On Sunday, July 1, a special luncheon and reading in honor of the 2011-12 San Diego Poetry Annual will be held at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA. Contributing poet and Beyond Baroque board of trustees member MK Kellogg is hosting the event, which begins at 1 p.m.
Contributing poets are invited to attend and read from the new annual. Please RSVP to publisher Bill Harding at gardenoakpress@earthlink.net by April 15th. Both the luncheon and the reading are free.
One of the country’s leading independent Literary/Arts Centers and public spaces, Beyond Baroque is dedicated to literary and cultural production, contact, interaction, and community building. Founded in 1968, the center is located at 681 Venice Blvd. in the Old Town Hall of Venice, near the Pacific Ocean.
Beyond Baroque beats with the heart of the “beat poets.” Close enough to Los Angeles to draw from the cream of the crop for support and participation in events, the center is run by and for poets. This is poetic hallowed ground. There is no other space like this is the U.S. World renowned poets make this one of their “must stop” venues when traveling to promote their work.
Offering a program of readings, new music, free workshops, publishing, bookstore, archiving and education, the center also launched its own imprint, Beyond Baroque Books, in 1998, dedicated to emerging, overlooked, out of print and experimental writing, as well as to the history and legacy of experimental and alternative writing, poetry and the arts.