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Kevin Killian

Kevin Killian (December 24, 1952 – June 15, 2019) was an American poet, author, editor, and playwright, primarily of LGBT literature. ''My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer'', which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi, won the American Book Award for Poetry in 2009.

Killian was also co-founder of the Poets Theater, an influential poetry, stage, and performance group based in San Francisco, as well as the New Narrative movement in San Francisco, which included figures like Robert Glück, Bruce Boone, Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, and more. Provided by Wikipedia