Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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CA Conrad's childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. The author of nine books of poetry and essays, the latest is titled While Standing in Line for Deathand is forthcoming from Wave Books (September 2017). He is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Banff, RADAR, Flying Object and Ucross. For his books, essays, and details on the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films 2016), please visit CAConrad.blogspot.com.

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