a reading from
the new anthology
edited by MATTILDA
at
Saturday
March 24th
5:30pm
SPRING 2012 WEST COAST BOOK TOUR
ON TOUR with my new book JUST VOTED top of the BEST OF by POETS & WRITERS Magazine!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!! I'm very HAPPY!!!!
OLYMPIA
Wednesday, 3/14/12
in the LIBRARY UNDERGROUND
7:30pm
SEATTLE
Thursday, 3/15/12
905 12TH AVENUE
7pm
PORTLAND
Friday, 3/16/12
with JAMES GENDRON
for BAD BLOOD Reading Series
@ADX - 417 SE 11TH
7:30 MINGLE 8:30 POETRY
SAN FRANCISCO
Sunday, 3/18/12
with EILEEN MYLES and DAVID BUUCK
for SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC Poetry Series
992 VALENCIA STREET
5pm
MANY THANKS TO THE CURATORS
I LOVE
WHAT YOU DO
FOR POETRY
BOOK PARTY Thursday, March 8th, 2012 at 5:30pm
CAConrad & Lonely Christopher
(corner of 12th and Pine, Philadelphia)
COPIES OF A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: New (Soma)tics (Wave Books), and THE MECHANICS OF HOMOSEXUAL INTERCOURSE (Akashic Books), will be for sale! (SPECIAL DISCOUNTS this night ONLY!)
@ MAGIC PICTURES on March 3rd
Saturday, March 3
7PM
618 Hoffman Street
Philadelphia, PA
click HERE for map
donation ($5 suggested)
CAConrad, Linh Dinh,
Jeremy Hoevenaar, Bonnie Jones,
RM O'Brien, Ed Steck
CELEBRATING GIL OTT 2.26.12
Arrive on Wave, the collected poems of Gil Ott will be celebrated at The Painted Bride Arts Center!!!! Click HERE for more details!
BUUCK, TEARE, & MOURE @ MOONSTONE, Philadelphia
I'm very excited
to be introducing the poets
(David Buuck is visiting from Oakland and has LOTS to tell us about the OCCUPY Movement in Oakland)
THURSDAY
February 23rd
7pm
at MOONSTONE
110 S. 13th St. up on 2nd floor
(between Chestnut & Sansom on 13th)
PHILADELPHIA
with CAMILLE ROY & PATRICK LUCY 2.13.12
con/crescent press reading series
(curated by Nicholas DeBoer & Jamie Townsend)
it will be at Higher Grounds Coffee Shop
631 North 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123 (7:00-9:00 pm)
($5 suggested donation)
Thanks and we look forward to seeing you there!
THESE AND OTHER DETAILS AT THIS LINK
2.4.12 FRANK O'HARA'S QUEER LITTER
I'm hosting an evening of poetry at Giovanni's Room Bookstore with some of THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY young queer poets! Each will read a favorite Frank O'Hara poem, then from their own work!
Paul Legault
Zachary Pace
Adam Fitzgerald
Andrew Durbin
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH, 5:30pm
corner of 12th & Pine, Philadelphia
Please click THIS LINK for further details!
New Years Day at St. Mark's Church!
I'm reading with a hundred other poets to raise money for St. Mark's Poetry Project! COME TO THE READING! IT'S AMAZING FUN! AND IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT THEN PLEASE CONSIDER SENDING THEM A DONATION!
12/15/11 in NYC for PROJECTION Series
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
I'm very excited to be reading
with ARIANA REINES, BEN FAMA
and ANDREW DURBIN
8pm
CPR Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1
Brooklyn, NY
in Boise, Idaho 11/18/11
CLICK HERE FOR SERIES WEBSITE!
Torin Jensen is a poet currently embroiled in a labyrinth of dreams, stage directions, indiscernible voices and the mis-diagnosed desires of the mouth. His blood runs Montanan but he grew up in the great city of Boise, a familiar place that continues to surprise.GHOSTS & PROJECTORS is a poetry reading series curated by poet Megan Williams that brings together the page, slam, experimental, lyrical, cowboy, etc poets that all live in Idaho yet never seem to be invited to the same readings, connects community-based audiences with a broad range of established and local poets, and connects local and non-local poets by giving them the opportunity to share the stage.
Hyde Park Books is an independently owned and operated new and used bookstore that has delivered mystery, intrigue, and intellectual delight to Boise’s North End neighborhood for twenty-seven years.
GHOSTS & PROJECTORS is made possible by generous funding from the Boise City Department of Arts & History and Boise State University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.
AND I'M also CONDUCTING A (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop in Boise on the 19th, details at THIS LINK
CELEBRATING BERN PORTER
Bern Porter and Ecopoetics:
A Discussion with
CAConrad and Jena Osman
November 15, 2011
3:30pm – 5:00 pm
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th Street
On the north side of Norris Street between 12th and 13th Streets
(Cecil B. Moore Stop on the Broad Street Line)
The Temple Gallery will host a discussion of Bern Porter’s poetry and
its relationship to ecopoetics, followed by a found-making workshop.
Ecopoetics addresses the environment in all of its complexity; it
includes both the butterfly and the bulldozer. Although the term
“ecopoetics” didn’t exist when Bern Porter started writing poetry, it
is a term that now helps us to better understand his projects. Porter
started out as a scientist and worked on the Manhattan Project, which
created the first atomic bomb. After the bomb was detonated, he quit
his job and devoted his life to making art. He is perhaps best
remembered for his founds, which were spare collages that
recontextualized words one can find in everyday places like fashion
magazines or junk mail. During the course of this event, participants
will listen to Bern Porter's poetry (read by CAConrad), discuss
entropy and recycling in relation to Porter’s work, the idea of waste
as an essential component of energy, and the notion of permaculture.
Additionally, participants are asked to bring a non-precious piece of
paper with text (from a magazine or newspaper, or perhaps selected
randomly), which will be incorporated into a collective found and hung
in the Temple Gallery at the culmination of the workshop.
Jena Osman's latest book of poetry is The Network (selected for the
National Poetry series in 2009 and published by Fence Books). Other
books include An Essay in Asterisks and The Character. She co-edits
the ChainLinks book series with Juliana Spahr, and she teaches
creative writing and literature in the English Department at Temple.
You can read Osman’s essay Bern Porter: Recycling the Atmosphere HERE
CAConrad is a recipient of a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is
the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012), The
Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull
Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a
collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined
(Factory School, 2010). He has taught poetry at St. Mark's Poetry
Project, CUNY Graduate Center, Naropa University, Goucher College, and
elsewhere. Visit him online at THIS LINK
w/ Eileen Myles 10.19.11
EILEEN MYLES and CAConrad
Center Broadsides Reading Series
hosted by Anselm Berrigan
WEDNESDAY, October 19th, 6:30pm
$10 suggested donation ($5 for members)
Center for Book Arts
is at
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10001
(212) 481-0295
last day of MERCURY RETROGRADE reading at 443 PAS
August 12th at WILDE BOYS
SISTERS OF ENNUI
The Dorothea Lasky & CAConrad Story
WILDE BOYS Series
Friday, August 12th, 2011
7:30 pm
Address:
304 Ainslie St., Brooklyn, NY 11211
Directions:
Take the L train to Grand St.
Walk north on Bushwick Ave. two blocks (past Powers) and make a left on Ainslie.
It's the house on the corner of Ainslie & Bushwick; enter through the 2nd door on the left.
with Ana Božičević & Jennifer Chang
The Academy of American Poets
ROOFTOP SERIES
The Arsenal Building at Central Park
64th Street at 5th Avenue, New York, NY
July 14th, 2011
6:30pm
Ana Božičević
Jennifer Chang
CAConrad
all details at
poetry chapbook contest...
(please share with anyone who might be interested, THANKS)
I've been invited to judge the Mad Hatters' poetry chapbook contest. This is the first time I've ever done such a thing, but I can assure you that it will be fair, and that I will read all of the manuscripts.
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT that no one EVER contact ME for information about this contest in order to keep things completely fair. Instead please email the editors with questions at:
press@madhatarts.com
Submission guidelines, entry fee, and WHERE to submit can be found at THIS LINK
Thanks so much, and IF YOU ENTER and I don't pick your manuscript I understand you hating me. That sucks.
Most sincerely,
CAConrad
I've been invited to judge the Mad Hatters' poetry chapbook contest. This is the first time I've ever done such a thing, but I can assure you that it will be fair, and that I will read all of the manuscripts.
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT that no one EVER contact ME for information about this contest in order to keep things completely fair. Instead please email the editors with questions at:
press@madhatarts.com
Submission guidelines, entry fee, and WHERE to submit can be found at THIS LINK
Thanks so much, and IF YOU ENTER and I don't pick your manuscript I understand you hating me. That sucks.
Most sincerely,
CAConrad
(Soma)tics at JUBILANT THICKET 6/12/11 -- 5pm
(Soma)tic poetry EVENT, 6/12/11 in PHILADELPHIA
On Sunday, June 12th, 2011, at 5pm, The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series presents a celebration of (Soma)tics, featuring a reading & discussion by CAConrad, and films by Courtney Shumway.
CACONRAD is the son of white trash asphyxiation. His childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother & helping her shoplift.
COURTNEY SHUMWAY is a series of movements contained within a female body centered out of nowhere & existing forever tomorrow beside you. They were hungry so she fed them. 8. All at once. She is least relevant in the early morning & highly significant at any other time of day, unless the sun is up. She has gone mad with your waiting & fills herself with things untold. In spite of knowing better, she speaks constantly, resulting in her continued presence & frequent misgivings. She is deeply honored to bear, among other tragedies, the affliction of poet.
Please come. This happens, as ever, at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, at 5pm EST.
in Brooklyn w/ Allison Power & others 6/3/11!
Fireside Follies presents:
YR FRIDAY NITE #1
Friday June 3rd, 6pm
Brooklyn Fire Proof
119 Ingraham St. @ Porter Ave.
MAY, 2011 PHILADELPHIA WORKSHOP
SUNDAY
MAY 15th
3pm
Philadelphia
NEW GROWTH
(Soma)tic Poems
workshop is $25
please use the Pay Pal button below
(if you miss the workshop you may use
payment as credit for a future workshop)
PLEASE USE PAY PAL BUTTON TO PURCHASE WORKSHOP
if you would like to make other arrangements to pay
please contact CAConrad888@gmail.com
CAConrad updates the (Soma)tic Poetry Exercises web page monthly. He has also conducted (Soma)tic workshops in Philadelphia, New York City, Seattle, D.C., San Francisco, and elsewhere.
reading at the TIM DLUGOS book launch!
IT IS AN INCREDIBLE HONOR TO HAVE BEEN INVITED TO READ AT THE BOOK LAUNCH FOR POET TIM DLUGOS'S COLLECTED POEMS! FOR DETAILS ON THE BOOK PLEASE CLICK HERE.
READING AT THE POETRY PROJECT
ST. MARK'S, NYC
8PM ON 5.11.11
5 EVENTS IN SEATTLE AREA, Spring 2011
MANY THANKS TO
JEREMY HALINEN
GREG BEM AND
GREGORY LAYNOR
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(Soma)tic WORKSHOP
at SPLAB, Seattle on
SATURDAY
April 30th, 2pm
---
READING with Jeremy Halinen
at OPEN BOOKS, Seattle on
SATURDAY
April 30th, 7:30pm
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READING with Jeremy Halinen
at KING'S BOOKSTORE, Tacoma on
SUNDAY
May 1st, 5pm
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READING with Jeremy Halinen
at SPLAB, Seattle on
SUNDAY
May 1st, 7:30pm
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READING with Jeremy Halinen
at POETRY NIGHT, Bellingham on
MONDAY
May 2nd, 8:30pm
at DUKE 4/23/11
CAConrad
Frank Sherlock
Magdalena Zurawski
Saturday, April 23, 2011, 8pm
Women's Studies Lounge, East Duke Bldg., Duke University's East Campus
For a map go HERE
Free, Open to the Public, BYOB
[This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Reading Group in Contemporary Poetry
(Duke English) & a Kenan-Biddle grant (UNC & Duke)]
TWITTER FOR...
On Monday, April 11th, 2011
I will TWEET all day long for
The Academy of American Poets
Please see THIS LINK
4/2/11 Buffalo reading...
POETRY READING:
Lee Ann Brown
CAConrad
Dorothea Lasky
359 Lafayette Ave. / Buffalo, NY
Saturday, April 2nd,
3 p.m
3 p.m
APRIL (Soma)tic Workshop
SUNDAY
April 10th
3pm
SPRING, WHEN SOMA
OVERTAKES SOMATIC
the poetry in everyone
workshop is $25
please use the Pay Pal button below
(if you miss the workshop you may use
payment as credit for a future workshop)
PLEASE USE PAY PAL BUTTON TO PURCHASE WORKSHOP
if you would like to make other arrangements to pay
please contact CAConrad888@gmail.com
ENCYCLOPEDIA PROJECT reading
The Moles Not Molar Reading
& Performance Series
presents:
An East Coast Launch Party in celebration of
ENCYCLOPEDIA, Vol. 2 F-K
on Sunday, March 27, 2011
7:00PM
@ the Moonstone Arts Center (aka Robin’s Books)
110A S 13th Street (at 13th and Sansom, 2nd Floor)
Encyclopedia is a multi-volume hardcover book project that presents a wide variety of approaches to narrative. Part reference book, part literary journal, each volume appropriates the form of the encyclopedia—from general layout to cross-referencing—as a venue for publishing new, innovative literary and visual works.
Readings by:
Amra Brooks
CAConrad
Carolina Maugeri
Emily Abendroth
Jena Osman
Mary Hoeffel
Patrick Scanlon
3/26/11 for POETRY TIME at SPACE SPACE
Will Edmiston, Stacy Szymaszek,
CAConrad, Lindsey Bolt,
with videos by Deville Cohen
& Brandon Downing.
At SPACE SPACE in Brooklyn, NY,
8pm SEE YOU THERE!
RAINBOW BOOK FAIR 3/26/11
Poets at The Poet’s Salon The Rainbow Book Fair
Saturday March 26 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &
Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street Room 304, NYC
All details at THIS LINK!
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