Brian Kim Stefans has published several books of poetry including
Free Space Comix (Roof Books), Gulf (Object Editions,
downloadable at ubu.com) and Angry Penguins (Harry Tankoos),
along with several chapbooks, most recently “What Does It Matter?”
from Barque Press.
Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics, a collection of
essays, poetry and interviews, appeared in 2003 from Atelos.
Forthcoming are the poetry collection What Is Said to the Poet
Concerning Flowers (Factory School) and a collection of essays
on poetry and new media art, Before Starting Over (Salt
Publishing).
He is the editor of the /ubu (”slash ubu”) series of e-books at
www.ubu.com/ubu and the creator of arras.net, devoted to new media
poetry and poetics, where most of his work, including his own series
of Arras e-books, can be found.
His internet art and digital poems, such as “The Truth Interview
(with Kim Rosenfield)” and the “Flash Polaroids” appear at Ubu,
Rhizome, How2, Jacket and Turbulence. “The Dreamlife of
Letters” was published by Coach House Books. These and many other
works can all be found at arras.net.
He is also a website designer, and has designed “starving artist”
sites for McKenzie Wark, Abigail Child, The Segue Foundation,
Invisible Light Studios, and Jane House Productions.
His blog is called Free Space Comix, and often contains criticism
of new books of poetry and electronic art, though it is mostly a
forum for his gripes about the world