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About Todd Swindell

A close friend of Beat poet Harold Norse, Todd Swindell was responsible for preparing Norse's archives for the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. He is the editor of I Am Going to Fly Through Glass: Selected Poems of Harold Norse (Talisman House 2014) and posts regularly at haroldnorse.com

During the 1990s, Swindell was a member of the direct-action AIDS protest group ACT UP San Francisco. He documents the group's history at the blog ACT UP Archives.

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.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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