About this Event
Join authors Susan Suntree and Tom Laichas for an in-person poetry reading at Beyond Baroque. Following the readings, there will be a reception with food and refreshments.
“Susan Suntree powerfully adds her work to the travel poem traditions of her Classical Japanese predecessors, Saigyō and Bashō. Dear Traveler is a Postmodern travel diary taking us on a journey through "a fevered civilization." These poems shine with moments of quiet astonishment as they guide us into the interior of the self during these turbulent times. Her poems remind us ‘Your wild life is listening.’” -Alan Soldofsky
A metal box, rarely opened, contains a cache of photographs. Over seventy years, that box moved from front hall closet to a kitchen cupboard to the back seat of an Olds 88. The photos are not forgotten: they are unwelcome. Photo essay, memoir, and prose poem, Tom Laichas’s Sixty-Three Photographs at the End of a War resurrects a past that was never fully buried.
This event is Free & In-Person at Beyond Baroque. Masks are required while inside our theater.
If you can’t join us in-person the event will be live-streamed in Beyond Baroque’s Youtube Page at the scheduled time of the reading. A recording will be available for viewing.
Reservation Policy: Please RSVP if you are planning to attend this event. We accept walk-ins, but priority will be given to people that have registered. In the case of a full program, your free ticket may not guarantee admission. We recommend arriving early.
About the Authors
Susan Suntree is an award-winning poet, performer, and essayist whose recent books of poetry included Dear Traveler and the updated paperback and audiobook release of her non-fiction epic poem Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California which won the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Nonfiction, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Narrative Poetry, a Mellon Foundation Elemental Arts Award, and was a finalist for a Society of Voice Arts and Sciences prize. Other books include Eye of the Womb, also published in Madrid as a bilingual edition, El Ojo de la Matriz; Tulips, a bilingual chapbook of translations of poetry by Spanish poet Ana Rossetti; Rita Moreno, YA biography; Wisdom of the East; Stories of Compassion, Inspiration and Love for which the Dalai Lama wrote the foreword. http://www.susansuntree.com/
Tom Laichas is author of Three Hundred Streets of Venice California (forthcoming from FutureCycle Press, 2023), Sixty-Three Photographs from the End of a War (3.1 Press, 2021), and Empire of Eden (The High Window Press, 2019). The recipient of the Nancy Hargrove Poetry Prize, his recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rupture, Disquieting Muses, Stand, Ambit and elsewhere. He lives in Venice, California.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, United States
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