[Brooklyn, NY]

Dorothea Lasky & CAConrad @ WILDE Boys
August 12, 2011, 7:30 pm
at Wilde Boys Salon

SISTERS OF ENNUIThe Dorothea Lasky & CAConrad Story Wilde Boys is a queer poetry salon in New York City. Founded in May of 2009 by Alex Dimitrov, hosts its monthly meetings with Dorothea Lasky & CAConrad. CAConrad is the author of the forthcoming book, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2011), and most recently, The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010/Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. Dorothea Lasky is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). She is also the author of five chapbooks: Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Laurel Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Phoebe, Lungfull!, Octopus, Coconut, Small Town, Typo, Fou, and Carve, among others. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University, Fashion Institute of Technology, The New England Institute of Art, Heath Elementary School, and Munroe Center for the Arts and has done educational research at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Philadelphia Zoo, and Project Zero. Currently, she researches creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania. Directions: Take the L train to Grand St. Walk north on Bushwick Ave. two blocks (past Powers) and make a left on Ainslie. It's the house on the corner of Ainslie & Bushwick; enter through the 2nd door on the left.