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Akilah Oliver
For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2
A transcript of the conversation is here.
3 Readings, directed by Anne Waldman and Ed Bowes, July 9, 2011
Leonard Schwartz reads “laughter from the altar” from Oliver’s book A Toast in the House of Friends (Coffee House Press) on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode 234: Redemptive Forms, April 14, 2011
- Complete reading (5:11): MP3
- Introduction (3:15): MP3
- From "August" (5:31): MP3
- From "The Anti-Memoir" (9:12): MP3
- From "A Toast in the House of Friends" (8:15): MP3
- Complete recording (20:45): MP3
Reading at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, November 7, 2007
- Second Sight Days (4:28): MP3
- Hyena Days (5:59): MP3
- From a(A)ugust (5:21): MP3
- From The Putterer's Notebook (7:52): MP3
Reading "In Aporia" at Queering Language Launch Reading at Bowery Poetry Club, New York, February 10, 2007
Complete recording (3:43): MP3
- Introduction (5:04): MP3
- From a(A)ugust (9:23): MP3
- From An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet (5:06): MP3
- From The She Said Dialogues (3:07): MP3
- Is You Is or Is You Ain't (1:44): MP3
- The Absence of the Lover Makes Her Who She Is (3:33): MP3
- In Aporia (5:03): MP3
- Complete recording (34:08): MP3
"Is You Is or Is You Ain't" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 104.
- Introduction (Oliver) (1:17): MP3
- Unforgivable Violence (6:31): MP3
- From "The Putterer's Notebook" (2:33): MP3
- Complete reading (10:27): MP3
Hold the Space, 2004
A performance by Akilah Oliver made as an accompanying CD for her chapbook An Arriving Guard of Angels,Thusly Coming to Greet.
- The String Loot for Akilah Oliver by Anne Waldman (0:33): MP3
- "Laughing" (1:37): MP3
- Murdering Days (1:07): MP3
- Once Upon a Time (0:56): MP3
- Traveling To and Away (3:11): MP3
- Second Sight Days (1:20): MP3
- Graves (1:18): MP3
- Body of Dreams (2:20): MP3
- How Mild This December (1:25): MP3
- Beautiful Girls Boys Beautiful (1:25): MP3
- Can You Spare Just One (2:35): MP3
- In A Clear Eastern Wind (1:03): MP3
- Fast, Silver, Gelatin Prince (1:03): MP3
- The First Dream Child (4:12): MP3
- This Child is the Dream (6:38): MP3
- Why You Need To (4:07): MP3
Wednesday Series: Akilah Oliver, Bill Bissett, St. Mark’s Church, NY, April 5, 2000
Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.
- Side A (48:01): link
- Side B (47:44): link
- From "The She Said Dialogues" (8:21): MP3
- Lover Too (3:24): MP3
- Complete reading (11:45): MP3
- Introduction (0:17): MP3
- I Mean This (1:10): MP3
- Admit It: Under the Naropa Big Tent (6:18): MP3
- From The She Said Dialogues (9:07): MP3
- Lovers One and Two (6:03): MP3
- Complete reading (24:12): MP3
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only.
All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2016 Akilah Oliver.
Used with the permission of Akilah Oliver. Distributed by PennSound.
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