Sunday 17 May 2009

Hear This Poet

Friends and Lovers of the Word,

AKILAH OLIVER will read and perform her extraordinary poetry Tuesday evening in Paris.

Oliver will share the evening with French poet Virginie Lalucq, author of 2 books, featured in numerous reviews and anthologies.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
19h30
le Next
17 rue Tiquetonne
Metros: Etienne Marcel/RER Les Halles
Free Admission
Sponsor: Ivy Writers Series

Akilah Oliver is the author of 4 books of poetry, winner of the Pen American Center's Beyond Margins/Open Book award, co-founder of the avant-garde feminist performance group, The Sacred Naked Nature Girls. She teaches at the Naropa University Summer Writing Program and is currently on tour in Europe, this is Oliver's first Paris reading.

Her recent collection, A Toast in the House of Friends, 2009, Coffee House press, has garnered critical acclaim, Paris poet Alice Notley notes, "Oliver's book is an extraordinary gift for everyone..."

A Toast in the House of Friends is an erudite, gripping manifesto of grief. Oliver's poems incorporate prose, theory and lyric performance into a powerful testimony of loss and longing in their journey through the borderlands of sorrow. They grapple with violence, find expression in chants, and, like the graffiti she analyzes, become a place of public and artistic memorial. A superior purveyor of language, Oliver employs high intellect as a vehicle of transport, penetrating awe awakening emotions. Her dark ravishing shades of consciousness - mirrored reflections of our own frightening, fragile depths of awareness.

Joining Oliver in this performance is Paris based renowned jazz trumpeter, Rasul Siddik,. himself a passionate poetic soul, who performs in Paris and New York with poet,performer, Moe Seager and the Blue Note Metaphor jazz-poetry ensemble. Internationally acclaimed trumpeter and composer, Siddik has featured on stages and recordings of Archie Shepp, David Murray, Pharaoh Sanders, Amiri Baraka, Katy Roberts and Sylvia Howard, to name but a few of his performance credits. Siddik has recently released his own electifying c.d. album, Rasul Siddik and the Now Artet.

This evening of poetry will satisfy the literati and the curious, adventure-minded alike.




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Moe Seager
http://www.myspace.com/bluenotemetaphor
http://moeseagerpariscalling.blogspot.com

1 comment:

MCG716 said...

great stuff moe, wish i was there now but i am on the right path to somee day be able to.
-chumma