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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

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Upcoming events, workshops, exhibitions

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  • April 2nd, 2026, 6pm
    The Poetry Foundation
    Unveiling of BOLD TYPE which is a mural of one of my poems on the wall of The Poetry Foundation lobby
    At 6pm is the reading with CAConrad, Rickey Laurentiis, Jake Skeets, S. Yarberry
    Chicago

  • March 28th, 2026, 2pm
    MINT Poetry Festival, “With My Dog Eyes”
    Kathy Acker, CAConrad, Lucas Foletto Celinski, Hilda Hilst, Alexey Kokhanov, Angela Lieber, Atalia ten Brink, Adam Sinclaire, Edward Thomasson, Ian White.
    Stockholm, Sweden

  • March 13th, 2026, 6pm
    LOOKY HERE
    6 to 7 Community Tarot Share (bring your tarot cards!)
    7 to 8 Open Poetry Reading (bring your poems!)
    Greenfield, Massachusetts

  • March 2nd, 2026, 6pm
    Reading at Cavalier House Books
    Lafayette, Louisiana

  • February 28th, 2026
    Event for my Artist in Residence at 309 Punk Project
    5pm Occult Poetry Talk
    6pm Community Tarot Share
    7pm Poetry reading
    Pensacola, Florida

  • February 8th, 2026, 7pm
    Opening of the new art show Brain in Pipe
    Three of my poetry sculptures alongside works by Jan Dominicz, Gina Folly, Germaine Koh, Devin T. Mays, and Sean Morel
    Curated by Sean Morel at Kaiserwache Gallery in Freiburg i’m Breisgau, Germany
    Many thanks to Sean and Ilja

  • January 28th, 2026, 4pm
    I am the Richard Elman Visiting Writer for the Raymond Carver Reading Series
    Syracuse University

  • January 23, 2026, 7pm
    Congress of the Birds fundraiser
    With Danielle Vogel, Eleni Sikelianos, and Riley Ratcliff
    at RiffRaff
    Providence, Rhode Island

  • 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, 2026

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Exhibitions

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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