#ca conrad

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from ca conrad, ecodeviance

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we’re all made up of each other

// The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath // ANNOINT YOURSELF from Somatic Poetry- C.A. Conrad // The Couple- Louise Bourgeois // Jessica gives me a chill pill- Angie Sinjun Lou // What I could Have Been- Tracey Emin // Beg- Franny Choi // When you have forgotten Sunday- Gwendolyn Brooks // The Kiss- Edvard Munch // I was reading a scientific article- Margaret Atwood // A Hat Full of Sky- Terry Pratchett //

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“Glitter In My Wounds” by CAConrad

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CA Conrad, from ‘I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead’, ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness

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"we loved our united disunity                                        a wild stubborn focus                                        chewing its way out" 

-CA Conrad 

 Good Morning, Internet! 

 XO, SPD

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Κουήρ Vol.2

“πρώτο και πιο σημαντικό δες όνειρα με φίλους μας που χάθηκαν χάραξε σ’ άδειες καρέκλες τα είδωλά τους δεν είμαστε όσο δέσμιοι του χρόνου όσο φοβούνται ωρολογοποιοί το πρωινό αυτό θέλω μόνο να πάω εκεί που δείχνουν με το δάχτυλο πέτρινοι άγγελοι μέχρι δακρύων μαστιγώνομαι απ’ το κελάηδισμα οι ετεροφυλόφιλοι πρέπει να δουν πως υποφέρουμε να δουν τους βίαιους θανάτους φίλων και εραστών μας να μάθουν πως το γκλίτερ που φορά μια αδερφή δεν είναι για να μας θαμπώσει αλλά για να κλονίσει τα θεμέλια μίας κουλτούρας μίσους χόρτα που εναντιώνονται βγαίνουν διαλύοντας τσιμέντο νομίζεις πως ο Όσκαρ Ουάιλντ είναι αστείος Ντάρλινγκ, εγώ νομίζω πως απλά την προσοχή των στρέιτ αποσπούσε για να γλιτώσει το κεφάλι του αν ήξερες πόσες φορές μου έχουν πει δεν είσαι σαν τον γκέι φίλο μου που λέει αστεία και με κάνει να γελάω όχι ρε πούστη μου δεν είμαι ούτε έχω όρεξη να κάνω οντισιόν τον ρόλο της μασκότ πουστάρας σου να με σκοτώσει το σινάφι σας αδύνατον...” CA Conrad

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A (Soma)tic Ritual

A (Soma)tic Ritual is something invented by CA Conrad, and they are rituals to get inspired to write poetry. For class, I had to write a few. Enjoy? 

Ask one or both of your parents for a word each--any word that they can think of that is beautiful or ugly. Write this word and every word in this ritual with a marker on your inner wrist and don’t hide it with gloves, sleeves, or bracelets. Let this word be free. Ask a sibling, or someone who feels like a sibling if you have none, for any word that they love more than life. Ask your best friend, a close close friend, for a word that they hate. Ask a distant friend, one you barely talk to, for a word connected to their past, and highlight that you don’t need context for this word. Now ask yourself for a word that connects to your future as you percieve it. 

When someone asks you what these words on your wrist are, explain they are your poetic muse, and now they must gift you with a word they like and then you will add it to the list. Make sure all these words are visible on your wrist and arm (if you ran out of room). Keep these words on your body until you’ve collected all of them, and 24 hours after that. Write down your thoughts about each word at least three times. 

Think more about these words, and establish familial ties with them. Which words should be treated as: mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers. aunts, uncles, cousins, sons, daughters, grandmothers, grandfathers and so on and so forth. Treat these words as if they were that part of your family, and take notes about it. 

Now write a poem without using any of these words on your wrist and arm. They’re not allowed in the poem. Instead, use your notes you took at least three times, use their definitions, their origins, and their images, and use the familial ties and the people you encountered in the ritual to create something fantastic.

I hope it’s everything you imaged and more.  

[jgthirlwell]

01.01.19 New Years Day in NYC means the annual festival of poets from The Poetry Project at St Marks Church. Among the dozens of performers doing short sets were the legendary Anne Waldman,  Cat Tyc, Precious Okoyomon, CA Conrad, Wo Chan, Erica Hunt with guest Marty Ehrlich, Steve Earle, Tammy Faye Starlight, Penny Arcade, M.Lamar, Anne Vitale, Laura Ortman and many more