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.