{"id":81336,"date":"2014-09-26T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=81336"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:16:07","slug":"avant-garde-poet-caconrad-returns-to-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/26\/avant-garde-poet-caconrad-returns-to-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Avant-garde poet CAConrad returns to Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"CAConrad,<\/a>

CAConrad, poet. (Ambrose Bye)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Language Arts Live series at Bates College presents CAConrad, known for a pioneering approach to writing called “(soma)tic poetics,” with a lecture and a reading on consecutive evenings in October.<\/p>\n

Conrad gives the talk Radical Insistence Through Queering the Language<\/em> by 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, in Room 104 of Hathorn Hall,<\/span> 3 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). <\/span><\/p>\n

Conrad<\/span> reads from his work at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n

Both events are open to the public at no cost. A literary reading series featuring writers of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, Language Arts Live is sponsored by the English department at Bates. For more information, please call 207-786-6326.<\/p>\n

A pioneering poet who has thrived through the crises of AIDS, hate crimes and navigating a queer community riding the military industrial complex, Conrad offers a talk about the poetry that transformed a poet’s life into helping others in his Oct. 1 talk. <\/span><\/p>\n

Widely published in poetry and arts journals and anthologies, he is the author of seven books including Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness<\/em> (Wave Books, 2014),\u00a0A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon<\/em> (Wave, 2012) and\u00a0The Book of Frank<\/em> (Wave, 2010).<\/p>\n

His “(soma) tic poetics” is a creative practice that, he says, “investigates that seemingly infinite space between body and spirit” by exploring the writing of poetry under highly ritualized constraints, both physical and mental.<\/p>\n

Conrad tours the nation as part of his “PACE The Nation Project,” engaging with other poets and presenting poetry publicly in search of ways, he explains, “to repair our war-obsessed nation.” A 2014 Lannan Fellow, 2013 MacDowell Fellow and a 2011 Pew Fellow, Conrad also conducts workshops on (soma)tic poetry and ecopoetics.<\/p>\n

Conrad appeared at Bates in 2009, early in the Language Arts Live series. He lives in Philadelphia. Learn more: CAConrad.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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