Heidi Seaborn, Erin Marie Lynch, Matthew Gellman, & Nick Martino

Join us for a celebratory reading featuring new and selected work by poets Heidi Seaborn, Erin Marie Lynch, Matthew Gellman, & Nick Martino.

Both "memoir and protest", tic tic tic elevates the tension between the urgency of the moment and history's expanse, between an individual's response and the inevitable legacy of collective generations. tic tic tic is a clear-eyed lyric take on the chaos of our times, and an affirmation of the human spirit. In a special format, tic tic tic offers poetry for the soul and 23 beautiful and stunning black and white photographs that tell their own story. This is a poetry collection to read, to share and display.

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

About the authors

Heidi Seaborn is the author of Marilyn: Essays & Poems (Collector’s Edition of An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe) (2022) and Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do} (2019). She is the winner of The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize and has won or been shortlisted for over sixty literary awards or recognitions. She holds degrees from Stanford University and New York University and serves as executive editor of The Adroit Journal. Author photo © Kelsey Chance .

Erin Marie Lynch is the author of Removal Acts (Graywolf Press, October 2023). Her poems appear in POETRY, New England Review, DIAGRAM, Narrative, Poetry Daily, Best New Poets, and other publications. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Indigenous Nations Poets, and the Hugo House. She was born and raised in Oregon; she is a direct descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She lives in Los Angeles.

Matthew Gellman's first book, Beforelight, was selected by Tina Chang as the winner of BOA Editions, Ltd.'s A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His second book, The Understudy, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2027. Matthew has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Brooklyn Poets, Adroit's Djanikian Scholars Program, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Indiana Review, The Common, Lambda Literary's Poetry Spotlight, and other publications. He is currently a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.

Nick Martino is a poet and teacher from Milwaukee. His debut poetry collection “Scrap Book” (Alice James Books) won the 2024 Alice James Editors’ Choice Award and will be published in 2026. His poems are published or forthcoming from Ploughshares, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Poetry Daily, Ninth Letter, The Boston Review, and The Southern Review, among others. A finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where he received the 2022 Excellence in Poetry Prize. He lives in LA.

About 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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