the 33rd ANNUAL NEW YEARS DAY MARATHON READING AT THE POETRY PROJECT


THERE'S NO POETRY READING LIKE THIS ON EARTH! AND IF YOU HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED THE MARATHON AT St. Mark's Poetry Project THEN MAKE 2007 YOUR FIRST TIME!

READING STARTS AT 2PM with Douglas Dunn, Maggie Estep, John Coletti, Tracey McTague Erica Kaufman, Jenny Smith, Dael Orlandersmith, Edwin Torres, Christopher Martin, Anne Tardos, Rebecca Moore, Nina Karacosta, Bob Hershon, Filip Marinovic, Wanda Phipps, Shanxing Wang, John Giorno, Jen Benka, Tim Peterson, Michael Scharf, R. Erica Doyle, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Duriel Harris, Simone White, Joanna Fuhrman, Frank Sherlock, Todd Colby, Ed Friedman, Eliot Katz, Michael Cirelli, Steve Earle, Chris Rael, Joshua Clover, Lenny Kaye, Lytle Shaw, Donna Brook, Dale Sherrard, Murat Nemet-Nejat, John S. Hall, Eve Packer, Steven Hall, Brenda Bordofsky, CAConrad, Patti Smith, Maggie Dubris, Evan Kennedy, Susan Briante, Simon Pettet, Merry Fortune, Nathaniel Siegel, Rodrigo Toscano, Stephanie Gray, Dan Machlin, Stacy Szymaszek, Anselm Berrigan, Stefania Iryne Marthakis, Elinor Nauen, David Cameron, David Vogen, Urayoan Noel, Patricia Spears Jones, Carol Mirakove, Farid Matuk, Tracie Morris, Barbara Blatner, Elliott Sharp, Tisa Bryant, Jim Carroll, Brenda Coultas, Mónica de la Torre, Kimiko Hahn, Tony Hoffman, Amy King, Rachel Levitsky, Eileen Myles, Lee Ranaldo, Gillian McCain, Erika Recordon, Evelyn Reilly, Keith Roach, Renato Rosaldo, Lauren Russell, Brian Kim Stefans, Anne Waldman, Brendan Lorber, John Sinclair, Christopher Stackhouse, Dustin Williamson, Marisol Limon Martinez, Lourdes Vazquez, Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov, Bruce Weber, Tony Towle, Janet Hamill, Billy Lamont, Jeffrey Jullich, Vicki Hudspith, Michael Lydon and Ellen Mandel, Guillermo Castro, Nada Gordon and Gary Sullivan, Peter Bushyeager, Cliff Fyman, Samantha Barrow, Kimberly Lyons, Arlo Quint, Regie Cabico, Ted Greenwald, Bill Kushner, Susan Landers, Bob Rosenthal, Thomas Savage, Harris Schiff, Jacqueline Waters, Max Blagg, Taylor Mead, Jim Behrle, Nicole Blackman, Tao Lin, Eric Bogosian, Robert Dunn, Mitch Highfill, Kazim Ali, Adeena Karasick, Edmund Berrigan, Jess Fiorini, Greg Fuchs, MacGregor Card, Drew Gardner, Bob Holman, Martha Oatis, Tonya Foster, Marcella Durand, Steve Cannon, Adam DeGraff, Karen Weiser, Prageeta Sharma, Yoshiko Chuma, Stephen Paul Miller, David Henderson, Jim Neu, Jordan Davis, Emily XYZ, Bill Berkson, Rich O'Russa, Sharon Mesmer, Don Yorty, Citizen Reno, Hal Sirowitz, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Paul Vazquez, Marty Ehrlich, Erica Hunt, Dana Bryant, Philip Glass, Bethany Spiers, Brenda Iijima, Stephan Smith, Penny Arcade, Katie Degentesh, Paolo Javier and that's that! Admission $16 general, $12 students & seniors, $10 members.

PHILADELPHIA INK

December 10th, 2006
2pm
at Robin's Bookstore
108 S. 13th St.
Philadelphia


For more details
click
HERE

FRANK O'HARA'S 80th birthday CELEBRATION!


WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH, 8PM
The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church
131 E. 10th St., New York City

A celebration and reading of the work of the brilliant and widely influential poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966; author of Lunch Poems, Meditations in an Emergency, and Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara), for the purposes of honoring his 80th birthday and hearing the poems. Readers will include Bill Berkson, Ned Rorem, Tony Towle, CAConrad, Eileen Myles, Anne Waldman, Greg Fuchs, Taylor Mead, Maureen O'Hara, Patricia Spears Jones, Olivier Brossard, Bob Holman, John Yau, Kimberly Lyons, Lytle Shaw, and a number more. Co-sponsored by Poet's House and the Museum of Modern Art.

TERROR BEGINS @ HOME /)/)/)/)/)O(\(\(\(\(\ CELEBRATING ANNE CECIL


TERROR BEGINS @ HOME

NOVEMBER 18TH, 7pm
EVENT IS FREE
$3 beers on tap provided by YARDS
a poetry reading by
Greg Fuchs & CAConrad
read as part of the installation art of Anne Cecil
click here for NEXUS
NEXUS FOUNDATION GALLERY
137 North 2nd Street
Philadelphia
215.629.1103

CELEBRITIES I'VE SEEN OFF STAGE

Announcing the fourth Installment of the Circle Storytelling Series: Real
People Telling Real Stories in Real Time. THIS WEEK's THEME: "CELEBRITIES
I’VE SEEN OFF STAGE"


This week's Raconteurs include Poet CACONRAD, The NOTORIOUS AD (as in
AMOROSI), Actor/Writer TOM BOURKE, The Alluring ANDREA DEVORA (AKA Mistress
DRE-LO ) and the One, the Only VECK MCCARTY.


MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13th
8pm
BAR NOIR
112 S. 18th Street
FREE


Hosted By Nicole McEwan
if you're a storyteller or know one please contact her at
nicoledmcewan@hotmail.com

BOOG: Mooncalf Press EVENT

Boog City presents
d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Thurs. Nov. 2, 6:00 p.m., free
ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by
Mooncalf Press editor CAConrad

Featuring readings from

Kristen Gallagher
Frank Sherlock

With music from

Pepi Ginsberg
and
So L'il

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

ALLEN GINSBERG

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST, 2006 8PM
The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church
131 E. 10th St., New York City


A reading of Allen Ginsberg's work across his life, in part to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Howl, in part to celebrate the publication of Bill Morgan's new biography I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, and, largely, to hear the work. Readers and performers will include Alice Notley, Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman, Bob Rosenthal, Edwin Torres, Lee Renaldo, Simon Pettet, Eileen Myles, Eliot Katz, Steven Taylor, CAConrad, Bill Morgan and more.

))))))))))(( ZINC BAR ))((((((((((

Corrine Fitzpatrick & CAConrad

HOSTED BY THE ONE AND ONLY
Jim Behrle

SUNDAY
October 29th, 7pm
ZINC BAR
90 West Houston

for directions click here

SOFT SKULL @ THE 215 FESTIVAL 10/08/06



October 8th, 2006
Lovingly Bound: Small Press Book Fair and Reading from Soft Skull Press
1-5pm, Rosenbach Museum and Library, 2008-2010 DeLancey Place (between Pine and Spruce), Center City, Philadelphia, FREE
Shop for books, each one independently published and lovingly bound, at the 215 Festival's Small Press Book Fair. Browse tables from indie publishers, including Soft Skull Press and Philly's own Active Bladder, and stock up on bags, buttons, bookmarks and other literary-themed goods from local crafters.
At 4pm, catch a reading by three Soft Skull authors, Jen Benka, CAConrad, and Mark Swartz.
for FULL 215 Festival details click HERE

Michael Ball's BALTIMORE SERIES

Saturday, October 7th, 2006
4 pm - 6 pm

CAConrad, Shanna Compton, Buck Downs

Clayton & Co. Fine Books
317 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
410-752-6800

MONDAY OCTOBER 2ND THE WAVE BUS TOUR!

On Monday, October 2nd, the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour will bring 14 poet-readers to The FUEL Collection (former MTV Real World House), 3rd and Arch, Philadelphia, at 6 pm:

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John Yau Frank Sherlock Molly Russakoff

Pargeeta Sharma CAConrad

Brenda Shaughnessy Thomas Sayers Ellis Catie Rosemurgy

Joshua Beckman Nick Flynn

Eric Baus Dorothea Lasky Matthew Zapruder

Major Jackson performance art by: Typing Explosion

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Food and Drink provided!

San Francisco's SPT with Magdalena Zurawski!!!!!!!

A HOLY SHIT FEST

Friday, September 22, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.

Magdalena Zurawski of THE BRUISE
CAConrad of DEVIANT PROPULSION

at Small Press Traffic ... SPT web details click
HERE

Unless otherwise noted, events are $5-10, sliding scale, free to current SPT members and CCA faculty, staff, and students.

Unless otherwise noted, our events are presented in Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco (just off the intersection of 16th & Wisconsin)

September 13th BRIDGETTE MAYER GALLERY


September 13th, 2006
7pm @
709 Walnut Street
Philadelphia
I'll be reading from "going to 108"
(an astral porjection series)
with paintings by
Alexis Serio

PETE'S CANDY STORE

Saturday, August 26th @ Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 11211

Uncle LD Beghtol
So L'il
CAConrad
I Feel Tractor


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Uncle LD Beghtol
File under: Experimental Countrypolitan Deathpop.
Please see: http://www.myspace.com/thenewcriticism
and: http://thenewcriticism.com

So L'il
Please see: http://solil.net
and: http://www.myspace.com/solil

CAConrad
Please see: http://caconrad.blogspot.com/

I Feel Tractor
Please see: http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor
http://goodbyebetter.com for more info.

Shafer Hall
Please see: http://shaferhall.blogspot.com/
and paintings by Merry Parker

PHILADELPHIANS AGAINST SANTORUM fundraiser

The event is a Housie Dearest party whose 6$ cover is to benefit our dearest friends Philadelphians Against Santorum. The goal being to raise awareness for their mission to register 10,000 new voters and get out 100,000 new and infrequent voters to trounce Santorum this fall.

AUGUST 12th, 7pm

WEST PHILLY, at 213 S. 46th St. Two Blocks off the 46th EL stop and directly off the left of the 21 bus or a block from the 42.


PERFORMERS:

Purple Rhinestone Eagle

CAConrad

Rifle Nice

House of Fire

And of course you can tell friends Yards has graciously donated beer, BUT perhaps most important of all, that Ms. Lisa Lisa, The Girl So Nice They Named Her Twice, will be the evenings presiding MC!!

And if you havent already fainted from excitement yet, a local artist is contributing a Santorum themed Pinata!

Philadelphia FESTIVAL to benefit Project H.O.M.E.

Mike Land has put together an amazing show for July 29th at the Highwire Gallery. In his generosity he has turned this night into a benefit for PROJECT H.O.M.E.

Thanks so much Mike Land!

For details of all the bands, poets and other artists performing on the 29th, visit Mike Land's MY SPACE page.

reading with Hassen, Charles Moxley, and Jim Trainer at the Philadelphia CHARLES BUKOWSKI FESTIVAL ON JULY 1ST

(from the press release)

7:30 pm Poetry reading before the film featuring Hassen, CAConrad, Charles Moxley, Jim Trainer...They will be choosing a few poems of Bukowski's to read as well as their own work.

7:30 pm, July 1st
at the old CINEMA
on Walnut, between 39th & 40th

reading followed by the film
"Charles Bukowski, Born Into This" directed by John Dullaghan MPAA: Rated R for language and sexual content/nudity.Runtime: 130 min Shown on projection DVD

this event is part of
Sex, Drink, and Classical Music (a weeklong tribute to Charles Bukowski) includes 3 screenings of "Born Into This" the 2003 documentary, a screening called "The Dangers of Alcohol" as seen on Educational and After School Specials. A poetry reading before the film of his work by local poets (and a fewof their own), and live show tribute to classical music and cheap wine at Tritone, featuring Victory and Good Hunting, Gregg Mervine & Kevin Kelly, and a special set by Kelli Shay Hicks (from Nashville)

a NEW Philly series (for just the summer?) at a local INDEPENDENT coffee house not BRAND of the consumer whores

Chapter & Verse: a night of poetry and prose

with CAConrad
Mecca Sullivan
Ryan Eckes
followed by an open reading

at Chapterhouse Cafe & Gallery
620 S. 9th St. (btwn South & Bainbridge)
June 24th @ 8pm

This new summer reading series will be an unrestricted, open
forum for people to: promote their (or others') projects,
plan future sessions, release zines, commision new projects,
anything that helps build the literary community in philly.
For more info: the-stylus.blogspot.com

June 17th NYC book party with Shanna Compton, Jen Benka, and Jessy Delfino at the Bowery Poetry Club


BIG THANKS to the amazing Shanna Compton for putting this event together!

below is from an announcement Shanna has put together to be circulated for the 6/17 event.

Saturday, June 17 at 2:30 PM* at the Bowery Poetry Club
NYC launch party for CAConrad's Deviant Propulsion with CAConrad, Jen Benka,
Shanna Compton & music by Jessy Delfino

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
(between Bleecker & Houston)
Manhattan
*2:30PM, readings start promptly at 3:00. (For real this time!)

6 to Bleecker or F/V to 2nd Ave

& an afterparty, afterward....

Join us all at 288 Bar (aka Tom & Jerry's) around the block
for happy hour & more celebration of Deviant Propulsion

288 Bar (aka Tom & Jerry's)
288 Elizabeth Street
Manhattan

CAConrad is the author of Deviant Propulsion, from Soft Skull Press: click here

Jen Benka is the author of A Box of Longing with 50 Drawers, from Soft Skull
Press: click here

Shanna Compton is the author of Down Spooky, from Winnow Press, and the editor
of GAMERS, from Soft Skull Press: click here

Jessy Delfino's CD Dirty Folk Rolk was recently glowingly reviewed by famed
writer Byron Coley, and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, in Arthur Magazine. For
more info, visit her website

reading on June 15th at VOICES & VISIONS in Philly

(below is the announcement by Bob Small of Poets & Prophets, as this is an event sponsored by Bob and Anne-Adele Wight)

We begin with our on-going Third Thursday Night Series
at Voices and Visions Bookstore
in the Bourse at 4th and Ranstead
(one block South of Market St).
This month we will feature CAConrad
in our Philadelphia Pride Month Reading.
This Reading will be on Thursday, June 15th at 7.
A donation is requested and an open will follow.
Refreshments are available.

666: An OFF THE WALL GALLERY EVENT!!!!!!!


JUNE 6TH, 2006
5-8pm


reading at the
OFF THE WALL GALLERY
art opening at
DIRTY FRANKS
13th & Pine, Philadelphia

ARTISTS HANGING AND SHOWING WORK: jed mauger williams, terry wendelken, mara wave, laura wagner, wayne urffer, marlise tkaczuk, bill strobel, joseph rose, joanna platt, don vincent ortega, carlos nunez, melissa nannen, aidan moran, camillo marziani, judah konigsberg, john gilbert, bob jackson, donald dixon, christopher dima, becca dent, melissa crotty, jack coulter

TORCH MAGAZINE!

Save the date!!!! Bring ALL your friends!!!!

May 27, 6-8 pm

At the Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York, NY
212.614.0505

Party!! and Reading for Torch Magazine #4

TORCH MAGAZINE #4 INCLUDES:

Interview with Sharon Mesmer

Writing from: Ian Bascetta, Charles Bernstein, CA Conrad, Aaron Kiely, Chris Martin, Tracey McTague, Sharon Mesmer, Kish Song Bear, Rodrigo Toscano and more

Visual work from: Esther Levine, Chris Martin, Paul Martin and Tracey McTague and more

Readings from contributors at the party!!!

Admission: $6!!! (cheaper than V for Vendetta!!)

POETRY / POLITICS / PROXIMITY :: Third Annual Kerry Sherin Wright PROGRAM


Do you know your neighbors? What kinds of lives take place around you?What kinds of noises are there? Have things noticeably changed sinceBush took office?

Please join us at the Kelly Writers House on Thursday, April 27th at7pm, when six writers will read commissioned work about themicroclimate and micropolitics of their neighborhoods, within 100meters. Featuring:

*** CAConrad *** Jamie-Lee Josselyn ***
*** Jenn McCreary ***Jena Osman ***
*** Frank Sherlock ***John Taggart ***
POETRY / POLITICS / PROXIMITY.
Third Annual Kerry Sherin Wright program.
Thursday, April 27th, 7pm.
Hosted by Josh Schuster and Jessica Lowenthal
[Kelly Writers House is located
at 3805 Locust Walk
on UofPenn Campus,
Philadelphia]

BOOK PARTY with Shanna Compton in Philadelphia, April 9th



BOOK PARTY: CAConrad & Shanna Comptom


(click on titles:)
DEVIANT PROPULSION and DOWN SPOOKY !!!!!!!

SUNDAY
April 9th
4pm
ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE
(Philadelphia's OLDEST independent bookstore!!!! SUPPORT IT!!!! KEEP IT ALIVE!!!!)
108 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia
(phone) 215.735.9600
http://www.robinsbookstore.com/
EVENT IS FREE!
THERE WILL BE WINE (DELICIOUS wine!)