Brian Kim Stefans (born 1969) is an American

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Biography

He was born in

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and, earned a bachelor's degree from

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic ...

and was awarded a

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degree from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

after studies at the

Graduate Center, CUNY The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and post-graduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the C ...

. His books of poetry include ''"Viva Miscegenation”: New Writing (MakeNow Books, 2013), ''Kluge: A Meditation and other works'' (Roof Books, 2007), ''What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers'' (Heretical Texts, 2006), ''Angry Penguins'' (Harry Tankoos Books, 2000), ''Gulf'' (Object Editions, 1998) and ''Free Space Comix'' (Roof, 1998). Along with several chapbooks of poetry, his other books include ''Before Starting Over: Selected Interviews and Essays 1994-2005'' (Salt Publishing, 2006) and ''Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics'' (Atelos, 2003) which includes experimental essays on the role of algorithm in poetry and culture. A resident of New York from 1992-2005, Stefans was an active participant in the poetry culture of the city as an editor and organizer, publishing numerous reviews in outlets such as ''Publishers Weekly'', ''

The Boston Review ''Boston Review'' is an American quarterly political and literary magazine. It publishes political, social, and historical analysis, literary and cultural criticism, book reviews, fiction, and poetry, both online and in print. Its signature form ...

'', ''St. Mark's

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newsletter'', ''Shark'', ''Rain Taxi'', ''Verse'', ''Tripwire'' and other small journals in the United States and abroad. Among other web activities, he created arras.net in 1998, a site devoted to new media poetry and poetics where his interactive art and digital poems such as "Suicide in an Airplane (1919)," “Star Wars (one letter at a time),” “The Dreamlife of Letters” and “Kluge: A Meditation” can be found. He is also a video artist, graphic designer and publisher of Arras Book, freely downloadable at arras. Recent critical writing include “

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: The L.A. Brand”() published by Area Sneaks Sheets, the series “Third Hand Plays” for the website of the

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concerning

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, and "Terrible Engines: A Speculative Turn in Recent Poetry and Fiction” that inaugurates his recent interest in applying concepts from recent

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to new forms of literature. Writing on

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art and literature include “Remote Parsee: Asian American Poetry Since 1970” (in ''Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s'', 2001) and “Miscegenated Scripts: A Theory of Asian American New Media.” Stefans's blog is Free Space Comix. He presently lives in Hollywood and is a
associate professor
of poetry, new media and screenplay studies in the English department of

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

References

External links

Arras.net

Free Space Comix: the blog

Poetry Foundation

UCLA Department of English Faculty page
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