TRANSMISSION
WAS RECEIVED
INSIDE THE
RITUAL
CAConrad
CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. The books they have written include The Book of Frank (2010), Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (2021), Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (2024), and a new and selected volume You Don’t Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis (2023). They received the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and other grants and awards. They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute and De Ateliers in Amsterdam.
RECENT
BOOKS
“
ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST LEGENDARY LIVING POETS.
—Ocean Vuong
Upcoming events, workshops, exhibitions
November 15, 2025, 8PM
OUTBURST Arts Festival: Catflap #5 Launch
Belfast, Ireland
Performing with Cat Brogan, Dayna Ash, Sam Furlong, Leandro Reyes, and Jacken ElswythNovember 5, 2025, 5:30pm
”Eco Poetics in Performance,” Brown University
Providence, RI
October 29, 2025; 5 - 7 pm
Public Lecture on "Occult Poetics"
MOSAIC EventSpace: 49 Main St. North Adams, MAOctober 25, 2025; 6:30pm
Book release reading with L Scully at Unnameable Books, 66 Avenue A Turners Falls, MAOctober 17 – 19, 2025
The Occult Humanities Conference 2025: Contemporary Art and Scholarship on the Esoteric Traditions
Hosted by the NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions and The Witch Wave Podcast
34 Stuyvesant St. New York, NYOctober 17, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Ecologies of the In\betweenON VIEW: October 17, 2025-January 4, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 17, 5-7 PM
Gallery 51: 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA
“
CAConrad's poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious.
—Tracy K. Smith, former United States Poet Laureate