These Fxckxing Clowns: Joy Buzzer Release Party // Poetry Show

"JOY BUZZER flips off the voltaic artifice of the gag greeting to deliver a page-breaking stand-up elegy to all the readers in the audience. At the speed of fun, virtuoso poet-clown Henry juggles conceptual gags and prop poetry with the punchy poetics of an éclair de loon dancing and pratfalling at the avant-cringe of performance. This is deeply-lived poetry as clown show, clown show embodied as poetry—textual, gestural, and riotously alive in the body—dedicated to all the fuckos who've had beef with the moon. You don't have to "get it" to have a gas—get "down to clonw" and step into Goldkamp's kaleidoscopicvalise. You'll laugh as your head and heart fill up into soft, radiant balloons of delight."—Stine An

Henry Goldkamp lives in New Orleans, where he teaches poetry and performance studies at Louisiana State University, hosts the reading series Splice, and serves as communications director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. He is the author of Not My Circus (Ursus Americanus, 2025) and JOY BUZZER: A Clown Show (Ricochet Editions, 2025). Recent creative work, performance, and criticism appears in discount guillotine, Annulet, Chicago Review, Poetry Northwest, Triquarterly, DIAGRAM, and Denver Quarterly, among others. More at henrygoldkamp.com.

Léon Pradeau is a poet and translator. He is the founding editor of Transat', a journal of poetry in two languages. Lately, he's been translating Anne Portugal into English, and Kai Ihns into French.

Talia Gordon woke up today & said, "I'm good," then looked at you & said, "you're good too, let's get it." So here we are all together in the presence of a poet who knows what's up.

Christine Kanownik knows how to make balloon animals with her mind. One in five balloon animals comes to life & requires yr full attention. There will be a test afterward.

River Bend River met on a balmy night, found their music in a treehouse, have come down to Earth to teach us how to fly.

Doors 6pm

Start 6:30pm

Run Time 55 mins

FREE

Host or Publisher Book Suey