Steve McCaffery

Interviewed by Charles Bernstein on LINEbreak (1995)

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

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

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

Reading for Wednesday @ Four Plus, University of 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 (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

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

• complete reading (47:52): MP3

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

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

CARNIVAL

• From Carnival, Panel 1 (21:33): Real Audio (Buffalo, 1997) (plus: Carnival Text at Coach House)
• From Carnival, Panel 2 (5:36): MP3 (Carnivocal, 1999) (plus: CarnivalTextat Coach House)
• Video from 2009 Glasgow on YouTube

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

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)

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

1. Introduction by Bob Perelman (2:49): MP3
2. Introductory remarks (12:38): MP3
3. Steve McCaffery and Jed Rasula read their work (49:42): MP3
4. Q & A on Imagining Language (32:03): MP3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Historic Repertoire
2. "The Birds" by Aristophanes, 360 BCE (1:28) : MP3
3. "Sound-Rel" by Raoul Hausmann, 1919 (1:50) : MP3
4. "Le bonbon" by Robert Desnos, 1923 (0:48) : MP3
5. "Epithalame" by Clement Swenssen, 1947 (1:14) : MP3
6. Excerpt from "Jappements à la lune" by Claude Gauvreau, 1982 (1:30) : MP3

Personal Repertoire
7. "Cappucino: a Suffix Structure" (2:55) : MP3
8. "This Face of Mine Enemy" (2:22) : MP3
9. Zaum' Acrostic for Marjorie Perloff (5:29) : MP3
10. On a line of Artaud's (3:08) : MP3

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

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

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

On Cross-Cultural Poetics with Leonard Schwartz:

• Complete Reading (17:00):MP3

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

• complete reading (36:50): 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"

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