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Sunday, March 24, 2024 Three Poems by CAConrad

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications by

from Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

CAConrad We stopped studying the night sky for directions if someone said we made it up planet earth isn't real we would try to verify try to be sure critics are the evidence we do not trust ourselves your imagination is asking for parole what is your verdict Warden try to always remember the calendar made of light our ancestors followed to pass the year

CAConrad part of this forest tastes like the man I love with an actual number of nails holding the bedroom together other days when we died where we fell we became the forest my car never intended to be a meat grinder another face going under the waves we felt awful after hitting the deer we made love and slept with one of his antlers between us

CAConrad to desire the world as it is not as it was falling feather attaches to new life for a moment when the hammer approached we thought is that thing coming this way we are the fractal drop to hear our own harmonics in the muffled underground hum of seeds

About the Poet

CAConrad

CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest books are Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books, 2024) and AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021). The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010/Chax Press, 2009) is now available in nine different languages. Other titles include While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017), ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tic for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books, 2014), and A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics (Wave Books, 2012).

They received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Believer Magazine Book Award. With Robert Dewhurst and Joshua Beckman, they co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners. In 2022 Augusto Cascales made a film of their play The Obituary Show. They recently had their first solo exhibition at Fluent Gallery in Santander, Spain, titled 13 Moons: Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.

Related Event

    • CAConrad will join Kay Gabriel, Taylor Johnson, and Trish Sala in a group poetry reading featuring participants in Trans Longevity: A Poetry & Poetics Symposium sponsored by University at Buffalo Graduate Poetics Group and the UB Poetics Program on Friday, March 29, 7:30pm at Just Buffalo Literary Center, 468 Washington St. in Buffalo.For more information about the two-day symposium to be held at various locations on March 28 & March 29

The Poem of the Week feature is curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

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