Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. Events 41 - Gaius Caesar (Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel Despotism, is Assassinated by his disgruntled Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Scholarly method &mdash or as it is more commonly called scholarship &mdash is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as York University (Université York is a public Research university located in Toronto, Ontario. He currently holds the Gray Chair at SUNY Buffalo (Amherst). The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly known as University at Buffalo (UB is a Coeducational public research University, which [1] McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. Sheffield ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The University of Hull, also known as Hull University, is an English University, founded in 1927 located in Hull (or Kingston upon Hull) a He moved to Toronto in 1968. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol, forming the sound-poetry group, The Four Horsemen. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Barrie Phillip Nichol ( September 30, 1944 - September 25, 1988) who often went by his lower-case initials and last name with no spaces ( McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic of syntax and structure to create a purely emotional response. In Linguistics, syntax (from Ancient Greek grc συν- syn-, "together" and grc τάξις táxis, "arrangement" is the [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]