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Safia Elhillo, Jos Charles, and Sam Sax

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In this video, Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die (One World, 2022), Jos Charles, author of A Year & Other Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), and Sam Sax, author of Pig (Scribner, 2023), read a selection of their poems for this Beyond Baroque event in Venice, California.

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Harryette Mullen at Beyond Baroque

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“Instead of scanning newspaper headlines, / I spend the morning reading names / of flowers and trees in the botanical garden.” Harryette Mullen reads a selection of poems from her collection Urban Tumbleweed: Notes From a Tanka Diary (Graywolf Press, 2013) at Beyond Baroque in this Poetry.LA video.

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The Neutralized Sore of the Unshackled Bear

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Will Alexander reads the poem "The Neutralized Sore of the Unshackled Bear" from his first book, Vertical Rainbow Climber (Jazz Press, 1987), at a 2012 event at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California. Alexander is the 2016 recipient of the Jackson Poetry Prize, an annual Poets & Writers award currently in its tenth year.

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