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C. A. Conrad
American poet, professor, and author (born 1966) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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CAConrad (born 1966) is an American poet, professor, and the author of seven books. They were based in Philadelphia and later Asheville, North Carolina and Athens, Georgia.[1][2][3]
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Early life
CAConrad was born January 1, 1966, in Topeka, Kansas, and grew up in Boyertown, Pennsylvania.[2] Their mother was a fourteen-year-old runaway and their father was a Vietnam War veteran. Their mother married three times.[2]
Conrad was bullied as a child and stated in the feature film documentary, The Book of Conrad (2015), "People called me ‘faggot’ more than they called me my name."[4]
Career
Conrad is known for using and inventing the poetic form of "[Soma]tics."[5] This form is a sort of writing prompt/personal exercise in being engaged in the present moment.
Conrad was one of the two poets in the short film, I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead (2018) by filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, also featured was poet Eileen Myles.[6][7][8]
Conrad was a 2014 Lannan Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, they also conduct workshops on (Soma)tic poetry and Ecopoetics.[9][10] Their book While Standing in Line for Death won a 2018 Lambda Book Award.[11] Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration received a 2022 PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award. In 2022, they were awarded a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement in poetry.[12]
In 2019, Conrad cancelled their planned appearance at the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York because of the organizations support of artist Tobias Madison, who was accused of domestic violence.[13]
Conrad teaches poetry at Columbia University and the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.[3]
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Personal life
Conrad identifies as Queer.[14][11] In 1998, Conrad's boyfriend Mark Holmes (aka. Earth) was violently murdered in Tennessee.[2][15][4]
Bibliography
- Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006) ISBN 9781932360875, OCLC 57506566
- Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009) ISBN 9781593762438, OCLC 276339539
- The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010/Chax Press, 2009) ISBN 9781933517490, OCLC 645248360
- The City Real & Imagined (with Frank Sherlock) (Factory School Books, 2010)
- A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics (Wave Books, 2012) ISBN 9781933517599, OCLC 752471228
- Ecodeviance : (soma)tics for the future wilderness (Wave Books, 2014) ISBN 9781940696010, OCLC 956321378
- PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN (were you high when you said this?) (Worms Press, 2014)
- While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017) ISBN 9781940696553, OCLC 962409884
- Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021) ISBN 978-1950268429, OCLC 1240828484
- You Don't Have What It Takes To Be My Nemesis: And Other (Soma)tics (Penguin Books, 2023) ISBN 9781802062458, OCLC 1388645152
- Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books, 2024) ISBN 9781950268962, OCLC 1399572369
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