A unique historical narrative about Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California told by those who know it best - poets and writers. The Writing Life: 55 Years at Beyond Baroque is a unique historical narrative about Beyond Baroque, to...
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For decades now, Peter J. Harris's voice has mesmerized his readers and listeners. He moves us with his words and his presence, his dignity and his vulnerability, with his truth-telling and the way he can spin a tale, turning narrative into song, ly...
Here is a collection that reveals what happens when skill meets substantial talent. And what, precisely, is it that happens? The unpredictable—from poem to poem, line to line, a cascade of surprises. Mischief, memory, dream and lusty desire come int...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Suzanne Lummis. "Leaving the theater I stand outside in a dark of black lipstick the world wears when everyone leaves." Language like this—savory, sensuous and ripe with the unexpected—is among Carol Ellis' str...
Poetry. "To the edgy, illustrious ranks of poets like Diane Di Prima and Charles Bukowski, let us now add the fearless, delirious genius of Puma Perl. Long a cult legend and staple of the Lower East Side poetry scene, with BIRTHDAYS BEFORE AND AFTER...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "The third volume in the Pacific Coast Poetry Series, IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE is a meditation on life and death, on identity in all senses of that word, on making art out of the unthinkable. On surviving and not surviving. ...
Poetry. Poems "funny, stark, spot-on and utterly beautiful" comprise her collection, OUR FOREIGNER, "a brilliant and dark comedy." This is Betsy Sholl's apt description for the poetry of Nance Van Winckel, one of the Northwest's foremost poets and w...
Poetry. California Interest. WIDE AWAKE draws together nationally acclaimed poets and gifted newer writers—one hundred twelve poets of Los Angeles and its surrounding territories—whose work speaks to the humanity, pathos and comedy, of what may be t...
Poetry. A new collection of experimental texts, imagined dialogues, letters to the president, and news animations from the legendary choreographer, pathbreaking artist, Judson Church co-founder, and Los Angeles resident. With an afterword by poet Ja...
Poetry Anthology. This fifth collection to come out of The Venice Poetry Workshop (now referred to as The Wednesday Night Workshop) contains poems by 34 writers. Ranging in form from prose paragraphs to one-word lines and in style from explosive in-...