APRIL (Soma)tic Workshop


SUNDAY
April 10th
3pm

SPRING, WHEN SOMA
OVERTAKES SOMATIC
the poetry in everyone

workshop is $25
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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!

3/17/11 @ MALAPROPS Bookshop in Asheville, NC


ONE OF THE BEST
INDY BOOKSHOPS
IN THE WORLD

CAConrad
reading March 17th
7pm



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3/11/11 POETRY SUPERMACHINE






reading for

MARCH 11th


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
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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

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.

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

TWELVE-TWELVE (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop

COME!
WE'RE DOING
A (SOMA)TIC
WORKSHOP IN
PHILADELPHIA

DETAILS AT THIS LINK!

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

11/18/10 with Andrei Codrescu

6pm at Sidewalk Cafe
6th St and Ave. A
NYC

for Prose Pros series

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

URCHIN 7/7/10, 7pm

all details for the DALLAS WIEBE Urchin reading 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

PINK PONY WEST SERIES

FRIDAY, JUNE 24TH

6PM

The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St., NYC

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.
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