Notes of a Neurotic!

In Notes of a Neurotic, Summer Hill Seven provides poetry, essays and plays that are as bombastic as the writings of Amiri Baraka as piercing as Miguel Pinero and as poetic as Paul Laurence Dunbar often all in the same sentence. In addition to the entertainment and intellectual value, these Notes of a Neurotic are specifically designed to heal the emotions of the reader, the speaker and the writer of these words.

About Me

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Location: Newark, Delaware, United States

Summer Hill Séven is known on stage and screen as Sevîn Ákbar. Both names were given to him by his dearly departed mother and both are authentic. 7 is a writer and spoken-word artist who has performed at the Nuyorican Poetry Café, Bowery Poetry Café and Afrikan Poetry Theatre. He has written and directed an autobiographical film – A Poet’s Pilgrimage – about a young poet’s decision to abandon the law and pursue his dream of becoming a poet. He is a graduate of Sister Clara Muhammad High School, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the New York University School of Law. He is completing a new one-person poemedy entitled, 7:Nobody Knows My Name based on his memoirs. 7 is also a talented stage actor who feels as comfortable performing Shakespeare as he does the works of Laurence Holder or August Wilson. Finally, 7 is the talented director of the long running hip-hop romantic comedy Platanos & Collard Greens about which the Amsterdam News exclaimed his direction was "powerful!" 7 is from New York but he is currently completing his MFA at the University of Delaware's top-ranked classical theatre training program.

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Review from Germany

Emund Kraus wrote in Ex-Berliner magazine:

"The poetic essays of [Seven] Akbar are an indication of true sensitivity, pain, and the lust for life. They are the best example of mature Hip-Hop era literature that that has sprouted from the United States since the blues music of Public Enemy and the insight of conscious musicians such as the Roots. We are unclear as to what leads the way in film or literature or what constitutes serious theater. But Akbar and Dennis Leroy Moore seem to make a great combination. And if Akbar is anything like his writing, I would very much like to see him onstage. Dennis Leroy Moore announced he would be making a film with Akbar and we shall await that experiment with glee!"

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