Sixth Annual SoCal Poetry Festival Set For Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center

The Event Will Feature Performances, Readings, and Workshops With Prominent Southern California Poets

The sixth annual Southern California Poetry Festival, a celebrated annual gathering dedicated to poetry and Southern California’s rich cultural diversity, will return to Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center with performances, readings, and workshops. 

Founded in 2016 by Sonia Greenfield and Donna Hilbert with the support of the Poetry Foundation, the Southern California Poetry Festival has been hosted at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles since 2018. This year’s event is funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

This year’s festival opens Friday, Nov. 15 with performances by Camae Ayewa, the poet and musician better known as Moor Mother, whose poetry collection American Equations in Black Classical Music confronts historical and current societal issues. She will be joined in the Wanda Coleman Theater by San Francisco’s former Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin and Linda Albertano Fellow Abbi Page, who will deliver spoken-word performances interwoven with musical elements. Alternative hip-hop artist Rhys Langston will also perform later in the Poets’ Garden.

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