Steve McCaffery

Interviewed by Charles Bernstein on LINEbreak (1995)

1. Part 1 (29:05): MP3
2. Part 2 (29:00): MP3

• From Carnival, Panel 1, (Buffalo, 1997) (21:33): MP3 conversion of rm /// (& original RM)
  
• From Carnival, Panel 2 (5:36): MP3 (Carnivocal, 1999)
• From Carnival, Panel 3, Toronto Scream Festival, July 6, 2010 (39:39): MP3
• plus: Carnival text at Coach House via Archive.org)
• Video from 2009 Glasgow on YouTube

Reading at Tranzac, Toronto, November 14, 2022

"Jappements à la lune" (1968-1970), Claude Gauvreau's last suite of poems, read by Steve McCaffery. "English in the Jappements" (2022) devised by McCaffery. Video includes complete text.

McCaffery's reading concluded the book launch for the bilingual edition of Gauvreau's Le vampire et la nymphomane / The Vampire and the Nymphomaniac, translated by Ray Ellenwood and published by One Little Goat Theatre Company, in association with Nouvelles Éditions de Feu-Antonin.

This impromptu 'bootleg' recording was filmed on a phone by Adam Seelig with McCaffery's permission.

Media.SAS mirror URL: MP3

EPC@20 Celebration, Opening Remarks, Thursday, September 11, 2014

Watch on Media.sas
• Audio Recording (11:37): MP3

With cris cheek, performing Panel 3 of Carnival at Birkbeck, June 6, 2012

Watch on Media.sas
• Originally posted by Voiceworksproject

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, January 21, 2012

• Complete reading (36:50): MP3

Performing the Premiere of Carnival, Panel 3 for The Other Room, Leeds Art Gallery, UK, June 7, 2011

in conjunction with Information as Material

also featured: Alan Halsey, Karen Mac Cormack, and Geraldine Monk

• Video mirror: Media.SAS server

On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz:

• Complete Reading (17:00):MP3

On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz, Episode #184, "Pear Diving," February 22, 2009

On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz, February 28, 2009:

• Complete Reading and Discussion from Slightly Left of Thinking (28:20): MP3

Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, February 4, 2009

• Introduction by Nancy Perloff (1:21) : MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, November 15, 2008

• Complete reading (34:05): MP3

1. The Dangers of Poetry and Spam (11:52): MP3
2. Digital Poetics (2:31): MP3
3. Prologue (5:34): MP3
4. Still Life with Radishes and Counter-Intelligence (2:30): MP3
5. Little League (3:53): MP3
6. Percival (7:34): MP3

Chax Press book launch held at and cosponsored by The Poetry Center at the University of Arizona, March 15, 2008 - on POG Sound

• Complete Reading (27:55): MP3

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: McCaffery Up Close, January 28, 2007

Steve McCaffery
It was Steve's 60th birthday and he had come to New York with Karen to celebrate.

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #64, "Language Falls Apart," with host Leonard Schwartz, 2005

On "What's the Word" Program #163 - Contemporary Language Poetry

• Complete Reading (29:11): MP3
• Modern Language Association, 2003, produced by Sally Placksin

Reading for Wednesdays@4+, Steel Bar, November 8, 2003

Complete Reading (1:15:02): MP3

Reading at Steel Bar, February 24, 2001

Complete Reading (51:38): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House with Jed Rasula, April 4, 2000

• Introduction by Bob Perelman (2:49): MP3
• Introductory remarks (12:38): MP3

1. Coleridge in Calgary (3:25): MP3
2. Sin Having Settled (2:11): MP3
3. Suggestion But No Insult (1:02): MP3
4. Tam o' Shanter Revisited (0:34): MP3
5. From "Some Versions of Pastoral" (1:41): MP3
6. Pastoral Five (0:26): MP3
7. Afterword (2:12): MP3
8. The Baker Transformation (6:39): MP3
9. What As Poetic (4:47): MP3

• Steve McCaffery and Jed Rasula read their work (49:42): MP3

1. On anthology production (6:19): MP3
2. On categorization (4:24): MP3
3. On timing (7:30): MP3
4. On technology (6:43): MP3
5. On procedure (6:06): MP3

• Q & A on Imagining Language (32:03): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, November 6, 1997

1. Introduction (1:48): MP3
2. The Printer to the Reader (5:33): MP3 (from Theory of Sediment, 1991)
3. Little Hans (3:03): MP3
4. To Never Leave the Feeding Hand Unbitten (2:09): MP3
5. Sin Having Settled (2:03): MP3 (from Proper Names)
6. The Baker Transformation (5:39): MP3
7. What As Poetic (4:58): MP3 (a gift to Charles Bernstein)
8. Namings (14:00): MP3
9. A Picture (4:50): MP3 (from Panopticon)
       Read with Karen Mac Cormack
10. The Curve To Its Answer (4:01): MP3 (from Theory of Sediment)
11. The Word (4:00): MP3 (from Panopticon)

MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

Reading for Wednesdays @ 4 Plus SUNY-Buffalo, April 3, 1996

• Poetics & Practice of Avant-Pop Literature (lecture and reading) (1:27:34): MP3

Reading for Wednesdays @ 4 Plus SUNY Buffalo, November 15, 1995

1. Introduction (2:15): MP3
2. Broad Topics (1:49): MP3
3. Sociologically Speaking, the Five Senses (1:40): MP3
4. Bucolic (3:25): MP3
5. Sound Poem (3:11): MP3
6. The Precepts (5:34): MP3
7. Erasure (4:16): MP3
8. Modernite Piece (2:53): MP3
9. Cappuccino (2:35): MP3
10. White Pages (14:10): MP3
11. Teachable Texts (7:26): MP3

• Complete reading (47:52): MP3

Reading for Wednesday @ Four Plus, SUNY Buffalo, February 20-21, 1991

February 20 - complete reading (30:51): MP3

1. Code of System Four (11:20): MP3
2. Invariant (4:02): MP3
3. Little House (3:32): MP3
4. Foucault Acrostic (2:58): MP3
5. At corners collating when the dislocation fades (30:51): MP3

February 21 - complete seminar (1:24:01): MP3

1. The Kommunist Manifesto or Wot We Wukkers Want (text) (6:01): MP3
2. Appropriation As My Beatrice: Insufficiencies of Theory to Poetical Economies (33:51): MP3
3. the distinction between theory and poetics (8:28): MP3
4. the abandonment of primary texts (8:44): MP3
5. theory in critical vs. creative writing (6:08): MP3
6. the distinction between primary/secondary texts and high/low art (9:33): MP3
7. a critique of Bourdieu and contemporary theory (10:50): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, May 21, 1990

1. Command Filter with Negative Entailment (4:25): MP3
2. Poem (Ulcered Hectic in our Cake...) (1:01): MP3
3. Codicil (2:33): MP3
4. Geiger (3:38): MP3
5. The Master of the Broken Urn (5:08): MP3
6. Storax (2:40): MP3
7. Glossarate (A Culture is a Lexicon) (4:00): MP3
8. Poem (Finesse Quite at Large...) (3:24): MP3
9. Poem (Nine. Seven. Six. Three. Two...) (6:33): MP3
10. The Black Debt (11:42): MP3

• Complete reading (45:29): MP3

At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1985-2005

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, January 11, 1985

1. Possession (9:32): MP3
2. The Prose Edda (3:16): MP3
3. Mozart in Tibet (6:50): MP3
4. The Black Debt (6:56): MP3
5. White Pages (11:18): MP3

• Complete reading (37:52): MP3

St. Mark's Talks, New York City, January 10, 1985

• "Writing as General Economy"


• Steve McCaffery, part 1 (45:32): MP3
• part 2 (48:03): MP3
• part 3 (26:59): MP3

Reading at the Village Gate, NY, June 18, 1984.

Underwhich Audiographic Series (Toronto), 1980

• Wot We Wukkers Want (text) / One Step To The Next (23:11): MP3

Segue Series Reading with Dick Higgins at the Ear Inn, February 7, 1979

1. "Four Statements for Charles Bernstein" (1:45): MP3
2. "Sonnet" (0:40): MP3
3. Poem beginning "You can say anything you want to..." (0:46): MP3
4. "Reproduction of the Image of an Adult Walking" (1:03): MP3
5. "The" (1:46): MP3
6. Engineering Koans (various) (6:14): MP3
7. "The Parables" (3:43): MP3
8. Short Pieces beginning with "Deep Vinegar" (various) (4:08): MP3
with Paul Dutton and Rafael Barreto-Rivera (also members of The Four Horsemen)
9. "Mushy Pea: Six London Texts" (6:03): MP3
10. "The Precepts" (3:35): MP3
11. "This piece starts about 4 Inches down from the top and about 3 and half inches in..." (2:20): MP3
12. A Selection of untitled 'Transforms' (6:01): MP3

Complete Reading (37:39): MP3
See also, the Six Fillious Reading, featuring McCaffery, which took place immediately prior to his reading.

Performances from E. no 3, late 1970s

1. Vortex Blason (1:03): MP3
2. Cappuccino: A Suffix Story for Henri Poincaré (2:31): MP3

Reading, Date Unknown, Location Unknown

• Complete Recording, (41:28)MP3
• Recording courtesy of Michael Davison

"The surface starts about two and half inches down", Date Unknown

Complete Recording (2:55):MP3

Seven texts based on Californa towns, Date Unknown

Complete Recording (3:43):MP3

McCaffery singles

1. Coleridge in Calgary (3:25): MP3
2. Some Versions of Pastoral (4:21): MP3
3. Sin Having Settled (2:03): MP3
4. Suggestion But No Insult (1:22): MP3
5. The Baker Transformation (6:40): MP3
6. What As Poetic (4:48): MP3
7. The Kommunist Manifesto or Wot We Wukkers Want (5:54): MP3 TEXT

Also of Interest:

• From The Curve To Its Answer, Jan. 11, 1985 (5:10): MP3 (Live at the Ear)
• PhillyTalks Episode #17 with Lisa Robertson - October 3, 2000
• Four Horsemen: tracks from Canadada & Live From the West

Steve McCaffery on PennSound Daily

• August 16, 2010: "Steve McCaffery: Newly Segmented Segue Series Recordings, 1985-2008"
• January 18, 2008: "Steve McCaffery at the Ear Inn"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-2014 Steve McCaffery. Used with permission of Steve McCaffery. Distributed by PennSound.