"It's just the condition of my soul ... It will pass."
So yesterday my new colleague, the iconic Jack Shoemaker (editor of David Markson, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, MFK Fisher, Geoffrey O'Brien etc etc etc etc) sends me an email in which he reports that an Oregon-based writer's program's director emailed to say "Tell Jack that C.A. Conrad's Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull) kicked my ass." Jack in turn tells me, I in turn tell Jack how much CAConrad really does rock and then I see this great interview in this week's Philly City Paper and I know that Conrad does not believe in coincidences, only certain queer cosmic forces (aka deviant propulsions) and I'm therefore compelled to post the forgoing...
Also, please note this references an event in Philadelphia at Robins featuring the Soft Skullers Hal Sirowitz and Eileen Myles.