Stephen Ratcliffe Reading from Counterpath on Vimeo.
Stephen Ratcliffe at Counterpath
Stephen Ratcliffe did the inugural reading at Counterpath on January 12, 2011, spending some time presenting his press Avenue B.
Stephen Ratcliffe is a poet and critic whose most recent books are Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Counterpath Press, 2009) and REAL, a 474-page book of poems written in 474 consecutive days (Avenue B, 2007). Previous books include Portraits & Repetition (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) and SOUND/(system) (Green Integer, 2002). Listening to Reading, a collection of essays on contemporary experimental poetry, was published by SUNY Press in 2000. He is also the author of Campion: On Song (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981). He lives in Bolinas, California, and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.