Online Poems

Links to poems published elsewhere, plus stable copies of pieces whose original journal pages have disappeared. Checked September 2026.

Recent poems

LAdige / California Poets — Five Poems: “Trans,” “Bit,” “Afternoon in a Beer Garden,” “Rant (2019),” and “Food, Hélas!”
Air/Light — “Fallen” and “Mirror and Table”
Poetry — “To A—”
UCLA English — “Thesaurus”

Journals and archives

Boston Review — “They’re Putting a New Door In”
Brooklyn Rail — “Electronic Desires”; “Idea for a Poem”
Callaloo — “Bronx Tambourine”; “Sisters of Charity (after Rimbaud)”; “Les Assis (after Rimbaud)”; “Suburban Night”; “Fact’s Bird”
Drunken Boat — “The Men Who Sit (Les Assis)”; “Four Improvisations”; “Provincial Hack”; “Countering the Luddite Itch with a Tin Switch” (preserved at Washington State University Vancouver)
Dusie — “Tossed Episteme” and “Reading in the Pacific Palisades” (preserved in For a New Urbanism)
Fence — “Sonnet,” “Trust,” and “The New”
The Impercipient — “Alf’s Last Bits”; “The History of Wigging,” “Now, o sweet question…,” “Wild Sublimations,” and “Scattered Norm”
Jacket — “The Apple Generation”; “The Overtures of Holograms”
Journal 1913 — “Lost”
Onedit — “In Pines”
Phillytalks — “Trouble on Triton,” “Preparatory Meditation I,” and “Terms of the Anglo-Saxon Ritual”
Poetry — “The Future Is One of Place”; “Ecological Poem”; “To A—”
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs — “from Excess”
Readme — “Frances Chung’s Booklist” (preserved in Versuche: Two Computer Poems)
The Iowa Review Web — “Coda: The Nineties Tried Your Game” (preserved at The NEXT)
Tripwire — “Baal, or the Technicolor Polo Shirt”
Washington DC Poetry Readings — “A Poem for Tyros”; “Howlings in Favor of Tulsa”
Westwind — “Two Lazy Poems” and “Sentence” (preserved in For a New Urbanism)
Xconnect — “N Epic”; “Storm Fields”
Bill Mohr’s blog — “Russia”

Translations

Periódico de Poesía — “Em, eh”, translated into Spanish by Román Luján

Books and longer works online

Gulf (Eclipse archive)

Audio

Poetry Magazine Podcast — Brian Kim Stefans Reads Two Poems

PennSound

The complete Brian Kim Stefans archive at PennSound collects readings, interviews, lectures, discussions, and individual poem recordings from 1998 through 2012. Open an event below to see its recordings.

Segue Series, Bowery Poetry Club — April 7, 2012

Complete reading (41:36)

MLA Offsite Reading, ArtShare LA — January 8, 2011

Complete reading (3:53)

Segue Series, Bowery Poetry Club — February 28, 2009

Ceptuetics Radio — June 18, 2008

Complete program with host Kareem Estefan (28:05)

Language as Gameplay — January 22, 2008

Lecture and discussion: “From the Oulipo to The Jew’s Daughter”

Kelly Writers House — January 16, 2007

Segue Series, Bowery Poetry Club — March 13, 2004

Includes “Axis Thinking,” selections from “What Does It Matter?” / “Pasha Noise: Life and Contacts,” “The Window Ordered to Be Made,” “Provincial Hack,” “State of the Union,” and “Howlings in Favor of Tulsa.”