1/3/10 STEIN URCHIN EVENT

for all details click HERE

St. Mark's Poetry Project 1/1/10

36th Annual New Year's Day
Marathon Benefit Reading at
THE POETRY PROJECT
Friday January 1, 2010
2:00 pm - 2:00 am

Poets and performers this year include: Ammiel Alcalay, Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers, Penny Arcade, Arthur’s Landing, Ari Banias, Jim Behrle, Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Ana Bozicevic, Donna Brook, Michael Brownstein, Franklin Bruno, Tyler Burba, Peter Bushyeager, Reuben Butchart, Callers, Steve Cannon, Yoshiko Chuma, Church Of Betty, Michael Cirelli, Todd Colby, John Coletti, CAConrad, Cori Copp, Brenda Coultas, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Mónica de la Torre, Mina Pam Dick, Steve Dalachinsky, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Maggie Dubris, Douglas Dunn, Marcella Durand, Steve Earle, Will Edmiston, Joe Elliot, Christine Elmo, Laura Elrick, Maggie Estep, Avram Fefer, Jess Fiorini, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Foamola, Tonya Foster, David Freeman, Ed Friedman, Greg Fuchs, Joanna Fuhrman, Cliff Fyman, Kelly Ginger, Pepi Ginsberg, John Giorno, Philip Glass, John Godfrey, Toby Goodshank, Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan, Stephanie Gray, Tim Griffin, Miguel Gutierrez, John S. Hall, Diana Hamilton, Janet Hamill, Robert Hershon, Tony Hoffman, Eddie Hopely, Lisa Jarnot, Paolo Javier, Patricia Spears Jones, Pierre Joris, Adeena Karasick, Erica Kaufman, Lenny Kaye, John Kelly, Aaron Kiely, David Kirschenbaum, Bill Kushner & Merle Lister, Susan Landers, Joan Larkin, Dorothea Lasky, Denizé Lauture, Joel Lewis, Brendan Lorber, Michael Lydon, Kim Lyons, Dan Machlin & Serena Jost, Judith Malina, Filip Marinovich, Chris Martin, Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil, Tracey McTague, Taylor Mead, Jonas Mekas, Sharon Mesmer, David Mills, Rebecca Moore, Tracie Morris, Will Morris, Eileen Myles, Jess Mynes, Elinor Nauen, Murat Nemat-Nejat, Jim Neu, Geoffrey Olsen, Dael Orlandersmith, Richard O’Russa, Eugene Ostashevsky, Yuko Otomo, Gary Parrish, Simon Pettet, Nicole Peyrafitte & Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Kristin Prevallet, Brett Price, Arlo Quint, Elizabeth Reddin, Evelyn Reilly, Citizen Reno, Renato Rosaldo, Bob Rosenthal, Douglas Rothschild, Tom Savage, Michael Scharf, David Shapiro, Frank Sherlock, Elliott Sharp, Nathaniel Siegel, Christopher Stackhouse, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Tardos, Susie Timmons, Edwin Torres, Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theater, Tony Towle, David Vogen, Nicole Wallace, Lewis Warsh, Phyllis Wat, Karen Weiser, Simone White, Dustin Williamson, Emily XYZ, Don Yorty, Rachel Zolf, Magdalena Zurawski & more t.b.a.

This event will be held in the Sanctuary. General admission $18, Students & Seniors $15, Members $10.

12/18/09 (Soma)tic DANCE!

Dancer Eleanor Goudie-Averill of Stone Depot Dance Lab is honoring my (Soma)tic Poetry Exercise "your BANANA WORD MACHINE" with a dance. Please see Ellie's note below, and hope to see you there,
CAConrad

This Friday night at the INhale Performance Series (7:30 pm at the CHI Movement Arts Center, 1316 South 9th St.), I will be showing an initial version of my new piece Banana Dance Machine.

It is a solo work based on a (Soma)tic Poetry Exercise by poet CAConrad. His "Exercise #16, your Banana Word Machine" asks the artist to "LOCK THE DOOR AND UNPLUG THE PHONE, ignite your BANANA WORD MACHINE, and once it gets started it doesn't like to stop, for anyone, for any reason! Strip down naked and BE THERE, slowly opening the banana skin, smelling, taking small tastes. SUDDENLY SIT UP inside your BANANA WORD MACHINE and write write WRITE! Yellow splendor!" Translate write to dance and the new Banana Dance Machine will take both audience and dancer on an exploration of the exotic, relationships with the cultural other and the freedom to be human.

I so hope to see all of you there!!

Ellie


(TICKETS ARE $10, CALL 267.687.3739 TO RESERVE A SEAT!)

11/21/09 for JUST BUFFALO!

Simon Pettet, Kyle Butler, CAConrad
BUFFALO, NEW YORK all details
at
THIS link

11/18/09 Brooklyn for UNCALLED FOR


Wednesday November 18

UNCALLED FOR READINGS

Betsy Fagin / Rachel Levitsky / CAConrad

free and at 7pm and as always

at Unnameable Books
down one flight of stairs at Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave @ St. Marks, Brooklyn

Hosted by Danica Colic & Ari Banias.

11/16/09 UPenn LGBT center 7pm

MONDAY 11/16/09 New Moon!

BOOK PARTY!
@ the queer community center
of the UPenn Campus
39th & Spruce Carriage House

Sarah Dowling is the author of Security Posture, winner of the 2009 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry

Julia Bloch is the author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson and other poems

Michelle Taransky is the author of Barn Burned, Then winner of the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize, selected by Marjorie Welish

CAConrad is the emcee for the event

11/13/09 Giovanni's Room Benefit

at The William Way Center
1315 Spruce Street

730pm

5 to 15 dollar sliding scale
ALL money benefits Giovanni's Room


PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
Philadelphia's own Liberty City Kings
Neil McGarry: Like a chocolate milk hangover
Cheryl Burke
Kelli Dunham: Everyone's favorite ex-nun nerd stand up comic
Cassendre Xavier on screening your shrink
CAConrad's American Gluttony sketch (from The Seven Deadly Sins)

11/6/09 DRAG POETRY BENEFIT!

Giovanni's Room
12th & Pine
PHILADELPHIA, 5:30pm

our drag queen & drag king poets are:

Frank Sherlock
Juliana Spahr
Eleanor Wilner
Ebony Malaika Collier
Carlos Soto Roman
Janet Mason
Debrah Morkun
Chris Gullo

THIS IS A BENEFIT for The Global Women's Strike, one of the HARDEST working group of activists in Philadelphia who help poor, single mothers like few other groups! They're an international organization, see their site here: http://www.globalwomenstrike.net We're asking for 20 dollar donations, BUT IF YOU HAVE LESS, PLEASE COME ANYWAY and give what you can! NO ONE TURNED AWAY!

11/1/09 celebration for BLUETS

CELEBRATING the release of Maggie Nelson's BLUETS (Wave Books, 2009)

11/1/09 @ 7pm
at CABINET
300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn

performers include: Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Rebecca Baron, Douglas Goodwin, and CAConrad

10/26 for ALL SMALL CAPS



reading with THE AMAZING Susie Timmons for the ALL SMALL CAPS SERIES (I LOVE THE NAME!) on October 26th, in Wendell, Massachusetts!

Please see the link to their site for directions!
CAN'T WAIT!

10/21/09 UNC, ASHEVILLE, NC


ASHEVILLE BOUND!

reading at UNC
Asheville, NC

copies of Advanced Elvis Course
on hand at event

10/21, 730pm

1 University Heights, Asheville NC 28804
(we'll be in building #4--the Glasshouse)

10/20 POEM TALK: Spicer

POEM TALK SERIES
We'll be discussing Jack Spicer's poem
"PSYCHOANALYSIS: AN ELEGY"

4:30pm
Kelly Writers House on the PENN Campus

Al Filreis will moderate the discussion with
Ron Silliman
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
CAConrad

10/17/09 SUPER 8 DAY!


Ish Klein
Frank Sherlock
CAConrad

reading poems over
HOME MOVIES by some
of Philly's best
movie makers

4 RICH WEXLER & FRIENDS @
International House
noon to 4pm
38 and Chestnut

10/16/09 Giovanni's Room Bookstore

poetry HOPE YOU CAN MAKE THIS EVENT!

CAConrad
Mark Bibbins
Nathaniel Sielgel

October 16th, 530pm
GIOVANNI'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
corner of 12th & Pine, Philadelphia

Mark Bibbins is the author of Sky Lounge and the brand new book The Dance of No Hard Feelings. He is the founder of LIT Magazine, and teaches at The New School in New York City.

Nathaniel Siegel is an anti-war activist, poet, photographer who lives in New York City. His book TONY is now available from Brenda Iijima's Portable Press. (psst, CAConrad wrote a (Soma)tic Reading Enhancement for TONY, which you can see at this link, it's the 2nd entry)

CAConrad will be reading some new (Soma)tic Poetry Exercises and their poems fuckt sideways

PLEASE PURCHASE THESE AND OTHER BOOKS AT GIOVANNI'S ROOM BOOKSTORE, IF YOU COME TO THE READING AND THERE'S A BOOK YOU WANT BUT IT'S NOT ON THE SHELF (NO MATTER WHAT IT IS) PLEASE ASK FOR IT TO BE ORDERED FOR YOU, GIOVANNI'S ROOM BOOKSTORE NEEDS OUR FULL SUPPORT MORE THAN EVER. THE WORLD'S LARGEST AND OLDEST LGBT BOOKSTORE! THANK YOU THANK YOU VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!

10/12/09 kari edwards EVENT!

DIXON PLACE
161 Chrystie St. NYC, Doors open at 7pm; event begins at 7:30pm sharp admission is $6 at the door

CELEBRATING THE WORK OF kari edwards
and the book release of her book BHARAT JIVA, and NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (edited by Julian T. Brolask, Erica Kaufman, & E. Tracy Grinnell)

READING WILL BE:
Fran Blau, Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Bill Marsh, Brenda Iijima, Chris Martin, Marcus Civin, Tim Peterson, CAConrad, Rob Halpern

10/11/09 JOE MILFORD Poetry Show!

8pm Eastern Standard Time, Joe Milford will interview me and I'll read some poems for the show as well. If you can't tune in LIVE, look for it at the Joe Milford ARCHIVES in the near future.

10/11/09 Philly Poetry Panel

When: Sunday, October 11, 2009
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: University City Arts League (4226 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA)
Cost: $3.00 (ALL MONEY GOES TO Philabundance)

What is Philadelphia Poetry? Who is Philadelphia Poetry? Where is Philadelphia Poetry? Why is Philadelphia Poetry? Join us as we consult some of the most moving and shaking poets in the Philadelphia area today as they discuss these and more questions over the next several months as part of PAPP's Symposium Series.

Our first panel of poets will address the question: What is a Philadelphia Poetics? This event will be moderated by Adam Meora. Panelists will include:

Debrah Morkun, founding member of the New Philadelphia Poets
CAConrad, author of Advanced Elvis Course and The Book of Frank
Tamara Oakman, director of the Light of Unity reading series and the Business of Words workshops
Sherod Smallman, host and organizer of Fuze at Infusion Cafe in Germantown
and Michelle Myers of Yellow Rage

10/06/09 @ CUNY for EOAGH

TUESDAY, OCT 6 @6PM
Martin Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave NYC

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities,
the GC Poetics Group, and Chax Press

READINGS BY CONTRIBUTORS:
Dorothea Lasky, Kate Broad, Uche Nduka, John Harkey, Thomas Fink, CAConrad, Benjamin Miller, Vincent Katz, Louis Bury, Anne Tardos, Emily Moore, Ari Banias, Paolo Javier,Stefania Heim, Kimberly Lyons, Emily Beall, Julian Brolaski, Sueyeun Juliette Lee

10/2/09 to 10/4/09 PORTLAND

Frank Sherlock and I will be hosting a PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension) Action in Portland at the EcoNvergence, as well as participating in an EcoNvergence POETRY READING! All details for these and other activities for this amazing Portland event, click HERE!!!!

9/26/09 FOX CHASE

Reading Saturday, 9/26, at 2pm with Frank Sherlock in the FOX CHASE section of Philadelphia at 3 Sisters Cafe for FOX CHASE SERIES, details HERE.

9/25/09 Belladonna Conference

I will be presenting my essay, "A POETRY OF NO APOLOGY" at the Belladonna conference, 10am, WOW THAT'S EARLY, hope to see you there! Details AT THIS LINK.

9/11 to 9/13 San Francisco & LA

SAN FRANCISCO READING & WORKSHOP
9/11 & 9/12
CAConrad & Frank Sherlock

Many thanks to everyone at Small Press Traffic & NON SITE COLLECTIVE for making this happen!

Details are below, HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE:

READING is
Friday, September 11th
7:30pm

EVENTS PAGE at this link

DIRECTIONS at this link

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WORKSHOP / TALK is
Saturday, September 12th
1pm
co-sponsored by NON SITE COLLECTIVE and SPT
more information is HERE

Frank Sherlock is working on a more in depth description of his talk, and our collaborative talk and workshop, which you can see in the very near future HERE

Rob Halpern recently posted to the same site something I wrote in preparation for the workshop/talk, HERE

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LA READING

The Poetic Research Bureau presents...

CACONRAD & FRANK SHERLOCK

Sunday, September 13 2009 at 4:00pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau
3702 San Fernando Blvd
Glendale, CA 91206

Doors open at 4:00pm
Reading starts at 4:30pm

$5 donation requested

8/27/09 7 DEADLY SINS!!!!!!!

come to our NYC 7 Deadly Sins CABARET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALL DETAILS here on Mongrel Vaudeville Website

(PSSST! I'M PLAYING AMERICAN GLUTTONY, AHHHHHHHH, HA! HA! HA! BON APPETIT FUCKERS!)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 9 TO 11PM

at Freddy’s Bar & Backroom
485 Dean St. @ 6th Ave.
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
2, 3 to Bergen, 4, 5, B, Q, D, M, N, R to Atlantic / Pacific

8/10/09 BENEFIT FOR Giovanni's!

event to SAVE Giovanni's Room Bookstore
the world's largest, and oldest LGBT and feminist bookstore

This will be a hat-passing benefit with performances by
The Absinthe Drinkers, Ish Klein, CAConrad, Leda and the Swans, Medusa Sings the Blues, as well as Heather Henderson

THIS IS SPONSORED BY The Monday Night Club
AD Amarosi and Needles Jones host and present

MONDAY, AUGUST 10TH
starts at 9pm

at National Mechanics
22 S. 3rd St.
(that's 3rd between Market and Chestnut)
PHILADELPHIA

IF YOU CAN'T MAKE THE SHOW THEN PLEASE VISIT THE STORE AND SHOP! OR CALL THEM, OR EMAIL THEM TO PLACE AN ORDER! IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE BOOK YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THEY CAN ORDER IT, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS! CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE STORE'S ONLINE SITE, AND THANK YOU!

I'm part of POETS NIGHT in DC

(this is the note from curator Greta Byrum):

Dear Poet,

When poets met CAFÉ, it was love at first sight. Soon they moved in together. The romance goes on.

Poets sit, read, eavesdrop, write, or hide in CAFÉ; CAFÉ’s mood is set by its poets. Words are read, exchanged, gathered, and discussed.

Please come celebrate poets, CAFÉ, and their life together, on Thursday July 2, 5-8:30, in the café at The Phillips Collection, Washington DC.

Come and do what poets do: read, eavesdrop, play, eat, write, hide, or – whatever you like. There will be no requirement to read or to listen, and no open mic. There will be plenty of poets and opportunities to be poetic.

We also invite you to bring a book for donation to our BOOK collection: poetry or not, whatever you’d like to read in a café.

Please RSVP if you can come, and we will put your name on our POET list.

Yours,

dBfoundation

If you can't make it on July 2, but would like to donate a book, please write to db@dbfoundation.org

***

At The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street NW, Washington DC 20009, Phone: 202.387.2151. $-FREE-$

More about CAFÉ [this is not that] at The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, after the jump.

I'll be in The Collection of Silence

Dia at the Hispanic Society Presents
The Collection of Silence
Curated by Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles writes:

WHAT ?!: TUESDAYS ON THE TERRACE: THE COLLECTION OF SILENCE
WHERE: 155 St. & BWAY, NYC
WHEN: June 30, 7PM
WHY: PEACE, AIMLESSNESS, RELIEF, SOLDARITY, RESISTANCE, SOLACE, IRONY,
FRIVOLITY, HAD ENOUGH

Being invited by Dia to curate a performance for a summer evening vaguely in response to Zoe's show and the Hispanic Museum's collection. I have invited five poets who invited five other poets (so there's 25 of us, names below.) Invited as well are The Village Zendo, soprano Juliana Snapper, dancer Christine Elmo and four cohorts and about 40 kids from PS 4 conducted by poets Julie Patton and Christine Hou and finally a life drawing group from Brooklyn known as F>A>R>T>S (Friends of the Fine Arts) ; all will converge to sit, move, read and perform SILENTLY for one hour on the Hispanic Museum's incredibly spacious and evocative Audubon Plaza. You as audience are invited to come up and stroll amongst this silent happening at your own genial pace. You're urged to dress vividly & shamelessly as if you were attending a wedding or a renaissance fair or a nature hike, an art opening, poetry reading or to spray-paint things on your roof. At 8;15 the silence will end and morph into a decent party.

With Who: MONICA DE LA TORRE, CHARLES BERNSTEIN, STEPHANIE GRAY, TIM LIU, RACHEL ZOLF, JENNIFER BARTLETT, DANNY SNELSON, CA CONRAD, FRANK SHERLOCK, RENATO GÓMEZ, KIM ROSENFIELD, ANGELA JAEGER, JEREMY SIGLER, TIM PETERSON, LYDIA CORTES, NATHANIEL SIEGEL, PAOLO JAVIER, MARK BIBBINS, NICOLE COOLEY, LINDA GREGG, JEFFREY MCDANIEL, LILA ZEMBORAIN, TONYA FOSTER, RACHEL LEVITSKY, EMILY BEALL, CHRISTINE HOU, JULIE PATTON, STUDENTS FROM PS 4 AND EILEEN MYLES, PROJECT ORGANIZER

6/26/09 Brooklyn PARTY!

EARSHOT SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, June 26th @ 8 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
$5 + one free drink

Featuring:

CAConrad (Advanced Elvis Course, The Book of Frank)
Tim Peterson (Since I Moved In)
Elsbeth Pancrazi (New York University)
Maria DiLorenzo (Hunter College)
Liza Monroy (Mexican High, Columbia University)

Rose Live Music is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions HERE

EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area. Visit EARSHOT SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!

6/19/09 ELVIS BOOK PARTY!!!!

BOOK RELEASE PARTY FOR
ADVANCED ELVIS COURSE
(SOFT SKULL PRESS)
WITH HEATHER RAQUEL PHILLIPS!

TO VIEW THE BOOK CLICK
HERE

ELVIS SOLSTICE BOOK PARTY
FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH, 6PM
IN BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN PHILLY
MOONSTONE Arts Center
110A S. 13th Street
(on 13th between Chestnut and Sansom)
(right next door to the old Robin's Bookshop location)

HEATHER RAQUEL PHILLIPS took the photograph of CAConrad worshipping the giant blue E in the Elvis book, and she will have prints for sale, including prints of Elvis impersonators she has taken over the years.

ALL THIS FUN AND MORE INCLUDING PEANUT BUTTER BANANA SANDWICHES!

6/16/09 at THE DIVE

947 E. Passyunk Ave.
PHILADELPHIA

reading with
Frank Sherlock

(MORE DETAILS TO COME ON THIS EVENT)

6/6/09 in BEAUTIFUL BALTIMORE!

reading for the amazing Michael Ball
at his i.e. reading series
all details HERE

READING WITH
MEL NICHOLS & FRANK SHERLOCK

6/5/09 SASHA TAKE CARE!



Sasha Fletcher's GOING AWAY READING!

READINGS BY:

Ryan Eckes
CAConrad
Sasha Fletcher

BRING BEER, BRING WINE, BRING SNACKS
IT'S A PARTY, IT'S A GOING AWAY PARTY

FRIDAY, JUNE 5TH, at 8pm

1211 ELLSWORTH STREET
PHILADELPHIA

DON'T FORGET TO BRING BEER, BRING WINE
DON'T FORGET TO BRING SOME SNACKS
IT'S A PARTY, IT'S A GOING AWAY PARTY

Sasha Fletcher is an amazing poet who is
about to move to NYC to attend college
let's send him off with a BIG loving bang

5/15/09 JACK SPICER CELEBRATION!

MY VOCABULARY DID THIS TO ME: PANEL & READING FOR THE COLLECTED JACK SPICER

FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 6:30PM & 8PM
ST. MARK'S POETRY PROJECT
131 E. 10th St., NYC

This special event is to honor seminal West Coast poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965). My Vocabulary Did This to Me (edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian) is a landmark publication of this essential poet’s life work, and includes poems that have become increasingly hard to find.

6:30pm: Panel in the Parish Hall with Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany, Kevin Killian & Jennifer Moxley. Moderated by Kevin Killian.

8:00pm: Reading in the Sanctuary with Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Julian T. Brolaski, CAConrad, Samuel R. Delany, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian, Basil King, Douglas A. Martin, Deborah Remington, Harris Schiff, Rod Smith, George Stanley, Lewis Warsh & Karen Weiser.

Co-presented with Poets House.

5/14/09 CD RELEASE PARTY!

I'M VERY EXCITED
TO BE PERFORMING
WITH THE MARVELOUS
DAVID GROLLMAN (ON DRUMS)
and VALERIE KUEHNE (ON CELLO)

THIS IS A CD RELEASE PARTY FOR THEIR VERY LIMITED HAND PAINTED CDS

PLEASE JOIN US
THURSDAY, MAY 14TH
6pm to 8pm

Envoy Gallery
131 Chrystie St., NYC
(below Delancey)
(phone is 212.226.4555)

4 OF CUPS SPICER READING!



5/12/09
at 7pm
JACK SPICER
for URCHIN SERIES
all details at
THIS LINK!

4/26/09 SAXBYS COFFEE


SAXBYS COFFEE
DOYLESTOWN, PA
22 N. MAIN ST.

April 26th at 7pm
A POETRY READING WITH

RYAN ECKES
FRANK SHERLOCK
CACONRAD

GRACEFULLY @ Zebulon 4/21/09


NOTE FROM GOODBYE BETTER BRAINCHILD BEN MALKIN:

Dear Friends,
Tuesday, April 21st, Goodbye Better is putting on a very special FREE show @ Zebulon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and we’d be honored if you’d join us for what will no doubt be a classic of the period, a drunken jamboree, and a thrilla in Zebulon-illa.

This little party/show is also to celebrate the release of the first Gracefully cd, out on Goodbye Better that very night. 500 copy limited edition new ten song full-length self-titled cd from Ben, Lee, Padden, Veronika, Khaya, & Victor.

Performing April 21st will be GB extended family:

CAConrad
I Feel Tractor (in full on 4-piece band mode)
Gracefully
Yesterdays News (all 5 original Lumipad members reformed)
as well as DJ Merc (de Ifwhen) throwing down original psychedelic jungle excursions b/w sets (perfect club music for those who see the world in swirls).
For full artist descriptions please scroll down.
Zebulon is located at 258 Wythe Ave. (b/w North 3rd and Metropolitan) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 11211.

This show is FREE.

Directions: Take the L to Bedford Ave. Wythe is two blocks over from Bedford. Walk down three or four blocks. Zebulon is b/w N. 3rd and Metropolitan on Wythe, #258.
http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com/

Thank you, Much love,

Goodbye Better
http://goodbyebetter.com

Artist Bios:
CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets (http://PhillySound.blogspot.com). He is the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2008)(winner of THE GIL OTT BOOK AWARD), advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). He invites you to visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com

I Feel Tractor - If you threw Woody Guthrie's guitar, a Royal Trux ep, a few pages of a Paul Celan book, and a few socio-political traumas into a boiling cauldren, you might just end up with Once I had an Earthquake, the first full-length collection of I Feel Tractor's space folk musings. http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor

Gracefully - An ambient rock band from NYC, Gracefully is the phoenix rising out of the ashes of the Brooklyn band So L'il. http://www.myspace.com/solil

Below is the track listing for their new self-titled full-length cd. Side one brings the rock, Side two the ambience.

The Underground Sundae
Spank Me Slowly
Inside Trois - featuring Honeychild Coleman
Bang Bang
Christopher
The Ex-Prisoner
Fell On Us
Dear Whipping Boy,
Sinking
Follow That Bliss

Yesterday's News - all five original members of Lumipad have gotten back together to form Yesterday's News, something like sailing in the dark and dreaming about nothing in particular, like Nyquil on redbull. Lumipad was one of the best and most original bands this city has ever seen, and it is beyond a pleasure to have them back together this night.

http://www.myspace.com/lumipad

http://www.myspace.com/driftinginthecinema

DJ Merc (de Ifwhen) - From an article I wrote about them in Cock-Now and Perfect Sound Forever "Ifwhen, the very name itself implying what's coming next, seeks to shatter that ordinariness, shatter what makes you feel comfortable. Headfuck you, to put it bluntly. This is not a bad thing. In fact, it's as fresh as fresh can be because it makes you see the world through new eyes."

Tonight Merc will be presenting his new solo psychedelic jungle excursions b/w sets, perfect club music for those who see the world in swirls.

http://www.myspace.com/ifwhen

3/29/09 with Buuck and Kaufman

Night Flag presents
David Buuck, Erica Kaufman, and CAConrad

Sunday March 29 @ 7:30pm
L'Etage (above Beau Monde)
624 S. 6th Street PHILLY
HOSTED BY
FRANK SHERLOCK


David Buuck lives in Oakland, California. He is the author of THE SHUNT, coming this spring from Palm Press, and _Buried Treasure Island_ (BARGE/YBCA 2008). He is contributing editor at *Artweek* & teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute and Bard College. More info at davidbuuck.com/barge and buuckbarge.wordpress.com.

Erica Kaufman is the author of Censory Impulse (Factory School 2009) and co-curates Belladonna

CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009).

3/28/09 Arcadia University's LIGHT OF UNITY FESTIVAL

THIS POETRY FESTIVAL OUTSIDE OF PHILADELPHIA HAS A MYSPACE PAGE COMPLETE WITH POETRY VIDEOS, PHOTOS, BIOS, AND ALL THE OTHER DETAILS YOU NEED TO KNOW. SEE IT BY CLICKING HERE! IT'S GOING TO BE A FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE, SEE YOU THERE!

3/25/09 CHRYSTIE ST. SERIES

CACONRAD & IAN DREIBLATT

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
HOME SWEET HOME
131 CHRYSTIE ST., NYC
7 PM SHARP
HOSTED BY LAUREN IRELAND


CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets PhillySound.blogspot.com. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). He invites you to visit him online at CAConrad.blogspot.com

Ian Dreiblatt is a poet, translator, & musician. he is the author, with Kerry Downey, of hoc me fefecit / image, a collaborative book of art & poetry, and has published translations of Mandelstam &, most recently, Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilich. the poet Robert Kelly has said, "listening to Ian's poems, because he has that magic intuition that all poetry is language poetry... you can feel a tremendous upwelling of words in other languages, other englishes within the english." he writes a sonnet every day & lives with Lauren near the c & g trains.

MARCH 4TH THROUGH MARCH 15TH

FRANK'S BRUISED MANDARIN TOUR

CAConrad
Magdalena Zurawski
Aaron Kunin

TOUR WEBPAGE IS HERE



SEE YOU IN
Columbia, Missouri
Lawrence, Kansas
Iowa City, Iowa
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Chicago, Illinois
Cleveland, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2/28/09

CHAPTER & VERSE SERIES
620 S. 9th St., (between South & Bainbridge)
PHILADELPHIA

hosted by Ryan Eckes

series webpage is
HERE

RAUAN KLASSNIK
MICKEY HESS
CACONRAD

starts at 8pm

2 BROOKLYN PARTIES!

FRIDAY, February 20, 2009 @ 7pm
@ Pete's Candy Store, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Pete's Reading Series with CAConrad, BEN MALKIN & JENNIFER KNOX
RELEASE of CAConrad's THE BOOK OF FRANK
RELEASE of COCK NOW MAGAZINE from Ben Malkin's GRACEFULLY

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SATURDAY, February 21st, 2009 @ 8pm
@ 99 Sutton St., Apt. 404, Brooklyn

CAConrad, Bela Shayevich, Ben Lansky, Laura Jaramillo, Brandon Holmques

HOPE TO SEE YOU AT ONE OF THESE TWO EVENTS,
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A GREAT TIME THIS WEEKEND AND HOPE CAN BE PART OF IT!

BIG FUCKING BOOK PARTY IN PHILLY FOR The Book of Frank

(cover art by Hak Vogrin)

SUNDAY
FEBRUARY 15TH, 2009
5:30PM

GIOVANNI'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
(corner of 12th & Pine)

CLICK HEREFOR BOOK DETAILS

INTRODUCTIONS BY JIM CORY
SHORT READING BY CACONRAD
LOTS OF DARK CHOCOLATE
AND OF COURSE THE BOOK

SEE YOU THERE!

2/6/09

CAConrad, Martine Bellen, and Tisa Bryant co-host an evening at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery of New York City!
This reading will include participants in the 2008 Poetry Workshops at St. Mark's Poetry Project! IT'S GOING TO BE AN AMAZING TIME!
READING STARTS AT 9:30PM
COME JOIN US FEBRUARY 6TH!

3 readings in MAINE in January 2009 with MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI

(snowmobile transportation between readings)

Wenesday, January 28th
GULF OF MAINE BOOKSTORE
134 Maine St., Brunswick
5:30pm

Thursday, January 29th
BATES COLLEGE
in the Skelton Lounge in Chase Hall
56 Campus Avenue Lewiston
7:00pm

Friday, January 30th
UMAINE OF ORONO
Jenness Hall
4:30pm

I LOVE SNOW
SNOW AND POETRY
2 FAVORITES OF MINE
many THANKS to everyone
who made this trip possible!

1/26/09


Sam and Monica Present:
THE RESURECTION w/
Jan Beatty
CAConrad
M. Saida Agostini
Laura Neuman
and a couple surprise celebrity guests. . .

An evening of old friends, good poetry and beautiful music

Monday, January 26th
Moonstone Arts Center
(the old Robin's Bookstore)
6PM, 108 S 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA
FREE

1/5/09, 8pm, St. Mark's in NYC

ON launch at St. Mark's Church

come celebrate the NYC launch of ON Contemporary Practice 1 tomorrow at St. Mark's Church with CAConrad, Alan Gilbert, Brenda Iijima, Andrew Levy, Julie Patton, Tim Peterson, Kyle Schlesinger, Katie Yates, Thom Donovan and others...

ON LAUNCH
St. Mark's Poetry Project
Monday January 5th, 2009 @ 8:00

ON features twenty-one essays by poets on poets of their approximate generation. Come find out what's going on and celebrate this new publication featuring exchanges on contemporary poetry and poetics. Contributors include Taylor Brady, Brandon Brown, CAConrad, Jason Christie, Michael Cross, Thom Donovan, Eli Drabman, Rob Halpern, Jen Hofer, Alan Gilbert, Brenda Iijima, Andrew Levy, Edric Mesmer, Sawako Nakayasu, Tenney Nathanson, Richard Owens, Tim Peterson, Andrew Rippeon, Kyle Schlesinger, Jonathan Skinner, Dale Smith, Suzanne Stein, Ali Warren, Katie Yeats ON Arakawa/Gins, Taylor Brady, CAConrad, Michael Cross, Beverly Dahlen, Michael deBeyer, Mark Dickinson, kari edwards, DJ/Rupture, Thom Donovan, Belle Gironda, Brenda Iijima, CJ Martin, Emily McVarish, Yedda Morrison, Hoa Nguyen, Sawako Nakayasu, Julie Patton, Lauren Shufran, Suzanne Stein, Dana Ward, and Ali Warren. Confirmed readers include CAConrad, Thom Donovan, Alan Gilbert, Brenda Iijima, Julie Patton, Tim Peterson, Andrew Levy, Kyle Schlesinger and Katie Yates.

Copies of ON will be available for $12.
Also available from Small Press Distribution and Cuneiform Press
Submission guidelines and more available at this link

The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue
New York City 10003
Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L.
info@poetryproject.com
www.poetryproject.com

Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $95 or higher will get in FREE to all regular readings).

We are wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. For more info call 212-674-0910

1/1/09

St. Mark's Poetry Project Marathon
from 2pm until it's over!
AN AMAZING DAY OF READINGS, MUSIC, INCREDIBLE BOOK SALES, ETC.

BENEFITS THE POETRY PROJECT IN NYC!