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Beyond Baroque Announces Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Fund

Venice-based Literary Arts Center to Provide $10,000 in Contest and Scholarship Money to Youth Poets

FROM: Send2Press Newswire

VENICE, Calif., Sept. 14, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Beyond Baroque, one of the nation’s leading independent Literary Arts Centers, has announced the Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Fund. The fund, named in honor of Beyond Baroque alumna and U.S. Presidential Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman, will provide $10,000 to young poets of color.

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Orange County’s First-Ever Pair of Poet Laureates Make Their Debut

By Gabriel San Román
FROM: Los Angeles Times OC

Above the din of cumbias and a nearby vegan food fest, Dr. Natalie J. Graham’s poetic cadence soothed the crowd that gathered last month in downtown Santa Ana to hear her read. Seated in front of LibroMobile’s garage entrance, she began with works of other poets before turning to poems of her own.

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Update: Local Open Mics Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and SHOUT! the Open Mic Have Teamed Up

By Brian Dunlap

Over the course of the past year and a half, with organizations, museums, and theaters, among other venues, having to move their events online due to the pandemic, they have connected with so many friends old and new, who are not local to their physical event space.

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Book Release: My Name is Romero

By Brian Dunlap

It was a hot, August Sunday in Boyle Heights. Mid-afternoon, Ceaser Chavez was quieter than usual. It might’ve been due to the Delta variant raging across the county. It might’ve also been due because it was Sunday, the only slow day in L.Á. Still, some stores were open like Boyle Heights Amor, a small store front selling natural medicine.

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The Future of an L.Á. Arts Mentorship Organization: DSTL Arts

By Brian Dunlap

In 2012 poet Luis Antonio Pichardo founded the arts mentorship organization DSTL Arts. He had ambitious goals. From the start, he wanted to inspire, teach, and hire emerging artists from underserved communities. This idea was born at his house in Glassell Park. Northeast L.Á.

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