CAConrad - September 19, 2024

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CAConrad,
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UA Poetry Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson

Reading Series
Fall Reading Series
Location
MOCA Tucson
CAConrad

CAConrad reads from Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (2024), an ecopoetic work considering animal and human realities in the Anthropocene. To open, CAConrad briefly discusses and reads from Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (2021); to close, they read one poem from the chapbook First Light (2024). This reading was presented in connection with CAConrad's exhibit 500 Places at Once on display at MOCA Tucson.

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caconrad_09-19-2024_01.mp4
Welcome on behalf of MOCA
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by Laura Copelin

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CAConrad,
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caconrad_09-19-2024_02.mp4
Welcome on behalf of the Poetry Center
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by Tyler Meier

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caconrad_09-19-2024_03.mp4
Introduction
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by TC Tolbert

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caconrad_09-19-2024_04.mp4
Opening Remarks and remarks on writing Amanda Paradise
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CAConrad,
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species extinction
experimental writing
experimental
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caconrad_09-19-2024_05.mp4
"Camisado"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration. Seattle: Wave Books, 2021.

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hope
love
empathy
dreams
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caconrad_09-19-2024_06.mp4
On the inspiration behind Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return and writing during Covid lockdown
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CAConrad,
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crows
seattle
COVID-19
covid lockdown
lockdown
rats
rome
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caconrad_09-19-2024_07.mp4
"Our first lightning strike was convulsive…"
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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CAConrad,
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wilderness
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caconrad_09-19-2024_08.mp4
"Part of this forest…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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deer
roadkill
forests
love poem
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caconrad_09-19-2024_09.mp4
"To desire the world…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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world
hope
seeds
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caconrad_09-19-2024_10.mp4
"Thumbing through calendars…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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time
ghost
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caconrad_09-19-2024_11.mp4
"We stopped studying the night sky…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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stars
earth
ancestors
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caconrad_09-19-2024_12.mp4
"The hill appeared in many dreams…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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herman melville
spider
time
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caconrad_09-19-2024_13.mp4
"What would it take to kill the imagination?.."
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CAConrad,
Citation

CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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survival
imagination
love
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caconrad_09-19-2024_14.mp4
"Don't worry…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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survival
community
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caconrad_09-19-2024_15.mp4
"Refrigerators are where we keep…"
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CAConrad,
Citation

CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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anti-war
daily life
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caconrad_09-19-2024_16.mp4
"A shotgun above every door…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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childhood
death
family
guns
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caconrad_09-19-2024_17.mp4
"A potato born by shovel…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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modernity
art of poetry
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caconrad_09-19-2024_18.mp4
"Do You Like Your Species…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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earth
species
trees
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caconrad_09-19-2024_19.mp4
"Mind and body can only be separated…"
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CAConrad,
Citation

CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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silkworms
the mind
body
the body
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caconrad_09-19-2024_20.mp4
"Never deny the warmth…"
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CAConrad,
Citation

CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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nation
ancestors
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caconrad_09-19-2024_21.mp4
"It was sexy how you politely declined…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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love
love poem
ocean
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caconrad_09-19-2024_22.mp4
"A focus I mean a compass…"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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love
love poem
wind
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caconrad_09-19-2024_23.mp4
"Purgatory is cruel to poets…"
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CAConrad,
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CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.

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poets
melancholy
purgatory
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caconrad_09-19-2024_24.mp4
On sunrises in Tucson and around the world
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CAConrad,
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sunrise
earth
bats
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caconrad_09-19-2024_25.mp4
"It's a dance a kind of poetry locomotion…"
Reader
CAConrad,
Citation

CAConrad. First Light. Five Hundred Places, 2024. 

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sunrise
adventure
church bell
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CAConrad wears a black headband, black and gold jacket over a plain black t-shirt, and holds their hands together, showing black and gold sparkly painted nails. They pose in front of a gray brick wall, and there is a plant to the viewer's left and their right.
CAConrad
Photographer
Paola Valenzuela
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