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.”
April 20, 2023
By Eileen Myles
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Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Their books include For Now, I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. Pathetic Literature, which they edited, will be out from Grove in Fall 2022. Myles has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2021 was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.
Eileen Myles on Writing With Political Meaning
"Reading is a collaborative act."
November 18, 2022
By Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles on the “Astonishingly Vivid” Photos of Justin Kimball
“There’s a relentlessly graphic thing to Justin Kimball’s pictures.”
September 7, 2022
By Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles Remembers Bobby Byrd
“His world was huge and specific.”
August 22, 2022
By Eileen Myles
A Letter from Eileen Myles to Save East River Park
Celebrating This Year's PEN World Voices Festival
May 12, 2022
By Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles on Following Joan Mitchell’s Path Through New York City
“Manhattan Island is pretty much shimmer all day long.”
September 23, 2021
By Eileen Myles
Dear Reader: Eileen Myles on Kathy Acker
On the Novel Great Expectations
May 2, 2019
By Eileen Myles
A Prose Poem By Eileen Myles: ‘Ann Lee’
From Eileen Myles' New Book Evolution
September 13, 2018
By Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles, the Books in My Life: From Little Women to Angela Carter
The Author of Afterglow Shares a Few Thoughts on Favorite Writers
September 13, 2017
By Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles on Guns, Gays and Pride
America Wants to Kill Us, and America Makes It Easy
June 27, 2016
By Eileen Myles
The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: James Baldwin vs. Erica Jong
Eileen Myles Picks the First Winner from the Post-Lolita Division
March 31, 2016
By Eileen Myles
WESTERN POEM
A POEM by Eileen Myles
July 1, 2015
By Eileen Myles
