It was a sticky night at the lower east side menswear store “Le Pere,” where dozens of downtown New York’s sceney regulars filled the room to see the viral phenomenon “Woah Vicky” read her original poems. Publicist Mitchell Jackson has a nose for this generation’s enfants terribles – besides Vicky herself, a few of his clients dotted the crowd, including playwright Matt Gasda and the memoirist Caroline Calloway. The reading drew the usual familiar faces, including celebrity photographer Matthew Weinberger, Byline co-founder Gutes Guterman, and writers Mackenzie Thomas and Michael Crumplar.

Woah Vicky, the marquee reader of the evening, is a 26-year-old influencer from Atlanta, who first became famous as a teenager for a string of racial controversies and celebrity feuds. In recent years, however, she’s become a born-again Christian, lately surfacing in the public eye for her sweet on-camera interactions with the looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular. She is best known to the downtown New York audience for her singular typo-ridden tweeting style, often drawing from scripture to make a point about the difficulties of a life walking with the Lord.

‘My poem on Kamala Harris,’ announced Vicky. ‘Kamala is a........

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