Events
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.
September 25, 2025, 7pm
Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City, IAPoet CAConrad will read from their new book from Wave Books, Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Anne Boyer says in a New York Times review: "How are we to believe in Earth if we can’t believe in the Heavens? In the plodding directionlessness of the present, we are lost without the astral maps. I want to point out too CAConrad’s signature care for the visual impact of the poem. The disciplined shaping means that the poetic line here not only carries sound and sentiment but builds toward a striking sculptural presence. CAConrad’s is poetry that reaches for multidimensionality, and in this poem, the arc and increment of indentation is a convincer, moving with and toward the poem’s conclusion."
September 20, 2025; 3 pm
Poetry and Shelter with CAConrad *HYBRID*: Woodland Pattern Books
Milwaukee, WI and OnlineAs part of the Poetry Coalition’s 2025 summer programming on the shared theme of Poetry & Shelter, we will present an event and reception featuring poet CAConrad. CA will give an afternoon reading, and there will also be a celebration of a new installation of their poetry on the window of our building. A pamphlet of CA’s poems will be available free of cost to all in attendance.
September 18, 2025; 7 pm
Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writer Series; University of MinnesotaSeptember 13, 2025; 12 pm
Poets House talk: Occult Poetics, New York CitySeptember 12, 2025; 7 pm
Poets House reading: CAConrad & Golden, New York CitySeptember 9, 2025; 6:30 pm
Longevity of Practice Workshop, UMass Studio Arts Building, Amherst, NHSeptember 3, 2025
Bard on the Rocks, The Hop Knot, Manchester, NHAugust 23, 2025; 4:30 am
Silent Sunrise Writing: across the street from Antidote Books
Brattleboro, VermontAugust 9, 2025: 4:30 am
Poet’s Seat Tower Silent Sunrise Writing
Greenfield, MassachusettsJune 28, 2025
Sky High Farm’s inaugural biennial: “Trees Never End and Houses Never End”
Germantown, NYJune 18 - 24, 2025
Naropa University Summer Writing Program: The Living Thread; Occult PoeticsWe 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, Ariana Reines, and Jack Spicer 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. CA will bring crystals charged for 72 hours at the foot of Emily Dickinson’s trees in Amherst, Massachusetts, one for each workshop participant. These massive, silent giants are the last living beings who knew her when she was alive! We will use the crystals in writing rituals such as haptics and flora transmission.
May 30, 2025 7pm
2 Prospect St. Turners Falls, Massachusetts
NIGHT OF THE NINE MUSESI will be reading poems through the voice of Calliope, muse of epic poetry. I will be reading from my First Light poems
May 25, 2025 3 pm
Unnameable Books Turners Falls, MA
Reading with CAConrad, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Elizabeth Marie Young, Britt Billmeyer-Finn, Jayson KeeryMay 24, 2025 6pm
Grey Matter BooksI'm excited to be part of the celebration of blush (blush is one of my favorite magazines and publishers!)
May 17, 2025, 3 pm
Looky Here; Occult Poetics Talk
Greenfield, MAMay 16, 2025 7 pm
Unnameable Books Turners FallsI'm reading with my friend Daniel J Selah for the celebration of his amazing new book HOW TO TIE & UNTIE MIST
May 13, 2025
Politechneiou 8, Athina 104 33, GreeceCELEBRATING the Greek translation of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return translated by Krystalli Glyniadakis published by KEIMENA BOOKS
April 16, 2025; 6:30 pm
Tank TV: "Reading light in the more than human world”
Andrea Luka Zimmerman and CAConrad in conversation
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