Sat May 2, 2015
Nicky Beer's THE OCTOPUS GAME: San Francisco reading & print release
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Highly intelligent and a master of camouflage, the octopus is a creature destined to thrive in the poetic ecosystem. In The Octopus Game, the figure of the octopus shape-shifts and reinvents itself throughout ocean depths, tide pools, aquariums, gardens, movies, pulp novels, fine art, and nightmares. Nicky Beer acts as the strange documentarian recording the bizarre, beautiful, and disturbing habits of creatures for whom subterfuge and mimicry are a means of survival.
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.
Explore more works by Nicky Beer: http://nickybeer.com/
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/
Learn more about Bash Contemporary Gallery: http://www.bashcontemporary.com/
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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.
Explore more works by Nicky Beer: http://nickybeer.com/
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/
Learn more about Bash Contemporary Gallery: http://www.bashcontemporary.com/
Highly intelligent and a master of camouflage, the octopus is a creature destined to thrive in the poetic ecosystem. In The Octopus Game, the figure of the octopus shape-shifts and reinvents itself throughout ocean depths, tide pools, aquariums, gardens, movies, pulp novels, fine art, and nightmares. Nicky Beer acts as the strange documentarian recording the bizarre, beautiful, and disturbing habits of creatures for whom subterfuge and mimicry are a means of survival.
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.
Explore more works by Nicky Beer: http://nickybeer.com/
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/
Learn more about Bash Contemporary Gallery: http://www.bashcontemporary.com/
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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.
Explore more works by Nicky Beer: http://nickybeer.com/
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/
Learn more about Bash Contemporary Gallery: http://www.bashcontemporary.com/
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