<div dir="ltr">A must see, either in-person in LA or online!<div><br></div><div>Recommend!</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Beyond Baroque Foundation</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Beyond_Baroque_Foundation@mail.vresp.com">Beyond_Baroque_Foundation@mail.vresp.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, May 24, 2023 at 3:15 PM<br>Subject: This week: A reading with Anna Journey and David St. John; Poetry on Loss & Healing; Words from Venice Affordable Housing Activists<br>To: <<a href="mailto:allisonh@ucr.edu">allisonh@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000">Thursday</span><span style="color:#000000"> we're wishing a fond farewell to <strong>Anna Journey</strong> and <strong>David St. John</strong> with </span><strong><a href="https://cts.vresp.com/c/?BeyondBaroqueFoundat/c7775da42b/53d781fcfe/82268402b9" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000">Fairwell, L.A.! A Poetry Reading</span></a></strong><span style="color:#000000">. Friday we're exploring the intersections of poetry and grief with </span><strong><a href="https://cts.vresp.com/c/?BeyondBaroqueFoundat/c7775da42b/53d781fcfe/e0abd48336" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000">Grief Speak: Poetry on Loss & Healing</span></a></strong><span style="color:#000000">. Saturday is </span></span></span><strong style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><a href="https://cts.vresp.com/c/?BeyondBaroqueFoundat/c7775da42b/53d781fcfe/486a0e434b" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000">The Battle of Lincoln Place</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000">an event remembering Venice residents’ epic struggle to save their homes</span><span style="color:#000000">. </span>Next Friday will feature a reading with authors recently published by <strong><a href="https://cts.vresp.com/c/?BeyondBaroqueFoundat/c7775da42b/53d781fcfe/713c7c118c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000">What Books Press</span></a></strong>, while Saturday will feature a <strong><a href="https://cts.vresp.com/c/?BeyondBaroqueFoundat/c7775da42b/53d781fcfe/15499fb049" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000">workshop</span></a></strong> with <strong>Kelsey Bryan-Zwick</strong>, a <strong><a href="https://cts.vresp.com/c/?BeyondBaroqueFoundat/c7775da42b/53d781fcfe/4b037c1d6d" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000">multimedia performance</span></a></strong> by <strong>Zeena Pliska</strong>, and an evening of <strong><a href="https://cts.vresp.com/c/?BeyondBaroqueFoundat/c7775da42b/53d781fcfe/64add405c7" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000">Latinx digital poetics</span></a></strong>.</span></span><br>
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A Poetry Reading by Anna Journey and David St. John</font><br>
<font color="#000000" size="3"><b>Thursday, May 25, 8:00 PM PDT</b></font></font><br style="text-align:center">
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">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!</span></span></span><br>
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<font color="#000000" size="3"><b>Friday, May 26, 7:00 PM PDT</b></font></font><br style="text-align:center">
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Beyond Baroque presents <strong>Grief Speak</strong>, a poetry reading with authors <strong>Diana Khoi Nguyen, Crystal AC Salas, Nicholas Reiner</strong>, and <strong>Cynthia Guardado</strong>. 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 <strong>Crystal AC Salas</strong>. Come and enjoy in community a potluck-style reception with light refreshments before and after the program!</span></span></span><br>
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<font color="#000000" size="3"><b>Saturday, May 27, 2:00 PM PDT</b></font></font><br style="text-align:center">
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Beyond Baroque welcomes author, journalist, and housing activist <strong>Dennis Hathaway</strong> to present his book <strong>The Battle of Lincoln Place</strong>, followed by a moderated conversation with local housing activists and former Lincoln Place residents <strong>Amanda Seward, Sheila Bernard</strong> & <strong>John Raphling</strong>. In collaboration with <strong>Where Has All The (Affordable) Housing Gone</strong>, 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. <br>
Visit <a href="http://www.calhum.org" target="_blank">www.calhum.org</a>.</span></span></span><br>
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<font color="#000000" size="3"><b>Friday, June 2, 8:00 PM PDT</b></font></font><br style="text-align:center">
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<font color="#000000" size="3"><b>Saturday, June 3, 2:00 PM PDT</b></font></font><br style="text-align:center">
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><strong>Dear Cairo…my dear Cairo</strong> 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 <strong>Zeena M. Pliska</strong>. 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.</span></span></span><br>
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">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 <strong>Anthony Cody </strong>and <strong>J. Michael Martinez</strong> will be presenting their new works in addition to readings from their most recent publications. Local poets <strong>Vickie Vertiz</strong> 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 <strong>Luis J. Rodriguez</strong> 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, <strong>Brent Ameneyro</strong>.</span></span></span><br>
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">ADI Magazine and Kaya Press present an evening of new works from contributors to ADI Magazine’s Inaugural volume Omens. Readings by<strong> K-Ming Chang, Ruxandra Guidi, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Taz Ahmed, Mahtem Shiferraw, Jason Magabo Perez</strong>.<br>
MC’ed by <strong>D’Lo</strong>.</span></span></span><br>
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">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.<br>
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<strong>Kelsey Bryan-Zwick</strong> 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.</span></span></span><br>
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">"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.<br>
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">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.<br>
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Chicana Feminist and former Rodeo Queen, <strong>Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera</strong> (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</span></span></span><br>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><font color="#990000"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Beyond Baroque’s <strong>Monday Night Fiction Workshop</strong> welcomes community writers to read and receive feedback on 2-3 pages of fiction each week. This workshop is currently facilitated by <strong>Raquel Baker</strong> via Zoom. Registration required for each week’s session. <br>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span>This workshop will be hosted via the Zoom video-conferencing platform, and is currently facilitated by </span></span></span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px;text-align:center">James Cushing</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">. 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. </span></span></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><b>James Cushing </b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">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.</span></span></span><br>
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<font color="#000000" face="trebuchet ms, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>March 18 - August 5, 2023</b></font></p>
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px;text-align:center">We're excited to announce the extension of One Sings The Other Dances! The exhibition is now running until May 27. </span><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong>Benjamin Weissman</strong>’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. <strong>Renee Petropoulos</strong>’ 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. </span></span></span></p>
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<font color="#000000" size="3">Application deadline: June 1, 2023</font><br>
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