Dana reading at many venues, from many texts (PennSound).
Here is the interactive website for the Deep Oakland project that Stephanie co-edits. (It is pretty fucking intense, baffling, so generous, beautiful, fun, my adjectives don't mean anything, just look at it, every-city-needs-Stephanie-Young-and-her-co-editors-is-she-for-hire-for-your-town-?).
Buy Bay Poetics from Faux Press.
"Older poems" by Stephanie, also in Shampoo.
Stephanie and Dana are friends, OMG they have so much in common, here is Stephanie reading at many venues, from many texts (PennSound).
DIANE GLANCY is professor emeritus at Macalester College. She was the 2008-09 Visiting Richard Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. Her most recent books are The Reasons for Crows, A Novel of Kateri Tekakwitha (SUNY) and Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears (University of Oklahoma Press). Forthcoming books are The Dream of a Broken Field, essays (University of Nebraska Press), and Stories of the Driven World (Mammoth Press, Lawrence, KS). She currently is working on an independent film, The Dome of Heaven, with Through a Glass, also in Lawrence. More information about the film is on her website, www.dianeglancy.com. She lives in Prairie Village, Kansas.
Karl Gartung was born in Liberal, Kansas. In 1976 he was hired to run a small press bookstore (Boox, Inc.) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He says this was the beginning of his serious apprenticeship to contemporary literature. In 1979 he co-founded Woodland Pattern Book Center with Karl Young and Anne Kingsbury. At Woodland Pattern, where he retains the title of Artistic Director, he has been involved in the planning and presentation of hundreds of poetry readings, music performances, and art and book exhibits. He has always felt that such activities are as centrally artistic as writing or publishing could have be. These events were (and are) his education. In order to provide the income necessary to see the Book Center through inevitable funding droughts, he took a day job as a truck driver at what has become UPS Cartage Services. He calls this his deal with the devil. After several layoffs, Gartung helped organize his workplace into the Teamsters Union in 1993, and has served as a union steward from the ratification of the first contract to the present. Representing others on the job became a new and satisfying field of work, leading inevitably to more material for writing. He is a reader and writer with deep ethical commitment, vision, and a particular enthusiasm for poetry and visual work in outside traditions. His own work was changed irretrievably by Paul Metcalf, Dick Higgins, Karl Young, and Jerome Rothenberg. Karl’s work has appeared in 26, Five Fingers Review, Convergence, Croton Bug, Convoy Dispatch, and was featured along with Karl Young and Morgan Gibson in a special issue of Gam: Roots of Experimental Writing in Milwaukee. His first full length book of poetry, Now That Memory Has Become So Important, was published in 2008 by Midwestern Writers Publishing House. 
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I am also reading. I am Robert J. Baumann and I think I will be reading from a chapbook called Robert J. Baumann's A Man About Town. Anne Boyer is putting it together. It has become a custom to use the person's name as a possessive adjective referring to the title but also as part of the title, so I did that. It felt clever at first but that has worn off. My favorite thing that I have done on the internets was with other people on this blog called "Willow Ufgood". I have some poems on-line, too. This "bio" felt less shameful to write in first person, but I still had serious "second thoughts" about putting my name in bold in that first line.
Clancy Martin is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His first novel, How to Sell, is set for release in May from Firar, Straus, & Giroux, and will be translated into five languages. His fiction also has appeared in journals such as NOON, 5_Trope, and Parakeet. He has authored, translated, edited several books on 'existential' philosophy. He lives somewhere near Kansas City with his wife, three daughters, and 4 toy poodles.
Nate Barbarick said, "I have never read any of his work or anything."
Karl Saffran says CA's bio is "pretty funny."
John Coletti says CA's "a pal."
Ron Silliman says CA’s the one poet who knows everyone.
Dustin Williamson said, "He's one of those poets that lulls you, then hits you with some real chops."
Jack Kimball says, "Another non-tragedian, C. A. Conrad."
I could not find anything that said or someone to say something about how his cum tastes.
Anne Boyer said, "You know how Allen Ginsberg lead a group of hippies to try to levitate the Pentagon in the '60s? I think CAConrad is the poet today most likely to do that, except they will try to levitate ___________." I was supposed to fill in the blank. If there is a very large pile of glitter somewhere, maybe CA could levitate that. And then drop it on the economy. Poems would be currency, but you couldn't but anything with them--you could just make people feel good. Making people feel good would be currency.
Tom Devaney says CA's survival is deviance, or he deviates to survive, or that he devives to surviate, or divides surrogates, or something. I had food poisoning when i read that one.
Jordan Davis says CA argues that the country at large mostly finds loving menacing.
Jess Mynes would say CA's one of the most enthusiastic supporters of other people's work and one of the most passionate champions of poetry in general.
Clay Banes said, "I would say I am for." Meaning, for CAConrad.
Frank Sherlock says check out Deviant Propulsion. You'll feel better about Conrad's poems, about yourself, and about the future of poetry.
CAConrad says, perhaps to us all, "One day my dear you will be a fairy princess."
An Actual Kansas Reading Series, which actually happens in Lawrence, Kansas and not Kansas City, Missouri, will host three fabulous cross-_______ writers on
Friday, March 6, 2009 @ 7pm
in the
6 Gallery (716.5 Massachusetts Street, downtown Lawrence).
The three writers are:
Magdalena Zurawski is a Minor American writer living in Durham, North Carolina. Her novel, The Bruise, was published by FC2 in 2008. Visit her blog for links to things like interviews (like this one at X Poetics) and to keep up.
Aaron Kunin grew up in Minneapolis, was educated at Brown, John Hopkins and Duke, and is an Assistant Professor of 18th-Century English Literature at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His work has appeared in Boston Review, FENCE, The Germ, No: A Journal of the Arts, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Poker, UbuWeb, and elsewhere. His poetry collection Folding Ruler Star and his novel The Mandarin were both published by FENCE Books.
CA Conrad's childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance he got where he lives and writes today with The PhillySound poets. Soft Skull Press published his book Deviant Propulsion in 2006. Jack Kimball's FAUX Press recently published his new series of poems (Soma)tic Midge (samples from this new work can be seen in listenlight and MiPOesias and Sawbuck and COCONUT#9). The Book of Frank is forthcoming in fall of 2008 from CHAX Press. A selection of The Book of Frank was translated into German by Berlin poet Holger, and a bilingual chapbook is now available from Carrie Hunter's YPOLITA Press. His book advanced ELVIS course will be coming out in spring of 2009. A collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems, will be coming out in fall of 2009 from Factory School Press.
Moria: http://www.moriapoetry.com/
Otoliths: http://stores.lulu.com/l_m_
BlazeVOX: http://www.blazevox.org/
The Continental Review: http://www.
Friday / November 7, 2008 / 7pm
6 Gallery
(716.5 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, KS)
Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collection, Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year. Her second poetry book, The Heaven-Sent Leaf was recently released by BOA Editions, and will be available at the reading.
Katy's poems and prose have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harvard Review, GQ, and elsewhere. She has been anthologized in Body Electric (Norton), From Poe to the Present: Great American Prose Poems (Scribner), and State of the Union (Wave Books), among other compilations. She serves as a Poetry Editor of Fence Magazine.
Katy is keeping a blog about her current book tour.
Given An Actual Kansas' obsession with tha skrilla/tha cheddah/cash money, this blurb on Katy's new book is appropriate to include here:
. . . Lederer charts her speakers' interior landscapes according to the [New York C]ity's highly monetized geography, viewing life in the big city through the lens of expenditure— not just of money, but of all that money signifies. In poems that are both heartfelt and ruthlessly critical of our current financial milieu, in which the fates of individuals are packaged, priced out, and then bundled for sale on the open market, Lederer proves Robert Graves's famous observation wrong: though there may be no money in poetry, there is indeed poetry in money.Katy works at "a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan."
Karl Saffran (b. 1981) works as Bookstore Guru at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. He recently read his "dead wrestler sonnets" at an event involving live wrestlers. He is the only other person I know who is in horrible debt but doesn't change his spending habits. He is also the only person that can bring me to tears with personal criticism. He co-curates Salacious Banter Reading Series with Mike Hauser, who has said Karl looks like a bearded Peter Lorre.
Jim McCrary (b. ????) is a Lawrence dood whose collected chapbooks are forthcoming (2008) by ManyPenny Press. His list of “poetic friends” includes or has included Paul Blackburn, Tom Beckett, David Ignatow, Kenneth Irby, John Moritz, and countless others. He probably now hates me for "name-dropping". But he is generous, and will probably get over it. Here are poems by Jim in Locus Point.
Brandon Brown is a poet and translator from Kansas City, Missouri. His poems have appeared or are about to appear in Abraham Lincoln, Aufgabe, Dusie, Small Town, and Work (alphabetically). Cy Press published a chapbook Memoirs of My Nervous Illness and Transmission Press published another one, 908-1078, both in 2006. TAXT Press in Oakland will publish Camels! in 2008; Mitzvah Chaps will Publish Wondrous Things I Have Seen in 2009. He currently co-curates The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand Gallery with Alli Warren and publishes small press books under the imprint OMG!
