INFLUX COLLECTIV welcomes DISSONANCE PRESS and its first publication

 UNDER THE BELLY OF THE BEAST

Friday, February 28, 7:30 pm 

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center  FREE

“Moving, searing, gorgeous—a brash, dreamy, and impeccably crafted collection that announces new authors, a new press, a new world for books as we know them.”

—Casey Plett, author of Little Fish and A Safe Girl to Love

LOS ANGELES, CA, February 28th 2020—LA’s freshest free monthly queer poetry reading series, Influx Collectiv, welcomes Dissonance Press to celebrate Dissonance’s groundbreaking first anthology, Under The Belly of the Beast   The release party will be at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center (681 Venice Blvd, Venice, California 90291) and will include readings by LA-based award-winning queer poets Ryka Aoki, Cori Bratby-Rudd, Féi Hernandez, Christine Imperial, and Hank Henderson. 

Dissonance Press fosters modes of writing that creatively stress collaboration, serialization, and creation of shared narrative, as well as overlooked genres, such as prayer books, photo albums, quilts, cookbooks and letters. It is a program of Beyond Baroque Literary Foundation. 

Copies of the book will be available at the show, as well as a raffle featuring some of the best of LA’s queer businesses, as well as two tickets to Cirque du Soleil’s latest show, “Volta.” Please come and witness a night of ingenuity and brilliance from writers whose cultural, religious, economic, and social positions made it difficult or impossible to create work within traditional literary forms.

For more information, please visit: Influxcollectiv.org and dissonancepress.com or email Cori Bratby-Rudd at Influxcollectiv@gmail.com.