Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center

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Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center is a literary

George Drury Smith started publishing the magazine Beyond Baroque in 1968 from a storefront in Venice, which became a meeting place with workshops and space for readings, art, and music. Although 10,000 copies of the first issue were printed offset, subsequent issues were printed in-house using a four-color process. Later the magazines were printed on bound newsprint and distributed free. Over the years, the workshops have been attended by numerous well-known Los Angeles writers and poets, including founders

Since Smith, an experimental fiction writer, founded the center in 1968, the center's staff and board has typically included writers and artists. Beyond Baroque's first artistic director and the founder of its reading series was the novelist Jim Krusoe, a role subsequently occupied by Dennis Cooper. Fiction writer Benjamin Weissman brought the center's reading series new levels of acclaim as artistic director in the 1980s. Other artists and writer who have served on staff include Amy Gerstler, Tosh Berman, and Richard Modiano. Quentin Ring serves as the organization's current executive director.

Publishing

In 1998, the center launched its own imprint, Beyond Baroque Books, dedicated to experimental and alternative writing and poetry in Los Angeles. Launched by Fred Dewey, the imprint has published 14 books, including works by Ammiel Alcalay, Simone Forti, and Philomene Long, as well as anthologies from the Wednesday Workshop, the World Stage, and several art and literature magazines.

Publications published at the center include Momentum Press, edited by Bill Mohr; Little Caesar, edited by programs curator Dennis Cooper; and a series^{[title missing]} edited by David Trinidad.

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• Official site
• Beyond Baroque - Fred Dewey, Executive Director KCET Departures Venice

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