Review of Kevin Killian’s Padam Padam: The Collected Poems.
A review of Kevin Killian’s Padam Padam: Collected Poems, edited by Evan Kennedy and Jason Morris (Nightboat Books, 2025). This review discusses Killian’s poetry in the context of his work across genres, with particular attention to poets theater and experimental theater’s relevance to contemporary poetics.
Zach Savich’s latest books include the poetry collection Momently (Black Ocean, 2024) and the hybrid critical-memoir-for-performance A Field of Telephones (53rd State, 2025). He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art and with the PhD in Creativity at Rowan University. He serves as co-editor of Rescue Press’s Open Prose Series. A new book of writing for performance, Phonebank, is forthcoming in 2026.