Nicky Beer's book of poems, The Diminishing House, will be published in 2010. Her work has been featured in Best American Poetry 2007, AGNI, The Nation, Nerve, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
I wonder, when a humorist writes a book not intended for laughs. When, say, the very funny satirist, Christopher Buckley, writes a memoir – say, Losing Mum and Pup –…
Forget Ecclesiastes. There is something new under the sun–and it appeared, like a shower of shooting stars, on April 15 at Carnegie Hall, a place not known for wild innovation.…