Writing
Books
Translations
The Book of Frank: translated into Polish by Karolina Zapal (forthcoming)
The Book of Frank: translated into Spanish by Roman Lujan (forthcoming)
CAConrad Selected Poems: translated into Spanish by León Félix for publication in 2025
The Book of Frank: translated into French by Elsa Boyer & Camille Pageard (P.O.L., 2025)
Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return: translated into Portuguese by Julia Raiz for publication in 2025
Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return: translated into Greek by Krystalli Glyniadakis (Keimena Books, 2025)
The Book Frank: translated into Italian by Luca Dipierro (Garganta Press, 2025)
Selections from Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return: translated into German by Lisa Jeschke (Haus für Poesie, 2024)
Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return: translated into Norwegian by Martin Ingebrigtsen (H/O/B, 2023)
While Standing in Line for Death: translated into French by Elsa Boyer and Camille Pageard (P.O.L., 2022)
While Standing in Line for Death: translated into Norwegian by Gunnar Wærness and Martin Ingebrigtsen (H/O/B, 2022)
Ant Cartography / Cartorgrafía de las hormigas: translated into Spanish by Cecilia Pavón, with illustrations by Loay Al Derazi (Ediciones, 2021)
The Book of Frank: O Livro de Frank, translated in Portuguese by Alice dos Reis and Pedro Neves Marques (Pantano Books, 2021)
The Book of Frank: Franks Bog, translated into Danish by Line Kallmayer (Ovo Press, 2018)
The Book of Frank: Boka til Frank, translated into Norwegian by Gunnar Wærness (Audiatur, 2016)
The Book of Frank: El libro de Frank, translated into Argentine Spanish by Jacob Steinberg (Triana Editorial, 2016)
The Book of Frank: Frank ein kleines Leben, translated into German by Chris Michalski (Nachstellar Verlag, 2015)
Chapbooks
First Light (500 Places, 2024)
A Cast of Flowers, a risograph printed chapbook with accompanying CD with original music by Jacken Elswyth (Peninsula Press, October, 2024)
New Poems (Golden Boomerang, 2023)
I Prefer the Forests Making Blankets of Themselves (Bloof Books, 2022)
Poems for Martin, Gunnar, & Martin (Golden Boomerang, 2022)
Helio Whore (MACRO, 2022)
9 Poems (Golden Boomerang Press, 2021)
18 Poems & (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals (Hallie Ford School / PNCA, 2021)
Seized by the Left Hand (Dundee Contemporary Art, 2020)
Corona Transmutations (Golden Boomerang Press, 2020)
Bathe the Door with Blood of the Centaur (Catalpa Press, 2020)
Glitter in My Wounds (108 Press, 2018)
M (500 Places, 2017)
Circle M (Counterpath, 2017)
Mount Monadnock Transmissions (500 Places, 2015)
Width of a Witch (Make Us Golden, 2015)
You Don’t Have What It Takes To Be My Nemesis (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2014)
Full Moon Hawk Application (Assless Chaps Press, 2013)
Translucent Salamander (Troll Thread, 2013)
Arthur Echo (with Thom Donovan, Scary Topiary Press, 2011)
Poems Online
Prose Online
Dear Bernadette Mayer (The Poetry Project, 2023)
27 Onward: Dancing in the Revolution (Curtis Institute, 2022)
Callie Gardner, I Want to Keep Speaking with You (London Poetry Review, 2022)
On George Finlay Ramsay's Castorocene (Field Notes Journal, 2022)
Astrology of Onward & the Onward Poet-Salutation (Sandberg Institute, 2021)
There's Nothing Here but Flesh and Bone, There's Nothing More (TULCA, 2021)
SIN BUG: AIDS, Poetry, and Queer Resilience in Philadelphia (Poetry Foundation, 2020)
Occult Poetics & (Soma)tic Rituals (Ignota Press, 2019)
Candice Lin: A Tribute to Erosion (Frieze Magazine, 2019)
Politically Correct? Hear Me Out Please (McSweeney’s 2018)
Poetry & Ritual (Literary Hub, 2016)
From Whitman To Walmart (Poetry Foundation, 2016)
The Queer Voice: Reparative Poetry Rituals & Glitter Perversions (Poetry Foundation 2016)
Poet in the Crack of Liberty: My Life with Christopher, 1988 (Poetry Foundation, 2016)
Cocaine Poetry Grant Termination: Puppet Audition With Elizabeth, 1987 (Poetry Foundation, 2015)
The Right to Manifest Manifesto (Academy of American Poets, 2012)
Interviews
Poets House, “The Occult of Poetics,” 2025, by spencer jude perez
Palette Poetry 2025, by Marcella Haddad
C-Ville 2024, by Sarah Lawson
Poetry Magazine 2023, by Hoa Nguyen
The Massachusetts Review, “10 Questions for CAConrad,” 2022, by Edward Clifford
Neon Pajamas 2019, by Benjamin Niespodziany
Interview CENSORED by Library of Congress, but published by Bloof Books 2016, by Jasmine Platt
SFMOMA 2016, by Ross Simonini
Tarot & Poetry 2015, by Marjorie Jensen
Pew Foundation 2014
Poetry Foundation 2009, by Eileen Myles
Anthologies
Prayers for the End of the World (2026)
On Occasion (Coach House, 2026)
Ancient Algorithms, edited by Katrine Jensen, (Sarabande Books, 2025)
Twentysix Anthology (Vienna, 2025)
Last Tango Gallery Exhibition Catalog, Zürich (Cypress, 2025)
Visiting Joni: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Joni Mitchell edited by Debra Marquart, Alan Davis, and Thom Tammaro
Searching for stories Emily Josephine Rooney (2025)
Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga (Valiz, 2025)
Winter in America (Carbonation Press, 2025)
Cosmic Disharmony: Dudley Dream Walsh and Jake Kent (Two Queens, 2024)
NAROPA: 50 poets, 50 years (Wisdom Body Collective, 2024)
Living Strings (Ballantine Books, 2024)
Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most, Ed. Erin Belieu (Copper Canyon Press, 2023)
Away With Words, Eds. Elinor & Edward (Toothgrinder Press, 2022)
Cascadian Zen, Ed. Paul Nelson (pub TBA, 2022)
Everyone is an Artist: Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-West-falen in Dusseldorf, Eds. Eugen Blume, Susanne Gaensheimer, Isabel Malz, and Catherine Nichols (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2021)
Intertitles, Eds, Jess Chandler, Aimee Selby, Hana Noorali, and Lynton Talbot (Prototype UK, 2021)
Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology, Ed. Michael Walsh (Autumn House Press, 2021)
Ramifications, Ed. Sam Buchan-Watts (Clinic Presents Press, 2021)
The Experiment Will Not Be Bound (Unbound Editions, 2021)
Dead of Winter, Eds. Kim Jacobs-Beck, Miranda Scharf, and Jasmine Warner (Milk & Cake Press, 2021)
and suddenly it all blossoms: Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (Jelgavas Tipografija 2021)
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Eds. Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (Nightboat Books, 2020)
Athens Art Biennial, Ed. Christoforos Marinos (AAB, 2020)
Urban Ecology, Ed. Christina Irmen (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Watch Your Head, Ed. Sina Queyras et al (Coach House Books, 2020)
Rewilding: An Ecopoetic Anthology (Crested Tit Collective, 2020)
Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry, Eds. Sarah Shin and Rebecca Tamas (Silver Press, 2019)
LOOKING, WRITING, READING, LOOKING (Louisiana Museum Copenhagen, 2019)
The Body in Language, Ed. Edwin Torres (Counterpath Press, 2019)
The Beautiful, Ed. Dana Teen Lomax (Black Radish Books, 2019)
Stories of Almost Everyone (Hammer Museum Press, 2018)
Small Blows Against Encroaching Totalitarianism (McSweeney's, 2018)
Baltic Triennial 13 Anthology (Cura Press, 2018)
Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change, Eds. Heidi Lynn Staples and Amy King (Blazevox Books, 2017)
Manuel #7: Alchemy (RISD Museum, 2017)
A Shadow Map (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017)
The Two-Sided Lake, Ed. Jason Dodge (Liverpool Biennial, 2016)
Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics (Ricochet, 2016)
#23, Ed. Shane Anderson, German translations by Christian Filips (Berliner Festspiele, 2016)
Political Punch, Ed. Fox Frazier-Foley (Sundress Press, 2016)
Shake the Tree (Brightly Press, 2016)
but we are not citizens / we are magicians (Gabriell Hill, 2016)
Arcana: Tarot & Poetry (Major Arcana Press, 2015)
Best American Poetry 2014, Eds. Terrance Hayes and David Lehman (Scribner, 2014)
Best American Experimental Writing 2014, Eds. Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani (Omnidawn, 2014)
Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, Ed. Andrew Ridker (Black Ocean, 2014)
Toward. Some. Air., Eds. Fred Wah and Amy De’Ath (Banff Centre Press, 2014)
Some Pigeons are more equal than others, Ed. Eric Ellingsen (Drin Lag, 2014)
The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare, Eds. Paul Legault and Sharmila Cohen (Nightboat Books, 2013)
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Eds. TC Colbert and Trace Peterson (Nightboat Books, 2013)
Open the Door: How To Excite Young People About Poetry, Eds. Dorothea Lasky, Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan (McSweeney’s Books, 2013)
Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children, Ed. Dana Teen Lomax (Black Radish Books, 2013)
Gay City Anthology, Ed. Evan Peterson (Major Arcana Press, 2013)
The Unexpected Guest: Art, Writing and Thinking on Hospitality, Eds. Sally Tallant and Paul Domela (Liverpool Biennial, 2012)
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?, Ed. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (AK Press, 2012)
Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men On Their Muses, Ed. Michael Montlack (Lethe Press, 2012)
A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism, Eds. Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young (Chain Editions, 2011)
Imaginary Syllabi, Ed. Jane Sprague (Palm Press, 2011)
Poetry Time, Eds. Poetry Time Curators (Poetry Time Press, 2011)
No Gender: Reflections on The Life & Work of Kari Edwards, Eds. Julian T. Brolaski and Erica Kaufman (Litmus Press, 2010)
Queer Voice: A Compendium, Ed. Ingrid Schaffner (ICA, 2010)
The Encyclopedia Project, Eds. Miranda Mellis and Kate Schatz (Encyclomedia, 2010)
ON: Contemporary Practice #2, Eds. Thom Donovan and Matthew Cross (Cuneiform Press, 2010)
Wild Orchids: Writing on Hannah Weiner, Ed. Robert Dewhurst (Wild Orchids Press, 2010)
State of the Union, Eds. Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder (Wave Books, 2008)
The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles, Ed. Jeff Martin (Soft Skull Press, 2008)
War & Peace: The Future, Eds. Leslie Scalapino and Judith Goldman (O Books, 2007)
Awards
2025 Four Quartets Prize (finalist)
2015 Headlands Center for the Arts Fellow
2014 Lannan Foundation Fellow
2013 Ucross Fellow2013 MacDowell Fellow
2012 Banff Centre for the Arts Fellow
2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts
Magazines & Journals
a partial list, first poems published in 1984
Academy of American Poets, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2023
ADMINADMIN Magazine, 2025
Allium Magazine, 2024
American Poetry Review, 2016, 2018, 2022
Animot, 2024
Arc, 2021
The Art Fuse, 2025
The Babel Tower, 2020, 2021
Bæst, 2018
The Believer, 2018, 2021
Bellevue Literary Review, 2021
Berkeley Poetry Review, 2017
Black Warrior Review, 2017
Blazing Stadium, 2021
Blush, 2025
Bodega Magazine, 2019, 2021
The Brierfield Reader, 2021
The Capilano Review, 2016, 2021
Catflap, 2025
Duende, 2016
Field, 2016
Ghost Proposal, 2025
The Iowa Review, 2020
Jubilat, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Kyanite Magazine, 2021
LA Review of Books, 2024
Magma, 2019
Mary Journal, 2021
Massachusetts Review, 2021
McSweeney's, 2018
New Republic, 2016, 2021
Novembre, 2024
The Ocean State Review, 2016
PEN America, 2013 & 2016
Ploughshares, 2025
Poetry, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2025
Poetry International, 2017
Poetry Wales, 2020
Sissy Anarchy, 2024
Sublevel Magazine, 2019
Tongue Ring, 2024
Tribes, 2021
Tripwire, 2016, 2024
VOLT, 2024
The White Review, 2017