Episode 49: CAConrad
Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
English - April 04, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 89.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 206 ratingsArts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Rachel Zucker speaks with poet CAConrad about their Somatic poetry rituals, their childhood in rural Western Pennsylvania, becoming an avid reader, running away from home, the AIDS epidemic, writing The Book of Frank over an 18 year period, anti-efficiency, marketing research, the 1998 murder of CA’s boyfriend, Earth, using a somatic ritual to cure a pernicious depression, and CA’s recently published book, While Standing In Line for Death. CAConrad describes their writing process, how to get ahead of one’s internal editor, revision, combating misogyny, animal rights activism, ACT UP, ecological disaster, ecopoetics, the vibrational absence of extinct species being replaced by the din of humanity, white rhinos, Walmart, the end of empire, teaching, the myth of writer’s block, how to write inside the hardest things, roadkill memorials, being alone, and accepting the elements.
Rachel Zucker speaks with poet CAConrad about their Somatic poetry rituals, their childhood in rural Western Pennsylvania, becoming an avid reader, running away from home, the AIDS epidemic, writing The Book of Frank over an 18 year period, anti-efficiency, marketing research, the 1998 murder of CA’s boyfriend, Earth, using a somatic ritual to cure a pernicious depression, and CA’s recently published book, While Standing In Line for Death. CAConrad describes their writing process, how to get ahead of one’s internal editor, revision, combating misogyny, animal rights activism, ACT UP, ecological disaster, ecopoetics, the vibrational absence of extinct species being replaced by the din of humanity, white rhinos, Walmart, the end of empire, teaching, the myth of writer’s block, how to write inside the hardest things, roadkill memorials, being alone, and accepting the elements.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 49Books by CAConrad
While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books, 2017)
Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books, 2015)
ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books, 2014)
A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics (Wave Books, 2012)
The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010)
Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009)
Other Writers/Artists/Makers Mentioned in the EpisodeOther Relevant LinksThe Book of Conrad [film]
Massachusetts Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Veto Referendum
“Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers” in The Guardian