Flying Home – Steve Dalachinsky and Sig Bang Schmidt
Steve Dalachinsky was a New York poet (1946-2019) born in Brooklyn. His extensive work between poetry and jazz work has appeared in countless journals the world over including Big Bridge, Milk, Tribes, Unlikely Stories, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, The Brooklyn Review, and many more. He was included in such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment, Up is Up But So is Down: NYU Downtown Literary Anthology, and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. His poetry books include Reaching into the Unknown (2009), Insomnia Poems (2009), Invasion of the Animal People (2010), The Mantis: collected poems for Cecil Taylor 1966-2009 (2011/12), Trust Fund Babies (2012), The Veiled Doorway & St. Lucie (2012), Long Play E.P. ( 2012), and A Superintendent’s Eyes (2013). His audio CD compilations include Incomplete Direction (1999), The Bill Has Been Paid (2013) and The Fallout of Dreams (2013). His recognitions include the 2007 Josephine Miles PEN National Book Award and was nominated for a PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2013, Steve Dalachinsky was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.
Sig Bang Schmidt was born in 1958 in Hockenheim, Germany, and lives and works as an independent artist between Berlin and Vienna. Originally a student of physics, Sig Bang Schmidt has expressed a passion for the nature of reality through diverse works of science and art. He has contributed to several group exhibitions in New York, Berlin, and Vienna including Decision Reserved at the New York Law School in 1995, Artists help children in the Emporium Berlin in 2002, WWI with the Northport Historical Society in New York in 2003, À la Guerre comme à la Guerre - Mail Art at the Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza in Vicenza, Italy in 2004, as well as the 2009 Marginal Art Festival of Mail Art Responses to Trench Art, featuring artists from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. These themes of war, change and progress also shine through in his solo exhibitions, such as Change of the Century at the Galerie Artificium in Berlin in 1992, The Joyful Science at the Galerie Bremer in Berlin in 2000, War Works... at Wallywoods Gallery in Berlin in 2005, and “48 Hours of Neukölln - work in progress“ with the Agentur Bildende Kunst in Berlin.
Steve Dalachinsky was a New York poet (1946-2019) born in Brooklyn. His extensive work between poetry and jazz work has appeared in countless journals the world over including Big Bridge, Milk, Tribes, Unlikely Stories, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, The Brooklyn Review, and many more. He was included in such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment, Up is Up But So is Down: NYU Downtown Literary Anthology, and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. His poetry books include Reaching into the Unknown (2009), Insomnia Poems (2009), Invasion of the Animal People (2010), The Mantis: collected poems for Cecil Taylor 1966-2009 (2011/12), Trust Fund Babies (2012), The Veiled Doorway & St. Lucie (2012), Long Play E.P. ( 2012), and A Superintendent’s Eyes (2013). His audio CD compilations include Incomplete Direction (1999), The Bill Has Been Paid (2013) and The Fallout of Dreams (2013). His recognitions include the 2007 Josephine Miles PEN National Book Award and was nominated for a PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2013, Steve Dalachinsky was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.
Sig Bang Schmidt was born in 1958 in Hockenheim, Germany, and lives and works as an independent artist between Berlin and Vienna. Originally a student of physics, Sig Bang Schmidt has expressed a passion for the nature of reality through diverse works of science and art. He has contributed to several group exhibitions in New York, Berlin, and Vienna including Decision Reserved at the New York Law School in 1995, Artists help children in the Emporium Berlin in 2002, WWI with the Northport Historical Society in New York in 2003, À la Guerre comme à la Guerre - Mail Art at the Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza in Vicenza, Italy in 2004, as well as the 2009 Marginal Art Festival of Mail Art Responses to Trench Art, featuring artists from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. These themes of war, change and progress also shine through in his solo exhibitions, such as Change of the Century at the Galerie Artificium in Berlin in 1992, The Joyful Science at the Galerie Bremer in Berlin in 2000, War Works... at Wallywoods Gallery in Berlin in 2005, and “48 Hours of Neukölln - work in progress“ with the Agentur Bildende Kunst in Berlin.
Steve Dalachinsky was a New York poet (1946-2019) born in Brooklyn. His extensive work between poetry and jazz work has appeared in countless journals the world over including Big Bridge, Milk, Tribes, Unlikely Stories, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, The Brooklyn Review, and many more. He was included in such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment, Up is Up But So is Down: NYU Downtown Literary Anthology, and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. His poetry books include Reaching into the Unknown (2009), Insomnia Poems (2009), Invasion of the Animal People (2010), The Mantis: collected poems for Cecil Taylor 1966-2009 (2011/12), Trust Fund Babies (2012), The Veiled Doorway & St. Lucie (2012), Long Play E.P. ( 2012), and A Superintendent’s Eyes (2013). His audio CD compilations include Incomplete Direction (1999), The Bill Has Been Paid (2013) and The Fallout of Dreams (2013). His recognitions include the 2007 Josephine Miles PEN National Book Award and was nominated for a PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2013, Steve Dalachinsky was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.
Sig Bang Schmidt was born in 1958 in Hockenheim, Germany, and lives and works as an independent artist between Berlin and Vienna. Originally a student of physics, Sig Bang Schmidt has expressed a passion for the nature of reality through diverse works of science and art. He has contributed to several group exhibitions in New York, Berlin, and Vienna including Decision Reserved at the New York Law School in 1995, Artists help children in the Emporium Berlin in 2002, WWI with the Northport Historical Society in New York in 2003, À la Guerre comme à la Guerre - Mail Art at the Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza in Vicenza, Italy in 2004, as well as the 2009 Marginal Art Festival of Mail Art Responses to Trench Art, featuring artists from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. These themes of war, change and progress also shine through in his solo exhibitions, such as Change of the Century at the Galerie Artificium in Berlin in 1992, The Joyful Science at the Galerie Bremer in Berlin in 2000, War Works... at Wallywoods Gallery in Berlin in 2005, and “48 Hours of Neukölln - work in progress“ with the Agentur Bildende Kunst in Berlin.