Stephen Ratcliffe

Reading at UC Berkeley, February 9, 1977

• complete recording part one (32:19): MP3
• complete recording part two (28:59): MP3

1. introduction (2:20): MP3
2. Waterfall (0:45): MP3
3. El Capitan (0:25): MP3
4. The Eagle's Song (1:56): MP3
5. Readings from John Muir's Journal (3:46): MP3
6. Spring, 1887 (1:10): MP3
7. The View from Mono Pass (0:57): MP3
8. Pause, Pico Blanco 0:41): MP3
9. Summer Rain (0:39): MP3
10. The Snake (1:07): MP3
11. The Rat (0:41): MP3
12. Logging (0:47): MP3
13. Blood (0:36): MP3
14. Flight (1:45): MP3
15. Concert, London (0:55): MP3
16. Air (0:29): MP3
17. Milton (0:51): MP3
18. Gioconda (1:35): MP3
19. Still Life (1:23): MP3
20. Versailles (0:20): MP3
21. Horologe, Venice (0:26): MP3
22. Postscript, on a name (0:34): MP3
23. Blues, near Dubrovnik (0:47): MP3
24. Postcard from Hemingway (0:25): MP3
25. Pacheteaus (5:10): MP3
26. Kauai (3:04): MP3
27. South (8:47): MP3
28. Domestic (1:39): MP3
29. Aubade (0:21): MP3
30. French Market Coffee (0:38): MP3
31. Bobtail (0:41): MP3
32. Poem (0:21): MP3
33. Lunch (0:31): MP3
34. Mistake (0:18): MP3
35. Mint Juleps (1:11): MP3
36. Surf Cottage, Bolinas (1:21): MP3
37. The Vision (0:24): MP3
38. Circle (0:14): MP3
39. Fourth Month (0:38): MP3
40. Grandmother (0:32): MP3
41. Gris Gris (0:40): MP3
42. Term (0:34): MP3
43. Labor (1:08): MP3
44. The Window (0:30): MP3
45. Stanford Men's Room (0:46): MP3
46. Interstate 280 (0:41): MP3
47. A Book of Hours (0:43): MP3
48. from The Afternoon of the Faun (4:49): MP3

Conversation with David Bromige, San Francisco State University, April 30, 1987

Reading "Present Tense," Bolinas, July 16, 1987

• part one (47:42): MP3
• part two (47:35): MP3

Reading with Lyn Hejinian and Bill Berkson, Bolinas, 1987

• complete recording (47:27): MP3

1. from MOBILE / MOBILE (6:27): MP3
2. from Distance (with Lyn Hejinian) (9:26): MP3
3. from Present Tense (10:35): MP3

Interview with David Bromige, January 6, 1988

• part one (31:50): MP3
• part two (35:20): MP3
• part three (35:58): MP3

Reading at Canessa Park, San Francisco, April 22, 1990

• complete recording (31:16): MP3

1. Mallarme: poem in prose (15:50): MP3
2. from Rhetoric (15:26): MP3

Reading at UCSD, San Diego, November 14, 1990

• complete recording (58:03): MP3

1. introduction by Rae Armantrout (1:39): MP3
2. from MOBILE / MOBILE (4:32): MP3
3. from Distance (4:33): MP3
4. from Present Tense (7:08): MP3
5. from [where late the sweet] BIRDS SANG (6:18): MP3
6. from Mallarme: poem in prose (8:47): MP3
7. from Selected Letters (9:40): MP3
8. from spaces in the light said to be where one/ comes from (15:03): MP3

Reading at the Central Park Grill, Buffalo, NY, March 19, 1991

• complete reading (31:25): MP3

Reading at the Faultline Theater, San Diego, 1999

• complete reading (32:57): Real Audio

Reading as part of the Discrete Series, Chicago, May 9, 2003

• complete recording (31:03): MP3

1. from SOUND/(system) (4:11): MP3
2. from Portraits & Repetitions (7:35): MP3
3. from HUMAN/NATURE (19:17): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, May 12, 2007

• Film available from Double Change archives.

Reading at the Point Éphémere, Paris, April 8, 2008

human/nature, recorded at UC Davis, June 6, 2008

• Part 1 (3:22:47): MP3
• Part 2 (2:57:57): MP3
• Part 3 (3:01:14): MP3
• Part 4 (3:00:22): MP3

human/nature, which explores collaborative work in a variety of mediums, is based on Stephen Ratcliffe's 1,000 page poem, written in 1,000 consecutive days between 10.19.02 - 7.14.05. The performance extends his investigations into the integration/interaction of human beings and natural landscape: "the relation between things seen/observed in the natural world and how such things might be made (transcribed/transformed) as works of written (or visual) art." The reading of the poem will accompany sound, light, movement and sculpture in an open dialogue with the architecture of the surrounding space. Audience will be free to move between an activated courtyard area and a more focused interior environment, creating a dialogue between reception, memory and stimulus.

Reading at the Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, October 18, 2008

• complete reading (14:35): MP3

Conversations with Robert Grenier, Bolinas, 2001-2010

• The Ratcliffe/Grenier conversations here

On Natural Language: Four (2011) conversations with Robert Grenier (with images & 'rough translations' of RG color drawing poems discussed)

1. Remarks on Color / Sound (1) (50:07): MP3
2. Remarks on Color / Sound (2) (55:13): MP3
3. Remarks on Color / Sound (3) (1:06:42): MP3
4. Remarks on Color / Sound (4) (59:16): MP3
5. Remarks on Color / Sound (5) (1:13:38): MP3
6. Remarks on Color / Sound (6) (59:59): MP3
7. Remarks on Color / Sound (7) (48:10): MP3
8. Remarks on Color / Sound (8) (1:35:46): MP3
9. Remarks on Color / Sound (9) (53:00): MP3
10. Remarks on Color / Sound (10) (1:40:34): MP3
11. Remarks on Color / Sound (11) (1:09:07): MP3
12. Remarks on Color / Sound (12) (1:26:08): MP3

• complete recording (1:11:16): MP3

Reading with Donald Guravich, Joanne Kyger, and Robert Grenier, Bolinas Library, January 18, 2011

• complete reading (1:01:20): MP3

• complete recording (52:11): MP3

• complete recording (1:55:24): MP3

Reading with Robert Grenier at the Kelly Writers House, April 8, 2013

• Complete Reading (1:06:59): MP3

Conversation with Robert Grenier at the Kelly Writers House, April 9, 2013

• Full Discussion (2:47:02): MP3

Stephen Ratcliffe on PennSound Daily

• August 04, 2010: "Stephen Ratcliffe: Many New Resources, Including Conversations with Robert Grenier"
• November 21, 2008: "Stephen Ratcliffe: New Author Page"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2010 Stephen Ratcliffe. Used with the permission of Stephen Ratcliffe. Distributed by PennSound.