Blacksmith House
56 Brattle St
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
IN-PERSON. Admission is $3 | Please register in advance.
Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. Join Nicky Beer and Michael Collier on May 2nd for a reading from their new collections. Admission is $3. Please register in advance.
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”?