Stephen Rodefer (November 20, 1940 - August 22, 2015) was an American poet and painter who lived in Paris and London. Born in Bellaire, Ohio, he knew many of the early beat and Black Mountain poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley. Rodefer, one of the original language poets, taught at many universities, including Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, San Francisco State, and the American University of Paris. Rodefer was the first American poet to be offered a Fellowship at Cambridge University.
He was the author of One or Two Love Poems from the White World, The Bell Clerk's Tears Keep Flowing, Four Lectures, Oriflamme Day (with poet Benjamin Friedlander), Emergency Measures, Passing Duration, Leaving, Erasures, Left Under A Cloud, Call It Thought, and Mon Canard, among other titles. His graphic work, Language Pictures, has been exhibited in recent years in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris and Prague. He died in Paris.
