October 19th at Beyond Baroque - Recently Updated Pages

Open mic signup

leesloca88 — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:05:03 CDT

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Name: Jim Smith

E-mail: JSmith@freevenice.org

Phone Number: 310-399-8685

Name of your poem & approx. time: George Bush in Venice, 6 min.

Name: Rex Butters
E-mail:rexx3@verizon.net
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Name of your poem & approx. time: American Nero, 3min.
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E-mail: adhocink@yahoo.com
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Name of your poem & approx. time: (?) will add later, in process
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Name: Vachine
E-mail:rvasin@vhcoaudit.com
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Name of your poem & approx. time: Memorial Day Parade, 2006, 3 minutes
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Name: Lynne Bronstein
E-mail:tanysare@earthlink.net
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Name of your poem & approx. time: Thank You Dubya -about 2 minutes
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Name: Norma LaMadrid
E-mail:nml1221@gmail.com
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Name of your poem & approx. time: Insultos (subject to change) / + or - 4 mins.
Additional info or suggestion: Very possibly bi-lingual

Name: Don Kingfisher Campbell
E-mail: kingfisher1031@charter.net
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Name: Ryan Wilson

E-Mail: ryanewilson5@yahoo.com
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Name of your poem & appprox time: The Narcissus Machine 3 minutes
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Feature readers

leesloca88 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:09:16 CDT

John Harris:

In 1969, John Harris founded the Venice Poetry Workshop at Beyond Baroque Foundation with Joseph Hansen. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was the proprietor of Papa Bach Books, the historic bookstore and literary center where a generation of Los Angeles poets came of age artistically. His poems have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies and in two collections, "Where Love Is" and "Against the Day of the Dead." His manuscript "Climbing" was a finalist for the University of Pittsburg Press U.S. Poetry Award judged by Muriel Rukeyser.
reprint from http://www.abalonemoon.com/Contrib3.html

Frankie Drayus:

Frankie Drayus lives for the feel of words in her mouth. She has featured at numerous venues including the Seattle Poetry Festival, Beyond Baroque, and The World Stage, and has read at hundreds of open mics from Los Angeles to New York City. She has published two chapbooks, all the maybes shift to yes and Ceci n'est pas Magritte, and a spoken word CD, Naked Voice Only. Her poems and art have appeared in ART/LIFE, Vox Populi, and Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets. Frankie is a co-director of the poetry nonprofit Valley Contemporary Poets and a frequent contributor to LitRave.com. Her poem, "Yielding," has been optioned for dramatization as a screenplay and is currently a film project at the Canadian Film Centre. This fall she will begin the MFA program in poetry at NYU.
reprint from http://www.litrave.com/aboutus/frankiedrayusbio.htm

Carmen E. Vega:

La Poeta has performed her poetic interludesin venues such as The Gene Autry Museum, Southwest Museum, Hammer Museum,Las Vegas NAP Jam, San Antonio Poetry Festival, and recently at The Wish Foundation’s Annual Fundraising Spectacle, La Femme De Foncer. She is the author of Reflections From the Well, a bilingual chapbook. Her CD La Poeta con Rock is exactly that, and she’s ventured to the theatrical stage as playwright and actor of her original workand that of others. Find her stuff on: Youtube, myspace, CDBaby.com, iTunes

P.O. Box 20745 Los Angeles, CA 90006-0745 Tel: (213) 925-7389 lapoetaconrock@yahoo.com

Michael C. Ford:

Michael C Ford was born on the Illinois side of Lake Michigan. His debut spoken word vinyl {on SST} LANGUAGE COMMANDO earned a Grammy nomination in 1986. His book of Selected Poems EMERGENCY EXITS was honored by a 1998 Pulitzer Prize nomination. His last CD FIRE ESCAPES was bankrolled in 1995 by New Alliance: produced at Sonora by Michael Campagna who also composed and orchestrated most of the charts. He concluded a recording project: a verbal rhapsody which pays an important tribute to both the art and the history of percussion; collaborating with DOORS cofounder John Densmore at the drum kit. MCF has participated in keeping THE DOORS open by occasionally being in the company of keyboardist Ray Manzarek. Since their milestone appearances at McCabe’s (1986-1989) they’ve been collaborating on several voice and piano recording dates {the most recent being a specially conceived track titled EXTREME UNCTION FOR JAMES DOUGLAS MORRISON for Hen House Studios anthology Vol. 4}.
Besides publishing music journalism, essays and assays on other aspects of American cultural history, he’s served as judge and panelist for literary arts organizations and publishers. Ford’s plays have been staged internationally, and a screenplay version of a West Coast production of BLONDES DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK is currently in production. He’s been called into service to teach in USA county area middle-schools and high-schools through the PEN in the Classroom program: also at many nationwide universities; and to recite at various venues: many times with musical accompaniment.
reprint from http://www.cinetropic.com/ford/bio.html

Sherman Pearl:

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Feature artists

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Sarah Hage:

Sarah Hage is an avid painter, sculptor, and gardener who draws her inspiration from nature, history, and anything from found objects to fine art. She loves intense, saturated colors, sculptural forms, and contrast. Sarah graduated from Boston College and worked as an editor at the Massachusetts Historical society for two years, a writer in the computer industry for fifteen years, and an editor of medical journals for two years. She has written, published, and performed poetry in Boston and in California. She was the featured poet at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Currently, she works and lives in Los Angeles with her husband Mark and their two cats, Tiger and Euphrates.Website:http://www.sarahhage.com/

Scheldule

leesloca88 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:20:17 CDT

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Direction

leesloca88 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:09:51 CDT

681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
310.822.3006

Your hosts

leesloca88 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:59:42 CDT

Lee Minh Sloca:

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Leilani Squire:

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Joshua Silverstein:

Los Angeles Native Joshua RKB Silverstein is a 2002 graduate of the Academy of Entertainment and Technology of Santa Monica California. He has studied acting under the tutelage of Cynthia Saint James, Delores Aguano, Elina DeSantos and Akuyoe Graham and has been impacting the creative arts scene for some time now. He has enriched this community through many media such as visual art, dance, theater, poetry, and especially beatboxing. While being a vessel for Jazz, Funk, Blues and Soul, through time Joshua has graciously earned the title as the "hardest working beatboxer in LA". Joshua has performed in many venues including LA's premiere poetry venue, Da Poetry Lounge, the House of Blues, the Ford Amphitheater and the 2003 Panifest which took place in Ghana, West Africa. He has shared the stage with renowned artist such as Jerry Quickly, Cal Bennett, Bridget Gray, Sheila Nicholls, Double G of Dakah, Jason Samuels-Smith, Slash, Kid Beyond, and Click Tha Supah Latin. Most recently Joshua completed touring for Norman Lear's "Declare Yourself", a nonpartisan tour rallying the American to register and vote.

RatPack Slim:

the altered ego of Milwaukee-born Rob Sturma, is a slam poet by name and poetry host by necessity. He started out in the shadow of KRS-ONE and Saul Williams and later found his inner emo kid. He's a hopeless romantic. He's been on stages with the likes of Z-Trip, Angelo Moore (Fishbone), Sage Francis, Sole, Medusa, Kid Beyond, Buddy Wakefield, and Mighty Mike McGee. He's co-hosted or guest hosted venues like Da Poetry Lounge, Chromosome X, Fresh Produce, The Los Feliz Slam, and of course, Green. He taped a pilot for Comedy Central that never aired, and an episode of How We Do It for BET which did air, but he never saw it. He's got a very unique voice--think Kermit The Frog meets Marvin the Martian meets Bill Murray's lounge lizard. He has self-published three chapbooks, the latest titled Nerdplay: Poems about Robots, Rasslin', and Romance. He's been the member of three slam teams (including Team Los Feliz 2003 and 2004) that represented at the National Poetry Slam; in 2005 he helped Team Hollywood make it to the finals stage in Albuquerque, NM, as documented in the film Spit. He's still proudest of the heart-shaped box of chocolates he won for "Best Written Poem" at the $1000 Slam at Berkeley, CA. He thinks poetry slam and wrestling ain't that far removed from each other. He has accounts on livejournal (http://ratpackslim.livejournal.com) and MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/ratpackslim). He still rhymes a lot.

DJ Jedi:

A 12-year veteran of countless parties and local clubs, DJ JEDI quietly gained notoriety in the Los Angeles hip-hop and spoken word community by being the resident deejay at the weekly open mic Green (home of the 2003 National Champion L.A. Slam Team), and by holding it down at Da Poetry Lounge, where he would keep the capacity crowds nodding their heads and shakin' their asses on the regular. For the past four years, along with partner in crime Pocho Joe, he's served as resident selector for the teen-only high-school open mic Downbeat 720 (and more recently, its television spinoff, Downbeat Showdown) in Santa Monica, California, and he's rocked shows at some of the most prominent hotspots in Los Angeles, including the House of Blues, the Knitting Factory, Project Blowed, The El Rey and the Temple Bar, among numerous others.

About the reading

leesloca88 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:52:56 CDT

Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center is based near the beach in Los Angeles’ old Venice City Hall, built 1906. The Center offers an extensive program of public readings, free workshops, a project room, bookstore, publications, and chapbook/small press archive. During our nearly forty years in Venice, we have nurtured and presented many of the best writers, artists, and poets from the West Coast, around the country, and world. The Center is unique for its combined range of activities, constantly moving back and forth between the underground and the literary and artistic establishments. For more information about Beyond Baroque please go here .

Let's shave our Bush GOODBYE

leesloca88 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:10:08 CDT

Where: Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA

When: Sunday, October 19th, 2008, 6PM

Welcome to the October 19th Reading, "Let's shave our Bush GOODBYE!" Here you will find all you need to know about the reading, hosts, schedule, feature readers, open mic signup, etc. Feel free to get involve.

About the reading	Your Hosts	Scheldule
Feature readers	Open mic signup	Endorsements

October 19th at Beyond Baroque - Recently Updated Pages

Open mic signup

Feature readers

John Harris:

Frankie Drayus:

Carmen E. Vega:

Michael C. Ford:

Sherman Pearl:

Supporters

Feature artists

Scheldule

Direction

Your hosts

Lee Minh Sloca:

Leilani Squire:

Joshua Silverstein:

RatPack Slim:

DJ Jedi:

About the reading

Let's shave our Bush GOODBYE

About the reading

Your Hosts

Scheldule

Feature readers

Open mic signup

Endorsements