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Akilah Oliver. 1961-2011.

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Nico Jenkins

From a colleague and friend, the poet Feliz Molina remembers Akilah. Look for more by Feliz on Akilah’s extraordinary work and poetry in issue 2 of continent. Akilah Oliver. 1961- 2011. Born and Raised in Los Angeles, California. A Poet. Activist of Human Suffering. Teacher. Mother. Sister. Maker of incantatory prose poems. Experimenter of performative [...]

elective affinities (weekend.)

Posted on February 26, 2011 by eponymous

First we mourn the passing of colleague and spirited voice, Akilah Oliver, who died suddenly this week; an interview from Bomb is here…(what do you say in the silence?)…Paul Krugman reprises Naomi Klein’s remarkable shock doctrine in Wisconsin…while Joseph McCartin describes the emergence of an american workers rebellion…not since Mai ’68 in Paris however has [...]