About this Event
Join us for a reading with poets Tim Seibles and Suzanne Lummis. Visiting from Virginia, Seibles reads from With No Hat, a new collection that reflects the range and evolution of his long career. He is joined by Lummis, a central figure in poem noir, whose latest book, Crime Wave, moves through crime, desire, and power with style and precision. A chance to hear two renowned poets whose work continues to shape the literary field nationwide!
Doors Open: 7:00 PM I Readings: 7:30 PM
Tim Seibles was born in Philadelphia in 1955. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2016 to 2018. His poems engage many aspects of life, from the romantic to the sociopolitical to the mystical. He has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts fellow and a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His eight books of poetry include Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award, winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Poetry. One Turn Around the Sun, an extensive examination of his immediate family and their social circumstances was published in 2017. In the two years, Tim has also written poems for two monuments. One in Norfolk, dedicated to the Norfolk 17 who began the fearful process of integrating Virginia public schools, the other for an installation in Dallas, Texas, that addresses the many race-based lynchings that took place there. His poems have appeared in several anthologies including: Poetry Goes to The Movies, Seriously Funny, Uncommon Core, This Is The Honey, and Villanelles. Seibles’ works have also been featured in Best American Poetry 2010, 2013, 2023. His most recent collection, Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems was released by Etruscan Press in 2021. A new book of poems, With No Hat, will be published in early 2026.
Suzanne Lummis' fourth collection, Crime Wave (Giant Claw), is included in Literary Hub's end-of-year 100 Notable Small Press Books, 2025, where reviewer Angela Chaidez Vincent called it "Savvy, Robust, Relentless." She edited Poetry Goes to the Movies (Pacific Coast Poetry Series/Beyond Baroque Books), which gathers together important poets from Los Angeles and across the nation. Both books were included in Mike Sonksen's 25 Best L.A. Centric Books of 2025 on the L.A. centric website L.A. Taco. Her poems have appeared in noted literary journals and in The New Yorker.
About Beyond Baroque
is one of the United States' leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public's knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968 as an experimental literary magazine, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings and workshops. The building also houses a bookstore with a large collection of new poetry books for sale.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 11.49
