Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
681 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90291
United States
IN-PERSON EVENT. Free and open to the public.
Join Beyond Baroque for a poetry reading with Nicky Beer and L.A. Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson, in celebration of Beer’s new collection Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes. Free & in-person. All attendees must show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination and an ID. Masks are required. Please RSVP here!
Nicky Beer
Nicky Beer is the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes. She is a bi/queer writer, and the author of two other collections of poems, The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House, both winners of the Colorado Book Award.
What is illusion—a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem—the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself”?