Poetic Obituaries: In the 1990's she [Akilah Oliver] founded and performed

with the feminist performance collective Sacred Naked Nature Girls. For several years, Akilah lived and raised her son Oluchi McDonald (1982-2003) in Boulder, Colorado where she was a teacher at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Recently, in New York City, Akilah taught poetry and writing at Eugene Lang College, The New School, Pratt Insitute and The Poetry Project. She was a PhD candidate at The European Graduate School and a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative.

Akilah Oliver's books include A Toast In The House of Friends (Coffee House 2009) the she said dialogues: flesh memory, a book of experimental prose poetry honored by the PEN American Center's "Open Book" program, and the chapbooks An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet (Farfalla, McMillan & Parrish, 2004), The Putterer's Notebook (Belladonna 2006), "a(A)ugust" (Yo-Yo Labs, 2007) and A Collection of Objects (Tente 2010).

from Coffee House Press: In Memory of Akilah Oliver
then PennSound: In Memoriam: Akilah Oliver (1961-2011) [scroll down one note]
then The Poetry Project: We miss you Akilah

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