Nicky Beer visits 51ÁÔÆæ as part of the Creative Writing program’s visiting writer series.<\/p>\n
Craft Talk @ 3 pm – to livestream: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/47xam2et<\/p>\n
Reading @ 7 pm – to livestream: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mr3tdhx7<\/p>\n
Nicky is a bi\/queer writer, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022), winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. She has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Poetry Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference. She has also led workshops, craft classes, and craft talks for the Indiana University Writers\u2019 Conference, the Minnesota Northwoods
\nWriters Conference, the Yale Young Writers\u2019 Workshop, and more. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where she is a poetry editor for Copper Nickel.<\/p>\n
Her latest book of poems is “Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes.”
\nWhat is illusion\u2014a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem\u2014the truth, or \u201ca diverting flash, \/ a mirror showing everything \/ but itself\u201d?
\nNicky Beer\u2019s latest collection of poems is a labyrinthine academy specializing in the study of subterfuge; Marlene Dietrich, Dolly Parton, and Batman are its instructors. With an energetic eye, she thumbs through our collective history books\u2014and her personal one, too\u2014in an effort to chart the line between playful forms of duplicity and those that are far more insidious.<\/p>\n
Through delicious japery, poems that can be read multiple ways, and allusions ranging from Puccini\u2019s operas to Law & Order, Beer troubles the notion of truth. Often, we settle for whatever brand of honesty is convenient for us, or whatever is least likely to spark confrontation\u2014but this, Beer knows, is how we invite others to weigh in on what kind of person we are. This is how we trick ourselves into believing they\u2019re right. \u201cListen \/ to how quiet it is when I lose the self-doubt played \/ for so long I mistook it for music.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes” asks us to look through the stereoscope: which image is the real one? This one\u2014or this one, just here? With wisdom, humility, and a forthright tenderness, Nicky Beer suggests that we consider both\u2014together, they might contribute to something like truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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