# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Golden Mean: A Reading Series at Beyond Baroque - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 09:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a night of poetry and prose with writers based in Los AngelesAbout this EventJoin us for the return of The Golden Mean, a quarterly reading series that brings together poets from the University of Southern California's PhD in Creative Writing & Literature program with other notable poets from Los Angeles and beyond.Featuring Nick Martino, Austen Leah Rose, Amanda Scharf, Thomas Renjili, curated and hosted by Matthew Gellman.Following the readings, be sure to join us for a reception & book signings.Doors Open: 7:00 PM I Readings: 7:30 PMMatthew 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.Austen Leah Rose is the author of Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm which won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press. Her poems have appeared in The Sewanee Review, Narrative, The Iowa Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the University of Southern California where she is currently a Dornsife Fellow.Amanda Maret Scharf is the author of To Make a Bell Ring Back, winner of the 2025 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry (forthcoming, spring 2027) and coauthor of the collaborative chapbooks, Metal House of Cards (Finishing Line Press) and Astral Gaze (dancing girl press, forthcoming). Her poems can be found in Narrative, Poetry Northwest, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She teaches at USC and lives in Los Angeles with her wife and their dog, Silver.Thomas Renjilian is a fiction writer and poet from Scranton, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Vassar College, he received his MFA from Oregon State University and is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. His stories and poems appear in The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, Denver Quarterly, Electric Literature, and other publications. He edits fiction for Joyland Magazine and lives in Los Angeles.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.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.This is a free event, but please note seating is limited. 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/the-golden-mean-a-reading-series-at-beyond-baroque/100001978663295180 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Sports, Entertainment, Workshops, performances, virtual - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fthe-golden-mean-a-reading-series-at-beyond-baroque-tickets-1978663295180 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, 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 Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Beyond Baroque Literary | Arts Center (https://allevents.in/org/beyond-baroque-literary-|-arts-center/22544185) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/1d596b87d7101cc4b2a78805027e07f09a7016fc28cd89695325e9492666a1d7-rimg-w1200-h600-dc9f1111-gmir.jpg?v=1771040050 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/07a65c3d217b646da8dd58e5a73766c0032e765afd87feb5edd424e16ed7dee2-rimg-w400-h400-dc980707-gmir.jpg?v=1771040050 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Beyond Baroque Literary | Arts Center - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, literary-art, Sports, Entertainment, Workshops, performances, virtual - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Golden Mean: A Reading Series at Beyond Baroque ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The Golden Mean: A Reading Series at Beyond Baroque", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/1d596b87d7101cc4b2a78805027e07f09a7016fc28cd89695325e9492666a1d7-rimg-w1200-h600-dc9f1111-gmir.jpg?v=1771040050", "startDate": "2026-02-20", "endDate": "2026-02-20", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/the-golden-mean-a-reading-series-at-beyond-baroque/100001978663295180", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "681 Venice Blvd", "postalCode": "90291", "addressLocality": "Los Angeles", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "33.9962144", "longitude": "-118.46887759999998" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for a night of poetry and prose with writers based in Los Angeles", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-20", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/the-golden-mean-a-reading-series-at-beyond-baroque/100001978663295180" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/los-angeles/the-golden-mean-a-reading-series-at-beyond-baroque/100001978663295180", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/beyond-baroque-literary-|-arts-center/22544185", "description": "Beyond Baroque is one of the United States' leading independent Literary/Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to literary and cultural production, contact, interaction, and community building. 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