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Have you purchased your tickets for a night of poetry, wine tasting, and fundraising for Beyond Baroque this spring season? 🌸
Join us in the Poets’ Garden at Beyond Baroque for an evening of wine paired with poems. Hosted by President of Beyond Baroque’s Board of Trustees, Luivette Resto. We’ll sample Paso Robles and L.A. wines from guest winemakers Xochitl Wines, Paco Wines, Ulloa Cellars and Eastside Luv. Each wine will be paired with our featured guest poets! 🍷
This spring fundraiser will be hosted amongst the flowers in our blossoming Poets’ Garden. Small bites will be available through the evening.
Hosted by Beyond Baroque’s Board President, Luivette Resto, the evening features Muriel Leung, Steven Reigns, Cody Sisco Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, and Mandy Kahn. All proceeds will benefit Beyond Baroque’s programming and mission. Join us for our fundraiser of the spring season!

We’re accepting sponsorships for our fundraiser! You can make a contribution at one of the following levels: $250 Emerging Sponsor, $500 Debut Sponsor, $1,000 Curator Sponsor, and $2,500 Icon Sponsor. Please follow the link to the sponsorship you’d like to contribute to, or reach out to us directly if you would like to provide a sponsorship.

We hope to see you there! Tickets in bio 🍷

Coming up! Our next gallery exhibition will be a silent auction and benefit showcase in The Mike Kelley Gallery! From May 16 - June 26, 2026, come take a look at art pieces up for sale. There will be a special preview of the gallery on May 16, from 3 - 9 PM, in conjunction with our Wine Tasting Fundraiser happening at 6 PM,so come on over to get first pick, and enjoy some poetry and wine while you’re at it.

We’re still accepting art pieces for our auction! If you’d like to donate, please fill out the art auction donation form at the link in our bio.

Beyond Baroque is now accepting applications for an internship position through the L.A. County Arts Internship Program! If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to work for an arts non-profit, this is your chance! Learn the basics of Publicity & Marketing by interning with Los Angeles’ oldest literary arts center. This position is ideal for someone with a strong passion for poetry and the contemporary arts. Candidates must be currently enrolled in a 4-year college/university or community college and be attending school within L.A. County or residing in L.A. County. Recent graduates may apply so long as they’ve earned their degree between May 1 - December 1, 2026. To apply, email resume and cover letter to ivan@beyondbaroque.org.

The Marketing & Publicity Intern will perform tasks such as:

• Publicizing programs on appropriate platforms
• Scheduling social media content
• Curating graphics and copy for programs
• Day-of program support in the bookstore and theater

Beyond Baroque is now accepting applications for an internship position through the L.A. County Arts Internship Program! If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to work for an arts non-profit, this is your chance! Learn the basics of Publicity & Marketing by interning with Los Angeles’ oldest literary arts center. This position is ideal for someone with a strong passion for poetry and the contemporary arts. Candidates must be currently enrolled in a 4-year college/university or community college and be attending school within L.A. County or residing in L.A. County. Recent graduates may apply so long as they’ve earned their degree between May 1 - December 1, 2026. To apply, email resume and cover letter to ivan@beyondbaroque.org.

The Marketing & Publicity Intern will perform tasks such as:

• Publicizing programs on appropriate platforms
• Scheduling social media content
• Curating graphics and copy for programs
• Day-of program support in the bookstore and theater

Are you a zinester? 📒

Do you love Beyond Baroque? 👀

Have you always wanted to sell your zines at Beyond Baroque? 👀👀

This is your chance! We are doing an open call for zines to sell in our bookstore. We’d love to highlight artists in our bookstore from Los Angeles and beyond! Here at Beyond Baroque we love poetry and the literary arts, but this open call is zines of all genres 🙂‍↕️

At this time, Beyond Baroque is only able to offer consignment for zines. For more information about our bookstore hours, our consignment paperwork, or how to get your zine to us please reach out to Genesis at genesis@beyondbaroque.org. We are so excited to see your work!

Just a few hours away!

To culminate the exhibit of Judy Kleinberg’s visual poetry now on view in the Mike Kelley Gallery, Beyond Baroque invites you to a lively reading with Judy Kleinberg, poet Suzanne O’Connell, and essayist Liz Stephens. In language that explores beauty in the unlovely and poetry in the unpoetic, the three writers contemplate memory, identity, and place. They celebrate the ordinary and the remarkable and share a unique appreciation for surprise, humor, and juicy questions about reality. Please join us for a memorable evening of words and images.

Reserve your spot at the link in our bio!

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

We’re closing out National Poetry Month feeling very grateful! 😌 Thank you to everyone who showed up for our events and workshops at BB and throughout LA! We started off the month celebrating our planet with Earth Day Cabaret, hosted and curated by Greg Bell. We had the honor of inaugurating Amy Raasch and Shelby Pinkham as our new fellows of the Linda J. Albertano Fellowship, and had a great time with Trenches Full of Poets features and open mic! At the Mike Kelley Gallery we had the opening of our current exhibition, The Poem My Trembling Candle by J.I. Judy Kleinberg. We also celebrated the 5th season of the International Poetry Film Festival and had another wonderful weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books! Feeling grateful for every conversation, reading, and every familiar and new face! Here’s to another month of art, poetry, and community at Beyond Baroque. 🖋️❤️

Join us for Baubles by Bogen, a one day sale featuring one-of-a-kind handcrafted jewelry and necklaces by Los Angeles poet and author Laurel Ann Bogen. 50% of all sales will benefit Beyond Baroque.
Come find the perfect Mother’s Day gift, treat yourself to something fabulous, and support one of LA’s oldest literary spaces 😏💍💎

Join us for Baubles by Bogen, a one day sale featuring one-of-a-kind handcrafted jewelry and necklaces by Los Angeles poet and author Laurel Ann Bogen. 50% of all sales will benefit Beyond Baroque.
Come find the perfect Mother’s Day gift, treat yourself to something fabulous, and support one of LA’s oldest literary spaces 😏💍💎

Join us for a book launch celebration for Harry Northup’s latest collection “To Ask For Love.” With readings by Cahuenga Press Poets ❣️
Beyond Baroque presents a reading and celebration of Harry E. Northup’s To Ask For Love (Cahuenga Press). Harry E. Northup is a poet and actor (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Over The Edge, The Silence of the Lambs) and is the Producer and Host of Harry’s Poetry Hour, Creative Chaos MPTF. Also reading from their work: Cahuenga Press poets James Cushing, Phoebe MacAdams and Jeanette Clough🔏

Poets! Theater-goers! Fantasy fans! ✨ Save the date for June 26th 📚🥳

This #poetrytuesday, please enjoy a poem by our very own poet-in-residence, Will Alexander! “Realm as Transitional Suffix” comes from his 2025 collection Interior Philosophical Fractals (@secondstutter).

Will Alexander and others will be reading at our space tomorrow for the posthumous book launch of Fred Dewey’s Without the Consent of the People! Please join us tomorrow evening for a celebration of Dewey’s work and a testament to the community he helped build, from Beyond Baroque to international dialogues on literature and public space.

This #poetrytuesday, please enjoy a poem by our very own poet-in-residence, Will Alexander! “Realm as Transitional Suffix” comes from his 2025 collection Interior Philosophical Fractals (@secondstutter).

Will Alexander and others will be reading at our space tomorrow for the posthumous book launch of Fred Dewey’s Without the Consent of the People! Please join us tomorrow evening for a celebration of Dewey’s work and a testament to the community he helped build, from Beyond Baroque to international dialogues on literature and public space.

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. Arranged more or less chronologically, 90 poems and their contextual notes by 61 contemporary poets bring into vivid focus the eco-injustice of military damages in 37 nations on 6 continents and on the moon. Join us for a night of environmental-conscious poetry in The Wanda Coleman Theater.

The evening will feature readings by co-editor Teresa Mei Chuc, as well as contributors Sean Mclain Brown, Hazel Clayton, Lisbeth Coiman, Lucille Lang Day, Alicia-Viguer Espert, and Shahé Mankerian.

Doors Open: 7:00 PM I Readings: 7:30 PM

This Saturday at Beyond Baroque! 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.

The program presents a commemoration for female poets and reflections on the struggles of women around the world involving talks about the history of International Women’s Day and various poetry readings in multiple languages with translations; featuring Hannah Jakobsen, Ivanna Berrios, JuliAnne Rach, Sylvie Gallagher, and Consuelo Salamia Góngora. The event will culminate in musical performances of songs of resistance by women artists Ceasefire Choir, Andrea Y Los Gallos, and Guerra Paz.