Award-winning poet Nicky Beer will kick off Seton Hall's fall semester Poetry-in-the-Round series with a free public reading Sept. 30.
Poet Nicky Beer will give the first reading for the fall semester Poetry-in-the-Round series at Seton Hall. SOUTH ORANGE -- Award-winning poet Nicky Beer will kick off Seton Hall's fall semester Poetry-in-the-Round series with a free public reading Sept. 30.
Beer's first book, "The Diminishing House," won the 2010 Colorado Book Award for Poetry, and her next book, "The Octopus Game," was described as "clever and arresting" by Publishers Weekly.
She received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Mary Wood Fellowship from Washington College, a Discovery/The Nation Award and a Campbell Corner Prize.
The reading will take place in the University Center Faculty Lounge at 7 p.m.
Seton Hall University is located at 400 South Orange Ave.
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