FrancEyE

francEyE aka Frances Dean Smith (March 19, 1922 - June 2, 2009), was an American poet.

Life
She was born Frances Elizabeth Dean, in San Rafael, California, on March 19, 1922. During her childhood her family moved to the East Coast, where she grew up.

She married Wray Smith while living on the East Coast and had four daughters. They were eventually divorced and she returned to California in 1963.

She was closely associated with the Southern California poetry community. She is also noted for her relationship with poet Charles Bukowski, with whom she had her fifth daughter and his only child, Marina Louise Bukowski. Charles Bukowski wrote a poem about Frances which has been used as a eulogy, "One for Old Snaggle-Tooth" (1977). She also had a beard.

She died from complications of a hip fracture in Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California, early on June 2, 2009.

Publications

 * Four Poets (Ruth Wire, Grace Bogart, Joanne Stell, S.S.Veri) (as "S.S. Veri").
 * Snaggletooth in Ocean Park. The Sacred Beverage Press, 1996.
 * Amber Spider. Pearl Press, 2004.

Fiction

 * Grandma Stories, short stories (with drawings by Tim Donnelly), 2008
 * Call, poems, 2009 (Rose of Sharon Press)

Film appearances

 * Bukowski: Born Into This (2003) Documentary on Charles Bukowski.
 * Graffiti Verité 6: "The Odyssey: Poets Passion & Poetry" (2006)