Alice Notley + Akilah Oliver November 7, 2007

Alice Notley is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry including the epic poem The Descent of Alette, and Mysteries of Small Houses, one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Notley’s long poem Disobedience won the Griffin International Prize in 2002. In 2005 the University of Michigan Press published her book of essays on poetry, Coming After. Her most recent books are Alma, or The Dead Women, from Granary Books, Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, from Wesleyan, and In the Pines from Penguin. Akilah Oliver is the author of The Putterer’s Notebook, a(A)ugust, An Arriving Guard of Angels Thusly Coming to Greet, and she said dialogues: flesh memory, a book of experimental prose poetry honored by the PEN American Center’s “Open Book” award. She has been artist in residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles, and is core faculty at the Naropa University Summer Writing Program and adjunct faculty at Naropa.

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