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Kevin Killian, almost certainly the most important contemporary figure in poets theater, passed away on June 15, 2019. Here are some remembrances via KQED, Frieze, and Artforum. Others will follow. Kevin co-edited The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945-1985 and his selected plays comprise Stage Fright. Kevin is the author of more than forty plays. His […]

…a work of fiction allows you to capture reality and at the same time what it conceals. —Marcel Broodthaers It’s a dire summer. There is no escape, but there is an answer. Read fiction that reveals. All Kenning Editions titles that have been rumored or marketed as fiction are on sale through Sunday, $7.00 lowly a piece! Juana […]

Over at Tarpaulin Sky: Oh holy hell, this is good. These are texts (mostly poems) written by the Venezuelan poet, journalist, and screenwriter Miyó Vestrini between 1960 and 1990. I’ve slowed down my reading of Grenade in Mouth to maybe a line or two at a time as I want it to last as long as possible. […]

Charles O’Malley on Kevin Killian’s Stage Fright via LAMBDA Literary: The plays in Stage Fright argue for a theater that can respond to the moment as quickly and efficiently as a poem, a sketch, a song, or a slap-dash piece of cultural criticism…caustic and wonderfully bizarre. https://www.lambdaliterary.org/…/fiction/06/17/stage-fright/

Reporting with deep sadness today: Kevin Killian has passed away. His selected plays, Stage Fright, was launched just under a month ago at The Stud in San Francisco. I flew out flew out from Chicago to see Kevin and the performance of “Box of Rain” he (and the great Maxe Crandall) put on there. Kevin […]

We are pleased to announce the publication of Devin King’s fourth book of poetry, The Grand Complication. Life on earth was a hot mess for Oedipus’s sons and daughters. Could there be a more fitting time to revisit the Theban cycles? In Devin King’s surprising, lively recasting, the ground is constantly grounded and slipping out […]

Just for kicks, books by Kevins and Jesses are on sale this week, June 3-7, for $10.00 a piece, through the Kenning Editions website. That includes the very first “real” book we published, Jesse Seldess’ Who Opens, plus the follow-up, Left Having. Kevin Killian’s Stage Fright: Selected Plays from San Francisco Poets Theater and The […]

Says Kathleen Rooney in an independent-press, summer reading round up this week: Out from Kenning Editions, the unforgettable Grenade in Mouth by the Venezuelan poet Miyo Vestrini is every bit as explosive as its title indicates. Translated collaboratively by poets Anne Boyer and Cassandra Gillig, this book offers a simultaneously morbid and hilarious selection of Vestrini’s poetry […]