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CAConrad
CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. The books they have written include The Book of Frank (2010), Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (2021), Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (2024), and a new and selected volume You Don’t Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis (2023). They received the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and other grants and awards. They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute and De Ateliers in Amsterdam.
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ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST LEGENDARY LIVING POETS.
—Ocean Vuong
Upcoming events, workshops, exhibitions
January 9, 2026, 8pm
I am excited and grateful to be part of this new exhibition, “Urning & Urningin. Language and Desire since 1864”
Opening night reception on January 9
The show runs from January 9 to April 5, 2026December 13, 2025, 7pm
TINA Gallery, TINAtalks #2: CAConrad curates a series of screenings and reads poetry. Films by Beatrice Gibson and Andrea Luka Zimmerman will be included.
LondonDecember 12, 2025, 6pm
Book party for SIN BUG (Tenderbooks, 2025), my first book of essays with a focus on some of my beautiful friends and lovers who died in the early years of the AIDS crisis. There are also new poems in the book and a window installation. Many thanks to everyone at Tenderbooks!
LondonDecember 8, 2025, 7pm
Book party for the French translation of The Book of Frank with translators Elsa Boyer and Camille Pageard. The poet Eleni Sikelianos will also be reading
At Michael Woolworth Atelier, in partnership with Doublechange
ParisDecember 6, 2025, 7pm
Book party for the French translations of The Book of Frank and While Standing in Line for Death
At After 8 Books
ParisDecember 5, 2025, 4pm
Writing in Future panel with Vera Lutz and Eugene Ostanshevsky (moderated by Jason Dodge)
At Aula der HFBK
Hamburg, GermanyNovember 15, 2025, 8PM
OUTBURST Arts Festival: Catflap #5 Launch
Belfast, Ireland
Performing with Cat Brogan, Dayna Ash, Sam Furlong, Leandro Reyes, and Jacken ElswythNovember 5, 2025, 5:30pm
”Eco Poetics in Performance,” Brown University
Providence, RI
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CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious.
—Tracy K. Smith, former United States Poet Laureate