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UA Poetry Center
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UA Poetry Center
Akilah Oliver
In her Next Word reading with Brandon Shimoda and Philip Jenks, Akilah Oliver reads from The Putterer's Notebook and A Toast in the House of Friends. Her reading includes a standout performance of the long poem "An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet," an elegy for her son Oluchi McDonald.
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Selections from The Putterer's Notebook and "An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet"
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Oliver, Akilah. The Putterer's Notebook. Brooklyn: Belladonna Books, 2006.Oliver, Akilah. A Toast in the House of Friends. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2009.
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"In Aporia"
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Oliver, Akilah. A Toast in the House of Friends. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2009.
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