Tyehimba Jess

Tyehimba Jess, Amanda Gorman, Lynne Thompson, Luis J. Rodriguez, more

6 MAY 2021 — thursday

Join Beyond Baroque for a celebration of poetry and literature, "Beyond This Moment," a virtual benefit for the literary center as it reopens this year, featuring an array of notable writers and performers, including inaugural Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson, former L.A. Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer with poet activist John Sinclair, poets E. Ethelbert Miller, Ryka Aoki, and Peter J. Harris, actors Bradley Whitford and Amy Landecker, actor and writer Simon Callow, and many more, $25 general admission, online, 7:00-8:00 pm PDT (Purchase tickets here: www.beyondbaroque.org/2021gala.html)