CLOWN STAR
Poetry Reading by Marshall Woodward

Friday March 25th, 6 PM

Marshall Woodward is a Gulf Coast born and raised poet who grounds his work in the destruction and reconstruction of the body. He began his artistic practice through French critical theory and geosciences and has used these lenses to expand his process into a body of work focused on masculinity and Texas as an environment. He loves Twin Peaks. He loves Riverdale. He is grateful for the support he received from mentors at the Gulkistan Creative Residency in Laugarvatn, Iceland and to Elaine Kahn, Ben Fama and Emily Hunt for the access they provide digital poetry communities.

CLOWN STAR is a chapbook about the disintegration of the male body and the heavenly bodies — the end of earth as we will it closer with every self-destructive act. This collection of poems circles the rot of earth, celebrating a sublime landscape filled with fading treasures in our shared toxic cadaver. It is made of exuberant decay, bodily distortions, heavenly cries, and comical cossmic eulogies. Language is deconstructed, destroyed, and rebuilt into a broken but hopeful lyric.