Nicky Beer

Nicky Beer is the author of The Diminishing House (2010), which won the 2010 Colorado Book Award for Poetry. Her awards include a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a scholarship and a fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Discovery/The Nation Award, and a Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been published in Best American Poetry, The Washington Post, The Nation, Poetry, Kenyon Review and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where she co-edits the literary journal Copper Nickel.

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Schedule
 

THURSDAY

11:00-12:15
Reading and Conversation
Henri Cole, Nicky Beer, Nikky Finney
New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Victoria Theatre

12:30-1:45pm
Conversation: A Life Together
Brian Barker, Nicky Beer, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar
Chase Room
 

FRIDAY

9:30-10:30am
Conversation: On the Life of the Poet
Nicky Beer, Idra Novey, Arthur Sze
North Star Academy Great Room

10:50-11:50am
Festival Poet Readings
Nicky Beer, Eduardo C. Corral, Joseph Millar, Gregory Orr, Patricia Smith
Prudential Hall

12:10-1:10pm
Poets on Poetry
Nicky Beer, Brian Barker
North Star Academy Multi-Purpose Room
 

SATURDAY

1:30-2:40
Conversation: The Riches of Daily Life
Nicky Beer, Eduardo C. Corral, Jane Hirshfield
North Star Academy Great Room

3:00-4:10
Conversation: Going Public with Private Feelings
Nicky Beer, Richard Blanco, Sharon Dolin, Timothy Liu
Trinity & St. Philip’s Cathedral
 

SUNDAY

10:30-11:40
Conversation: Going Public with Private Feelings
Nicky Beer, Thomas Lux, Idra Novey, Gregory Orr
North Star Academy Great Room

12:00-1:10
Festival Poet Readings
Nicky Beer, Idra Novey, Gregory Pardlo, Arthur Sze
CAE Auditorium