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WINNER OF THE 2009 GIL OTT BOOK AWARD
THE BOOK OF FRANKby CAConrad
for samples, reviews and ordering CLICK HERE!
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my big FAT WHITE TRASH YOU TUBE debut
CAConrad on the set of Dorothea Lasky's tiny tour films reading from his book Deviant Propulsion. Click HERE to watch the reading!
Deviant Propulsionby CAConrad
Soft Skull Press
CLICK HERE for publisher's page with poems and reviews, and where you can also place an order. Click HERE for the "Dear Mr. President" poem.
for "Celebrities I've Seen Off Stage" poem CLICK HERE
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Here's an excerpt from my section in this new anthology from Soft Skull Press about the oppressive world of RETAIL!There's a homeless woman who figured out how to use our PA system, and one day we heard her for a glorious one and a half minutes all over the store at TOP VOLUME, "AAAY! YOU THINK YOU'RE SPECIAL!?" Every single person in the store looked to the ceiling as this HUGE voice shot from the speakers, "YOU'RE NOT SO SPECIAL! AAAY! MOTHERFUCKER! FUCKER! FUCKER! AAAY! YOU THINK YOU KNOW IT ALL!? FUCKER! YOU KNOW NOTHING! FUCKER! YEAH! AAAY! FUCKER! HEY GIVE ME THAT! LEAVE ME ALONE! THAT'S MINE--" The music comes back on, everyone laughs. They laugh, but I know she knows what she’s saying, yes oh yes. The security guards have her by either arm on the escalator and she is smiling. Then I hear her laughing. She's laughing and I can hear her laughter even after she's out of sight. I like her most of all. Her name is Angela, and she's a Pisces. And I want to start a bloodless revolution with her.
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CAConrad's childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance he got where he lives and writes today with The PhillySound poets. Soft Skull Press published his book Deviant Propulsion in 2006. Jack Kimball's FAUX Press recently published his poems (Soma)tic Midge (samples from this can be seen in listenlight and MiPOesias and Sawbuck and COCONUT#9). The Book of Frank is now available from CHAX Press. A selection of The Book of Frank was also translated into German by Berlin poet Holger, and a bilingual chapbook is now available from Carrie Hunter's YPOLITA Press. His book advanced ELVIS course will be coming out in summer of 2009. A collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems, will be coming out in fall of 2009 from Factory School Press. For correspondence contact CAConrad13@AOL.com
CAConrad, Laura Solomon, Dorothea Lasky, and Stan Mir on the set of Dorothea Lasky's tiny tour BATHROOM ESPISODE
CAConrad & Dorothea Lasky, photo by Thom Donovan
photo of my WAR HAIR by Zoe Strauss
good friend Jaime Anne Earnest and CAConrad after the EOAGH Philly launch
photo credit Sina Queyras
PoemTalk #13 with CAConrad, Kristen Gallagher, Jessica Lowenthal and Al Filreis on Kathleen Fraser's poem "The Cars" is HERE.
POETS REFINE MONEY
after reading in Baltimore, photo credit Michael Ball
@ Kenny's Castaways! photo credit Stacy Szymaszek
Suzanne Stein & CAConrad in San Francisco
photo by Kathryn Pringle
Jen Benka and CAConrad, photo by Stacy Szymaszek
CAConrad and Jenn McCreary
Photograph of "Poets Refine Money" broadside hanging in the SPD washroom above sink, taken by San Francisco poet Clayton Banes. Broadside printed and published by Shanna Compton.
(photo by Ben Malkin)

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