Voices Against Big Oil: Poets and Musicians Mixing it Up

Join Beyond Baroque for a night of action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster with poets Jawana Dumisani, Luis Javier Rodriguez, Lewis MacAdams, Liz Gonzalez, Terri Carrion, Randy Cauthen, Michael Rothenberg and musicians Bob Malone (piano), Jeff Dellisanti (sax), Richard Grant (trumpet), and Trevor Ware (bass).

All proceeds got to The Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a 501(c)(3) environmental health and justice organization. Check out their website here: www.labucketbrigade.org

Liz Gonzalez's work has appeared in numerous journals, periodicals, and anthologies and will be in the forthcoming anthology Blame the Ugly Mug: Ten Years of Two Idiots Peddling Poetry. She facilitates creative writing workshops at community centers and teaches writing at Long Beach City College and creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.

Jawanza Dumisani is Director of Literary Programming at The World Stage, a PEN Fellow and recipient of the 2004-2005 PEN Award; his collection, Stoetry, is available from FarStarFire Press.

Lewis MacAdams is a poet, journalist, filmmaker, and founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River. The River, Books 1,2, & 3 were published recently by Blue Press. He is also the author of Birth of The Cool. His most recent Blue Press book is Lyrics.

Terri Carrion was conceived in Venezuela, born in New York to a Galician mother and a Cuban Father, and raised in Los Angeles and Miami. Her poetry, prose and photography has appeared and disappeared in various publications.

Randy Cauthen is Poet-in-Residence at Cal State Dominguez Hills and the author of three books: The Use of Force (poetry), Black Letters: An Ethnography of Legal Writing (nonfiction) and the forthcoming Stealing Your Death (poetry).

Luis Javier Rodriguez  is a published poet, novelist, short story writer, memoirist and columnist. He's also founder of Tia Chucha Press and cofounder of Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural in the Northeast San Fernando Valley.

Michael Rothenberg is editor of Big Bridge magazine. He is the author of the eco-spy thriller Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press). His most recent book of poems is My Youth As A Train (Foothills Publishing, 2010).

Bob Malone doesn't just accompany himself on piano. "He supports his singing with pulsating, roaring keyboard work that grabs you and shakes you until you cry for mercy."— Keyboard Magazine

Jeff Dellisanti: Professional woodwinds player. Owns and operates all his machinery.

Special Admission: $10.00. All proceeds go to the Louisiana Bucket Brigade.