Poetry Open Mic Featuring Daniel Nester

A featured poet(s) reads for 20 minutes. Featured poets are booked by host Carol Graser. Generally, our features are established, published poets and/or have made significant public contributions to the regional poetry scene.

Daniel Nester is a poet, nonfiction writer, teacher, and editor. His most recent book is Harsh Realm: My 1990s, a collection of poems. Previous books include Shader, a memoir; How to Be Inappropriate, a collection of humorous nonfiction; and The Incredible Sestina Anthology, which he edited; and the poetry collection The History of My World Tonight.  His writing has appeared in New York Times, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Bennington Review, Court Green, and other places and has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Now Write! Nonfiction, The Best Creative Nonfiction, and Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll. He is editor of Pine Hills Review and for 18 years was a professor of English at The College of Saint Rose.