# Event Details - **Event Name**: Double Book Launch: Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 30 Oct, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Fri, 30 Oct, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: An evening of poetry and non-fiction at Beyond BaroqueAbout this EventJoin us for an evening celebrating new books by Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman in The Wanda Coleman Theater at Beyond Baroque.Robert Hass’s A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World, published by Copper Canyon Press, traces a literary and ecological lineage through poets, writers, landscapes, and traditions. In A Third Commonness, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography—from Zen Buddhism to California ecopoetics, from Barry Lopez to Walt Whitman, and even through an unlikely fellowship between Kentucky poet-priests. Told through essays and lectures, A Third Commonness is as much a love letter to landscape as it is a sprawling exploration of poetic heritage.Brenda Hillman’s Still House in the Desert: An Eco-Contemplation, published in the Wesleyan Poetry Series, brings together meditations on time, domestic spaces, childhood, family, and non-human life. Each of Brenda Hillman’s books has been transformative for her readers, and her twelfth collection is no exception. Building on previous volumes about seasons, days and minutes, Hillman concludes her masterful quartet about time with an ecological journey into a family home of the mid-twentieth century.Doors Open: 7:00 PM I Readings: 7:30 PMAbout the authorsRobert Hass—poet, critic, and teacher—is one of the most renowned figures of modern American literature, serving as the poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. In 2007, he was awarded the National Book Award and shared the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005. Hass is also the author of Field Guide (1972), Praise (1979), Twentieth Century Pleasures (1984), and A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry (2018), among other works. He has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Saint Mary’s College of California, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a distinguished professor in poetry and poetics until his retirement in 2019.Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona, and has been an active part of the Bay Area literary community since 1975. She has published chapbooks with Penumbra Press, a+bend press, EmPress, A Minus Press, and Albion Books and is the author of twelve full-length collections from Wesleyan University Press, the most recent of which are In a Few Minutes Before Later (2022), Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013), which received the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and Extra Hidden Life, among the Days (2018), winner of the Northern California Book Award.About Beyond BaroqueBeyond 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.Livestream: If you can’t join us in person the event will be livestreamed on at the scheduled time of the event. If you are tuning in this way, no ticket purchase is necessary.If you are attending in person, ticket purchase is required. Tickets will be available at the Beyond Baroque bookstore on the day of the event, but we recommend registering in advance through Eventbrite. Masks are encouraged while inside our center. Please arrive early.Event attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, staff, fellow attendees, or performers. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/double-book-launch-robert-hass-and-brenda-hillman/100002002178066494 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, workshops, it, health-wellness, entertainment, virtual, meditation, kentucky-derby - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 11.49, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Los Angeles - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center - **lat**: 33.9962144 - **long**: -118.46887759999998 - **full address**: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Double Book Launch: Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/ba693167921eb4f5a0b02fcfcdd90764161f0cf9b597053ba6af3469db7c4d61-rimg-w1200-h600-dc882828-gmir.jpg?v=1790397976 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Double Book Launch: Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman being held? - **A:** Double Book Launch: Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman takes place on Fri, 30 Oct, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Fri, 30 Oct, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Double Book Launch: Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman? - **A:** Double Book Launch: Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman is organized by Beyond Baroque Literary | Arts Center. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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