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

@ Giovanni's Room Bookstore


BRIAN TEARE

MICHAEL MONTLACK

CAConrad

SUNDAY
11/13/11
5:30pm
at GIOVANNI'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
(corner of Pine & 12th, Philadelphia)

at DuPlessis Conference 10/21/11


I'm reading with other Philadelphia poets on Friday, October 21st at the Rachel Blau DuPlessis conference at Temple University. All details at THIS LINK

See THIS LINK for her appearance on JUPITER 88.

See THIS LINK for my interview with her, "A visionary practice of cultural critique."

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

THURSDAY
AUGUST 25th,
6pm

Julian Brolaski
CAConrad
Kimberly Lyons

POETRY @ 443 PAS
Kevin Absec Designs, Inc.
443 Park Avenue South, #604,
NYC
(take the 4 or 6 trains to 33rd)


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

JULY, 2011 PHILADELPHIA WORKSHOP


Philadelphia
CITY SPARROW
(Soma)tic Poetry Workshop

ALL DETAILS
at THIS LINK


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

(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.

6/5/11 (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop



for all details on the
JUNE Philadelphia
workshop "MASONIC SLUICE"
go to
THIS LINK

in Brooklyn w/ Allison Power & others 6/3/11!

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
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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.

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

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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

4.8.11 with SISTER SPIT

MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
AT THE RED DOOR
ALLENTOWN, PA
FRIDAY, APRIL 8TH, 7PM

4/2/11 Buffalo reading...

POETRY READING:
HOSTED BY Robert Dewhurst

Lee Ann Brown
CAConrad
Dorothea Lasky

359 Lafayette Ave. / Buffalo, NY

Saturday, April 2nd,
3 p.m

BERNADETTE MAYER SYMPOSIUM

FOR ALL DETAILS CLICK HERE

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!

3/8/11 BOOK PARTY

CAConrad & Thom Donovan
reading from their new book
ARTHUR ECHO
(Scary Topiary Press, 2011)

TUESDAY, March 8th, at 7pm
258 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, NY

(THANK YOU Roger Van Vorhees)

THERE ARE ONLY A HANDFUL
OF COPIES LEFT, PRINTED IN
AN EDITION OF 88 COPIES

MARCH Philadelphia (Soma)tic Workshop

MARCH 6TH, 3PM
DETAILS AT THIS LINK
Hope you can join us!

BERNADETTE MAYER event 2/23/11


it is
AN INCREDIBLE HONOR
to be reading at this
book party for the
release of

(Station Hill Press, 2011)

WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 23RD
8PM

St. Mark's in NYC

readers include
Lee Ann Brown, Barbara Epler, Phil Good, Bernadette Mayer, Don Yorty, Michael Ruby, Marie Warsh, Lewis Warsh, Rosemary Mayer, Adam Fitzgerald, Peggy Decoursey, Bill Kushner, Bill Denoyelles, Deborah Poe, Peter Baker, Miles Champion, Anne Waldman and CAConrad

FEBRUARY 2011 Philadelphia workshop

we're going to have a GREAT time!
this will be an indoor (Soma)tic Workshop
SUNDAY
February 20th
3pm

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

PhillySound & Maggy Magazine EVENT!

THIS SATURDAY
2/12/11
for the
series

PhillySound
&

3pm
Jose Pistolas
263 S. 15th St.

2/10/11 Giovanni's Room event


READINGS AND PANEL DISCUSSION
at Giovanni's Room Bookstore
corner of 12th & Pine
PHILADELPHIA

February 10th, 2011
7pm

2/4/11 REFUGEE READING ROOM


OPEN RECEPTION FOR REFUGEE READING ROOM
February 4th
7pm

Please click HERE
for all details on this show!

Exhibition is up from February 4th
until February 25th

2/2/11 w/ Stacy Szymaszek


Stacy Szymaszek & CAConrad
read poetry for the

Into the Neon gallery show
+aRt Space
540 W. 28th Street
New York, NY

Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011
7:00pm-9:00pm

THE AMAZING ANGELA BEALLOR
HAS WORK IN THIS SHOW!

1/30/11 w/ Thom Donovan

a reading from the new book ARTHUR ECHO (Scary Topiary Press, 2011)
by CAConrad & Thom Donovan

SUNDAY,
January 30th,
7pm

324 S. 12th St.
(12th between Spruce & Pine)
PHILADELPHIA
.....BYOB.....

1/22/11 SEGUE SERIES w/ Norma Cole

Saturday
1/22/11
4pm

at the

I'm honored to be reading with
the great Norma Cole

MY 25TH ANNIVERSARY IN PHILADELPHIA


TO CELEBRATE MY 25TH YEAR
LIVING IN PHILADELPHIA
I'M OFFERING
one (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop
every month
for $25 each
(or take all 12 for the price of 10)

for ALL details please
click HERE

for THE RUTHLESS GRIP SERIES in DC

CONRAD, MORKUN, ROBINSON @ BAKED & WIRED
FRIDAY
1/14/11
8PM

Rebooting . . . THE RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES . . .

The RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES
@ Baked & Wired presents

CACONRAD, DEBRAH MORKUN, AND ADAM ROBINSON

Friday, January 14, 2011

8:00PM-10:00PM

PLEASE JOIN US on Friday, January 14th at 8:00PM for the grand relaunch of the Ruthless Grip Poetry Series at Baked & Wired in Georgetown with a reading by CAConrad, Debrah Morkun, and Adam Robinson.

CAConrad is the author of The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull, 2009), a collaboration with Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School Books, 2010), and others. You can see his poems and books at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com.

Debrah Morkun's first full-length book of poems, Projection Machine, was published by BlazeVox Books in April 2010. She lives in Philadelphia, where she is a founding member of The New Philadelphia Poets, and runs The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series (http://jubilantthicket.blogspot.com). Visit Debrah at http://www.debrahmorkun.com

Adam Robinson runs Publishing Genius Press and is the author of Adam Robison and Other Poems (Narrow House 2010), which CA Conrad called "marvelous, genius fun" and has been nominated for the Goodreads poetry book award, and Say, Poem (Awesome Machine 2010). He lives in Baltimore.

Baked & Wired is located at 1052 Thomas Jefferson Street Northwest Washington D.C., between 30th and 31st Streets, just south of the canal. The nearest subway station is Foggy Bottom-GWU Station. On-street parking is also available.