Friday June 16th, 2006
at Nexus Gallery

located at 137 N 2nd St (between Arch and Race)

Featuring:
JENA OSMAN (poet; Philadelphia)
ERIKA HOWSARE (poet & installation artist; Virginia)
BRIAN CRABTREE (sound & visual artist; Philadelphia)

JENA OSMAN's recent books of poetry include An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books) and The Character (Beacon Press). She teaches at Temple University , where she directs the graduate Creative Writing Program. She'll be presenting a powerpoint excerpt of "Public Figure" - a piece of bad tourism that looks at sculptures in Philadelphia that carry weapons.

ERIKA HOWSARE holds an MFA from Brown University. Her poetry, nonfiction and collaborations have appeared in Fence, the Denver Quarterly, Chain, the New Orleans Review, The Diagram, and H_NGM_N, among others. With poet Jen Tynes, she coedits horse less review; her chapbook "Elect June Grooms", appeared in 2004 from horse less press. Two recent book projects are a book-length work based on following the route of Lewis & Clark, and a book/installation based on walking across Rhode Island. She lives in Virginia.

BRIAN CRABTREE works with electronics and algorithms in musical-scientific exploration, with a focus on hardware interface design and electromechanical installation. Matrices of backlit buttons serve as a platform for systematic and improvisational deconstruction of found 70s symphonic records, jazz drumming, field recordings, and low tech machines. From these parameters emerge misfit cuts and shy noise; un/broken hip hop with strong visual performative correlation. He presently lives in Philadelphia, having studied at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of California, San Diego.