LA Times Festival of Books
University of Southern California
Poetry Stage
Los Angeles, CA 90089
United States
Tickets available April 17th. Details here!
Visit the LA Times Festival of Books’ poetry stage for Nicky Beer’s reading from Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes. More details 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.
Poetry
What is illusion—a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem—the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself”?