Casey Cyr Gash is a visual artist, writer and musician.

Works include original paintings, drawings, lithographs and photographs. Casey is a songwriter and guitar player, also writing original poems, fiction and non-fiction, mostly with a spiritual quest in mind.

Casey’s published work includes music tracks and CDs: Phantom Moon, Shiva and Hello Butterfly by her publishing label Calque Cinema, born out of a love for unusual musical and literary collaborations. Tracks are also included on compilation CDs by Pop Rocket Records, Mystic Discs, New York Underground Music & Poetry Festival, Kentucky Blues.

Phantom Moon was recorded at Sorcerer Sound, NYC and mastered at Sony Music. Hello Butterfly was recorded and mastered by Polywog Recording Studio, NYC.

When not immersed in her notebooks, drawings and guitars, you could find Casey reading poetry or playing her music at little clubs in the East Village and SOHO in the 1990s.           

Two books were published by Hozomeen Press, including Metta Morpheus, 50 drawings 50 poems, and View From The Launch Pad, prose, poetry, drawings. Casey's other titles include Memory Bank, a screenplay, and she has contributed to critically acclaimed anthologies and zines.

Casey Cyr played her music solo or with musician friends around the city at Luna Lounge, NYC Lakeside Lounge, NYC Sidewalk Cafe, NYC, The Living Room, NYC Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NYC C-Note, NYC Rebar, NYC. She co-founded the New York Underground Music and Poetry Festival, and organized music and poetry events like one for the Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry NYC, was a CMJ Music Festival Participant, and HOWL Festival Participant.

Her first encounter with the poetry scene in NYC was by a chance meeting with Steve Dalachinsky in 1992, a poet who sold books near his apartment on Spring Street in SOHO. They became fast friends. Steve had the best out of print books published by New Directions by Kenneth Patchen and Henry Miller.

Casey first read poetry with David Amram in 1996 at Insomniacathon: Voices without Restraint at the Contemporary Arts Center and Howlin Wolf, New Orleans LA, organized by Ron Whitehead, and Historian Douglas Brinkley, and many times after, including at Beatfest 2002 with David Amram and Steve Earle at The Knitting Factory, NYC.

As collaborations flourished, Casey produced David Amram Poetry JAM, a labor of love over ten years that includes 39 tracks by New York and Connecticut Poets who were also published by Hozomeen Press, named after Hozomeen Peak in Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'. Each artist on the JAM had short-run art books published by Rich Martin, Hozomeen Press's founder. Artists Rich Martin, Steve Dalachinsky, Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth), Ron Whitehead, Albert Kausch and Casey Cyr each recorded 5 to 7 tracks with David Amram's spontaneous musical accompaniment, written on the spot in the studio.

We all met David Amram through the poetry scene, where he would often be playing his unique spontaneous jazz compositions with poets, as he did with his friend Jack Kerouac in the 1950s. David was Jack's original composer, and wrote music for historical masterpieces like Pull My Daisy and played with all the jazz greats.

Casey is still creating art and music under the watchful eye of her cat Theo, the most perfect audience anyone could have.