CAConrad

PennSound Podcast #55, CAConrad reading and conversation with Julia Bloch

Complete recording (1:01:07): MP3

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk Podcast #28, Discussing Jack Spicer's "Psychoanalysis: An Elegy"

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk Podcast #13, Discussing Kathleen Fraser's "The Cars"

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

Reading for the Boise State Reading Series, Hemingway Center, March 8, 2024

Introduced by Trey Hayden.

Complete recording (1:18:21): MP3

Reading at Segue at Zine Bar with Jack Halberstam, NYC, January 16, 2019

Complete recording (1:23:25): MP3

Whenever We Feel Like It: Reading with Dara Wier at the Kelly Writers House, January 22, 2018

• CAConrad reading (36:22): MP3
• Complete recording (1:07:00): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading, Philadelphia, January 6, 2017

Complete reading (2:38): MP3

Reading for Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry, April 15, 2016

Reading and Conversation with Julia Bloch in the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House, January 27, 2016

1. Introduction and conversation with Julia Bloch (15:01): MP3
2. Denise Levertov vs. Bruce Lee (4:57): MP3
3. Introduction to new pieces from Martha Poetry Machine in 36 Things (2:44): MP3
4. You don't have what it takes to be my nemesis (3:05): MP3
5. Power sissy intervention queer bubbles (3:45): MP3
6. Discussion on ecopolitics and introduction to "My faggot Kansas blood..." (6:19): MP3
7. My faggot Kansas blood confessions to the Earth, for Anne Boyer (3:04): MP3
8. Introduction to "Hall of the decommissioned pantheon" (1:47): MP3
9. Hall of the decommissioned pantheon (5:20): MP3
10. Introduction to "I loved Earth years ago" (1:23): MP3
11. I loved Earth years ago (6:23): MP3
12. Unknown duration of fear (4:00): MP3
13. Introduction to "Security cameras and flowers dreaming..." (0:35): MP3
14. Security cameras and flowers dreaming the elevation allegiance (2:01): MP3

Reading with Kevin Killian and Jennifer Moxley, Frank O'Hara's Last Lover, Snockey's Oyster and Crab House Rose Room, Philadelphia, January 31, 2015

Complete recording (1:42:55): MP3

Video Part 1 (Conrad and Moxley)

Video Part 2 (Killian)

Lannan Fellowship Reading at Marfa Book Company, February 15, 2014

• Complete reading available here.

Reading for Joseph Ceravolo Celebration, Kelly Writers House, September 9, 2013

• Complete reading (8:04): MP3

• Complete reading (25:45): MP3

After-Dinner Poems (with Frank Sherlock), Philadelphia, March 1, 2012

• MUGGED into Poetry (14:00): MP3


• Recorded by Michael S. Hennessey.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis Celebration, Temple University, October 21, 2011

• Complete reading (5:55): MP3

Reading at Zebulon Cafe, featuring CA Conrad, Brooklyn, February 8, 2011

1. Thom Donovan (30:27): MP3
2. CA Conrad (6:41): MP3

• Complete reading (37:08): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, January 22, 2011

1. CAConrad discusses Mount Monadnock Transmissions (7:50): MP3
2. Mount Monadnock transmissions (3:56): MP3
3. Earth is a reboot (2:32): MP3
4. CAConrad discusses "There is no prison named love" (4:47): MP3
5. There is no prison named love (0:51): MP3
6. Discussing "Camisado" (9:59): MP3
7. Camisado (1:10): MP3
8. Death will set your day right (1:12): MP3
9. On all fours I am a seat for the wind (2:38): MP3

• Complete reading (28:16): MP3

• Complete reading (39:38): MP3

Launch Party for The Book of Frank as part of the Whenever We Feel Like It Reading Series, Kelly Writers House, October 2, 2010

1. Introduction by Michelle Taransky (4:22): MP3
2. Introduction by Frank Sherlock (2:44): MP3
3. Recording of Michael Gizzi's "McKenna's Antenna", in memoriam (7:40): MP3
4. Reading from The Book of Frank (15:44): MP3

Complete reading (30:32): MP3

Launch Reading for The City Real and Imagined: Philadelphia Poems by CAConrad and Frank Sherlock

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, February 3, 2010

• Complete reading (42:21): MP3


• Read Rachel Blau DuPlessis' introduction to the reading here.

MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

• Complete reading (3:21): MP3

Appearing on the Joe Milford Poetry Show, October 11, 2009

• Part One (48:40): MP3
• Part Two (53:45): MP3
• 
  (note: due to technical difficulties, the original program had a ten-minute interruption, which has been edited out here)

Reading at Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, September 11, 2009 (courtesy of A Voice Box)

1. introduction by CA Conrad (7:12): MP3
2. introduction to From the Womb Not the Anus, White Asbestos Snowfall on 9/11 (2:23): MP3
3. From the Womb Not the Anus, White Asbestos Snowfall on 9/11 (1:38): MP3
4. Say it with Green Paint for the Comfort and Healing of Their Wounds (2:18): MP3
5. White Helium (3:56): MP3
6. Every Weakness of the World in One Limb for a Day (1:43): MP3
7. You and Your Soup (2:47): MP3
8. Kick the Flush (2:04): MP3
9. from The Book of Frank (5:04): MP3
10. introduction to Advanced Elvis Course(3:19): MP3
11. from Advanced Elvis Course (9:36): MP3

• Complete reading (42:01): MP3

"From the Womb Not the Anus, White Asbestos Snowfall on 9/11" and "Say it with Green Paint for the Comfort and Healing of Their Wounds" are also featured on PoemTalk Episode 94.

From Six Poets Each Teach One Short Poem to High School Students at the Kelly Writers House, May 12 2009

CAConrad teaches "Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show" by Frank Sherlock [pdf]

Complete recording (17:29): MP3, QuickTime

From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

• Dear Mr. President There Was an Eggshell Under Your Desk Last Night In My Dream (3:27): MP3

Reading at the O Books War & Peace Vol. 3 Launch, NYC, November 27, 2007

1. I'm falling in love aimlessly (2:46): MP3
2. Crows, beautiful murder of crows (1:19): MP3
3. Gentlemen, I think it will get darker (2:06): MP3
4. We're on the Brink of Utter Befuddlement, Yellow Hanky Style [from (Soma)tic Midge] (2:31): MP3
5. Say it with Green Paint for the comfort and healing of their wounds [from (Soma)tic Midge] (1:53): MP3
6. The Beginning of Naming (by Adonis) (2:09): MP3
7. Tattoos of America's Most Wanted In My Mind (3:19): MP3

"Say it with Green paint for the comfort and healing of their wounds" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 94.

1. one (0:23): MP3
2. two (0:20): MP3
3. three (0:26): MP3
4. four (0:07): MP3
5. five (0:20): MP3
6. six (0:13): MP3
7. seven (0:11): MP3
8. eight (0:19): MP3
9. nine (0:24): MP3
10. ten (0:27): MP3
11. eleven (0:25): MP3
12. twelve (0:27): MP3
13. thirteen (0:35): MP3
14. fourteen (0:49): MP3
15. fifteen (0:08): MP3
16. sixteen (0:15): MP3
17. seventeen (0:12): MP3
18. eighteen (0:12): MP3

from Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006)

1. "some mornings your hair is" (0:25): MP3
2. In the Black Forest Before the Birth of Rilke (0:08): MP3
3. It's True I Tell Ya My Father Is a 50¢ Party Balloon (0:19): MP3
4. A World Without Condoms (0:27): MP3
5. Crows (1:18): MP3
6. Severed Leg Pirouette (0:17): MP3
7. "the only failure is no love" (0:22): MP3
8. "i'm falling love aimlessly it's nice" (0:35): MP3
9. You Not as Me but You (1:34): MP3
10. Torn Ligament Chorephilia for Marwan (0:58): MP3
11. "carry another sex on your sex" (0:34): MP3
12. The Night River Phoenix Died (0:57): MP3
13. R.S.V.P. (0:37): MP3
14. "he's losing" (0:23): MP3
15. evaporate again (1:44): MP3
16. For Straight Guys Who've Considered Suicide When the K-Y Is Enough (1:12): MP3
17. "dreamt they forced my face" (0:16): MP3
18. "above anything" (0:13): MP3
19. Where Were You March 1st When a Great Poet Died? (0:33): MP3
20. The Distance (0:44): MP3
21. "as though none of us exist" (0:24): MP3
22. For Greg & Alison (0:08): MP3
23. Exist as Real Journey to All Friends (2:25): MP3
24. Subterrestrial Aria for Kevin Killian & Dodie Bellamy: 1st Watch (1:16): MP3
25. Subterrestrial Aria for Kevin Killian & Dodie Bellamy: 2nd Watch (0:44): MP3
26. Imbibe (0:36): MP3
27. "she said shit should never come up in a poem" (0:41): MP3
28. Dear Mister President there was Egg Shell under Your Desk Last Night in My Dream! (3:26): MP3
29. Celebrities I've Seen Offstage (10:30): MP3

from (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2007)

• distorted torque of FLORA'S red
• (written after eating only red foods for a day
• while under the influence of a red wig, right
• side in curls, left side straight) (1:46): MP3

• a little orange bag believe it or not CAN hold all that remains
• (written after eating only orange foods for a day
• while under the influence of an orange ladder
• drawn on my chest with magic marker) (2:15): MP3

• we're on the brink of UTTER befuddlement yellow hankie style
• (written after eating only yellow foods for a day
• while under the influence of a yellow
• condom tucked into my left sock) (1:26): MP3

• say it with grEEn paint for the comfort and healing of their wounds
• (written after eating only green foods for a day
• while under the influence of green nail
• polish on my middle fingers) (2:03): MP3 (Also featured on PoemTalk Episode 94)

• rehab saved his life but drugs saved mine at the blue HOUR
• (written after eating only blue foods for a day
• while under the influence of Bobby Vinton's
• "Blue Velvet" played on a continuous
• loop from 6 a.m. to midnight) (1:54): MP3

• smells of summer crotch smells of new car's purple MAjestY
• (written after eating only purple foods for a day
• while under the influence of purple
• clothes-pin nipple-clamps) (2:05): MP3

• from the womb not the anus WHITE asbestos snowfall on 911
• (written after eating only white foods for a day
• while under the influence of "108" written
• on my forehead with fresh semen) (1:44): MP3 (Also featured on PoemTalk Episode 94)

Studio 111 Session produced by Michael S. Hennessey

From Live at the Writers House

Episode 65, September 24, 2007

• Introduction (1:07): MP3
• Frank Poems (3:50): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 7, 2007

1. Introduction (1:46): MP3
2. Distorted Torque of Flora's Red [from (Soma)tic Midge] (1:57): MP3
3. A Little Orange Bag, Believe it or Not, Can Hold all that Remains [from (Soma)tic Midge] (2:22): MP3
4. We're on the Brink of Utter Befuddlement, Yellow Hanky Style [from (Soma)tic Midge] (2:01): MP3
5. Say it with Green paint for the comfort and healing of their wounds [from (Soma)tic Midge] (2:01): MP3
6. Rehab Saved his Life but Drugs Saved Mine at the Blue Hour [from (Soma)tic Midge] (2:54): MP3

"Say it with Green paint for the comfort and healing of their wounds" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 94.

"Queering Language" Reading Launch

Recorded at Robin's Bookstore, Philadelphia, March 24, 2007

• Introduction to the reading (3:25): MP3
• "Target," "Torment," "Vacation," "The Plates," by Alexandra Grilikhes (4:00): MP3

Poetry, Politics, Proximity: The Third Annual Kerry Sherin Wright Prize Program

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, Thursday, April 27, 2006

Untitled (8:09): MP3

From Live at the Writers House

Episode 54, October 6, 2005

• To the President (3:41): MP3

Ted Pearson Reading at the Kelly Writers House, March 4, 2004

Introduction to the reading (3:10): MP3, pdf

Frequency Audio Journal (2004)

Various recordings coedited with Magdalena Zurawski

From Live at the Writers House

Episode 31, November 5, 2001

• Excerpts from Advanced Elvis Course (3:20): MP3

Recorded Poems on Harry's House, Vol. 2 CD

• I Am A Circle - CA Conrad's Urchin Chorus (00:53): MP3
• I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead - CA Conrad (00:53): MP3

Also of Interest:

PhillySound: New Poetry Blog

Jupiter 88: a Video Journal of Contemporary Poetry, edited by CAConrad

CAConrad on PennSound Daily

• November 17, 2010: "CAConrad: "The Book of Frank" Launch"
• September 15, 2010: "CAConrad and Frank Sherlock: "The City Real and Imagined" Launch Reading, 2010"
• November 20, 2009: "CAConrad and Frank Sherlock: New Readings from "A Voice Box""
• June 1, 2009: "Six Poets Each Teach One Short Poem to High School Students"
• October 30, 2007: "CAConrad Studio 111 Session"

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