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Eileen Myles on Poetry, Meat, and Mourning
“The writing the poem part is easy. It’s the rest of the time that’s the problem.”
By
Eileen Myles
| April 20, 2023
Eileen Myles on Writing With Political Meaning
"Reading is a collaborative act."
By
Eileen Myles
| November 18, 2022
Eileen Myles on the “Astonishingly Vivid” Photos of Justin Kimball
“There’s a relentlessly graphic thing to Justin Kimball’s pictures.”
By
Eileen Myles
| September 7, 2022
Eileen Myles Remembers Bobby Byrd
“His world was huge and specific.”
By
Eileen Myles
| August 22, 2022
A Letter from Eileen Myles to Save East River Park
Celebrating This Year's PEN World Voices Festival
By
Eileen Myles
| May 12, 2022
Eileen Myles on Following Joan Mitchell’s Path Through New York City
“Manhattan Island is pretty much shimmer all day long.”
By
Eileen Myles
| September 23, 2021
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Eileen Myles:
Chelsea Girls
was the documentary I wanted to make.
By
Eileen Myles
| June 13, 2019
Dear Reader: Eileen Myles on Kathy Acker
By
Eileen Myles
| May 2, 2019
A Prose Poem By Eileen Myles: 'Ann Lee'
By
Eileen Myles
| September 13, 2018
Eileen Myles, the Books in My Life: From
Little Women
to Angela Carter
The Author of
Afterglow
Shares a Few Thoughts on Favorite Writers
By
Eileen Myles
| September 13, 2017
Eileen Myles on Guns, Gays and Pride
America Wants to Kill Us, and America Makes It Easy
By
Eileen Myles
| June 27, 2016
The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: James Baldwin vs. Erica Jong
Eileen Myles Picks the First Winner from the Post-Lolita Division
By
Eileen Myles
| March 31, 2016
WESTERN POEM
A POEM by Eileen Myles
By
Eileen Myles
| July 1, 2015
The Ghosts of Inch Beach
October 29, 2025
by
Carlene O'Connor
Raising the Devil: Parenting, Control, and Horror Fiction’s Obsession with Sinister Children
October 29, 2025
by
Brian Asman
Predators On and Off the Page: Noelle Ilhi on Writing about Assault in Crime Fiction
October 29, 2025
by
Noelle Ihli
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"