About this Event
An evening of poetry in celebration of Susan Suntree’s poetry collection This Time This Place
Join us for a celebratory reading featuring Susan Suntree alongside poets Tom Laichas, Richard Modiano, and Stan Oropesa.
Both meditative and urgently present, This Time This Place offers poems as contemplations of our current moment—works that pause, listen, and open outward. Inspired by the traditions of Bashō and Tu Fu, these poems seek to awaken what is wild, communal, and generous, reminding us of our shared breath within the living world. Published by Shanti Arts, This Time This Place is a quiet, resonant book that invites reflection, attentiveness, and connection.
Doors Open: 2:30 PM I Readings: 3:00 PM
About the authors
Susan Suntree is a poet, performer, essayist, and activist whose recent books of poetry include This Time This Place (Shanti Arts P), as well as Dear Traveler (Finishing Line P), and the updated paperback and audiobook of her multiple award winning, best-selling non-fiction epic poem Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California (Univ. Nebraska P), written with the guidance of indigenous Southern California Culture Bearers and Western scientists. Her current work-in-progress, The Undertakers, confronts the war roots of the climate crisis. She often accompanies her readings with the dulcimer and harmonica. http://www.susansuntree.com/
Tom Laichas is author most recently of Three Hundred Streets of Venice California (FutureCycle Press, 2023). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mudlark, Prairie Schooner, the Amsterdam Review, The Los Angeles Times, Plume, The Moth (Ireland), The Irish Times, and elsewhere. He lives in Venice, California.
Richard Modiano is a native of Los Angeles. He attended the University of Hawai’i and New York University. In 2001 he was a programmer at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, joined the Board of Trustees in 2006 and from 2010 to 2019, he served as Executive Director. In that time he produced and curated hundreds of literary events. Richard is a rank and file member of the Industrial Workers of the World. In 2019, he was elected Vice President of the California State Poetry Society, and he was the recipient of the Joe Hill Award for labor poetry in 2022.
Stan Oropesa: Born and raised in Miami, I discovered a very different world in Los Angeles thanks to my father's job reassignment. I later studied English, classics, and philosophy at U C Santa Barbara, ignoring my accordion and resting my fingers for 8 years. A discovery of Glenn Gould playing Bach nudged me back to my instrument and inspired me to transcribe the Baroque masters and a few others onto the one thing I share with Donald Trump...a little organ. According to my teacher, I have also composed far too many pieces of my own. Somebody has to do this!
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.
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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
