NEW ORLEANS.- Painter and poet Stan Rice, 60, died in New Orleans of brain cancer. He was the husband of novelist Anne Rice. Stan Rice was born in Dallas, Texas. He got married in 1961. He studied at San Francisco State University. And later he headed the creative writing department at this university. He then moved to New Orleans in 1988 and later opened the Stan Rice Gallery. Stan Rice is the author of six collections of poetry, including Radiance of Pigs, Fear Itself, and Singing Yet. For many years he was associated with San Francisco State University, where he was Professor of English and Creative Writing, Assistant Director of the Poetry Center, and Chairman of the Creative Writing Department. He has been the recipient of the Edgar Allen Poe Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and a writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.