Note: the time has switched back to Thursday due to Conrad’s travel schedule. This is a class event, so participation, like attendance in class, is mandatory (plus, Conrad will be taking the time to work with us later in the week individually).
PRESS EVENT: POET CA CONRAD @ EVERGREEN MARCH 4
Please join us for an evening of reading & discussion with CA Conrad! Conrad will be building a new soma(tic) for this event as well as reading from three new books. This event is open to the public. Admission is free, though token donations are welcomed.
For directions, email David Wolach at wolachd@evergreen.edu.
I can never have enough CAConrad, like paprika or wisdom in disguise. —Bernadette Mayer
WHEN: THURSDAY, MARCH 4 — 8PMWHERE: SEMINAR II, C1105
CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2008), The Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). He invites you to visit him online at www.CAConrad.blogspot.com. Conrad is the winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, co-founder of Philly Sound (http://phillysound.blogspot.com/) and a co-founder of the PACE project, a Philadelphia-based group which organizes poets to read their poems aloud on street corners to passersby.
This event is part of the ongoing PRESS literary arts and politics reading series.
Sponsored by Wheelhouse Magazine, Experiments in Text: Radical Poetry, Politics, & Pedagogy, Performing Meaning/Translating Thought, Music and the Environment, Slightly West, The Office of the Budget Dean, and Logopoesis Posted by David (Michael)
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