Occult Poetry
ABOUT THIS TALK
In this talk, 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. Kabir, Rumi, Hannah Weiner, Will Alexander, Hoa Nguyen, Alice Notley, and Ariana Reines are some of the 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.
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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 US-Poet Laureate, The New York Times