About this Event
Join us at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center for readings by four frequent contributors to The Santa Monica Review to mark a special anniversary. Founded by writer/teacher Jim Krusoe and sponsored by Santa Monica College in 1988, The Santa Monica Review celebrates its commitment to Southern California community of writers. Featuring Jeffery Bills-Solomon, Kareem Tayyar, Lisa Alvarez, and Stephen Cooper. Hosted by Andrew Tonkovitch.
Doors Open: 1:30 PM I Readings: 2:00 PM
About the authors
Jeffrey Bills-Solomon is the author of So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein. His fiction has appeared in SMR, SPECS, and Best Gay Stories.
Kareem Tayyar is a poet and prose writer, author of the novel The Prince of Orange County and the collections Keats in San Francisco & Other Poems and The Revolution of Heavenly Bodies & Other Stories.
Lisa Alvarez’s poems and short stories have appeared in Air/Light, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Huizache, [Pank], and SMR. She is author of a debut fiction collection, Some Final Beauty and Other Stories.
Stephen Cooper is a National Endowment for the Arts grantee for his fiction. His Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante was a Los Angeles Times “Best Book of the Year” and he cowrote and produced the Netflix Original Documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski. His new collection is River of Angels: Stories.
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.
Livestream: If you can’t join us in person the event will be livestreamed on at the scheduled time of the event. If you are tuning in this way, no ticket purchase is necessary.
If you are attending in person, ticket purchase is required. Tickets will be available at the Beyond Baroque bookstore on the day of the event, but we recommend registering in advance through Eventbrite. Masks are encouraged while inside our center. Please arrive early.
Event attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, staff, fellow attendees, or performers.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 11.49
