C. A. Conrad

Penn Book Center's Random Name reading series begins its 2013 season with a reading by two of the most exciting voices in contemporary poetry. There will be books for sale, and refreshments. Should be amazing - you might want to get here early to get a seat.

CA Conrad is the author of Tranlucent Salamander (Troll Thread Press, 2013), A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics (Wave Books, 2012), the Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He is a 2011 PEW Fellow, a 2012 UCROSS Fellow, and a 2013 BANFF Fellow. He is a 2012 and 2013 visiting faculty member for the Summer Writing Program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Visit him online at
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Ariana Reines was born in Salem, Massachusetts. Her books include The Cow (Alberta Prize: 2006), Coeur de Lion (2007), and Mercury (2011), all published by Fence Books. The Foundry Theatre's production of her play Telephone (2009) won two Obies; a new production of the play will happen in Cleveland this spring. Her translations include books by TIQQUN, Jean-Luc Hennig, and Charles Baudelaire. She was Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at UCBerkeley in 2009 and led workshops at The Poetry Project and Poets House in New York. This fall, she led a poetry sabbath called ANCIENT EVENINGS at 208Bowery in New York. A new chapbook called Thursday is coming in March from SPORK.

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CAConrad reads from his new poetry collection Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics (Wave, $18 pb less 10% on this evening or 15% if you get both books this evening), and Lonely Christopher will read from his short stories The mechanics of homosexual intercourse (Akashic, $15.95 pb less 10% on this evening or 15% if you get both books this evening). On CAConrad "He's a poet for our time like Ginsberg was for his."--Eileen Myles "Conrad's work shows us that the body itself is the first source of alienation and estrangement from the self, and is thus the true subject of poetry. Only by engaging this body . . . can we achieve transport."--"Bookforum" "What is the best Love you've ever had in this world? Be quiet while thinking about that Love. If someone comes along and starts talking, quietly shoo them away, you're busy, you're a poet with a penny in your mouth. . . . Now get your pen and paper and write about POVERTY, write line after line about starvation and deprivation from the voice of one who has been Loved in this world." CAConrad's (Soma)tic exercises desire to literally crack open existence as we know it. "A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon" is an essential how-to book for anyone interested in breaking through their perceived limitations to become a more politically and physically engaged writer. Incorporating unorthodox steps in the writing process, these twenty-seven exercises and their corresponding poems confirm Conrad's unwavering belief in poetry as a necessary practice for being. CAConrad, a 2011 PEW Fellow in the Arts, is the author of five books of poetry, including "the Book of Frank" (Wave Books, 2010/Chax Press, 2009). He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On Lonely Christopher "The mechanics of homosexual intercourse," a radical map of shortcomings in our daily experiences in the form of a debut story collection, presents thematically related windows into serious emotional trouble and monstrous love. Lonely Christopher combines a striking emotional grammar, reminiscent of Gertrude Stein's "Three Lives," with an unyielding imagination in the lovely/ugly architecture of his stories. Lonely Christopher is the author of several poetry chapbooks and is a contributor to the poetry volume "Into" (Seven Circles Press). His plays have been published, staged in New York City and internationally, and released in Mandarin translation. His fiction received Pratt Institute's 2009 Thesis Award. He is a founding member of the small press The Corresponding Society and an editor of its biannual journal "Correspondence." He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

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