If you're in NYC today . . .

. . . CAConrad is reading with Kenward Elmslie at the Segue Series at 4PM (sharp!).

The Segue Reading Series presents
CACONRAD & KENWARD ELMSLIE
Saturday, April 7, 2007
4PM (sharp!)
at the Bowery Poetry Club
(308 Bowery, just north of Houston)
$6 admission goes to support the readers
hosted by Erica Kaufman & Tim Peterson

CAConrad'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 (www.PhillySound.blogspot.com). His book Deviant Propulsion was published in 2006 by Soft Skull Press.

It Really Was For Love

one day we
said let's
replicate
flowers
and not
buy real
ones any
more

Kenward Elmslie's recent publications include Agenda Melt, Snippets, Cyberspace, all with visuals by Trevor Winkfield, and Routine Disruptions, selected poems.

Thaw

Farmer Martin's widow
of old-time bulk
is picking dandelion greens
as mutt strains at rope
to nip Land Rover tires.
I wave too soon.
She cranes too slow-
in rear-view mirror,
back picking dandelion greens.

This is going to be so good!

I just read some of Conrad's new poems a few days ago--the ones he's planning to read. They are just astounding. He is writing "under the influence" of a different color each day--wearing, eating, and keeping on his person only things that correspond to that day's color--and seeing what kind of effect that has on that day's poem. (But the poems are not "about" the colors, if that makes sense.)

I really wish I could go.

Somebody please report!