Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the Gray Chair at SUNY Buffalo (Amherst).^[1] McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. He moved to Toronto in 1968. In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol, forming the sound-poetry group, The Four Horsemen. McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic of syntax and structure to create a purely emotional response.^[2] He has created three-dimensional structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in collaboration with other poets.^[3]

Bibliography[link]

• Carnival - 1967-1975^[4]
• Dr. Sadhu's Muffins - 1974
• Ow's Waif - 1975
• Sound Poetry - A Survey - 1978^[5]
• Intimate Distortions - 1979
• Knowledge Never Knew - 1983
• Panopticon - 1984
• North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973-1986 - 1986
• Evoba - 1987
• The Black Debt - 1989
• Theory of Sediment - 1991 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• The Cheat of Words - 1996
• Seven Pages Missing - 2000 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Prior to Meaning: The Protosematic and Poetics - 2001

References[link]

External links[link]

• McCaffery Programs
• Buffalo EPC
• Reading at SUNY-Buffalo
• Rain Taxi interview with McCaffery

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Cris Cheek is a British poet, artist, interdisciplinary performer and professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Born in London in 1955, he lived and worked in that capital until the early 1990s. One early influence was working alongside Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society printshop and the Writers Forum group of poets who met with regularity on the premises in Earls Court. In 1981 he was a co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space and for much of that decade he worked alongside musicians from the London Musicians Collective, choreographers and live artists to make interdisciplinary works. Between 1994-2005 he was based in the most easterly English town of Lowestoft, before emigrating to the United States. His musical collaborations include Slant (a trio with Phillip Jeck and Sianed Jones). A large body of interdisciplinary performance writing was produced in collaboration with Kirsten Lavers under the author function Things Not Worth Keeping. He taught on the Performance Writing course (1995-2002) at Dartington College of Arts where he was a Research Fellow in interdisciplinary text (2000-2002). He lives on the plateau of the southwest Ohio River Valley, with his son.

Bibliography[link]

Cheek's creative works include:

• a present (Bluff Books, 1980)
• Mud (Spanner/Open Field, 1984)
• Cloud Eyes (Microbrigade Ed., 1991)
• Skin upon skin (CD, Sound & Language, 1996)
• Stranger (Sound & Language, 1996)
• Songs from Navigation (book+CD, Reality Street, 1998)
• the church, the school, the beer (Critical Documents, 2007)
• part: short life housing (The Gig, 2009)

His works have been published in various magazines, literary miscellanies and anthologies, including:

• West Coast Line (Vancouver)
• Open Letter (Toronto)
• Kontexts (Amsterdam)
• Boxkite (Sydney)
• Reality Studios (London)
• Poetics Journal (San Francisco)
• The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (Indiana University)
• Conductors of Chaos (London)
• Floating Capital (Connecticut)
• Documents (Glasgow)

MC, CD and CD-R[link]

• Crayon (NY), Widemouth (Baltimore)
• Little Magazine (Albany)
• Balsam Flex (London)

Critical articles[link]

• "Reading and Writing: the Sites of Performance (http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_3/bergvall/cheek-reading-writing.html)
• On Bob Cobbing (British Electronic Poetry Centre, 2004)
• Giving Tongue published in Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally (Wesleyan University Press, 2003)
• Sky Tails: An Encryption of Dispersal published in Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth, (The Gig, 2003)
• Implicit, Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance and Site Specificity (The Cherry On the Top Press, 2002)

External links[link]

• Entry at the British Electronic Poetry Centre
• TNWK
• Radio Taxi

Further reading[link]

• Robert Hampson, "cris cheek in manhatton" http://www.pores.bbk.ac.uk/1/Robert%20Hampson,%20'cris%20cheek%20in%20manhattan'.htm
• Peter Barry, Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court‎ (2006)
• Andy Brown, Binary Myths: Conversations with Contemporary Poets (1998)
• cris cheek, "From a Performant" in The Fly on the Page (The Gig, 2004)
• cris cheek, "Giving Tongue" in Romana Huk, Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally (2003)
• Andrew Duncan, The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry (2003)
• William R. Howe, "Punk as Poetry: cris cheek and his offset press collaborations"
• http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/radioradio/04_cris-cheek_Radio-Radio_NY_2003.mp3

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Charles Bernstein at Writers' and Literary Translators' International Conference (Stockholm, June 30, 2008)

Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.^[1] He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets). In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[2] In 2005, Bernstein was awarded the Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania.^[3] Educated at Harvard College, he has been visiting Professor of Poetry, Poetics, and Creative Writing at Columbia University, Brown University, and Princeton University. A volume of Bernstein's selected poetry from the past thirty years, "All the Whiskey in Heaven," was published in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Bernstein's continued commitment to small presses remains strong - In the same year that FSG released his major collection, Chax Press released "Umbra," a collection of Berstein's latest translations of poems from multiple languages. The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein is forthcoming from Salt Publishing. Bernstein will serve as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Poetry, Poetics, and Theory at Princeton University in the Fall Term of 2011. In May of the same year, The University of Chicago Press will release Bernstein's new collection of essays, "Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions."

Early Life and Work[link]

Bernstein was born in New York City to a Jewish family and attended the Bronx High School of Science, graduating in 1968. Bernstein then matriculated at Harvard College, majoring in Philosophy, studying the work of Austin and Wittgenstein under Stanley Cavell, a seminal figure in the Philosophy of Language and Ordinary Language Philosophy. Bernstein graduated Harvard College in 1972, and during his time there worked closely with Stanley Cavell, who oversaw his thesis, a study that pursued the aesthetic and poetic possibilities of the amalgamation of analytical philosophy and avant-garde literature. His first book, Asylums, was published in 1975. Together with Bruce Andrews he edited the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, which ran to 13 issues between 1978 and 1981.^[4] This is routinely considered to be the starting point of Language Poetry and was the most significant outlet for both the progressive poetry and progressive poetic theory taking place in New York City and Berkeley. He has said about the creation of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, "We tried to trace a history of radical poetics, taking up the model presented in Jerome Rothenberg’s Revolution of the Word, and later by Rothenberg and Pierre Joris in Poems for the Millennium and Marjorie Perloff in The Futurist Moment. When you go back 30 years, you see that poetics that now are widely accepted as foundational for contemporary poetry were harshly rejected then."^[5] Bernstein and Andrews published selected pieces from these 13 issues in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book. During this period, Bernstein also published three more books of his own poetry, Parsing (1976), Shade (1978) and Poetic Justice (1979), while earning a living as a freelance medical writer.^[6]

Recent Life and Works[link]

From 1989 to 2003, Bernstein was David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the University at Buffalo, where he was co-founder and Director of the Poetics Program.^[7] He is also co-founder of The Electronic Poetry Center at Buffalo. He is currently the Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is co-founder of the poetry audio archive PennSound.^[8] He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and of the Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize of the University of California, San Diego. Since 1980, he has published a further eighteen books of poetry, as well as editing a number of anthologies of prose and verse. Working with the composers Ben Yarmolinsky, Dean Drummond, and Brian Ferneyhough, he has written the libretti for five operas and has collaborated with a number of visual artists, including his wife, Susan Bee, Richard Tuttle, and Mimi Gross. Bernstein's Poetry has appeared in four editions of David Lehman's The Best American Poetry series, most recently in the 2008 edition. His work has also regularly appeared in Harper's Magazine, Poetry Magazine, and Critical Inquiry. While Bernstein has supported small presses throughout his career, he has also published on such mainstream academic presses as Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Northwestern University Press, and, most recently, The University of Chicago Press, which has published his last three major works. The publication of All the Whiskey in Heaven by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2010 was his most commercial endeavor to date. He has said about his work, "It’s true that, on the one hand, I mock and destabilize the foundation of a commitment to lyric poetry as an address toward truth or toward sincerity. But, on the other hand, if you’re interested in theory as a stable expository mode of knowledge production or critique moving toward truth, again, I should be banned from your republic. (I’ve already been banned from mine.) My vacillating poetics of poems and essays is a serial practice, a play of voices."^[5]

Bernstein was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.^[9] He appeared in the 2000 movie Finding Forrester, as Dr. Simon^[10] and in a series of 1999 TV commercials, with Jon Lovitz, for the Yellow Pages.^[11]

Bibliography[link]

Full-length collections[link]

• All the Whiskey in Heaven (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010)
• Girly Man (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
• Shadowtime (libretto for an opera with music by Brian Ferneyhough) (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2005)^[12]
• With Strings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
• Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 2000)
• Dark City (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994)
• Rough Trades (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1991)
• The Sophist (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1987; rpt. Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2004)
• Islets/Irritations (New York: Jordan Davies, 1983; rpt. New York: Roof Books, 1992)
• The Nude Formalism, with Susan Bee (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1989; rpt Charlottesville, VA: Outside Voices, 2006)
• Controlling Interests (New York: Roof Books, 1980)
• L E G E N D, with Bruce Andrews, Steve McCaffery, Ron Silliman, Ray DiPalma (New York: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue, 1980)
• Poetic Justice (Baltimore: Pod Books, 1979)
• Shade (College Park, MD: Sun & Moon Press, 1978)
• Parsing (New York: Asylum's Press, 1976)
• Asylums (New York: Asylum's Press, 1975)

Essays[link]

• Attack of the Difficult Poems (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)
• My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
• A Poetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992)
• Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986; rpt Northwestern University Press, 2001)
• A Conversation with David Antin (New York: Granary Books, 2002)
• "Artifice of Absorption: An Essay" (Singing Horse Press, 1987) (Potes & Poets Press, 1988)

Editor[link]

• Modern and Contemporary Poetics, Editor, with Hank Lazer, of a book series from the University of Alabama Press (1998 — )
• Electronic Poetry Center, Editor, with Loss Pequeno Glazier (1995 — )
• PENNSound, Director, with Al Filries (2003 — )
• Poetry Plastique, ed. with Jay Sanders, exhibition catalog (New York: Granary Books / Marianne Boesky Gallery, 2001)
• 99 Poets/1999: A Special Issue of boundary 2 (Vol.26, No.1: Duke University Press, 1999)
• Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
• LINEbreak: poetry interviews, host/co-producer. Twenty-six 30-minute programs, dist. Public Radio Satellite Program and on the Internet at the EPC (1995–96)
• Live at the Ear : A CD anthology of Ear Inn readings (Pittsburg: Elemenope Productions, 1994)
• "13 North American Poets", with Susan Howe, in TXT #31 (Le Mans, France and Bussels: 1993)
• The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy (NY: Roof, 1990)
• Patterns/Contexts/Time: A Forum: 1989, with Phillip Foss in Tyuonyi (Sante Fe, 1990).
• "L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Lines" in The Line in Postmodern Poetry, ed. Frank/Sayre (Urbana:
  University of Illinois, 1988)
• "43 Poets (1984)" in Boundary 2 (Binghamton, 1987)
• The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, with Bruce Andrews (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984)
• "Language Sampler" in Paris Review, No. 86 (New York: 1982)
• L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, with Bruce Andrews (New York: 1978-1981); Vol. 4 co-published as Open Letter 5:1 (Toronto: 1982)
• Louis Zukofksy: Selected Poems, [American Poets Project], (Library of America; distributed by Penguin Putnam, Inc) (New York: 2006)

Translation[link]

• Red, Green, and Black by Olivier Cadiot (Hartford: Potes & Poets, 1990)
• The Maternal Drape by Claude Royet-Journoud (Windsor, VT: Awede Press, 1984)
  95)

Notes/References[link]

1. ^ http://www.english.upenn.edu/People/CharlesBernstein
2. ^ http://www.amacad.org/news/alpha2006.aspx
3. ^ http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/news/teaching_awards05.html
4. ^ http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/projects/LANGUAGE/language.html
5. ^ ^{a b} Sanders, Jay http://bombsite.com/issues/111/articles/3454 “Charles Bernstein” BOMB Magazine Spring 2010, retrieved August 1, 2011
6. ^ http://www.greeninteger.com/green_integer_review/issue_1/Charles-Bernstein-interview.htm
7. ^ http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/prog.html
8. ^ http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/news/press-release-launch.php
9. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf. Retrieved June 24, 2011. 
10. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/fullcredits#cast
11. ^ http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bernstein-YP.html
12. ^ According to the publisher's website (here) : "Shadowtime is a thought opera based on the work and life of the German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic, Walter Benjamin. The libretto was written by Charles Bernstein for composer Brian Ferneyhough and had its premiere in May 2004 at the Munich Biennale, with subsequent productions at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, and the Lincoln Center Festival in New York."

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Charles Bernstein

• Charles Bernstein Home Page at EPC
• Charles Bernstein on PennSound
• Charles Bernstein's CV
• UCSD Register of Charles Bernstein papers 1962-2000
• L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine (complete run)
• Works by or about Charles Bernstein in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Writing

• Asylums (e-reprint)
• Disfrutes (e-reprint)
• The Nude Formalism (e-reprint)
• Parsing (e-reprint)
• Rough Trades (e-reprint)
• "Against National Poetry Month As Such" - a short essay by Charles Bernstein.

Others on Bernstein

• Poet and Anti-Poet Review from the New York Times by Daisy Fried, published April 7, 2010
• Of Time and Charles Bernstein’s Lines: A Poetics of Fashion Statements by Susan M. Schultz, in Jacket, July 2001
• Charles Bernstein's Response to the Postmodern Condition by Stefan Mönke, M.A. dissertation, University of Coimbra (Portugal), May 10, 2011

Interviews with Bernstein

• Interview with Romina Freschi, June 2005
• Interview with Jay Sanders in BOMB, Spring 2010

Darren Wershler aka Darren Wershler-Henry (1966 -) is a Canadian experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic.

A former grave digger, he was the senior editor of Coach House Books between 1997 and 2002, where the works he edited included several highly acclaimed books of contemporary innovative poetry, including Fidget by Kenneth Goldsmith (2000), both volumes of Seven Pages Missing, the collected works of Steve McCaffery (2000, 2002), Lip Service by Bruce Andrews (2001), and Eunoia by Christian Bök (2002).

Wershler is the youngest poet discussed in Marjorie Perloff's 21st Century Modernism, which analyzes his second book of poetry, the tapeworm foundry (a Trillium Book Award finalist in 2000). He has instructed courses in Communication Studies at York University and Wilfrid Laurier University and currently is the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature (Tier 2) at Concordia University. He has authored several books about the Internet, technology and culture, as well as occasional essays on pop culture for newspapers and magazines such as Brick, Broken Pencil and This Magazine.

He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Works[link]

Poetry[link]

• Update (with Bill Kennedy)
• apostrophe (with Bill Kennedy)
• the tapeworm foundry
• NICHOLODEON: a book of lowerglyphs

Non-fiction[link]

• Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg
• The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting
• The Original Canadian City Dweller's Almanac (with Hal Niedzviecki)
• FREE as in speech and beer: open source, peer-to-peer and the economics of the online revolution
• CommonSpace: Beyond Virtual Community (with Mark Surman)
• Internet Directory 2001 (with Scott Mitchell)
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Online Shopping for Canadians (with Preston Gralla)
• Internet Directory 2000 (with Scott Mitchell)
• A Brief yet Extensive History of Rodeo Clowns (with Bill Kennedy)

External links[link]

• dw: Darren Wershler's home page
• Status Update
• Darren Wershler's faculty page at Concordia University
• Darren Wershler-Henry's page at the Electronic Poetry Center
• e-book: NICHOLODEON
• e-book: CommonSpace
• e-book: FREE as in speech and beer
• e-book: the tapeworm foundry
• the apostrophe engine
• Darren Wershler-Henry interview and reading on CBC Radio program And Sometimes Y
• Darren Wershler-Henry interview on CBC Radio program The Contrarians
• Darren Wershler-Henry interview on NPR Weekend Edition
• Darren Wershler-Henry profile in This Magazine
• Darren Wershler-Henry profile in Taddle Creek Magazine
• Review of The Iron Whim in The New Yorker
• Review of The Iron Whim in The New York Times Review of Books

Phil Minton
Phil Minton, August 2007.
Background information
Born	(1940-11-02) November 2, 1940 (age 71) Torquay, England
Genres	Free improvisation, Avant-garde jazz
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Vocals, trumpet
Years active	1969–present
Labels	Emanem, FMP
Associated acts	Mike Westbrook, Phil Minton Quartet, Veryan Weston, Roger Turner
Website	www.philminton.co.uk

Phil Minton (b. 2 November 1940, Torquay, United Kingdom) is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.

Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with his own ensemble. He even once participated in a Jimi Hendrix tribute project, belting out the lyrics in particular over-the-top fashion. Between 1987 and 1993 Minton toured Europe, North America and Russia with Lindsay Cooper's Oh Moscow ensemble.^[1][2]

He is perhaps best known, however, for his completely free-form work, which involves "extended techniques" that are extremely unsettling. His vocals often include the sounds of retching, burping, screaming, and gasping, as well as childlike muttering, whining, crying and humming; he also has an ability to distort his vocal cords to produce two notes at once. As the DJ/poet Kenneth Goldsmith has described it:^[3]

Minton's most frequent improvising companions are the pianist Veryan Weston and the drummer Roger Turner, but over the years he has worked with most of the improvising musicians in the European scene. Unlike some first-generation free improvisers, he has also become a frequent participant in the so-called electroacoustic improvisation (EAI) scene.

Selected discography[link]

Since 1965 Minton has performed on over a hundred different vinyl record and CD releases.

Phil Minton as part of the Mike Westbrook Band

• Mama Chicago, RCA, 1979
• Bright as Fire, Original Records, 1980
• The Paris Album, Polydor, 1981
• The Cortege, Original Records, 1982
• On Duke's Birthday, Hat Art, 1984
• Off Abbey Road, Tip Toe, 1989

Phil Minton as part of Sold Gold Cadillac

• Sold Gold Cadillac, BGO Records, 1971
• Brain Damage, BGO Records, 1973

Phil Minton solo

• Doughnut in Both Hands, Emanem Records, 1982
• Songs From A Prison Diary, Leo Records, 1993
• A Doughnut in One Hand, FMP, 1998

Phil Minton and Roger Turner

• Drainage, Emanem Records, 1993
• Dada Da, Leo Records, 1993
• Ammo, Leo Records, 1998

Phil Minton and Veryan Weston

• Songs From a Prison Diary, Leo Records, 1993
• Ways Out East - Ways Out West, Intakt Records, 2005

Phil Minton Quartet

• Mouthful of Ecstasy, Victo Records, 1998
• Slur, Emanem Records, 2006

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Phil Minton

• Phil Minton homepage
• Phil Minton at Allmusic
• Phil Minton page on EFI
• Phil Minton's Feral Choir
• Phil Minton at exclaim
• (French) Duo Phil Minton, Daunik Lazro video on OC-TV.net