Todd Swindell and Steve Dalachinsky: A Collage Mail Art Correspondence

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.

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.