COLLABORATIONS call and respond to another artist's work. Influence creating influence, answering through a mirror, responding in a different form.  The artists on this page that I have collaborated with are part of the BEAT poetry and Romantic Beat movements and include California Beat Laureate Rich Ferguson, the late NYC poet Steve Dalanchinsky and artist Randee Silv of NYC.
RICH FERGUSON + KATHLEEN FLORENCE
poetry + images published in Otoliths 2020
KATHLEEN FLORENCE + RICH FERGUSON
images + poetry published in Arteidolia 2020
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Florida man
convicted of strangling common sense.

Florida man
arrested for building a meth lab
in an Applebee’s parking lot.

Florida man
tattoos Bozo on his cheek
in order to face
his fear of clowns.

Florida man
apprehended for making a sex tape
with himself
in Taco Bell drive-thru.

Florida man
sentenced to life
for trying to smuggle
the apocalypse across state lines.

Florida man
jailed for performing
botched and unnecessary castration surgery
on Ken doll in Walmart toy aisle.

Florida man
caught cultivating
he world’s smallest crop
of marijuana
on the head of a pin
where angels once danced.
Single Maligned Female
Maligned, misappropriated, torch-bearing woman seeks a loving relationship with a free-minded country, including all its tired, poor, and huddled immigrant masses. Must be benevolent, enlightened, and able to relocate to New York City area. Willing to overlook baldness, impotency, and certain STDs so long as you’re not an oppressive, egomaniacal tyrant, and are into plus-sized, copper-skinned women. Open to ethnic origin, religion, and sexual orientation so long as you’ve had no shady entanglements with the Kremlin. Turned on by truth dealers and justice seekers. Prefer false teeth over false democracy. Doxers, Twitter bots, internet trolls need not apply.
MAIL ART EXCHANGE STEVE DALANCHINSKY 2016 - 2019
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IMAGES above by Steve Dalanchinsky, NYC 2016 - 2019

IMAGES below by Kathleen Florence + Steve Dalanchinsky
Left: a response included in AIR Gallery, Dumbo, NY 2018 / Right: exchange top left Kathleen's response to Steve's work bottom right
RANDEE SILV + KATHLEEN FLORENCE
poetry and image exchange, 2018

2&2 Return
Images and Poetry PUBLISHED in ARTEIDOLIA, swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossing, Issue Number Two, Fall 2018:  http://www.arteidolia.com/kathleen-reichelt-randee-silv/
concealing: salted by sea, lost overboard tarred feathers tattered ropes vanish before appearing. exit lights never stop flashing. her head a rose. her body a peacock. she pinpoints the whats the whens the whys thinking the sky will take notice. predictions read faster than decoys. glances register louder than antennas. night journeys topple from ladders refusing retreat. omissions drag. the wind slams shut. rosy thorns age in frozen smoke chained to tablecloths. garbage trucks storm by. seats empty row after row. i keep shuffling the deck. dice twirl like a toy top.

Randee Silv
Leaning Into Grey, image: Kathleen Florence



dead-eye north: plates under spoons. blades turned in. counting cards on camper van counter dogs bark bored by moonless dreaming. in a hurry to piss on trees we laugh sending them outside. between our plates we make space. fortunes get told. suggestions affirmations complications smoothed by sooth saying visions. folks next door shuffle string sounds. rings hit ear surface teeth stain red. quebecois french. thought gets broken by mosquito buzzing. we pass smoking leaf. rope hanging from one skinny pine. dogs whimper back inside.

Kathleen Florence
Ticking pendulums, image: Randee Silv
BELOW:
Left: RANDEE SILV CHAPBOOK published by dancing girl press, 2018 / Right: Kathleen's moving sculpture in response to poems