July 11th

Henry Goldkamp teaches clown and cartoon at Louisiana State University, serves as associate editor of Tilted House, and acts as communications director for the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Recent books include Not My Circus (Ursus Americanus, 2025), JOY BUZZER: A Clown Show (Ricochet Editions, 2025), and Balloon Animal (Cloak, 2026). More at henrygoldkamp.com.

Pete Dennis is a musician, improviser, and creative technologist/live coder. Pete has performed primarily as a bassist for much of their life, often doing multiple performances a week. In 2024 Pete got interested in programming inspired by a number of electronic and computer musicians. The medium of livecode is so appealing to Pete because showing your code throughout the performance is inherently anti-gatekeeping and promotes community engagement with the practice.

Valerie Hsiung is a poet who writes between worlds, where language meets ritual and abolition meets afterlife. Drawing on diasporic, ecological, and metaphysical inquiry, her books dissolve the borders of poetry, prose, performance and philosophy into a single listening body. She is the author of eight full-length books, including The pedestrian (Nightboat Books), The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath), _To love an artis_t (Essay Press), and outside voices, please (CSU). Recipient of the Nightboat Prize, the Essay Book Prize, selected by Renee Gladman, and the CSU Poetry Prize, fellowships and residencies from the Camargo Foundation and Lighthouse Works as well as grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts and PEN America, she teaches writing at the limits of language at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Her ceremonial work and pedagogy has been studied by researchers on the subject of emancipatory practices including Sophie Orlando. Born to Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the foothills of Colorado.

Knotty Pine is a solo acoustic project from a member formerly of the band Wescansin

Feliz Lucia Molina is a poet and psychotherapist from Los Angeles and currently living in Pittsburgh with her partner and two young daughters. She is the author of Undercastle, Roulette, The Wes Letters, and a few chapbooks, Her poems have been supported by or featured in The Poetry Foundation, Poem-A-Day at the Academy of American Poets, The Guggenheim Museum, PEN America, Fence Magazine, among others.

Tom Snarsky (he/him) is the author of Light-Up Swan and Reclaimed Water (Ornithopter Press), A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems (Animal Heart Press), and most recently MOUNTEBANK(Broken Sleep Books). His chapbook Tired Light is forthcoming from Thirty West Publishing House in October. He lives in the mountains of northwestern Virginia with his wife Kristi and their cats.