Poet CA Conrad will read from their new book from Wave Books, Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Anne Boyer says in a New York Times review: "How are we to believe in Earth if we can’t believe in the Heavens? In the plodding directionlessness of the present, we are lost without the astral maps. I want to point out too CAConrad’s signature care for the visual impact of the poem. The disciplined shaping means that the poetic line here not only carries sound and sentiment but builds toward a striking sculptural presence. CA Conrad’s is poetry that reaches for multidimensionality, and in this poem, the arc and increment of indentation is a convincer, moving with and toward the poem’s conclusion."

CA Conrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their most recent previous book was Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry). They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is now available in nine different languages, and they co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books). They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Tucson, Arizona, as well as in Spain and Portugal. They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.

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