Selected Amazon Reviews
Semiotext(e) presents
Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews
Wednesday, December 4
Doors: 7:30pm
Event: 8pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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Please join Semiotext(e) at the Poetic Research Bureau for the launch of Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews, with an introduction by Wayne Koestenbaum and an afterword by Dodie Bellamy.
The evening will include a conversation between Dodie Bellamy and the editors of the book Hedi El Kholti and Robert Dewhurst, as well as selected readings from the book by Colm Tóibín, Miranda July, Constance Debré, Michelle Tea, Brian Kim Stephans, John Tottenham, Andrew Maxwell, Sheree Rose, Matias Viegener, and Luka Fisher.
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Kevin Killian was a poet, author, editor, and playwright. For decades, he was a charismatic participant in San Francisco's New Narrative writing circle. He was the co-founder of the Poets Theater, an influential poetry, stage, and performance group, and co-edited My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2009) with Peter Gizzi.
Dodie Bellamy is novelist, poet, and essayist, who, in her own words, champions "the vulnerable, the fractured, the disenfranchised, the fucked-up". Recent books include Bee Reaved (Semiotext[e], 2021) and When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext[e], 2015), among others. She and Kevin Killian edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997 (Nightboat, 2017). https://www.belladodie.com
Hedi El Kholti is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. He is coeditor of Semiotext(e), alongside Chris Kraus, and editor of Semiotext(e)’s “occasional intellectual journal,” Animal Shelter.
Robert Dewhurst is a writer and editor. He holds a PhD in English from the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where he participated in the Buffalo Poetics Program. With Joshua Beckman and CAConrad, he coedited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books, 2015), and he has since been writing a literary biography of Wieners. Other recent writings include an introduction to the expanded second edition of David Rattray’s How I Became One of the Invisible (Semiotext(e), 2019), and a foreword to Alice Notley’s The Speak Angel Series (Fonograf Editions, 2023). He lives in Altadena, CA.