Beyond Baroque Live 2

by Mark Eleveld (Editor), Viggo Mortensen (Editor)

"Beyond Baroque Live 2," is a live recording of poetry, stories and music from a majestic November evening in the fabled Venice, California. This eclectic evening—the putting together of white-haired professors with iconoclastic emcee hip hop notables, with slammers, renown painters, journalists, Latino activists, actors, singer/songwriters-all poets—in front of over 300 strangers from Paris to Southern California, Boston to Colorado, Spain to Chicago, and Peoria, at the famed Beyond Baroque Literary Center, to form an evening of community honoring the important indie driven Midnight Special Bookstore and the release of the contemporary anthology of poetry, The Spoken Word Revolution. The two disc CD includes work Marvin Bell (Iowa Poet Laureate), Mike McGee (2003 National Poetry Slam Champion), Patricia Smith (author of Close to Death, nominee for the Pulitzer in journalism), Luis Rodriquez (author of Always Running, activist), Viggo Mortensen (author of The Horse Is Good, actor), Georgeanne Deen (author of Western Witch, Season of the, painter), Mark Eleveld (author of The Spoken Word Revolution), and perhaps the two best performance poets on the planet, Saul Williams (author of ,Said the Shotgun to the Head) and Regie Gibson (author of Storms Beneath the Skin) with musical accompaniment by John Condron. The CD is designed by Michelle Perez, and co-produced by Perceval Press. Total running time 85.18.

Audio CD

First published January 1, 2004