CAConrad's upcoming events

POETS IN THE MUSEUM

It has been a dream of mine for years to be an exhibit in a museum as a poet. To take up the space reserved generally for the visual arts.

Tomorrow begins my first experience building (Soma)tic poetry rituals and writing in the museum. For one week I will be throwing my body into the poems.

The artist Jason Dodge named his new show at MACRO after a line from my poem "CAMISADO," in my new book AMANDA PARADISE (Wave Books).

When I enter the museum in Rome tomorrow, I will not step out again for a week. What is most exciting is that I have no idea yet what the rituals will look like.

Many thanks to Jason Dodge, and to everyone at MACRO for this opportunity. Thank you also to the poet Brenda Hillman for the special crystal for these rituals.

From December 11 to the 16

Details at THIS LINK

If you are in Rome PLEASE JOIN ME in making rituals and writing poems!

UNSETTLING Amsterdam in-person

PLEASE R.S.V.P. me at: 88CAConrad (at) Gmail (dot) com

BOTH EVENTS are at Sandberg Instituut

THURSDAY

December 9

18:00 to 20:00

Presenting new work CROW GIFTS The Jasmine Ascension

FRIDAY

December 10

11:00 to 16:00

(Soma)tic Ritual Workshop

50th ANNIVERSARY of Diane di Prima's Revolutionary Letters

Please join us for an online event to celebrate this extraordinary book that Ken Chen calls "a time machine toward a better future."

Please see THIS LINK to register

Please see THIS LINK to see the new and expanded edition

MONDAY, November 22, 2021

7PM LONDON

2PM NEW YORK

11AM SAN FRANCISCO

Helen Charman, CAConrad, Sophie Lewis, Mira Mattar, Sarah Shin and Francesca Wade

MANY THANKS to Sarah Shin, Silver Press, and London Review Bookshop

FULL MOON Reading (in-person event)

November 19, 2021

Lemington Spa

England

7pm

Please RSVP

jonathanskin@me.com

MANY THANKS TO JONATHAN SKINNER!

VOCARIUM READING SERIES on Zoom

Very excited to perform with

DIANE SEUSS

Introduction by

ARIANA REINES

MONDAY October 18, 2021

7PM Eastern Time

Harvard University's

Woodberry Poetry Room

PLEASE CLICK HERE

(to register for event)

MANY THANK to Christina Davis for

the invitation to read with Diane Seuss

OCTOBER 6, 2021 University of New Mexico

Please click HERE

then scroll down to Zoom link

MANY THANKS to Mark McKnight

and the students at UNM for bringing me

FALL CONVERGENGE 2021

On October 2 I have the honor of

offering a closing ritual to the gathering

BOOK PARTY with Sawako Nakayasu!!!

PLEASE CLICK HERE

TO REGISTER

Away With Words anthology reading

Online BOOK PARTY at Open Books POETRY EMPORIUM in Seattle

SUNDAY September 5, 2021

Please register at THIS link

12 Noon Seattle

3 PM New York

8 PM London

9 PM Berlin

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Open Books is one of the world's very few POETRY-ONLY bookshops! To support Open Books while celebrating my new book, I made THIS handmade chapbook. It is FREE if you purchase AMANDA PARADISE plus one other book by another poet from Open Books. THANK YOU for supporting independent poetry!

MANY THANKS TO Creative Capital for their grant funding and all of their additional support for the writing of this book.

WordSpace DALLAS LIT HOP!

Excited to perform SATURDAY

August 28th 7pm Dallas, Texas time

with Ely Sellers and Opal & Carlos Salas

CLICK HERE FOR THE ZOOM LINK

Program at THIS link

BOY BOX art show New York City

Please visit THIS LINK for details

INTERVIEW WITH ANNE WALDMAN

Please use THIS LINK for video

Please purchase books at WOODLAND PATTERN BOOK CENTER at THIS LINK

Rest In Peace Callie Gardner who died suddenly on July 8th, 2021

2 shows with Alex Bailey in Vienna

Kultursommer Programm

July 15

July 17

Details at THIS LINK

JULY 16TH, 2021 for City of Asylum

to watch online

please click HERE to register

Many thanks to my host Celeste Gainey

MOON VOICES exhibition at Tai Kwun

Please click HERE

Many thanks to the curators at Tai Kwun

BENEFIT READING June 17

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

(Soma)tic Ritual lecture for Städelschule Fine Art Academy in Frankfurt

Due to covid-19 restrictions I am not in Germany as

I had hoped to be, but will instead be giving this talk

via Zoom. Please register at THIS LINK.

Many thanks to the faculty and students at Städelschule

for bringing me. Later this month I will also teach a

series of workshops for the students. And I hope to

visit in person one day in the future.

ANNE WALDMAN: Celebrating A Visionary Outrider Life & Poetics

Please CLICK HERE for more details

I am excited for the opportunity to talk with this great poet!

Many thanks to Woodland Pattern Book Center!

Excited to be published by TRIBES Magazine, and to read with these amazing poets!

FOR ZOOM LINK PLEASE CLICK HERE

REGENERATION workshop for H OM E SC H OOL

I am excited to write poems inside this new ritual!

Please click HERE for registration

Many thanks to HOME SCHOOL

LiVE Magazine Reading at LA MAMA

MONDAY

MAY 23rd

4pm PDT

7pm EDT

I am performing with Penny Arcade,

Carl Hazlewood, Jose Padua, Jillian Stevens,

and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

PLEASE REGISTER AT THIS LINK

HILMA'S GHOST: Grieving Through Creative Strengths with (Soma)tic Rituals

May 20, 2021, ✪✪ 1:00 PM Seattle ✪✪ 4:00 PM New York ✪✪ 9:00 PM London

This is a FREE Workshop

PLEASE REGISTER AT THIS LINK

PLEASE SEE NOTE BELOW FROM THE ORGANIZERS AT CARRIE SECRIST GALLERY

MANY THANKS TO Dannielle and Sharmistha

NOTE from event organizer Dannielle Tegeder:
So exited for this Thursday’s free workshop on grief, death, ritual with one of my favorite poets CA Conrad. Join us @hilmasghost for its fourth public program, “Grieving Through Creative Strengths with (Soma)tic Rituals,” Thursday May 20 at 4:00pm EST. ✪ ✪ This is a virtual event, hosted by Carrie Secrist Gallery, will include brief talks on death rituals and the therapeutic capabilities of art by myself and @sharmistharay, followed by a creative workshop led by artist, poet, and ritualist @caconrad. ✪ ✪ Bring the art materials of your choice for a 50-minute session led by Conrad. ✪ ✪ Following a year of isolation, distance, and widespread loss, burnout and grief pervade our day to day lives. This session with CA Conrad focuses on somatic rituals to connect deeply with our bodies and find presence of mind. The workshop will address death and how to make sense of loss. We will learn how to create our own rituals as a means of grieving. ✪ ✪ Tune in to help us invoke the spirit of Hilma and follow the journey of the inner landscape! ✪ ✪ [Image: Pieter Bruegel, The Triumph of Death, 1562]

#artandspiritualism #feminism #witchcraft #somatic #rituals #grief #death #hilmaafklint #artists #collectives

Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

Barn's burnt down – now I can see the moon on 20 May

Please click THIS LINK to register (event is FREE

(((NOTE: Zoom link will be posted on day of the event)))

Drawn from a haiku by 17th century Japanese poet Mizuta Masahide, Barn’s burnt down – now I can see the moon is a poetry roundtable that centers around how articulating the ways struggle, pain and loss inevitably changes us also opens possibilities for careful attention, new forms of connection, and unlocked essential wisdom. For the second online event and final digital coven of the Wxtch Craft 20/21 season, we gather around readings by three poets: CAConrad, Camisha L. Jones, and Ching-In Chen. They read from their work and discuss how poetry helps to understand and translate difficult experiences, and complicates simple narratives of healing or solutions to be “cured” and “fixed.” Instead, it informs our nexus of Disability justice, intergenerational witnessing, and holding space for grief.

Cunning Folk Magazine issue launch

MAY 17

11AM PDT

2PM EDT

7PM GMT

Tickets are £3 and benefit Sea Shepherd

Please register at THIS LINK

Cunning Folk at THIS LINK

reading event for ARC Poetry Magazine

SUNDAY

May 16th

1PM Pacific

Please register at THIS LINK

Many thanks to the editors of ARC

PLASTIC: An Autobiography

I am excited to be with friends to celebrate this amazing new book

PLEASE REGISTER AT THIS LINK

The life and poetry of Michael McClure

Please click HERE for event details

MANY THANKS to City Lights!

Appearing shall be Russ Tamblyn, CAConrad, Margaret Randall, Forrest Gander, George Herms, Jerome Rothenberg, Cedar Sigo, Paul Nelson, Lyn Hejinian, Andrew Schelling, Amy McClure, Jane McClure, Joanna McClure, and more TBA

Celebrating CURB by Divya Victor

I'm a huge fan of this amazing new book!

Please click HERE to join us!

BOOK PARTY for Toni Oswald's SIRENS!

SUNDAY, MAY 2nd

9pm Eastern Time

7pm Mountain Time

6pm Pacific Time

EXCITED TO CELEBRATE

THIS AMAZING NEW BOOK

PLEASE CLICK HERE

TO REGISTER FOR EVENT

WITH COLLECTIVE APORIA

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FOR INFORMATION ON

ORDERING THE BOOK

FROM GESTURE PRESS

LIVE FROM BABEL TOWER

Very excited to be performing with

E.P JENKINS

and

SERGE ♆ NEPTUNE

for The Babel Tower Notice Board, UK

APRIL 16

1PM PDT

4PM EST

9PM GMT

PLEASE REGISTER AT THIS LINK

FOUR QUEENS Reading Series

I'm very excited to read with

STEVEN DUNN

PLEASE REGISTER AT THIS LINK

Wednesday, March 23rd

5PM PST

6PM MST

7PM CST

8PM EST

THANK YOU everyone at FOUR QUEENS 👑👑👑👑

RUSSIA, March 2021

Anna Halberstadt beautifully translated The Book of Frank into Russian and will be reading from it Tuesday, March 23rd as part of a queer and feminist poetry festival

Occult Poetry and (Soma)tic Ritual Workshop

MANY THANKS to Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

for inviting me to conduct this workshop

And THANKS to Harris for the SPARKLE flyer

Please register at writesofpassage13@gmail.com

Class will meet May 22 and 23

2PM Eastern US-time

1PM Central US-time

NOON Mountain US-time

11AM Pacific US-time

VERY EXCITED AND LOOKING FORWARD

TO CREATING RITUAL AND POEMS WITH YOU

photo is a still from the Norwegian TV show Are You Ready?

BLOOF and ACTION BOOKS READING!!!

VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS EVENT

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

FRIDAY March 5th MILK PRESS

The Poetry Society of New York and

Milk Press PRESENT an evening of

Poetry, Art, and Music

7PM EST

4PM PST

Please click HERE to register

I'm Speaking: Poems to be Heard SERIES

SUNDAY February 7th

4PM Pacific Time

I am excited to read with

Elliott Manning, Kai Coggin, Kevin Bertolero, Vicky Nordlund, Wang Ping, Annmarie OConnell, Prince McNally, Saddiq Dzukogi, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Kristen Snodgrass, and Kevin Ridgeway

PLEASE REGISTER AT THIS LINK

THANK YOU TO OUR HOSTS

Jojo Compton, Sarah Colon and Maria Nazos