Authors Nancy Miller Gomez (Inconsolable Objects), Lynne V.E. Crawford (Washing Water), and Lynne Thompson (Blue on a Blue Palette) are celebrating newly published collections and will be reading from their latest books at Beyond Baroque. Enjoy a reception and book signings after the program.

Doors Open 7:30 PM I Readings 8:00 PM

About the authors

Nancy Miller Gomez is the author of Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books) and Punishment

(Rattle chapbook series). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, Lit Hub, The Adroit Journal, New Ohio Review, The Rumpus, Rattle, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She received a special mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology. She co-founded an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Prisons, Jails, and the Juvenile Hall. She lives in Santa Cruz, California. More at: nancymillergomez.com.

Lynda V. E. Crawford is a poet, born and raised in Barbados. She has lived on both coasts of the US (Connecticut and California). A Pushcart Prize nominee (2022, 2024), her work has appeared in national and international online and print journals including Prairie Schooner, ArtsEtc Barbados, The Caribbean Writer, The Galway Review, The Bookends Review, Moonstone Arts Center anthologies (various), Extinction Rebellion Creative Hub, California Quarterly, and Exposition Review. The lilt of the Caribbean often permeates her poems. Crawford is a graduate of The University of Connecticut (Bachelors) and Long Island University (United Nations Graduate Certificate) (Masters). She is the author of Washing Water, an October 2024 poetry collection published by World Stage Press.

Lynne Thompson was Los Angeles’ 2021-22 Poet Laureate and is a Poet Laureate Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. She is the author of Blue on a Blue Palette, Beg No Pardon; Start With A Small Guitar; and, Fretwork. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Thompson is the recipient of multiple awards including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles, the Tucson Literary Festival Poetry Prize, and the Steven Dunn Poetry Prize as well as fellowships from the Summer Literary Series to study in Kenya and the Vermont Studio Center. An attorney by training, Thompson sits on the Boards of The Poetry Foundation, Cave Canem, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. In June of 2022, she completed her four-year service as Chair of the Board of Trustees at Scripps College, her alma mater. Thompson’s recent work can be found or is forthcoming in the literary journals Best American Poetry 2020, Kenyon Review, The Common, The Massachusetts Review, and Copper Nickel, and the anthology Beat Not Beat, among others.

Livestream: If you can’t join us in-person the event will be livestreamed on Beyond Baroque’s YouTube channel at the scheduled time of the event.

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