poet CAConrad

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2011 Pew Fellow
2012 Ucross Fellow

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A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: NEW (SOMA)TICS

(Wave Books, 2012)

please click HERE for samples

and other information about

the new book

2011-06-16T09:18:00.003-04:00

The Book of Frank

(WAVE Books, 2010)

for samples and reviews

please click HERE

(REVIEWS in Boston Review, Book Forum, The Huffington Post, The Believer Magazine and elsewhere)

The Book of Frank mini movie (3 min.)

2011-03-15T10:51:00.010-04:00

from
SOFT SKULL PRESS

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click HERE

I'm Poetry Trading Card #17
from Fact-Simile Editions
all details at THIS LINK

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TO ORDER, AND FOR

PAGE SAMPLES,

REVIEWS AND

INTERVIEWS

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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.

Click HERE for YOU TUBE BATHTUB reading from the book.

2008-08-15T09:59:00.012-04:00

(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.

2006-03-28T14:50:00.017-05:00

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.

2005-08-11T10:13:00.028-04:00

CAConrad is 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

POETS REFINE MONEY

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after reading in Baltimore, photo credit Michael Ball

There are thousands of Americans everyday who are looking for a safe place to invest their money. Poets are the best source for removing negative charge from your wealth, and raising the collective conscience of the planet. You can change your life FOREVER by sponsoring a poet today! CAConrad is one such American poet serious about making poetry a lifelong quest, ready and willing to refine your money! If you are interested in sponsoring this poet, call (215)563-3075, or write to CAConrad13@AOL.com. You won't believe the difference a poet will make!

PLEASE JOIN The Understanding Campaign

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

@ 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)