HANNAH EMERSON'S BOOK PARTY for The Kissing of Kissing (Milkweed Editions, 2022) PLEASE JOIN US!!!

TUESDAY March 8, 2022

8PM EST

7PM CT

5PM PT

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER (this is a FREE online event)

PLEASE CLICK HERE for a POEM SAMPLE from this AMAZING book

JOHN WIENERS: A Symposium and Poetry Reading

For the schedule, list of panels, performers and Zoom registrations

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MARCH 3rd

2pm to 6:30pm London

9am to 1:30pm Boston

8am to 12:30pm Chicago

6am to 10:30am San Francisco

I will be read from SUPPLICATION: Selected Poems of John Wieners

Many thanks to Mark O. Chamberlain and everyone at Durham University 

Parascience : Permutation FREE on Zoom

SATURDAY

February 19th, 7pm Nürnberg --- 1pm New York

ONLINE Zoom 

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Meeting-ID: 863 389 7159

password: 885920

IN-PERSON at

Akademie Galerie 

Hauptmarkt 29, 90403 Nürnberg GERMANY

In November, 2021 I had the privilege of working with friends Eva Birkenstock and Kerstin Brätsch and a dozen extraordinary young artists to build an exhibition group show. JOIN US on February 19th to see the show of art, tapestries, psychic playlists, and my short presentation of new (Soma)tics.

my new book on POWELL'S marquee in Portland, Oregon!

MANY THANKS to Alexa W!

Please see THIS LINK 

(for Alexa's review)

QUEER / ART / FILM Presents--- at the IFC

Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

February 14 VALENTINE'S DAY 2022

8pm at the IFC in NYC

Please CLICK HERE to reserve seats

I will host a screening of this brilliant Robert Altman film with the original Broadway cast: Cher, Kathy Bates, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis, and Sudie Bond. Based on the play by Ed Graczyk.

Please CLICK HERE for Queer / Art / Film

MANY THANKS to Angelo Madsen Minax and Mev Luna!

Very excited for the invitation they gave me to host this film!

Interview on MONTANA Public Radio

Please click THIS LINK for show details

At the top left of the page there is a button to listen LIVE

After it airs it will be archived on same page below

LIVE: January 27th at 7pm MST (9pm EST)

With readings from AMANDA PARADISE (Wave Books, 2021)

THANK YOU to Lauren Korn for the very thoughtful questions

And Peter Hoag for technical support, and everyone who

keeps MONTANA NPR on the air spreading poetry

GREEN RIBS: A Vegan Poetry Cookbook

I was working on a vegan cookbook that was also (Soma)tic poetry rituals for a few years. It was fun making it, a different ritual for writing poems with each recipe. Then my diet took a radical shift a couple of years ago, removing all sugar and gluten and all highly processed vegan cheese and butter, knocking 90% of those recipes out of my life. If I no longer put these foods in my body, the book needs to evolve with me.

Note: Out of respect for the greenest of the queens, we will capitalize Celery.

Back in the 1990s, I considered opening a food truck selling my Celery rib recipes. Each plate would have three Celery ribs with delicious vegan fillings packed into the grooves. I had my homemade tofu cheese, my faux fennel sausage, and lots of luxurious fruit creams. I had several kinds of beans and rice; also, mac and cheese with olives and tempeh bacon. One of my favorites was Celery stuffed with spicy marinated seitan, dipped in batter and deep-fried, with its own tangy peanut sauce for dipping. YUM! 

GREEN RIBS is what I wanted to call my food truck! And I was going to paint it a VERY Celery GREEN, HAHA! Why not!? I would serve most of the Celery crisp and ice-cold, while I would char others on the grill for my barbeque soy chicken. Charred ribs also were perfect for my salty caper and red onion mashed potatoes, topped with melted parmesan.

Starting over, I want a Celery chapter in the cookbook. I’m working on this recipe: Celery brushed with sesame oil, dusted with spices, and flame-grilled quickly for a nice sear, then topped with Celery prepared three ways: smoked, creamed, and pickled. Celery on Celery on Celery is so Celeriac! 

My favorite new recipe is unsweetened 99% dark chocolate, melted with almond butter, cardamom, white pepper, and crispy fried matchstick-sized pieces of burdock root, topped with thin shavings of my pickled red pears. That rich, earthy quality of burdock in the arms of almond butter, chocolate, and spices with the acid and sweetness of pickled red pears is my new Valentine’s Day dish, served on a chilled and crunchy thick rib of Celery!

My hope is for another good snowstorm this winter. One recipe is snow mixed with cayenne and toasted walnuts. I tried this with various kinds of crushed ice, but it’s terrible. It has to be FRESH snow, and it has to be made by the sky. I’m watching the weather, and as soon as they call for SNOW, I’m toasting walnuts and setting them aside!

MORE TO COME!

Enjoy some Celery today!

University of Toronto 2022

Friday, January 21, 3pm Eastern Time Zone

Please CLICK HERE to register for the talk

Focus on AMANDA PARADISE (Wave Books, 2021)

Many thanks to the university staff who make these events possible!

2 poems in WHEN IS NOW Project

Please go to THIS LINK to read my poems

Please go to THIS LINK for more poems 

and information on the project

MANY THANKS to everyone at the WHEN IS NOW Project

5 Poems in Poetry Daily

MANY THANKS to everyone at Poetry Daily

Please CLICK HERE to read

This is an excerpt from my new book AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021)

ECO-MECHANICS Nature Documentary (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual

For Covid Lockdown 3.0, prepare to touch the thawing ground for our poems. Watch 9 nature documentaries while locating different species of animals on our bodies. For birds caress our shoulders for their wings whenever we see them on the screen. We can slide a hand down our legs for fish fins and tails. Think of where you want mammals, reptiles, insects, and amphibians on the body, and each time they appear in the film, bring them onto ourselves for the poems we write. Let’s also find places on our bodies for mountains, deserts, rivers, oceans, forests, snow, dirt, fire. Take notes for the poem.

Several times during each film, pause it to study the image of wilderness caught on camera. Each time, let’s ask the questions, “What did we humans learn from what I am seeing? Has this creature influenced our customs, beliefs, or technology? Has our relationship with other creatures improved human life? Has the relationship been as beneficial to the animals? What am I doing to protect our shared natural world?” Take more notes for the poem.

Let this be the first step toward building a new poetry ritual for the spring.

The Poetry Show

MANY THANKS to Daphne E. Stanford and Radio Boise for the opportunity to talk about my new book AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021).

FREE WORKSHOP for MACK Books

JANUARY 10, 2022

1pm New York time

6pm London time

PLEASE SEE THIS LINK TO REGISTER

New (Soma)tic poetry rituals and resulting poems

PHOTO BY Valencia Ganoe

Poetry CALENDAR benefit for Blue Stoop

It is an honor to be published in this poetry calendar alongside so many brilliant poets who I admire! This is a benefit for Blue Stoop. Please see THIS LINK for details!

Many thanks to everyone at Blue Stoop

POETS IN THE MUSEUM

It has been a dream of mine for years to be an exhibit in a museum as a poet. To take up the space reserved generally for the visual arts.

Tomorrow begins my first experience building (Soma)tic poetry rituals and writing in the museum. For one week I will be throwing my body into the poems.

The artist Jason Dodge named his new show at MACRO after a line from my poem "CAMISADO," in my new book AMANDA PARADISE (Wave Books).

When I enter the museum in Rome tomorrow, I will not step out again for a week. What is most exciting is that I have no idea yet what the rituals will look like.

Many thanks to Jason Dodge, and to everyone at MACRO for this opportunity. Thank you also to the poet Brenda Hillman for the special crystal for these rituals. 

From December 11 to the 16

Details at THIS LINK

If you are in Rome PLEASE JOIN ME in making rituals and writing poems!

UNSETTLING Amsterdam in-person

PLEASE R.S.V.P. me at: 88CAConrad (at) Gmail (dot) com

BOTH EVENTS are at Sandberg Instituut

THURSDAY

December 9

18:00 to 20:00

Presenting new work CROW GIFTS The Jasmine Ascension 

FRIDAY

December 10

11:00 to 16:00

(Soma)tic Ritual Workshop

FIVE BODIES: Entanglements 2022

 FOR WORKSHOP DETAILS

PLEASE CLICK HERE

12 (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals in latest issue of THE BELIEVER

 PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ