Name: Southern California Poetry Festival 2023 - Saturday, Nov. 18
Start: 2023-11-18T11:00:00-08:00
End: 2023-11-18T20:00:00-08:00
Location: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center

Southern California Poetry Festival 2023 - Saturday, Nov. 18

Beyond Baroque is one of the United States' leading independent Literary/Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to literary and cultural production, contact, interaction, and community building. Founded in 1968, it is based in the Old Town Hall in Venice, California, near the Pacific Ocean. It offers a program of readings, new music, free workshops, publishing, bookstore, archiving, and education. Learn more at beyondbaroque.org.

Beyond Baroque Literary | Arts Center

Day two of the 2023 Southern California Poetry Festival

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center

Day two of the 2023 Southern California Poetry Festival features generative workshops on the craft of poetry and present emerging voices of the SoCal Literary scene curated by Huizache, World Stage Press, Lambda Literary, Air/Light and more. Iranian American poets Frieda Afary, Majid Naficy, and Sheida Mohamadi will read poetry in translation celebrating Iran’s Woman Life Freedom movement in a program curated by PEN America. The day concludes with readings by Juan Felipe Herrera, Safia Elhillo, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, who will present wholly original, new works commissioned by Beyond Baroque for the festival. Organized in partnership with the Poetry Foundation. All events are free. For information about the festival, including the complete schedule, visit <a href="http://beyondbaroque.org/scpf2022.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">beyondbaroque.org</a>Schedule:11:00 am - 1:00 pm - Workshop with Mimi Tempestt"Writing with the Noise”Utilizing meditation, music, and improvisation to enhance your writing practices. A jazz habit. An emcee’s tool. A poetic practice. This is a writing intensive dedicated to holding the noise of the mind. Through embracing our intellectual freak flags, this workshop allows us to gain access to methods that capture the frenetic whisperings which are natural to our consciousness. We’ll attempt to remove the blockages from our path to paint freely on the page. Talking with all the characters our soul inhabits; a free-fall into Wonderland. This is the absorption of chaos on canvas. This is an eclipse of spirit. This is an attempt to break reality and exist solely through phantasmagoria. THIS ISN’T REAL. This is a structured mind experiment on how to channel your mess into mode and medium. We’ll build from contemporary Jazz artist, Kamasi Washington’s The Epic, to explore the ideas of free-range, bigness, alternative use of voice(s), and rhythmic over standings. This is an exclusive workshop. Shy/Polite writers aren’t invited. Those wishing to develop their attitudes on the page, pissing on persona (punks, mavericks and radicals alike) ARE HAPPILY WELCOMED. 11:00 am - 1:00 pm – A Workshop with Marcelo Hernandez CastilloA generative poetry workshop with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, author of Children of the Land: a Memoir; Cenzontle, and Dulce. He is a founding member of the Undocupoets, which eliminated citizenship requirements from all major poetry book prizes in the U.S, and was recognized with the Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers award.*workshops will be capped at fifteen people and will not be overbooked. Please note that our morning workshops happen at the same time, therefore you can only reserve a spot for one workshop. If you have reserved a space in a workshop and will not be able to attend, kindly email jimmy@beyondbaroque.org, or call 310-822-3006 so that we can release your spot to another person. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm – SoCal Lit Showcase: Huizache, World Stage Press, Air/LightA showcase of independent presses, organizations, and literary journals publishing and supporting poetry in Southern California. Huizache:Elda María RomanManuel Paul LópezMirlanda Robles World Stage Press:Pam WardBenin LemusRon L. Dowell Air / Light:Marci VogelMichelle BittingAndrew Navarro 3:30 - 4:30 pm: Queer &amp; Trans PoeticsPoets féi hernandez, Chekwube Danladi, &amp; Charles Jensen read from their newest collections, celebrating queer &amp; trans voices in SoCal. Presented in partnership with Lambda Literary, the largest arts organization dedicated to amplifying LGBTQIA+ authors across the U.S. 5:00 - 6:30 pm: Iranian Poetry in Translation of the Woman Life Freedom MovementPEN America's Translation Committee co-chair Frieda Afary reads poetry in translation with Sheida Mohamadi, and Majid Naficy, celebrating Iran’s Woman Life Freedom movement. 7 :00 - 8:00 pm: NEW Series: Juan Felipe Herrera, Safia Elhillo, &amp; Marcelo Hernandez CastilloFormer U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, Safia Elhillo, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo present a series of entirely new poems commissioned especially for the festival on the theme "The Human Touch." This program is part of Beyond Baroque's ongoing NEW Series, in which different authors present original work on a common theme or prompt. All festival events are free &amp; in-person at Beyond Baroque. Masks are required while inside our center.Event attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, fellow attendees, or performers. Reservation Policy: Please RSVP if you are planning to attend this event. Limited seating is available in the theater, therefore seating may not be guaranteed in the case of a full program; we recommend arriving early.

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