If you enjoyed this sneak peak then you won’t want to miss Perry Janes this Friday, January 31, at Beyond Baroque for a reading and conversation with Jackson Burgess and Elena Karina Byrne about his new new poetry collection! Tickets 🎟️ available here https://t.co/lgCcxnvk5t!

This #poetrytuesday we’d like you to experience the heart-wrenching beauty of Perry Jane’s “Love Poem as Trojan Horse,” from his collection Find Me When You’re Ready (Northwestern University Press). Let love act as a beacon of light and joy when you find your world in ruin. ❤️‍🩹

After the readings in the Wanda Coleman Theater, join us for a reception with light refreshments and book signings by this wonderful poetry duo! 🍷 Reserve your spot here https://t.co/38QHdxBfaW Doors Open: 6:30 PM I Readings 7:00 PM

Beyond Baroque invites you to a special reading celebrating Carine Topal’s newest book of poetry, Dear Blood (Ben Yehuda Press). ✨ Jan Wesley will also be reading selected work from her upcoming collection, It Wasn’t Always Like This (What Books). 📖

🚨We’re having a SALE! Stop by our bookshop, open Fridays and Saturdays from 12-6 PM, to snatch some overstock titles marked 20% off! 🛍️ Can’t make it in person? Visit the https://t.co/EHQDLV2WE9 link 🔗 in our bio to shop online and support Beyond Baroque!

Krut takes 26 randomly chosen words and matches them to his own drawings without assigning any obvious correlation between the word and the image. Get your tickets 🎟️ here https://t.co/YIv8JRpyxI!

Join us for the opening of Ansel Krut’s 26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Images in The Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque! The exhibition displays the progress of the artist’s book of the same name.

Catch Jennifer Baptiste Saturday, January 25th, for Mobile Data Mag: A Reading With L.A Authors, where she’ll be joined by Pam Concepcion, Daryl Gussin, Mauricio Moreno, and Laura Sermeño, hosted by Jesse Tovar. Get your tickets 🎟️ here https://t.co/0FOwfMOotW!

🌱 Let the natural world encapsulate you this #poetrytuesday, and allow yourself to be immersed within Jennifer Baptiste’s poem, “Fair in Fauna,” from Altadena Poetry Review: Anthology 2024 (Golden Foothill Press).

Join us Friday, January 31 at 8:00 PM for the celebration of Perry Janes poetry collection Find Me When You’re Ready. Janes will be joined in conversation with Jackson Burgess (@_jacksonburgess) moderated by Elena Karina Byrne (@ekduende) RSVP🎟️: https://t.co/fTSIyjzbAj

The fund will be administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation, and starting Monday, January 20, artists and arts workers in all disciplines who have been impacted can visit https://t.co/oPKzOhZ5cI to apply for an emergency grant.

🚨 Several major arts organizations led by the J. Paul Getty Trust have partnered with numerous foundations to create the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, an emergency relief fund for artists and arts workers in all disciplines who have been impacted by the L.A. fires.

Curated by poet and Chicana/o/x Studies Professor at Cal. State Northridge, Ramon Garcia, these films question the stability of cultural iconographies, reimagining history as the key to a liberatory future. Get your tickets 🎟️ here https://t.co/YdkznC39CS!

🎥 We’re kicking off February with Phantom Histories: Transborder Poetics in Video Art, a screening of various short films by Chicana/o/x and Mexican multidisciplinary artists: Harry Gamboa Jr., Rita Gonzalez, Raul Baltazar, Berta Jottar and Victoria Delgadillo.

Enjoy a reception and book signings after the program. Doors Open 7:30 PM I Readings 8:00 PM Tickets 🎟️ available here https://t.co/tKNtVBx8mv!

📖 Come to Beyond Baroque Friday, January 24, to hear new work from Nancy Miller Gomez (Inconsolable Objects), Lynda V.E. Crawford (Washing Water), and Lynne Thompson (Blue on a Blue Palette), all celebrating newly published collections and reading from their latest books!

🎵 The program features readings in The Wanda Coleman Theater by Cecilia Woloch and Harry Northup presenting an immersive multimedia performance that includes archival images and musical interludes. RSVP here https://t.co/DXcsuSIupy!

⛏️ Join us for Cecilia Woloch’s book launch, Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gall, an extended poem in the voice of coal miner and activist Ted Gall, weaving one man’s personal story into the history of work and justice in America, now rescheduled for Thursday, January 30th!

🛜 Mobile Data Mag is an online literary journal available exclusively on Substack, housing a collection of poetry and prose, particularly from authors who are born and raised in California. Get your tickets 🎟️ here https://t.co/0FOwfMOotW!

Join us January 25, for a reading with Mobile Data Mag! Hosted by founding editor and author Jesse Tovar, this reading features five poets from all corners of L.A. County: Pam Concepcion, Daryl Gussin, Jennifer “Miss B” Baptiste, Mauricio “Soul on Fire” Moreno, and Laura Sermeño.