Nicky Beer’s The Octopus Game Poetry Reading & Book Signing | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

To celebrate the publication of The Octopus Game, Nicky Beer will read her poetry and do a book signing. The event is free and open to the public — all are welcome.

Nicky Beer is the author of The Octopus Game (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2015) and The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon, 2010), winner of the 2010 Colorado Book Award for Poetry. She has received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Louis Untermeyer Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Discovery/The Nation award. She has degrees from Yale University, the University of Houston, and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her poems, fiction, nonfiction, and reviews have been published in Best American Poetry, AGNI, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, The Nation, Nerve, New Orleans Review, Pleiades, Poetry, The Washington Post and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where she co-edits the journal Copper Nickel, and she is married to the poet Brian Barker.

Sandra Yagi, the creator of the book’s cover image, be releasing a print edition of Octoskull in conjunction with the event. Explore her work at http://www.sandrayagi.com/

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