CAConrad

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CAConrad is the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012) and The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010/Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), 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.
Reviews
There was a time some of us believed poetry and poets could save the world; CAConrad never stopped believing it—and in that belief, and in poems produced under the sign of belief, we can witness an extroverted existentialism that just may be the last best hope for poets and non-poets alike. —Seth Abramson, The Huffington Post

Conrad must be one of the most original practitioners of poetry forging new territory. —Sean Singer, The Rumpus

His books are filled with alluringly odd and dark images that could rival William S. Burroughs. Conrad, an out-and-proud gay activist, fills his poems with his own brand of spirituality and loving gay sexuality. —A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia Inquirer

It is rare to find a poet who can admit, without losing face, that the voice of the world is often their own. It is still more rare to find one who can do so without losing our interest. CAConrad is one such poet. —Mary Wilson, Make Magazine

Conrad isn’t interested in that sort of perfection; it’s the messy business of being in the world that Conrad is after, and which allows him to reach for “seismic levels of wildness.” —Abraham Avnisan, Rain Taxi

Reviews of books by CAConrad

A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon

The Book of Frank
- CAConrad’s blog
- CAConrad's blog dedicated to poetry in Philadelphia, PhillySound
- CAConrad’s (Soma)tic Poetry Exercises blog

Poems
- “Guessing My Death [excerpt]” (on Poets.org)
- Two poems (in Everyday Genius)
- Two poems (in Dusie)
- “rehab saved his life but drugs saved mine at the blue HOUR” (in Coconut)

Exercises
- “Aphrodisios” (in Bomb)
- “Confetti Allegiance” (in The Academy of American Poets)
- “Suffering Makes No Home Alone” (in Broken Toujours)

Interviews
- Interview with Thom Donovan, excerpted from A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, at Poets.org
- The Poetry Foundation, with Eileen Myles
- The Philadelphia Inquirer, with A.D. Amorosi
- The Poetry Society of America
- The Poetry Foundation, with Bethlehem Shoals
- BOMBLOG, with Luke Degnan
- Bookslut, with John Zuarino
- The The Poetry, with Lisa Marie Basile
- The Wild, with Brenda Iijima
- The Rumpus, with Tara Murtha
- Coldfront, with Steven Karl
- CAConrad's audio archive page on PennSound
- Recording of CAConrad reading at the Hedreen Gallery in Seattle
- CAConrad reading with Frank Sherlock at Small Press Traffic
- CABINET reading with Maggie Nelson, Eileen Myles, Wayne Koestenbaum and others
- CAConrad on Anne Sexton’s poem “Portrait of an Old Woman on the College Tavern Wall” at the Poetry Foundation
- Reading from The Book of Frank at The Poetry Project and Machine Project
- Interview with Joseph Milford
- David Buuck tries out some of CAConrad’s (Soma)tic Poetry Exercises at The Poetry Foundation

Reading for Small Press Traffic:

Animated film for A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon by Luca Dipierro:

Reading for Poeteevee:

Reading for Dorothea Lasky's Tiny Tour:
Wednesday MAY 22, 2013 7:00pm

CAConrad will read and discuss A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon.

Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY