Nicholas Syrianus Katsafanas is an American poet perhaps tyrannically dedicated to form. Drawing from the Fibonacci sequence, category mathematics, and modal music he's currently creating new American meters for long-form poems (American Epic Poems).
Central to the structure of his mature poems is the idea of an extended line that's measured symmetrically in relation to itself, with successive lines arranged in terms of a range of self-similarity quotients (i.e. >.667).
Katsafanas's most recent books focus on JRPG characters as contemporary myths (S+P), remote viewers speaking at length to so-called inanimate objects (Mechanism & Dialogue), and stand-ins for obscure contemporary Greek theologians positing their polemical views on the world (Metropolis + Isosceles).
He operates a micro-press Blue Velvet Review with his wife Katreena on the West End of Providence RI.
His internet archive of American Epic Poems, in hi-definition PDF format, can be found here.
