Events

Poets Stephen Ratcliffe, Erica Lewis, and Benjamin Perez will read. Join us in welcoming these three renowned poets and in celebrating National Poetry Month at Pegasus Downtown. Stephen Ratcliffe’s Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet has just been published by Counterpath Press. REAL, 474 pages written in 474 consecutive days, was published by Avenue B in 2007.  Previous books include Portraits & Repetition (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) and SOUND / (system) (Green Integer, 2002). He lives in Bolinas and teaches at Mills College in Oakland. Erica Lewis is a fine arts publicist in San Francisco, where she curated the Canessa Gallery Reading Series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue, New American Writing, Little Red Leaves, Parthenon West Review, Ur Vox, Shampoo, Critiphoria, Cricket Online Review, alice blue, BOOG CITY, Word For/Word, Work, and Try, among others.  Her book, Camera Obscura is published by BlazeVox Books. Benjamin Perez teaches American Literature at Expression College for Digital Arts. He earned his BA in Religious Studies at UC Berkeley and went on to complete an advanced degree in Folklore at UCLA. His poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in various publications, including Watchword, Sacramento News and Review (SN&R), Cricket Online Review (COR), and Ishmael Reed’s Konch. He is the author of The Evil Queen: A Pornolexicology (Spuyten Duyvil) and CUNTIONARY/Repent at Your Leisure (BlazeVOX).