CAConrad
7th May 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00
First Light: Longevity of Practice with (Soma)tic Rituals
2025 is CAConrad’s 50th anniversary of writing poetry, and over the past half-century, they have known many brilliant artists who stopped doing their work for various reasons, from being overwhelmed by their new and growing families or jobs to disappointments with the reception of their art. Using (Soma)tic Rituals can keep us vibrating on the frequency of our talents no matter what challenges lie ahead.
We will focus on Intrusions, which vary from holding onto negative comments about our art to doubts that hinder moving forward with the things we want to create. These voices often come forward in times of crisis and shut many artists down. (Soma)tic Rituals can be used to remain focused, always treating our creativity like a vital organ.
Former US-Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in The New York Times, “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.”
This talk will be conducted in English.
CAConrad
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975.
Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024).
They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award.
The Book of Frank is now available in 9 different languages, and they coedited SUPPLICATION: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books).
They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Tucson, Arizona, as well as in Spain and Portugal.
They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.
Please visit them here.
General information
Date
7th May 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00
Venue
Forum Dança – Espaço da Penha
Travessa do Calado, 26B, 1170-070 Lisboa
Free entry, subject to capacity.
Top picture © DR
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