CAConrad by Augusto Cascales
Friday, May 17, 2024
4 – 6 PM
(Soma)tic Poetry Workshop with CACONRAD
Note: This workshop is fully booked
This workshop will explore how (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals can help us see the creative viability in everything around us. CAConrad has created writing rituals using the night sky to design homemade star constellations, another ritual to dream with crows, and many others, from talking with trees and ghosts, translating Shakespeare’s sonnets with crystals and coping with the destroyed wilderness of our planet.
Biographies
CACONRAD has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books/Penguin UK, 2024), and they are the author of numerous poetry collections including The Book of Frank (2010) and the selected volume You Don’t Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis: And Other (Soma)tics (2023). They have received many grants and awards, including most recently the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. They also exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Spain and Portugal, and their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by the artist Augusto Cascales.
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