Steve Dalachinsky & Jim Leftwich

5 visual poems

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steve dalachinsky was born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared extensively in journals on & off line including: Big Bridge, Milk, Unlikely Stories, Xpressed, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, Xtant, Blue Beat Jacket, N.Y. Arts Magazine, 88 and Lost and Found Times. He is included in such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He has written liner notes for the CDs of many artists including Anthony Braxton, Charles Gayle, James "Blood" Ulmer, Rashied Ali, Roy Campbell, Matthew Shipp and Roscoe Mitchell. His 1999 CD, Incomplete Direction (Knitting Factory Records), a collection of his poetry read in collaboration with various musicians, such as William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Thurston Moore (SonicYouth), & Vernon Reid (Living Colour) has garnered much praise. His most recent chapbooks include Musicology (Editions Pioche, Paris 2005), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective 2003), Lautreamont's Laments (Furniture Press 2005), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse 2005), St. Lucie (King of Mice Press 2005), Are We Not MEN & Fake Book (2 books of collage - 8 Page Press 2005) & Dream Book (Avantcular Press 2005). His books include A Superintendent's Eyes (Hozomeen Press 2000) and the PEN Award-winning The Final Nite (complete notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook, Ugly Duckling Presse 2006). His latest CD is Phenomena of Interference, a collaboration with pianist Matthew Shipp (Hopscotch Records 2005).He has read throughout the N.Y. area, the U.S., Japan and Europe, including France and Germany.

Jim Leftwich is the author of Dirt, Doubt, Sample Example, The Textasifsuch, Pulsing Swarms & Squiggly Diagonals, The Canard, Shrimp Teeth, Trashpo and Art Bang. Collaborative works include Sound Dirt, with John M. Bennett, Acts, with John Crouse, Telephone Poles, with Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, and Shadowed Truth, with Andrew Topel. He is the editor of the print magazines Juxta and Xtant (1994 – 2005), & since 2005 the editor of the blog zine Textimagepoem. Some links -- mail artists & visual poets: http://www.flickr.com/photos/textimagepoetry/sets/; collaborative videos (with jukka-pekka kervinen): http://videopoems.blogspot.com/; open scores (with jukka-pekka kervinen): http://openscores.blogspot.com; downloadable pdfs from vugg books: http://vuggbooks.randomflux.info/; archives: http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/avantfind.php.