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 [...]
Harvard University anticipates graduating its first PhDs that incorporate digital media into their dissertation in the next several years. The Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences has approved a PhD in “critical media practice” according to the Harvard Gazette. This is an extension of the recent media archaeology courses that have been splashing about [...]
Europe and North America, two continents with an isthmus of contrail between them, the path of my flight back home after another session at the European Graduate School, tracing the tenuous link between the dark pool of experience there that is already so distant and impenetrable, I have left it behind, and as a memory [...]