Brian Kim Stefans

Who is Brian Kim Stefans?

Brian Kim Stefans is an American poet. He was born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1969.

His books of poetry include "Viva Miscegenation”: New Writing'', Kluge: A Meditation and other works, What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers, Angry Penguins, Gulf and Free Space Comix. Along with several chapbooks of poetry, his other books include Before Starting Over: Selected Interviews and Essays 1994-2005 and Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics 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, St. Mark’s Poetry Project newsletter, Shark, Rain Taxi, Verse, Tripwire and other small journals in the United States and abroad. A graduate of Bard College, he attended the CUNY Graduate Center for two years and received an MFA in electronic literature from Brown University in 2006.