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Talk. Transcription. Why are our conversations smarter than our scholarship? And who said that?
Taking off from A Field of Telephones (published by 53rd State Press in 2025), Zach Savich's Phonebank is a book of conversation as performance, of criticism as a documentary buzz in the party line. This unique play unfolds as a tender game of telephone between friends, writers, and scholars Savich, Michael Loughran, and Caryl Pagel. Phonebank is both a critical text and an invitation to play—or, put simply, a conversation.
Zach Savich is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Momently (Black Ocean, 2024), and several chapbooks, limited-edition volumes, and books of prose. His work has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, the CSU Poetry Center’s Open Book Award, and other honors, including residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, ArtPark, and the Chautauqua Institution. His writing has appeared in journals and anthologies including American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Boston Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Savich teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art and serves as co-editor of Rescue Press’s Open Prose Series. He is a 2025 recipient of a fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Michael Loughran is the author of a memoir, Windower (Cleveland State University Poetry Center).
Caryl Pagel is the author of four books, most recently Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press) and Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2). She was the recipient of the 2025 Lorine Niedecker Fellowship and makes books at Rescue Press.