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photo by Jessica Raridon		 Daniel Nester grew up in Southern New Jersey, and graduated from Rutgers University's Camden campus. He has an MFA from New York University's creative writing program.

As a contributing editor of Painted Bride Quarterly, he was the project manager of the PBQ Online Archive Project. For three years he was the editor in chief of La Petite Zine. Currently, he is editor of the online journal Unpleasant Event Schedule.

In 2003, Soft Skull Press published God Save My Queen, a song-by-song, album-by-album collection of creative nonfiction and prose poetry that documents his lifelong obsession with the rock band Queen.

His poems have appeared in such places as Verse, Open City, Nerve, Slope, and The Best American Poetry 2003. He lives and teaches in Brooklyn, NY, and curates the reading series Karaoke + Poetry = Fun.
   

from the cover of God Save My Queen







 Selections from God Save My Queen, arranged in the order of the original UK import edition of Queen's Greatest Hits (Parlophone, 1981)


1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Another One Bites The Dust
3. Killer Queen
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. Bicycle Race
6. You're My Best Friend
7. Play The Game
8. Flash
9. Seven Seas Of Rhye
10.We Will Rock You
11. We Are The Champions
12. Don't Stop Me Now
13. Save Me
14. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
15. Somebody To Love
16. Now I'm Here
17. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy



[Grateful acknowledgment to the editors of the journals where these were previously published—Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Columbia Poetry Review, Narrativity, Nerve, Poetz.com, and Slope-- as well as Tom Hopkins for help in design of this page]

[From God Save My Queen by Daniel Nester ©2003 Daniel Nester reproduced by permission of Soft Skull Press, Inc.]