tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41911049787948228742024-03-13T13:10:09.378-07:00CAConrad's PACE The Nation Project88888888poet CAConrad http://www.blogger.com/profile/13148611902772898013noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191104978794822874.post-18489724220558829532014-08-31T08:35:00.005-07:002016-01-05T07:30:24.297-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>MORE PACE in SPRING 2016</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Asheville, NC 28806</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Occupy movement revealed two substantial
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unrest is widespread and wants to become
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poets are part of this wherever you go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This project has a beautiful car, and her name is Sister Basho.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My
main goals for each city and town I visit:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• An
assembly ONLY of poets, asking them about the conditions of their lives and
communities and what we can do to repair our national obsession with war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• A
PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension) Action where we read poems on the
street to our fellow citizens, the resulting conversations among the most
productive and rewarding experiences where we also give away copies of the
poems we read. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(I cofounded PACE in 2004 with Frank Sherlock,
Mytili Jagannathan and Linh Dinh in Philadelphia. More <a href="http://pacephilly.blogspot.com/"><b>HERE</b></a>.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• A
blog about my project would include interactive components so online readers
can join the conversation and share their ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• A
poem written for each location to be included in a large book based on my
travels to see the poets of America, dedicated to the good people who will
provide me with a car and other assistance along the way.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is important for me to raise money on the road. I can do this through university visits or other readings and workshops if university resources are unavailable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will sleep in the car between locations, but the use of couches and showers will also be much appreciated. I am grateful for ANY help in making this project work financially or otherwise!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To introduce me to your family of poets please contact me at <a href="mailto:88CAConrad@gmail.com" title="mailto:88CAConrad@gmail.com">88CAConrad@gmail.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or call me at 432.294.1534</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THANK YOU, MUCH APPRECIATED!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CAConrad's childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of seven books including <i>ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness</i> (Wave Books, 2014). He is a 2015 Headlands Art Fellow, and has also received fellowships and residencies from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Banff, Ucross, RADAR, and the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. He conducts workshops on (Soma)tic Poetry and Ecopoetics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Poetry is at its very root tendentious."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--Vladimir Mayakovsky</span><br />
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