When Fire. Myth. Echo

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.

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A virtual reading in celebration of AANHPI Month & Virtual Book Launch of Angela Peñaredondo's  nature felt but never apprehended

In honor and continued celebration of Asian American Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Month for the month of May, Beyond Baroque presents, When Fire. Myth. Echo, a poetry reading that brings together AANHPI poets from the pacific northwest, east coast, southern California and Hawaii to the L.A. literary stage.When Fire. Myth. Echo unapologetically meditates while still tenderly exposed to a world in tidal rupture. These writers find language and lineage inside spaces that converge mythmaking and healing as anti-colonial resistance and resilience. In these poetic stories, the lyrical voice, the experimental voice, the performative voice is a body praying, shapeshifting, calling out violence, and grieving as a method to fight and protect our individual histories’ imagination. Join us with readings of new and selected works by Angela Peñaredondo, Janice Lee, Kay Ulanday Barnett, No’u Revilla, &amp; Simon Shieh. ASL Interpretation will be provided. This program is supported in part by Poets &amp; Writers.This event is Free &amp; will take place online via Zoom &amp; Live Streamed on our YouTube Channel. A Zoom link will be provided 24 hours prior to the event after registration. 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.<h3>A﻿bout the authors</h3><h3></h3>Angela Peñaredondo (she/they) is queer, nonbinary Filipinx writer and author of nature felt but never apprehended (Noemi Press, March 2023), All Things Lose Thousands of Times (winner of the 2016 Inlandia Institute’s Hillary Gravendyk Book Prize) and the chapbook Maroon (Jamii Publishing). An interdisciplinary writer, artist, and educator, their work can be found in The Academy of American Poets, Pleiades, Apogee Journal, Southern Humanities Review. Black Warrior Review and elsewhere. They are recipients of fellowships from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, Macondo, TinHouse, the Community of Writers and others. They are an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, San Bernardino. Janice Lee (she/they) is a Korean American writer, teacher, spiritual scholar, and shamanic healer. She is the author of 7 books of fiction, creative nonfiction &amp; poetry: KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), Imagine a Death (Texas Review Press, 2021), and Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Oregon Book Award. A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, a collaborative novel co-authored with Brenda Iijima, is forthcoming in April 2023 from Meekling Press. An essay (co-authored with Jared Woodland) is featured in the recently released 4K restoration of Sátántangó (dir. Béla Tarr) from Arbelos Films. She writes about interspecies communication, plants &amp; personhood, the filmic long take, slowness, the apocalypse, architectural spaces, inherited trauma, and the Korean concept of han, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? Incorporating shamanic and energetic healing, Lee teaches workshops on inherited trauma, healing and writing, and practices in several lineages, including the medicine tradition of the Q’ero, Zen Buddhism (in the tradition of Plum Village and Thich Nhat Hanh), plant &amp; animal medicine, and Korean shamanic ritual. She currently lives in Portland, OR where she is the Operational Creative Director at Corporeal Writing and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University.Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, a 2022 recipient of a Tin House Next Book residency, and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship Award at MacDowell. Their second book, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have featured at The United Nations, The Lincoln Center, The Hemispheric Institute, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Museum, Dodge Poetry, The Poetry Foundation, The School of the Arts Institute, Princeton, Columbia University, Sesame Street, &amp; more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Magazine, Literary Hub, them, The Advocate, Al Jazeera, NYLON, Vogue, The Rumpus, The Lily, The Maine Review, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Currently, they serve as a co- curator at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop. For more information go online at kaybarrett.net or on social media at @brownroundboi. Noʻu Revilla (she / her / ʻo ia) is an ʻŌiwi poet and educator. Her debut book Ask the Brindled (Milkweed Editions 2022) won the 2021 National Poetry Series. She also won the 2021 Omnidawn Broadside Poetry prize. Her writing has been featured in Poetry, Lit Hub, ANMLY, Beloit, and the Library of Congress, and she has performed throughout Hawaiʻi, Toronto, Papua New Guinea, and the United Nations. Her work has also been adapted for theatrical productions in Aotearoa as well as exhibitions in the Honolulu Museum of Art and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, where she teaches creative writing with an emphasis on ʻŌiwi literature, spoken word, and decolonial poetics. She is a lifetime “slyly / reproductive” student of Haunani-Kay Trask. Learn more about Noʻu at nourevilla.com. Simon Shieh is a Taiwanese American poet, essayist, and educator. He is the author of Master (Sarabande Books, 2023), chosen by Terrance Hayes for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. His poems and essays are published/forthcoming in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and The Yale Review, among others, and have been recognized with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation (www.simonshieh.com)This event is Free &amp; will take place online via Zoom &amp; Live Streamed on our YouTube Channel. A zoom link will be provided 24 hours prior to the event after registration. 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.

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