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

Limited number of participants
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(photo by Elizabeth Kirwin)

for INTERVIEWS with CAConrad click HERE
for EVENTS click HERE
for MP3s & videos click HERE
for (Soma)tic Poetry Exercises click HERE

The City Real & Imagined, a new book by CAConrad & Frank Sherlock

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO ORDER, AND FOR PAGE SAMPLES, REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS

ADVANCED ELVIS COURSE by CAConrad

from
SOFT SKULL PRESS

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You can order The Book of Frank HERE, read samples HERE, and see a new video HERE. Later in 2010 WAVE BOOKS will publish an expanded edition. HERE is the EILEEN MYLES interview about the book that she did with me for The Poetry Foundation, THANKS FOR READING!

WINNER OF THE 2009 GIL OTT BOOK AWARD

THE BOOK OF FRANK
by CAConrad

for samples, reviews and ordering CLICK HERE!

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 Propulsion
by 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

(Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press)

SAMPLE POEMS HERE and HERE and HERE
(Soma)tic Poetics OUTLINE HERE

ORDER THIS BOOK HERE
order all six from series HERE

review by Al Filreis HERE
Cover photo by the amazing ZOE STRAUSS!

introductory note from (Soma)tic Midge :
I cannot stress enough how much this mechanistic world, as it becomes more and more efficient, resulting in ever increasing brutality, has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry. If I am an extension of this world then I am an extension of garbage, shit, pesticides, bombed and smoldering cities, microchips, cyber, astral and biological pollution, BUT ALSO the beauty of a patch of unspoiled sand, all that croaks from the mud, talons on the cliff that take rock and silt so seriously flying over the spectacle for a closer examination is nothing short of necessary. The most idle looking pebble will suddenly match any hunger, any rage. Suddenly, and will be realized at no other speed than suddenly.

all details for this anthology available on WAVE BOOKS website.

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.

CAConrad is the recipient of The Gil Ott Book Award for The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. 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

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PoemTalk #13 with CAConrad, Kristen Gallagher, Jessica Lowenthal and Al Filreis on Kathleen Fraser's poem "The Cars" is HERE.

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after reading in Baltimore, photo credit Michael Ball

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@ 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)