Henry Goldkamp

Poet

New Orleans, LA
Louisiana US
Email: 
henrygoldkamp@gmail.com
Website: 
henrygoldkamp.com

Author's Bio

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 his performance text, JOY BUZZER, is forthcoming from Ricochet Editions in September 2025. Recent art, criticism, and performance appear in Chicago Review, DIAGRAM, Annulet, Poetry Northwest, and Yalobusha Review, among others. More at henrygoldkamp.com.

Education: 
University of New Orleans MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Experimental Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)
,
Best New Poets (University of Virginia Press, 2021)
Book:
JOY BUZZER (Ricochet Editions, 2025)
Journals:
Bat City Review
,
Big Other
,
Bullshit Lit
,
Chicago Review
,
Cobra Milk
,
Crab Creek Review
,
Denver Quarterly
,
Diagram
,
Dream Pop Press
,
Fourteen Hills
,
Grist: The Journal for Writers
,
Harpur Palate
,
Idaho Review
,
Indiana Review
,
Mercury Firs
,
Minnesota Review
,
Narrative
,
Nat. Brut
,
Notre Dame Review
,
Petrichor
,
Pinch
,
Poetry Northwest
,
PromptPress
,
RHINO
,
Rougarou
,
Sonora Review
,
Split Lip Magazine
,
Sprung Formal
,
Swamp Ape Review
,
Texas Review
,
Timber
,
TriQuarterly
,
Works & Days Quarterly
,
Yalobusha Review
Prizes won: 

2019 Academy of American Poets Prize, 2022 Editors' Hybrid Prize from Bat City Review, 2024 Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop Participant, 2024 Pushcart Prize nomination for "puff puff" in Yalobusha Review

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Danill Kharms, Cecilia Vicuña, Nicanor Parra, N.H. Pritchard
What I'm reading now: 
The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht, The Semiotics of Clown and Clowning by Paul Bouissac, Technicians of the Sacred by Jerome Rothenberg

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
Saint Louis, MO
Missouri
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Last update: Mar 22, 2025