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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
November 5, 2025, 5:30pm
”Eco Poetics in Performance,” Brown University
Providence, RINovember 1 – 2, 2025, 1 pm – 5 pm
Occult Poetry & (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals with CAConrad
The Writing Studio, Ithaca, New YorkIn this workshop, CAConrad will discuss how poets' occult and paranormal experiences and practices in the past show us how to trust that these same forces are alive and at work today. Rumi, Hannah Weiner, Will Alexander, Hoa Nguyen, Alice Notley, and Ariana Reines are some poets whose work and practices we will investigate. CA will also discuss (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals as a practice for all writers and artists. These rituals provide a window into the creative viability of everything around us, initiating an "extreme present," where we learn how, even in crisis, we can thrive through the poems and learn to collaborate in unexpected ways with other artistic disciplines. Former US-Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in The New York Times, "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."
October 29, 2025; 5 - 7 pm
Public Lecture on "Occult Poetics"
MOSAIC EventSpace: 49 Main St. North Adams, MAOctober 25, 2025
Book release reading with L ScullyOctober 17 – 19, 2025
The Occult Humanities Conference 2025: Contemporary Art and Scholarship on the Esoteric Traditions
Hosted by the NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions and The Witch Wave Podcast
34 Stuyvesant St. New York, NYOctober 17, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Ecologies of the In\betweenON VIEW: October 17, 2025-January 4, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 17, 5-7 PM
Gallery 51: 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA
October 4, 2025; 8pm
HUT Performance X3, 33 Hawley Street, The Workroom, Northampton, MAMOVEMENT: Jesse Zaritt and Pamela Pietro
WORDS: CAConrad
SOUND: Andrea PensadoHUT is an exciting and innovative interdisciplinary performance series that has been running for 14 seasons. It is co-curated by movement artist Jennifer Polins, sound artist Jake Meginsky, and writer Catherine Corbett Bresner. The series showcases the work of three artists in each performance, featuring MOVEMENT, WORDS, and MUSIC from local and international artists who share a pursuit of experimental improvisation and an intention to push their forms forward. HUT draws diverse audiences who love music, writing and dance, offering varied communities a chance to sit together and experience performance styles they might not have appreciated before. By juxtaposing different artistic genres and emphasizing experimentation, HUT creates a unique space for building a new sense of public engagement and appreciation for the arts.
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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