The Splice Poetry Series: Sommer Browning & Henry Goldkamp

Sommer Browning & Henry Goldkamp will read their poems at Saturn Bar on Saturday, September 20^th @ 6:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public and is supported in part by http://litwire.org/

Sommer Browning is a poet who also writes about art and draws. Her latest book is Good Actors (Birds, LLC; 2022). She’s the author of two other collections of poetry, Backup Singers and Either Way I’m Celebrating, as well as the artist book, The Circle Book (Cuneiform Press), the joke book, You’re On My Period (Counterpath), and others. From 2017-2023, she ran GEORGIA, an art space in her garage in Denver. In 2023, she adapted her book Good Actors into a one-woman show, performing it all over the US. Her work has appeared in Burnaway, Hyperallergic, Lit Hub, Bomb, Artforum, Chicago Review, The American Poetry Review, The Comics Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in Virginia.

Henry Goldkamp (he/they) lives in New Orleans, where he teaches experimental poetics and clown at Louisiana State University, hosts the poetry series Splice, edits intermedia for Tilted House, 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, forthcoming from Ricochet Editions in September 2025. Recent art, criticism, and performance appear in Chicago Review, DIAGRAM, Annulet, Poetry Northwest, Triquarterly and Yalobusha Review, among others. More at henrygoldkamp.com.