Goat, Goddess, Moon: Poetry with Catherine Strisik & Karen Kevorkian

Beyond Baroque hosts a reading with poet Catherine Strisik celebrating her new collection Goat, Goddess, Moon (Holy Cow! Press, 2025), alongside Los Angeles poet Karen Kevorkian. Strisik’s poems move between the everyday and the mythic, drawing on Greek culture, family history, and ritual to explore memory, loss, and connection. Kevorkian is the author of Here in My Body it Feels Crowded (2025), joining for an evening of poetry in The Wanda Coleman Theater. Book signings & reception to follow.

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

About the authors:

Catherine Strisik is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Goat, Goddess, Moon (2025 Holy Cow! Press), and one chapbook. Her honors include a New Mexico/Arizona Book Award (The Mistress: 2016 3: A Taos Press); and finalist citations for the Philip Levine Book Award, Two Sylvia’s Press Book Award, Elixir Press Book Award, and New Mexico/Arizona Book Award.  She is co-founder, publisher, and editor of Taos Journal of Poetry, former poet laureate of Taos, New Mexico (2020-21), as well as the recipient of a Taoseña Award as Woman of Impact for her many decades of literary contribution in northern N.M. Strisik is a Pushcart nominee with over 38 years of publications with poetry translated into Greek, Persian, and Bulgarian. She divides her time between Cape Ann and Taos, offering editorial consultations for essayists and poets and facilitates both private and small group poetry workshops. www.cathystrisik.com

Karen Kevorkian is an American poet based in Los Angeles. Her fourth poetry collection is Here in My Body it Feels Crowded, a chapbook (Walton Well Press, 2025). Her other poetry collections are Quivira (Three: A Taos Press, 2020), Lizard Dream (What Books Press, 2009), and White Stucco Black Wing (Red Hen Press, 2004). A native of San Antonio, Texas, Kevorkian attended the University of Texas in Austin before moving to San Francisco. She later earned an MFA at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She has taught poetry and fiction writing workshops in the English department of the University of California Los Angeles. She is a founding member of the Glass Table Artists Collective and a former board of trustees member of Beyond Baroque literary arts organization. Her poems are published in the journals New American Review, Four Way Review, Furious Pure, Laurel Review, Verse Daily, Taos Journal of Poetry, Antioch Review, and elsewhere. Her fiction is published in Fiction International, Five Fingers Review, Furious Fictions, and Mississippi Review.

About Beyond Baroque

Beyond Baroque is one of the United States' leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public's knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968 as an experimental literary magazine, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings and workshops. The building also houses a bookstore with a large collection of new poetry books for sale.

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