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Articles/Interviews:
- Check out Alix's first role as interviewer, with Air America's Rachel Maddow, in the Summer 2005 issue of national dyke magazine, Velvet Park
Interview with Rachel Maddow: "Rachel Maddow: Straight Talk"
- Left Lane
Inside Out - Hudson Valley July/August 2005, by Alix Olson
- Deliberations on Feminism, By Alix Olson
an excerpt from "The Lavendar Magazine," San Diego, CA
"Intimate Encounter with Alix Olson: On Feminsim, Humor, Irony, Rage, and No Compromise" Issue No., 19, August 16, 2002
- Let the Poetry Come
By, Alix Olson and Amy Neevel, Curve Magazine, November 2001
- Diary of a Slam Poet (pdf)
by Alix Olson, Ms. Magazine,, January, 2001
New Poems:
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For ordering info, other books and recordings by alix, visit the goodies page.
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INDEPENDENCE MEAL:
THE INGREDIENTS
The written companion to the CD.
*Poems are Available to the press in our vitual press kit
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"Built Like That: The Word"
This book is the companion to the cd "Built Like That" with lyrics/text of all pieces, plus some cool pictures and other fun stuff.
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Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry
edited by Emanuel Xavier
foreword by Bob Holman
5.5 x 8.5, 216 pages, $16.95, ISBN: 0-9746388-5-4
www.suspectthoughtspress.com
Emanuel Xavier has edited an extraordinary anthology collecting work from America’s hottest queer spoken word performers and slam poets. Bullets and Butterflies features luscious, vibrant, and wicked new poetry focused on sexuality, gender, class, race, religion, and politics by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Regie Cabico, Staceyann Chin, Celena Glenn, Daphne Gottlieb, Maurice Jamal, Shane Luitjens, Marty McConnell, Travis Montez, Alix Olson, Shailja Patel, horehound stillpoint, and Emanuel Xavier.
"With its wide-open definition of the word queer and fearless publishing choices that ricochet from risky to risqué, San Francisco's Suspect Thoughts Press has made the book world a more interesting place to inhabit. Suspect Thoughts has swiftly become the hot press for connoisseurs of transgressive, intelligent literature."
--SF Bay Guardian
NEW YORK POST (5/2/05) — 3 out of 5 stars
"When spoken word became the trend du jour for wannabe intellectuals and aspiring bohemians, a frightening new wave of redundant, vacuous poetry focused not on honesty of emotion, but on clever rhyme patterns, took center stage. "Bullets and Butterflies" restores some much-needed honesty to the genre with its poignant poems, which touch upon subjects such as love, identity, ruptured families, revolution, death, rejection and bigotry. Although not all of the poems dazzle, there are no space-fillers here. Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian poet Emmanuel Xavier hits high notes with "A Simple Poem" and "Legendary," but it's Travis Montez and Staceyann Chin who steal the show with their viscerally visual accounts." -Celia San Miguel, New York Post-Tempo, Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Queer Ramblings, Summer 2005
"The photograph of Alix Olson shows that a picture is worth a thousand words. It could have been used as the book cover because her words hit harder than a fist.. Olson reminds us of the dangers of painting our sex lives as white as a picket fence...I cannot recommend this book enough. If words could catch paper on fire, Bullets and Butterflies could burn down every bookstore and library in the world" www.queerramblings.com
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ReGeneration [1.2.03]:
Alix will be included in an anthology "ReGeneration", to be released by Penguin Putnam Publishers on January 6th, 2003. ("ReGeneration" turns the idea of a generation on its head, it reflects the process of loss and repair of self and culture through photos, essays, poems) You can learn more at: www.regenproject.com and it will be on sale at a local bookstore near you! (booksense.com can help you locate this book and independent bookstores in your area)
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Burning Down the House (Anthology)
Roger Bonair-Agard, Stephen Colman, Guy LeCharles, Alix Olson, Lynne Procope
more info
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'Daughter' appeared in the fabulous magazine 'Hip Mama' (July 2002), a parenting magazine for, um, hip mamas
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