erica lewis with Mark Stephen Finein & Cassandra Smith

will be reading on

Tuesday, September 29th at 7:30.

erica lewis is a fine arts publicist in san francisco where she curates the canessa gallery reading series. her work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue, Ur Vox, Shampoo, Little Red Leaves, Cricket Online Review, alice blue, BOOG CITY, Word For/Word, Work, and Try, among others. Chapbooks, collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein, include excerpts from camera obscura (Etherdome Press) and the precipice of jupiter (Queue Books).

Mark Stephen Finein earned his BFA from Buffalo State in 1986, specializing in surrealistic wood block printmaking, lithography, and 3D constructions. After a short stint as a graphic artist, he began performing, writing, and recording music, playing in the streets of Prague and in rock, blues, and folk clubs in Buffalo, San Francisco, Germany, England, and Wales. Now that he's shaken off the demon of representationalism, he's proud to be showing his visual artwork publicly for the first time in two decades. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue, Little Red Leaves, and BOOG CITY; chapbooks(collaborations with poet erica lewis) include excerpts from camera obscura (Etherdome Press) and the precipice of jupiter (Queue Books).

Cassandra Smith works as an assistant editor with Omnidawn Publishing and hosts the occasional Artifact Reading Series in her large and intricate dollhouse. She focuses on visual/three-dimensional poetics and laughing. Work doesn't appear often, but she has recently finished a manuscript titled "being when wendy." She lives in Oakland.