Akilah Oliver

Excerpt of:

A Putterer's Notebook: an anti-Memoir

The line, non-continuous remainder

		Waking and walking those streets post drag world, two rationed cities situated in soviet anti-revivalism


	'schwarze' appears to be a declaration but I knew I couldn't trust him when he pretended he didn't know that word plus in Boulder once, that lousy apartment building on Canyon and 22nd,  he sold me fake meth.   a broken light bulb is a sad conductor 

		foreign then faint 

mediocre I first learned on normandie avenue when walking past barbershops, those men & beards and what they do when men gather with electric razors and scissors sit in high chairs, 

the world  a postcard of old black men sitting on folding chairs in front of Brooklyn brownstone with the caption 'my Brooklyn, 4th annual photo + essay contest exhibition' 

but looking now

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Akilah Oliver is the author of The She Said Dialogues: Flesh Memory (Smokeproof/Erudite Fangs, 1999, Winner of the PEN Beyond Margins Award), a book of experimental prose-poetry.

Her chapbooks include:

a (A)ugust (Yo-yo Labs, 2007), The Putter’s Notebook (Belladona, 2006), and An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet which was published by Farfalla Press (2005) in a text and performance CD edition.

She is faculty at The Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado, where she also taught at CU-Boulder. She held the Distinguished Author position in the Creative Writing Department at Long Island University (Spring, 2008) and was curator of the Monday Night reading series at the Poetry Project in NYC (2007-2008). She is a founding member of The Sacred Naked Nature Girls, which performed out of Los Angeles in the 1990s.

She currently makes her home in Brooklyn , NY. Oliver has a new book A Toast In The House Of Friends, forthcoming from Coffee House Press (November, 2008).