Interart and Iconotexts: Five Poets Read Images

Beyond Baroque welcomes DoppelHouse Press for an immersive afternoon of poetry, prose, and visual art. Interart and Iconotexts features five dynamic authors, Joanna Roche, Ed Rosenthal, Ed Schad, David Starkey, and Eve Wood reading their original work with references and inspirations by painters like Liat Yossifor, Joseph Cornell, and Caravaggio. Visual artwork will accompany each of the authors’s readings, and will culminate in a discussion with the group and Q&A open to the audience. Book signings to follow after the readings in The Wanda Coleman Theater.

Doors open: 2:30 PM I Readings: 3:00 PM

About the authors

Joanna Roche is the author of numerous essays on contemporary art, as well as two books of poetry, Tyrannical Angels and Then.Now.If. She is Professor of Art History at Cal State Fullerton and holds a PhD in Art History from UCLA. Currently at work on a third poetry collection, she continues to be inspired by the talent and work ethic of her students.

Ed Rosenthal is an author, poet, and real estate broker. He has published two books of poetry and a memoir, Salvation Canyon. His socially oriented poetry combines a diversity of issues, from real estate deals, minority contractors, to homelessness, and has been published in the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, among others.

Ed Schad is a curator, writer for art and culture publications, and poet. His first collection of poetry is Letters Apart, a collaboration with painter Liat Yossifor. He is Curator and Publications Manager at The Broad, where he recently curated the exhibition and wrote the catalog for William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows.

David Starkey served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College, he is currently Co-editor of Anacapa Review and The California Review of Books, and Publisher and Co-editor of Gunpowder Press. You, Caravaggio will be published by Pine Row Press in August.

Eve Wood is an artist, art critic, and the author and/or illustrator of seven collections of poetry and chapbooks. Her artwork has been shown internationally, and a documentary about Wood, Unfurled, has just been released. She is currently represented by Track 16 Gallery and will have a solo exhibition at the Riverside Museum of Art in October.

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