PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
1 appearances
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Edition 32 (2022) Winner
C. A. Conrad
しー・えー・こんらーど
Shī Ē Konrādo
Aliases:
CAConrad
Profile
- Gender
- Unknown
- Born
- 1966-01-01 （Topeka, Kansas, US）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Boyertown, Pennsylvania → Philadelphia, Pennsylvania → Asheville, North Carolina → Athens, Georgia
Career
- Occupations
- poet, professor, author
- Active Years
- 2006-2024
- Affiliations
- Columbia University, Sandberg Art Institute
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Lannan Literary Fellowship | — | — | Lannan Foundation | fellow |
| 2013 | MacDowell Fellowship | — | — | MacDowell | fellow |
| 2011 | Pew Fellowship | — | — | Pew Center for Arts | fellow |
| 2018 | Lambda Literary Award | While Standing in Line for Death | Gay Poetry | Lambda Literary Foundation | winner |
| 2022 | PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award | Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration | — | PEN Oakland | winner |
| 2022 | Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize | — | — | Poetry Foundation | winner |
Lannan Literary Fellowship
2014
Organization:
Lannan Foundation
Result:
fellow
MacDowell Fellowship
2013
Organization:
MacDowell
Result:
fellow
Pew Fellowship
2011
Organization:
Pew Center for Arts
Result:
fellow
Lambda Literary Award
2018
Work:
While Standing in Line for Death
Category:
Gay Poetry
Organization:
Lambda Literary Foundation
Result:
winner
PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award
2022
Work:
Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration
Organization:
PEN Oakland
Result:
winner
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
2022
Organization:
Poetry Foundation
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
1 appearances
Works
Major Works
While Standing in Line for Death
2017 Poetry
(Soma)ticsqueerdeath
Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration
2021 Poetry
(Soma)ticsextinctionvibration
Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
2024 Poetry
(Soma)tics
Ecodeviance: (soma)tics for the future wilderness
2014 Poetry
eco(Soma)ticsfuture
A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics
2012 Poetry
(Soma)tics
Bibliography
- Deviant Propulsion
- Advanced Elvis Course
- The Book of Frank
- The City Real & Imagined
- A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics
- Ecodeviance: (soma)tics for the future wilderness
- PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN (were you high when you said this?)
- While Standing in Line for Death
- Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration
- You Don't Have What It Takes To Be My Nemesis: And Other (Soma)tics
- Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Use and invention of the poetic form (Soma)tics
- Recurring Motifs
- queer identityconnection to natureengagement with the present momentpersonal trauma
Legacy
CAConrad is a prominent American queer poet who developed the unique (Soma)tics poetic form and received honors such as the Lambda Literary Award and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. They teach poetry at Columbia University and have appeared in documentary films.
In Popular Culture
- Appeared as self in documentary film The Book of Conrad (2015).
- Provided script writing/poetry for short film I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead (2018).
Trivia
- In 1998, their boyfriend Mark Holmes (aka Earth) was violently murdered in Tennessee.
- Bullied as a child and called 'faggot' more than their name.
- Mother was a 14-year-old runaway who married three times.
- Father was a Vietnam War veteran.