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About Steve Dalachinsky

Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky (September 26, 1946 - September 16, 2019) was born in Brooklyn after the last big war and managed to survive lots of little wars.

His latest CDs are The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014) and ec(H)o-system with the French art-rock group, the Snobs (Bambalam 2015).

His most recent books include Where Night and Day Become One: The French Poems / A Selection 1983-2017 (208 great weather for MEDIA), Fools Gold (2014 feral press), flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015) and The Invisible Ray (Overpass Press – 2016) with artwork by Shalom Neuman.

a tribute to creeley — Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

boulevard ii / credit: de

1. moments in slow motion withdrawn like light life & their eventuality i can see clear rain thru this bitch day believe in still, a voidless piece … [Read more...]

Five poems and four collages by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

actual size collage (detail) - Steve Dalachinsky

the blood hustle   (more than a lb. of flesh) - “everything is somewhere else.” - for gregory corso @ perazzo funeral … [Read more...]

POET by Clark Coolidge, reviewed by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

Poet - Clark Coolidge

POET by Clark Coolidge / Pressed Wafer Press / 2018 Last spring I had the privilege of hearing Clark Coolidge read from his manuscript POET in San Francisco at Bird and Beckett to a capacity … [Read more...]

Two collages and a poem by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

Billie 3(detail) - Steve Dalachinsky collage

The BARD (A Perfect Day #2) (for Allen Ginsberg) the Bard is Dead yet 76 yr. old Marvin Shapiro "homeless" still walks around shouting "...Cyanide metal poisoning. Cyanide metal … [Read more...]

the leaves are changing

Steve Dalachinsky

steve dalachinsky poem

the leaves are changing somewhere outside brewster it’s rare that we leave new york the island but     here we’re moving with the changing leaves north on … [Read more...]

For Ted Joans: poems and a collage by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

Le Corbeau et Le Courbet – for Ted Joans (written at Café Le Roquet – Paris 1/30/06) today the light is so bright diffused light tracing det snoaj like a backward shadow @ the origin of the … [Read more...]

Liz Taylor’s Lovers – for Ted Joans

Steve Dalachinsky

credit: Eastman / public domain

he wants desperately to do different things he stretches out his arms & the leaves come to him he is a poet he puts out his american hands & grain grows from their fingertips like the … [Read more...]

Todd Swindell and Steve Dalachinsky: A Collage Mail Art Correspondence

Todd Swindell and Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky mail art collage (detail)

Poets Steve Dalachinsky (NY) and Todd Swindell (CA) have an ongoing postcard/collage correspondence spanning 3,000 miles and several years. Todd says: "Mail Art's rewards come not only from the … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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