COPENHAGEN Issue Number 1

Please click HERE to read the issue! 

many thanks to everyone who created

this beautiful journal 

The Book of Frank ANNIVERSARY reading in Glasgow

Many thanks to Sebastian Taylor, and everyone making this happen!

Please click HERE for tickets

Sunday, March 12th, 2pm

105-109 French Street

Glasgow, G40 4EH

SCOTLAND

Introduction by Mason Leaver-Yap

This event is taking part of the student-run exhibition Boys With Books

For the 30th anniversary of when I began writing these poems I will do 9 full-length readings of the book; this is reading #1

I am looking forward to this event in BEAUTIFUL Troy, New York!

Live in-person group reading for PAPERBARK Magazine

I am looking forward to celebrating this new issue. Many thanks to Jade for interviewing me. Hope to see you there!

Wednesday, February 15th, 4:30pm

Augusta Savage Gallery

UMass Campus

Amherst, Massachusetts

Celebrating the poetry of Karl Parker

February 11th 2pm EST ONLINE WORLDWIDE

This event is an opportunity to hear Parker's extraordinary poetry read aloud for all its mastery and beauty!

Please click THIS LINK to register 

Please click THIS LINK for the book

New book published by H//O//F

The Norwegian translation of 

While Standing in Line for Death

Please click HERE for book details

Many thanks to the translators

Gunnar Wærness and Martin Ingebrigtsen

Many thanks to the publisher

Martin M. Sørhaug of H//O//F

Many thanks to Wave Books for permissions and the original English publication

Two new books from UK Penguin

Very excited and grateful to have two new titles from UK Penguin in 2023

Please see these two links (their PRE-ORDER buttons are now live)

The Book of Frank

You Don't Have What It Takes To Be My Nemesis

Many thanks to my US publisher Wave Books for help and permissions

Many thanks to everyone at UK Penguin

Many thanks to Nicole Eisenman for the amazing art for The Book of Frank (the name of the painting is "Luck Lines" and I LOVE it!)

30th Anniversary of The Book of Frank

2023 marks the 30th anniversary of when I began writing The Book of Frank (Wave Books).

My goal is to perform 9 book-length readings throughout the year. If you are interested in hosting one of the readings, I would appreciate you contacting me at 88CAConrad at Gmail dot com. 

I'm looking forward to celebrating this book! Thanks to my fantastic publisher, Wave Books, and to Eileen Myles for writing the Afterword! Many thanks to all of the translators and publishers who made The Book of Frank available in 9 different languages! I am very grateful to everyone who gives these poems life! After the 9th reading of the book this year, I will go into the studio to produce an audiobook for Wave!

Poetry Project's New Year's Day Marathon

This year's marathon reading is LIVE in person, but also ONLINE from anywhere in the world!

Please CLICK HERE for details

Please CLICK HERE for online viewing

I LOVE spending my birthday at this annual fundraiser

And THIS YEAR I am offering tarot readings throughout the day

Tarot readings are by appointment, please contact info at Poetry Project

MANY THANKS to EVERYONE working hard at The Poetry Project

PROVIDENCE December 14, 2022

 PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

Online award ceremony for the 2022 PEN Literary Awards

December 3rd LIVE at THIS LINK to the library Facebook page

Please CLICK HERE for award details

5pm Boston, Massachusetts

2pm Oakland, California

AMSTERDAM November 23rd and 24th

SANDBERG ART INSTITUTE

November 23rd I will have a conversation about queerness and poetry with Jamil Fiorino Habib as part of the opening symposium. Please CLICK HERE 

November 24th 5 to 7 pm is a public lecture about my new work

Please contact unsettling@rietveldacademie.nl

MANY THANKS to everyone for inviting me!

French translation of my book While Standing in Line for Death

Please click HERE for the book

Gratitude to Elsa Boyer and Camille Pageard

for their incredible work as translators

Many thanks to Frederick Boyer, Jean-Paul

Hirsch, Victoire Le Sager, Shannon Guillou,

and the many other people who work hard

making books at P.O.L

Events in Paris Nov. 17 and 18

I am very excited to read from the French translation of

While Standing in Line for Death (P.O.L. 2022)

Translated by Elsa Boyer and Camille Pageard

Nov. 17th 6pm at AFTER 8 BOOKS

and 

Nov. 18th 1pm at THIS LINK

Immaterial Ecologies. A gathering to resynchronise land and body. Lisbon, Portugal

Poetry Session with CAConrad, Ellen Lima and Rita Natálio

4pm Sunday, November 6th

Art library

Av. de Berna, 45A, Lisbon

Details at THIS LINK

Many thanks to Alex Diaz and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Interview in The Greenfield Recorder

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ

 

Many thanks to Mary Byrne for the opportunity to talk about poetry in a newspaper!

IGNOTA 2023 Diary

Please CLICK HERE for details

SERAFINE 1369'S Visions: October 2022

GROPIUS Bau

I am very happy to be one of the 8 artists 

at this year's Berliner Festspiele!

I have 18 poems with audio installed

Please CLICK HERE for details

MANY THANKS to Jamila!