[New York, NY]

Julian T. Brolaski & Rachel Levitsky @ Annual Akilah Oliver Memorial Reading
September 12, 2011, 7:00 pm
at Eugene Lang Cafe, The New School

*In Aporia*: The Annual Akilah Oliver Memorial Reading Eugene Lang Cafe, the New School 65 W 11th St. The annual Akilah Oliver Memorial Reading honors the memory of Lang professor Akilah Oliver, a radical poet, feminist, and activist. As the first of an annual reading series, this reading will feature the work of Oliver's contemporaries Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Rachel Levitsky and Lauren Nicole Nixon, along with Oliver's former students Erik Freer, and Kaley Foley. Julian T. Brolaski is the author of the chapbooks Hellish Death Monsters (Spooky Press 2001),  Letters to Hank Williams (True West Press 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch 2004), Madame Bovary’s Diary (Cy Press 2005) and A Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar 2008). Brolaski's second full length book, Advice for Lovers, is forthcoming from City Lights in Spring 2012.  Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where xe is an editor at Litmus Press, curates vaudeville shows and plays country music with The Invert Family Singers.  New work is on the blog hermofwarsaw. Rachel Levitsky's second book, Neighbor, is published by Ugly Duckling Presse (2009). Levitsky’s first full length volume, Under the Sun was published by Futurepoem books. Levitsky writes poetry plays, three of which (one with Camille Roy) have been performed in New York and San Francisco. In 1999, Levitsky founded Belladonna Series (belladonnaseries.org) as a means to amplify the hushed existence of the feminist avant garde practice of writing.