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Steve McCaffery (b. 1947) is a poet, critic, editor, performance artist, and teacher. He was born in Sheffield, England and he moved to Toronto in 1968. McCaffery was a founding member of The Toronto Research Group (TRG) with bpNichol in 1972, the Four Horsemen sound poetry ensemble in 1973, and the College of Canadian Pataphysics in 1979. He was a contributing editor for the journals Open Letter and The New Wilderness Letter. McCaffery has collaborated with several artists in numerous disciplines including Charles Morrow, R. Murray Schafer, Derek Bailey, and Michael Snow (music); Toronto Dance Theatre and the Judy Jarvis Dance Company (text and choreography); Dick Higgins, Alan Kaprow, and Robert Filliou (performance art).
He has published over twenty books (one novel, four critical works, and nearly 20 volumes of poetry) culminating in the massive (over 1200 pages) collection Seven Pages Missing issued in two volumes: Volume One: Selected Texts 1969-1999 and Volume Two: Previously Uncollected Texts 1968-2000 (both Coach House, 2002). He is co-author (with bpNichol) of Rational Geomancy: Kids of the Book Machine (Talonbooks, 1992) and co-editor (with Jed Rasula) of Imagining Language: An Anthology (MIT Press, 1998).
Steve McCaffery is David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, where he lives with his wife, poet Karen Mac Cormack.
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