9 questions for 9 poets

CA Conrad, a poet who also works in the medium of correspondence, has an interesting project going: he poses 9 questions to 9 poets and publishes the results. It’s fascinating reading in the same way as any of the “conversations with poets” books -- who can resist a peek inside the mind of a poet whose poem speaks deeply to us? Conrad’s questions are of the sort that seems open to a wide range of responses, direct or fanciful, logical, flip or poetic -- he says “Some of the questions came from dreams, others from waking ideas.” The second set of 9for9 has just been posted at poets9for9.blogspot.com; I presume the series will continue there. The next 9for9 will be a live panel at The Philly Sound, New Poetry Weekend, Saturday, August 9 at Penn’s Kelly Writers House. For more of CAConrad’s work online, read:

• His “Dear Mr. President,” one of the pieces in our Poems for Peace collection.
• Excerpts from his collaboration with Frank Sherlock, The City Real & Imagined in Tool a Magazine.
• Excerpts from advancedELVIScourse & 7MARCHES in La Petite Zine.
• “Frank’s Sister Grew Long Blue Feathers” posted side-by-side with its Spanish translation in Tameme.
• “Quoted, Printable,” Philadelphiaweekly.com’s article on Findingtheword, Conrad’s ezine of found conversations & narrative collage.