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20-451: George Drury Smith started publishing the magazine Beyond Baroque in 1968 from a storefront in Venice, which became a meeting place with workshops and space for readings, art, and music. Although 10,000 copies of the first issue were printed offset, subsequent issues were printed in-house using a four-color process. Later the magazines were printed on bound newsprint and distributed free. Over

40-567: A former deputy sheriff who quits the force after fourteen years because of his disapproval of a whitewashed homicide inquiry and runs a horse farm. He collected five novellas in his 1988 book Bohannon's Book (Countryman Press, 1988; paperback reprint, Penguin, 1989 [ ISBN   014012053X ). A sequel, also collecting five novellas, appeared in 1993 as Bohannon's Country (Penguin, 1993 ISBN   0670849421 ). In 1993, Hansen won another Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for Living Upstairs (1993). In addition to crime novels, Hansen wrote

60-594: A groundbreaking character in gay fiction and crime fiction. Hansen published eleven further books featuring Brandstetter, ending with A Country of Old Men in 1991. Hansen won the 1992 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, as well as a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery from the Lambda Literary Foundation for A Country of Old Men . Hansen created a second private investigator character, Hack Bohannon,

80-481: A half-back flanker initially, Mohr later became one of the league's greatest full-forwards; he kicked 101 goals in 1936 (the first St Kilda player to kick more than 100 goals in a season) and was the VFL Leading Goalkicker in that year. Mohr possessed an ability to kick straight from any angle, and he was one of the best exponents of the drop kick . He was appointed captain of St Kilda in 1937, and

100-539: A part of a folk music group, hosted a radio show called Homosexuality Today , and helped organize the first Gay Pride Parade in Hollywood. In 1970, Hansen published Fadeout , his first novel to be published under his own name. The novel also introduces his character Dave Brandstetter, an openly gay insurance investigator who still embodied the tough, no-nonsense personality of the classic hardboiled private investigator protagonist. Brandstetter has been cited as

120-659: A stroke. Following her death, Joseph Hansen wrote the poem The Dark/The Diary (In memoriam: J.B.H., 1917-1994) . The couple had one child, Barbara, who later transitioned and changed his name to Daniel James Hansen. According to a friend quoted in an obituary, Hansen also had two long-term male lovers. Hansen disliked the term "gay" and always described himself as "homosexual". Hansen died from heart failure in 2004 at his home in Laguna Beach, California . Bill Mohr VFL/AFL St Kilda Football Club Wilbur T. " Bill " Mohr (29 June 1909 – 29 March 1971)

140-948: The World Stage and other local organizations) and the Beyond Text Festival (with LACMA and others). Its annual event with the LA Poetry Festival , the Younger Poets , presents undiscovered poets from the Los Angeles region at the Downtown Central Library . The center has also curated and organized permanent public art projects highlighting Los Angeles poets, including the Poetry Walls on the Venice Boardwalk and

160-564: The age of nine; his first published work, a poem, appeared in The New Yorker , in 1952. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he had several part-time jobs in bookstores and magazines. He continued writing poetry for various magazines, one of which was ONE , the first pro-gay publication in the United States. In 1965, Hansen wrote his first novel Strange Marriage , published under the pseudonym "James Colton". He also briefly sang as

180-648: The band SPK , Patti Smith , James Tate , V Vale , who formed a tabloid format zine focusing on various counterculture and underground topics named RE/Search Publications documenting punk subculture, and CK Williams . Beyond Baroque archives and sells chapbooks, small press poetry and experimental fiction. Center series include experimental music, film screenings, and visual art, including the Les Femmes Underground International Film Festival. Other festivals organized by Beyond Baroque include World Beyond Festival (with

200-487: The center's reading series new levels of acclaim as artistic director in the 1980s. Other artists and writer who have served on staff include Amy Gerstler , Tosh Berman , and Richard Modiano. Quentin Ring serves as the organization's current executive director. In 1998, the center launched its own imprint, Beyond Baroque Books, dedicated to experimental and alternative writing and poetry in Los Angeles. Launched by Fred Dewey,

220-593: The center, and the cover of one of the early issues of Beyond Baroque , featuring several experimental filmmakers, was displayed in the Pompidou's 2006 show on Los Angeles art. The center's reading series, featuring over 200 writers a year, has featured writers including Amanda Gorman John Ashbery , Amiri Baraka , Raymond Carver , Jerry Casale of Devo , Wanda Coleman , Ed Dorn , Allen Ginsberg , Leland Hickman , Philip Levine , Lewis MacAdams , Viggo Mortensen , Harry Northup , Alice Notley , Graeme Revell from

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240-680: The imprint has published 14 books, including works by Ammiel Alcalay , Simone Forti, and Philomene Long, as well as anthologies from the Wednesday Workshop, the World Stage, and several art and literature magazines. Publications published at the center include Momentum Press , edited by Bill Mohr ; Little Caesar , edited by programs curator Dennis Cooper ; and a series edited by David Trinidad . 33°59′28″N 118°27′31″W  /  33.99111°N 118.45861°W  / 33.99111; -118.45861 Joseph Hansen (writer) Joseph Hansen (July 19, 1923 – November 24, 2004)

260-561: The lobby of the Junípero Serra State Office Building downtown. Since Smith, an experimental fiction writer, founded the center in 1968, the center's staff and board has typically included writers and artists. Beyond Baroque's first artistic director and the founder of its reading series was the novelist Jim Krusoe , a role subsequently occupied by Dennis Cooper . Fiction writer Benjamin Weissman brought

280-407: The more mainstream novel A Smile In His Lifetime (1981), a non-genre novel about a married gay man who achieves fame, divorces his wife, and heads into a string of homosexual relationships both good and bad. Another mainstream novel Job's Year , was published in 1983. He also wrote two suspense novels in the early 1980s, and two gothic novels in the 1970s under the pseudonym "Rose Brock". Hansen

300-403: The now-defunct Melbourne newspaper The Argus , wrote about Mohr that: [He] was handicapped because he played with a team that had few successes. He was a clever position player, grand trier, and a remarkably straight kick. In 1955, in an interview with The Argus , former South Melbourne champion Laurie Nash echoed similar sentiments about Mohr: Bill Mohr was hampered by playing with

320-556: The years, the workshops have been attended by numerous well-known Los Angeles writers and poets, including founders Joseph Hansen and John Harris , Leland Hickman , Bob Flanagan , John Thomas , Will Alexander , Philomene Long , and Simone Forti . The center's first librarian was Exene Cervenka of the band X , who formed after Cervenka and John Doe met at the Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop. Some of LA artist Mike Kelley 's first performances were at

340-636: Was an Australian rules footballer who represented St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1930s. Mohr was born and raised in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales where he attended school at Wagga Demonstration and Wagga High schools. He played at Federal Football Club with his brother where his father was president before being recruited with his brother to the St Kilda Football Club . Playing as

360-619: Was an American crime writer and poet , best known for a series of novels featuring private eye Dave Brandstetter. Hansen was born on July 19, 1923, in Aberdeen, South Dakota . His father owned a shoe store in Aberdeen, but it closed during the Great Depression . When Hansen was ten, the family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota ; later, the family moved to Altadena, California , where a sister lived. Hansen had begun writing at

380-529: Was married to artist Jane Bancroft, a lesbian , from 1943 to her death in 1994. He said their relationship was that of "a gay man and a woman who happened to love each other." They were married for 51 years. Bancroft was an artist, scholar and teacher. She was born in Boston on February 4, 1917, and grew up in El Paso. She was an animal lover and rescued and sheltered strays. She died on September 9, 1994, following

400-482: Was the club's leading goalkicker in every season from 1929 to 1940. It was announced that at the start of his final season, 1941 , he would play in defence. But in May that year, after having only played one game for the season, Mohr announced his retirement, saying that he felt he could not reach form and that it was also time to make way for a younger player. In 1947, Essendon champion Dick Reynolds , in an article for

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