Triple Book Celebration: Elline Lipkin, Patty Seyburn, & Lin Nelson Benedek

Join three LA poets as they launch their fall 2025 books of poetry: Elline Lipkin with Girl in a Forest (Trio House Press), Lin Nelson Benedek with Two Cats in the Yard, (Kelsay Books), and Patty Seyburn with Jukebox (What Books Press).

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

Elline Lipkin is a poet, nonfiction writer, and academic. She holds an MFA and a PhD in Creative Writing and for fifteen years was a Research Scholar with UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. Her first book, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press First Book Award. Part of the Seal Studies series, her second book, Girls' Studies, explores contemporary girlhood. Her third is Girl in a Forest, released in October 2025 by Trio House Press. A finalist for the AWP Kurt Brown prize, she has also been a mentor for Writer to Writer and served on the committee for the Kate & Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards. The Proem is her monthly Substack. For two years, she served her community as editor of the Altadena Poetry Review and Poet Laureate.

Patty Seyburn has published six books of poems: Jukebox (What Books Press, 2025), Threshold Delivery (Finishing Line Press, 2019); Perfecta (What Books Press, Glass Table Collective, 2014); Hilarity, (New Issues Press, 2009), Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State University Press, 2002) and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998). She earned a BS and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University, an MFA in Poetry from University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston. She is a professor at California State University, Long Beach, and was a 2024 Fulbright Scholar in Iasi, Romania. Featuring Jukebox, this collection moves from poems about music made by people to poems about music made by birds to poems that must live on their own music.

A third-generation Californian, Lin Nelson Benedek lives with her husband, Tom, in Altadena, and wrote these poems under the spell of wild flowers, orange blossoms and the San Gabriel Mountains. A longtime psychotherapist, Lin is passionate about the importance of human connection and believes in the power of poetry to heal, connect and enchant us. Lin earned her MFA in Writing at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. She has had poems published in numerous journals, in six anthologies and in four full-length collections: I Was Going to Be a Cowgirl (2017); When a Peacock Speaks to You in a Dream (2018); Singing Lessons (2020); and Two Cats in the Yard (2025), all published by Kelsay Books/Aldrich Press. Lin recently completed revisions on a memoir called Love-Starved Girl.

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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