The Poetry Project

CAConrad

CAConrad sits before a mirror shaped like the apse of a cathedral. They appear to be about to say something fun. The whole room is bathed in purple light. A shadow flickers behind them. They hold what appears to be a white flower in their left hand, touching its petals with their right.
© Augusto Cascales

CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021), which won the 2022 PEN Josephine Miles Award. They also received a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is now available in 9 languages; their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by Augusto Cascales, and they exhibit poems as art objects with recent shows in Spain and Portugal. Please visit them online at linktr.ee/CAConrad88