: SouthWest Writers Winning Words Anthology,
and Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. Her play Blind Thrust Fault
was featured in Center Theater Group Writers’ Workshop Festival 2022 and
her young adult novel Breaking Pattern is forthcoming from Inlandia Books.
She is a Macondista and works for literary equity through Women Who Submit

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*Ongoing Free Online Workshops*
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Monday Night Fiction Workshop
*Weekly at **7:30 PM*

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Beyond Baroque’s *Monday Night Fiction Workshop* welcomes community writers
to read and receive feedback on 2-3 pages of fiction each week. This
workshop is currently facilitated by *Raquel Baker* via Zoom. Registration
required for each week’s session.

*Raquel Baker *earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University
of Iowa, specializing in Postcolonial Studies and 20th- and 21st-century
African literatures in English, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills
College. Raquel is currently an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial and
Transnational Literatures at California State University Channel Islands,
teaching courses on creative writing and contemporary African literatures.
Raquel has published poetry in *Africology* and *The Arrow*; fiction
in *Enculturation,
The Daily Palette, The Womanist*, and *Crux*; and non-fiction in *Little
Village*.

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Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop
*Weekly at **8:00 PM*

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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 the Zoom
video-conferencing platform, and is currently facilitated by *James Cushing*.
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.

*James Cushing *retired in 2020 after thirty-five years teaching literature
and creative writing in San Luis Obispo, CA, where he served as the
community’s poet laureate in 2008-2010. Cushing’s poems have appeared
widely and his collections include The Length of an Afternoon, Undercurrent
Blues, Pinocchio’s Revolution, The Magicians’ Union, Solace, and Tangled
Hologram, all from Cahuenga Press in Los Angeles.

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*In the Gallery*
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One Sings The Other Dances: An Exhibition by Renee Petropoulos and Benjamin
Weissman
*March 18 - August 5, 2023*


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We're excited to announce the extension of One Sings The Other Dances! The
exhibition is now running until May 27. *Benjamin Weissman*’s new drawings
are cognitive surges, hallucinations, spillages of imagination, an
unearthing of what’s in the head, kitchen sink dramas, image-novels, often
dealing with the porousness of human to animal. *Renee Petropoulos*’ works
are tributes, they are homages, they are imagined monuments to writers that
have changed her; changed her thinking; inspired her. The collages on view
reflect readers and writers that have visited Beyond Baroque over the last
decades.
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*Open Calls*
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Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Prize
Application deadline: June 1, 2023

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Applications for the Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Prize are open for
one more week! College bound students of color currently enrolled in the
12th grade can apply for $3,000 each in scholarship money. Student poets of
color currently enrolled in 9th, 10th, or 11th grade can apply to the
poetry contest track; first, second, and third place awards will be given,
as will an honorable mention. Applicants must currently reside in
California and will need to submit poems and other written materials. No
longer a student, but interested in helping spread the word about this
incredible opportunity?
Email megan at beyondbaroque.org to receive and distribute flyers to the young
writers in your community.

Application and more information *here
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