it's ELVIS PRESLEY'S BIRTHDAY, January 8th, 2010

COME CELEBRATE THE KING'S BIRTHDAY
JANUARY 8TH
5:30PM
AT GIOVANNI'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
corner of 12th & Pine, Philadelphia

I'll be reading from my book Advanced Elvis Course

WITH ME WILL BE HEATHER RAQUEL PHILLIPS
she will have her amazing photographs of Elvis impersonators for sale

COME CELEBRATE
AND BUY A BOOK TO
SUPPORT GIOVANNI'S ROOM BOOKSTORE

JANUARY 1ST, 2010

St. Mark's Poetry Project in NYC for the annual marathon fundraiser!

I'll be reading with 100 other poets celebrating the amazing Poetry Project!

THIS IS ALSO MY BIRTHDAY
I'M A CAPRICORN
I'LL BE 45

11/26/10

poetry by CAConrad and Marion Bell

Shadow Puppetry by Nicole Donnelly!

Dance by Stone Depot Dance Lab including ...
Conviction I (a new duet danced by Marie Brown and Scott McPheeters) and
Solos danced by both Beau Hancock and Ellie Goudie-Averill!

When: Friday, November 26th at 8:30 pm
Where: 2120 Hazzard St, Floor 2 (19125)
PHILADELPHIA

11.13.10 eco-LANG panel

PHILADELPHIA (Fergie's Pub)
SATURDAY, 4pm
NOVEMBER 13TH

CAConrad
Tina Darragh
Marcella Durand
Brenda Iijima
Patrick Lucy
Hoa Nguyen
Jonathan Skinner

MANY THANKS TO JAMIE TOWNSEND OF THE NEW PHILADELPHIA POETS FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER!

11.9.10 for PBQ

Shanna Compton
CAConrad
Tara Murtha

for PAINTED BRIDE QUARTERLY
Novemer 9th
7:30pm

at La Terrasse
3432 Sansom Street
Philadelphia

11/5/10


Windows and Mirrors
Reflections on the War in Afghanistan

AFSC Arch Street Meeting House
4th & Arch Street
PHILADELPHIA

November 5 @ 8pm


Frank Sherlock, Carlos Soto Roman, Mytili Jagannathan & CAConrad will join members of Warrior Writers for a reading at the Windows and Mirrors exhibition. The traveling exhibit provides an opportunity to see ourselves in depictions of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of artists and children.

Come at 7pm for an artists' dialogue
with Joe Brenman, Deborah Gross-Zuchman, Cathleen Hughes, Karen Light, Ann Northrup and Philip Zuchman.

For more on the Windows and Mirrors project, click here.

ROWAN 11/1/10

Reading at ROWAN
in the Rowan Art Gallery

7pm
refreshments and event is free

NEEDLES JONES 10/25/10

THE NEEDLES JONES EXPERIENCE
IS NEVER FORGOTTEN

Reading around midnight for
the one and only
NEEDLES JONES at
THE MONDAY NIGHT CLUB
at National Mechanics
(on 3rd btw Market and Chestnut)

PHILADELPHIA

with Wanda Coleman in NYC



CAConrad & Wanda Coleman

WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 20th
8pm

at The Poetry Project
NYC

with Danbert Nobacon in Philadelphia


IGGY POP says of Danbert Nobacon's new book, "This is a beautiful book. The illustrations are wonderful. It definitely rocks! I ought to know."


CAConrad, Frank Sherlock

MONDAY
OCTOBER 18TH
5:30pm
at Giovanni's Room Bookstore
corner of 12th & Pine
PHILADELPHIA

PhillySound event for ENCLAVE in NYC

PhillySound POETS

read for ECLAVE SERIES

SATURDAY
OCTOBER 16TH
4PM

CAKE SHOP
152 LUDLOW STREET, NYC

poets reading are CAConrad, Ryan Eckes, Mytili Jagannathan, Pattie McCarthy, Chris McCreary, Jenn McCreary, Frank Sherlock, Kevin Varrone

with CEDAR SIGO in PHILADELPHIA


CAConrad, Cedar Sigo, and Daron Mueller

SUNDAY
OCTOBER 10th
7pm

for JUBILANT THICKET SERIES
at Molly's Bookshop
1010 S. 9th St.
Philadelphia

with EILEEN MYLES in BALTIMORE


CAConrad & EILEEN MYLES

FRIDAY
OCTOBER 8TH
6PM

for the i. e. series

DIONYSUS
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD

BOOK PARTY! October 2nd, 2010

AT 2pm
AT Kelly Writers House for the WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT SERIES!
3805 Locust Walk
on UPenn campus
PHILADELPHIA

Click HERE for details
on the new book

MANY THANKS TO MICHELLE TARANSKY AND EVERYONE AT THE WRITERS HOUSE AND WAVE BOOKS!

MANY MANY THANKS!


THE BOOK PARTY WILL INCLUDE
a nail salon table
a special Writers House broadside from the book
snacks, partying
a full reading of the book
and BOOKS FOR SALE

PHILADELPHIA LIGHT & HONEY

BODEGA event

Sunday, 9/19/10
8pm
at BODEGA
253 North 3rd Street
PHILADELPHIA

readings by:
CAConrad
Emma Young
Abraham Adams
Spencer Silverthorne

Music by MANNERS

IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT NIGHT!

Brautigan URCHIN

all details HERE
10pm
9/9/10
CHINATOWN
PHILADELPHIA

CHINATOWN Philly (Soma)tic

ALL DETAILS for the
CHINATOWN
Philadelphia
(Soma)tic Poetry Workshop
for 9/9/10, 6:30pm
please click HERE

TRANSGRESSORS 8/14/10



TRANSGRESSORS SERIES CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS OF READING WITH JOSHUA BECKMAN, FRANK SHERLOCK, DEBRAH MORKUN, LAURA SPAGNOLI

URCHIN Jonathan Williams




Click HERE for details on the 2pm Jonathan Williams URCHIN on 8/14/10

CHINATOWN (Soma)tic Workshop




(Soma)tic Poetry Workshop
CHINATOWN
New York City
August 8th, 2010

Limited number of participants
REGISTER at this link

7/31/10 TRANSGRESSORS

THIS SATURDAY is the debut of a new readings series in Philadelphia that I'm hosting. All details are HERE

2 events Monday, 7/26/10

MARCEL WILLIAMS FOSTER Dance & Theater
(I'll be reading poems of course)
(you know I'm not a dancer, HAHA!)

Broad Street Ministries
315 South Broad Street
(Broad btw Spruce and Pine)
7:30pm
$5

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9pm
NEEDLES JONES'S BIRTHDAY PARTY
NATIONAL MECHANICS
3RD STREET
BETWEEN MARKET AND CHESTNUT

ELFRETH'S ALLEY poetry celebration




SATURDAY
JULY 24TH
6pm
New Philadelphia Poets
sponsor a celebration at
ELFRETH'S ALLEY
Philadelphia

many Philadelphia
poets will perform


sponsored by the amazing
New Philadelphia Poets
Debrah Morkun & Carlos Soto Roman

JULY 11th, 2010 poetry workshop




a (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop
in Philadelphia with limited
number of participants

sign up soon, all details
are at THIS LINK

6/28/10 NATIONAL MECHANICS

@National Mechanics for
THE MONDAY NIGHT CLUB
with The Dark Bitch Goddess NEEDLES JONES
9pm

22 South 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(215) 701-4883

6/15/10 MOONSTONE

TUESDAY
June 15th, 2010
7pm

CAConrad & Debrah Morkun

MOONSTONE
108 South 13th Street
PHILADELPHIA
215.735.9598

They will present their collaborative (Soma)tic Poetry Exercise and poems
#42: TRECARTIN ALLELUJIAH DEVIANT

6/8/10 Niedecker URCHIN





Lorine Niedecker URCHIN
in conjunction with
Poets for Living Waters
for details, click HERE

6/4/10 ON Contemporary Practice

READING for ON Contemporary Practice

June 4th
8pm sharp

at Book Thug Nation
100 N3rd St
Between Berry St and Wythe Ave
Williamsbug, Brooklyn.

readings by:
CAConrad
Robert Dewhurst
Brenda Iijima
Robert Kocik
Chris Martin
Evelyn Reilly
Michelle Taransky

HOSTED BY Thom Donovan

ON Contemporary Practice is edited by Michael Cross, Thom Donovan & Kyle Schlesinger

CUNY 5.4.10 & 5.6.10

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
5:00PM to 7:30PM
Room 5414
free!

a (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop

365 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY
CUNY Graduate Center

Join the GC Poetics Group for a [creative]
writing workshop!

All students and members of the GC
Community are welcome—no advance
reading or preparation required.
Please email gcpoetics@gmail.com if you
are interested in participating.

"In this frantic, routine-driven world we need freedom from regimented (poetry writing, and a healthy dose of walking the space between Soma (spirit) and Somatic (body). Using gemstones, trees, and the city itself, we will create deliberate, sustained physical manipulations to generate language to write."

(many thanks to Erica Kaufman)

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on Thursday, May 6
at 6:30 PM
FREE


Jack Kimball
Stacy Szymaszek
CAConrad

...followed by a discussion/Q&A session.

at CUNY Graduate Center
in the Skylight Room (9100)
365 Fifth Avenue, NYC

(many thanks to Trace Peterson)

4/24/10 BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE IS THE HOME OF OUR LADY OF FILTHY TRASH DIVINE!!!!!!!!
(it must make religious people CRAZY looking for images in Google for "Divine" and this crazy drag queen has several pics LONG before Jesus! HAHAHA!)

READING FOR MICHAEL BALL'S i.e. series WITH Dorothea Lasky and Justin Sirois! WE'LL HAVE A BALL!

Saturday, April 24th
6 p.m.

DIONYSUS
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

QUEER VOICE @ the ICA

I'm very proud to have been invited to write for the show's catalog, DESCRIBE THE QUEER VOICE along with 80 others.

Details HERE

OPENING RECEPTION is
April 22nd, 6 to 8pm
at The Institute of Contemporary Art
118 S. 36th Street,
Philadelphia

BOSTON 4.16.10

BOSTON READING
CAConrad & Frank Sherlock
Friday, April 16th
7:30pm

LOREM IPSUM BOOKS

We will be reading from our new book
THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED (Factory School)

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE BOSTON FRIENDS!

4/10/10 HERETICAL TEXT ! ! ! ! !


University of the Arts
in Philadelphia presents

HERETICAL TEXT

April 10th

at 8pm

TERRA HALL
Corner of Walnut and Broad
in the Connelly Auditorium, 7th floor

(ENTER on Broad Street through the door between Rite Aide and the Italian restaurant, you will need to show I.D. at the desk to enter, EVENT IS FREE)

HERETICAL TEXT Books are published by Factory School, and this Philly event is the only time all 5 authors will be reading together! See book links below! SEE YOU ON THE 10TH!

Kate Schapira's book HERE

Allison Cobb's book HERE

Sueyeun Juliette Lee's book HERE

Simone White's book HERE

CAConrad & Frank Sherlock's book HERE

INTRODUCTIONS FOR THIS EVENING BY
THE AMAZING PATRICK LUCY

NYC: 4/6/10 .... le Poisson Rouge


CAConrad, Daniel Nester, and Laura Sims
(tuesday, 4/6)
InDigest 1207 Reading Series

reading starts promptly at 7pm

le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St. NYC
lprnyc.com, indigestmag.com

3/26 with Ellie's STONE DEPOT

I'm performing with
Eleanor Goudie-Averill's
Absurd Commentaries: a partiformance on
FRIDAY, March 26th, 2010

at 8pm at The Arts Parlor
(1170 S Broad St, Philadelphia PA, 19146)


Tickets:
$12 w/ absurd costume
$15 w/o absurd costume
$10 students, seniors, Dance Pass, the un & under employed
Cold beer and food available.

Lamantia's THE BLOOD OF THE AIR

2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Philip Lamantia's THE BLOOD OF THE AIR

We're having an URCHIN reading 3/20/10 at the transition into renewal of the air, where the blood of the air awakens with pollen, sex, life. Details HERE

(NOTE: AT 7PM ONE BLOCK AWAY COME CELEBRATE STAN MIR'S NEW BOOK AT A BOOK PARTY AT BRICKBAT BOOKS)

7 WEST COAST EVENTS, MARCH 2010

3/2/10 SEATTLE
PILOT BOOKS
March 2nd, 7pm
219 Broadway E, Seattle, WA 98102
(206) 229-7181

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3/3/10 SEATTLE
WAVE BOOKS reading and recording of The Book of Frank
March 3rd
Seattle office

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3/4/10 OLYMPIA
EVERGREEN COLLEGE
March 4th

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3/6/10 OLYMPIA
(Soma)tic Workshop

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3/7/10 PORTLAND
Andrea Murray & CAConrad
Where: 213 SE 26th Ave, PDX (Home of Jen Coleman & Allison Cobb)
When: March 7, Sunday
Time: Snacks at 6:30, reading at 7 pm.
Who: You, and everyone you care to invite
Bring: Snax and drinks to share, if you like. And $5 suggested donation for our traveling artist.

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3/10/10 SAN FRANCISCO
Michelle Tea's RADAR Series
Poppy Foxheart, Cassie J. Sneider, CAConrad + Elyssa Joy Kilman
6pm SF Public Library Main Branch

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3/11/10 OAKLAND
David Buuck's Home 8pm
5941 Maccall St @ 60th in Oakland
near Ashby BART
BYOB

NYC PhillySound event 2/25/10

PhillySound poets CAConrad, Ryan Eckes,
Ish Klein, Frank Sherlock

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
7:30 sharp

St. Mark's Bookshop Reading Series
Solas Bar
232 E. 9th St
(between 2nd and 3rd aves.)

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

2/21/10 JUBILAT Reading Series


Jericho Brown & CAConrad
2pm

JUBILAT Magazine Series

Jones Library
43 Amity Street
Amherst, Massachusetts

Temple event RESCHEDULED for 2/18

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

8:00 p.m.

CAConrad & Vladimir Zykov to read for
The Creative Writing Department
Temple University Center City
1515 Market Street, Room 222
Philadelphia

event is free
and open to the public

POSTPONED: Thursday's reading at Temple...

My reading with Vladimir Zykov scheduled for 8pm tomorrow (2/11/10) at Temple center city campus is postponed.
It might be held again as early as next week, but I'll let you know.

Thanks and see you soon!

2/11/10 Temple University

Thursday, February 11, 2010

8:00 p.m.

CAConrad & Vladimir Zykov to read for
The Creative Writing Department
Temple University Center City
1515 Market Street, Room 222
Philadelphia

event is free
and open to the public

2/4/10 Stockton College, New Jersey

CAConrad & Ana Božičević

8pm

in the Alton Auditorium of
Stockton College

2/3/10 ICA Book Party

CAConrad, Frank Sherlock, and Zoe Strauss cordially invite you to the Philadelphia ICA release party for THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED (Factory School Books, 2010)

ALL DETAILS for the 8pm event are HERE

Autumn Konopka just wrote this MARVELOUS article for the release party!

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT THE ICA, AND HAVE A GREAT DAY,
CAConrad, Frank Sherlock, Zoe Strauss

1/31/10 NYC BOOK PARTY!


The City Real & Imagined
by CAConrad & Frank Sherlock

BOOK PARTY AT
ZINC BAR

6:30pm

82 W 3rd St.
New York City

for page sampes click HERE

1/24/10 astral poetry transmissions

Philadelphia to San Francisco astral poetry transmissions...

On Sunday, January 24th, CAConrad will visit The California College of the Arts in San Francisco by way of astral poetry travel.

Poets David Buuck and Jen Benka will be in front of the college at a table with crystal infused water (Fiji has one of the highest silica infusions on our planet) from 1:30pm to 3:00pm Pacific Time. Passersby will drink the water and TUNE IN as David and Jen bring CAConrad in via astral transmission, as he meditates on the same source of crystal infused water in his little apartment in Philadelphia.

Poets will record sensations and messages from either end of the cosmic correspondence.

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, or know anyone in the Bay Area who would be interested in participating, get yourselves to

The California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street

SUNDAY, 1/17 POETRY & MUSIC

poets Frank Sherlock, Ish Klein, Jess Fiorini

bands MELLOW CRYPT, SO LIL & I FEEL TRACTOR
(Edmund Berrigan, Ben Malkin, and KB on the saw)

8pm
at L'Etage
624 S. 6th St.
215.592.0656

L'Etage event hosted by CAConrad

Friday, 1/15 MOLLY RUSSAKOFF!

GRAND REOPENING of
MOLLY'S BOOKS & MUSIC

THIS IS A POTLUCK (bring some food or drink to share)

BRING A POEM TO READ

(reading hosted by CAConrad)

6 to 11pm
1010 South 9th St.
in the Italian Market
PHILADELPHIA

1/14/10 Animal Farm Series


CAConrad, Tao Lin,
Patrick W. Gallagher,
Joe Veix, Shannon Gallagher


Thursday, 1/14
8pm at
Happy Ending, 302 Broome St.
(btw Forsyth & Eldridge)
New York City


(P.S. on Saturday, 1/16 AMAZING poet friends from Philadelphia The New Philadelphia Poets will be at the Bowery Poetry Club, see details HERE DON'T MISS THEM, YOU'LL LOVE THEM!)

(P.P.S. in a few weeks on Sunday, 1/31 Frank Sherlock and I will have our NY book party for our new book The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010) at the ZINC BAR SERIES @ 82 W 3rd St., 6:30pm, more details to come)

January 8th, 2010, ELVIS' BIRTHDAY!

Andrew Suggs's art opening at VOX POPULI GALLERY
319 North 11th St., 3rd Floor, PHILADELPHIA

7pm to 11pm

(at 9:30pm I'll be reading from Advanced Elvis Course in honor of The King's birthday!