A Reading with CAConrad and Lonely Christopher

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A Reading with CAConrad and Lonely Christopher

Start: 03/08/2012 5:30 pm

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 CAConrad

"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.