Eileen Myles

PoemTalk #151, discussing Eileen Myles' "Writing" and "Mount St. Helens," feat. Stephen Metcalf, June Thomas, and Jess Shollenberger

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk #103, discussing Simone White's "Of Being Dispersed"

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PoemTalk #45, discussing Eileen Myles' "Snakes", feat. Sarah Dowling, Michelle Taransky, and Charles Alexander

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PennSound #68: Davy Knittle interviews Eileen Myles

Complete recording (46:13): MP3 [ info ]

Close Listening: reading and conversation with Charles Bernstein, March 24, 2009

Program One: Reading (26:08): MP3

• Evening (0:47): MP3

Program Two: Our conversation (27:33): MP3

Reading at Segue at the Zinc Bar

Complete Reading (40:25): MP3

Reading at Penn Book Center with Renée Gladman, October 9, 2018

introduction by Frank Sherlock

Complete Reading (33:33): MP3

1. Introduction (5:56): MP3
2. Transmigration of Souls (4:15): MP3
3. Evolution (3:17): MP3
4. Harp (0:43): MP3
5. Car Notebook (2:00): MP3
6. Each Day I Get Up (1:32): MP3
7. The City (1:37): MP3
8. Dream (1:16): MP3
9. For You (0:25): MP3
10. August 23rd (1:22): MP3
11. Today (0:18): MP3
12. After Thought (0:14): MP3
13. Lark (1:38): MP3
14. In the Picture (0:56): MP3
15. Transmission (2:29): MP3
16. Sweetheart (5:02): MP3

Complete Reading (23:25): MP3

Excerpt from encore, courtesy of Christopher Funkhouser

Reading of Flow Chart, John Ashbery 90th Celebration, 2017

Complete Reading (16:21): MP3

Kelly Writers House Fellows Program, March 21-22, 2016

Complete Reading, March 21, 2016 (1:01:46): MP3

1. Introductory Remarks by Al Filreis (6:09): MP3
2. Introductory Remarks by Lily Applebaum (1:44): MP3
3. Introductory Remarks by Amanda Silberling (1:01): MP3
4. Introduction (1:24): MP3
5. Last Supper (2:30): MP3
6. Scribeners (1:49): MP3
7. Unnamed New York (1:15): MP3
8. Reading your Name (0:40): MP3
9. Cigarette Girl (1:03): MP3
10. Greece (0:49): MP3
11. That Rat's Death (5:07): MP3
12. Excerpt from "Chelsea Girls" (12:00): MP3
13. A Gift for You (2:17): MP3
14. You (0:24): MP3
15. Western Poem (1:56): MP3
16. Silvia (0:29): MP3
17. May 26th (0:12): MP3
18. Lark (1:42): MP3
19. Failed Appointment (0:57): MP3
20. Kitchen Holidays (0:45): MP3
21. A (4:11): MP3
22. What Tree am I Waiting (1:33): MP3
23. Summer (0:53): MP3
24. Writing (0:46): MP3
25. Concluding Remarks by Al Filres (0:51): MP3

Complete Reading and Discussion, March 22, 2016 (1:04:23): MP3

Reading at the Troubling the Line Launch, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, Brooklyn, May 8, 2013

Complete Reading (8:09): MP3

Reading for the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation, New York:Chelsea, November 18, 2010

with Stacy Szymaszek

1. Excerpt from "Inferno" (5:05): MP3
2. Little Brother (1:46): MP3
3. Your Name (0:38): MP3
4. Cesarean Toothbrush (for Alice) (1:25): MP3
5. Computer (0:11): MP3
6. Transitions (1:32): MP3
7. Hi (1:22): MP3
8. Day (0:39): MP3
9. Questions (0:53): MP3
10. My Monster (1:24): MP3
11. Globe (0:12): MP3
12. Howland (1:42): MP3
13. Chris (1:59): MP3
14. AD (0:31): MP3
15. Mitten (1:09): MP3
16. The Perfect Faceless Fish (4:21): MP3
17. Smile (1:35): MP3
18. untitled (0:17): MP3
19. The Movie (0:24): MP3
20. November 11 (0:28): MP3
21. Diet Coke (0:49): MP3
22. To The Mountains (0:15): MP3
23. My Box (1:20): MP3
24. Your House (0:54): MP3
25. Popsicle (0:25): MP3
26. Glowing Stick (1:22): MP3

• Complete reading (32:54): MP3

Reading for the Contemporary Writers Series, Mills College, November 16, 2010

1. Introduction by Rebecca Maillet (5:44): MP3
2. The Perfect Faceless Fish (6:22): MP3
3. The Weather (1:38): MP3
4. from the Opening Pages of Inferno (A Poet's Novel) (7:59): MP3
5. from "The Poetry Field" (5:30): MP3
6. from "1" (4:20): MP3
7. My Revolution (9:25): MP3
8. Questions (15:35): MP3

• Complete reading (1:00:21): MP3

Video excerpt from above: Eileen Myles reads from "My Revolution" (from Inferno)

Reading at the ICA, Philadelphia, October 13, 2010

• Introduction by CAConrad (13:44): MP3
• from Inferno (a Poet's Novel) (44:21): MP3


• Read CAConrad's introductory essay "Eileen Myles: Clothed in Nature With an Open Ear" in Rattapallax


• (recording courtesy of William Hidalgo [ICA] and CAConrad)

Reading at the Kelly Writers House as part of the FEMINISM/S series, October 13, 2010

• Introduction (3:20): MP3
• Discussing Inferno (a Poet's Novel) (16:52): MP3
• Reading from Inferno (a Poet's Novel) (12:04): MP3
• Q&A session (21:29): MP3


• Complete reading (53:58): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 10, 2010

1. Introduction (4:28): MP3
2. Your Name (2:00): MP3
3. Mitten (1:04): MP3
4. The Weather (1:18): MP3
5. November 11th (0:24): MP3
6. 2008, For Emma (0:12): MP3
7. The Nervous Entertainment, For Cathy (1:39): MP3
8. Driving At Night (0:20): MP3
9. My Box (1:11): MP3
10. "A Poet" from Inferno (a Poet's Novel) (3:07): MP3
11. "Marge Piercy" from Inferno (a Poet's Novel) (12:48): MP3
12. "Hart Crane" from Inferno (a Poet's Novel) (8:31): MP3

• Complete reading (37:52): MP3

Reading at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, February 9, 2010

Reading at the Poetry Center of the University of Arizona, October 6, 2009 - on POG Sound

1. Pencil Poem #1 (0:56): MP3
2. Pencil Poem #2 (0:20): MP3
3. Pencil Poem #3 (0:43): MP3
4. Pencil Poem #4 (0:31): MP3
5. Pencil Poem #5 (0:15): MP3
6. Pencil Poem #6: In and Out (0:32): MP3
7. Cesarean Toothbrush (1:34): MP3
8. Mitten (1:28): MP3
9. Youth (0:25): MP3
10. Hi (For Steve Carey) (2:43): MP3
11. For Jordana (0:59): MP3
12. Each Defeat (1:11): MP3
13. A Perfect Faceless Fish (5:48): MP3
14. Jimmy: James Schuyler at DIA (2:56): MP3
15. Today's Poets: Alice Notley and Ann Lauterbach at DIA (4:54): MP3
16. Heat (6:15): MP3
17. The Importance of Being Iceland (3:05): MP3

• Complete Reading (42:58): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, September 24, 2009

Complete reading (20:36): MP3

Complete discussion (26:53): MP3

From State of the Union: a Poetry Reading, at the CUNY Graduate Center, October 30, 2008

• Complete Reading (7:05): MP3

From Wave Books' PoetryPolitic Blog, 2008

• American Poem (3:43): MP3

"Iceland Song," Recorded 2008

• Complete Video (3:29, 214MB): AVI

Appearing on LA-Lit #28, November 4, 2007

• Part A (43:34): MP3
• Part B (47:40): MP3

Segue Series reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, May 19, 2007

1. Introduction (3:50): MP3
2. Myles' introduction (2:23): MP3
3. For Jordana (0:40): MP3
4. Myles discusses "Lodovico" (1:01): MP3
5. Lodovico (2:25): MP3
6. April 5th (1:04): MP3
7. Home (1:47): MP3
8. Culture (4:14): MP3
9. That Country (1:40): MP3
10. Cigarette Girl (0:40): MP3
11. Movie (0:18): MP3
12. (untitled) (0:09): MP3
13. Myles discusses "The Inferno" (5:29): MP3
14. The Inferno (8:03): MP3

Reading "Dear Andrea" at Queering Language Launch Reading at Bowery Poetry Club, New York, February 10, 2007

Complete Recording (3:03) MP3

Reading for the Belladonna* Series, NYC, January 31, 2003

Complete Reading (23:05): MP3

From Kenning:

• Fragment from Cool For You (3:54): MP3
(Cool For You is published by Soft Skull Press)

from Frequency Audio Journal, First Issue, 2004

• Orleans (1:27): MP3

Wednesday Night Series: Jaime Manrique, Eileen Myles, St. Mark's Church, NY, December 6, 2000

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Side A (47:01): link
2. Side B (4:28): link

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, March 13, 1999

• Excerpt from Cool For You (21:39): MP3
(Cool For You is published by Soft Skull Press)

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, January 17, 1998

1. Introduction (3:34): MP3
2. Milk (0:46): MP3
3. And (0:44): MP3
4. Snakes (1:41): MP3
5. Infinity Many (2:19): MP3
6. Odalisque (2:29): MP3
7. Trucks (2:13): MP3
8. Spaceless (0:55): MP3
9. Home (1:40): MP3
10. Orleans (2:06): MP3
11. Now Laugh (0:26): MP3
12. Voluminous (0:58): MP3
13. Arose (0:30): MP3
14. Louisiana (0:10): MP3
15. Losing Literature (0:31): MP3
16. Seattle Harbor (1:48): MP3
17. Coward Nee Couee (1:47): MP3
18. Mt. St. Helens (1:27): MP3

Complete Recording (27:54): MP3

"Snakes" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 45.

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, February 12, 1994

1. Introduction (0:36): MP3
2. Myles' introduction to "Eileen's Vision" (0:54): MP3
3. Eileen's Vision (1:16): MP3
4. Greek (2:47): MP3
5. Myles discusses "Lift" (0:20): MP3
6. Lift (0:18): MP3
7. Here (0:10): MP3
8. Nick At Noon (0:23): MP3
9. The Open and The Close (1:07): MP3
10. The Undiscovered Country (0:12): MP3
11. Just God (1:00): MP3
12. Our Steady and Even Purpose to Entertain Ourselves (0:24): MP3
13. Myles discusses "A Poem For My New Fortunes" (0:13): MP3
14. A Poem For My New Fortunes (1:28): MP3
15. Myles discusses "Journal Entry: December 20" (0:18): MP3
16. Journal Entry: December 20 (1:28): MP3
17. Myles Discusses "1993" (0:25): MP3
18. 1993 (10:12): MP3

Reading at UCSD, Fall 1992

• Complete Recording, (47:30)MP3
• Recording courtesy of Michael Davison

Reading at The Knitting Factory, NYC, December 4, 1988

As captured in the film Jack Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues", produced by Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz

High quality YouTube mirror: link

For full credits and list of readers, click here

Hanuman Presents! reading at the Poetry Project, New York May 18, 1984

Link to info

1. Introduction (4:25): MP3
2. Heart Attack (0:55): MP3
3. Wax and Wane (6:40): MP3
4. Oscar (2:07): MP3
5. Self-Portrait (1:01): MP3
6. Try It Out (0:26): MP3
7. Unleashed (1:51): MP3
8. Fall in the Eighties (1:45): MP3
9. Communications (0:13): MP3
10. Joan (1:04): MP3
11. The Gospel of Mary (0:34): MP3
12. Laramie (0:18): MP3
13. Chicken and Fish (1:07): MP3
14. Do I Care (0:35): MP3
15. Although (1:19): MP3
16. Elk (0:08): MP3
17. Warm Cake (0:23): MP3
18. March Wind (1:19): MP3
19. The Sonnet, Of Course (0:37): MP3
20. Ultimately (0:52): MP3
21. The Velvet Planet (0:38): MP3
22. Wooden Flower (0:20): MP3
23. Thoroughly Sunday (0:27): MP3
24. Bliss Day (0:33): MP3
25. All About Eve (3:55): MP3

• Complete recording (39:02): MP3

Recordings from the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry, at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn October 1978 (Exact Date Unknown)

1. Panic in the World (2:47): MP3
2. Third Sex (2:12): MP3
3. Poor Boo (0:30): MP3
4. Shocked to the Rims of His Soul (0:37): MP3
5. Madeline's Revenge (0:35): MP3
6. Baseball (0:19): MP3
7. Cosmic Coffee Shop (2:21): MP3
8. Romantic Suicide (0:35): MP3
9. Columbus Day (0:40): MP3
10. Mystica Beer (0:57): MP3
11. My Rampant Use For Her (0:53): MP3
12. A Shitty Art (2:05): MP3
13. Baby Autumn (1:05): MP3
14. The Petite House (3:14): MP3
15. New York (5:44): MP3

• Complete Reading (26:18): MP3

On WBAI Radio (NY), Susan Howe's Radio Program and Interview, December 1978

• Part 1 (41:26): MP3
• Part 2 (30:27): MP3

Recordings from the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry, at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Harris Schiff, Date Unknown

Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Lenny Goldstein, September 29, 1977

Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Alice Notley, June 16, 1977

1. Maxfield Parrish from Maxfield Parrish (2:06): MP3
2. En Garde from Maxfield Parrish (1:26): MP3
3. Vulcan from Cool for You (3:54): MP3
4. Poison Ivy from Cool for You (4:53): MP3
5. Aunt Anne from Cool for You (5:12): MP3
6. American Poem from Not Me (3:43): MP3
7. MERK from School of Fish (3:15): MP3
8. Classical Gas (from The World Record) (0:46):MP3
9. Tuesday Brightness (0:51): MP3
10. Sleepless (2:09): MP3
11. On the Death of Robert Lowell (0:31): MP3

• About Mary (2:22): MP3

Recorded Poems on Harry's House Vol 2 CD

• My Box - Eileen Myles (1:05): MP3

Also of Interest:

• Robert Creeley reading at Poetry Project, from the Ben Tripp Tapes, 1984
  • Side A (46:21): MP3
  • Includes Bernadette Mayer introducing Eileen Myles who introduces "my hero", Robert Creeley, Creeley praises "basic Bostonclarity", reads prose from (at the time) recently-published Collected Prose ("Back to Bolinas…"and "Having Been Wakened by Screams in the Middle of the Night…"), followed by "the poetry sequence", "A Calendar" (including Creeley reading Chaucer, Wyatt), more prose, "The Cabeza" (for Ramon S)", poems again: "Heaven Knows", "New England", "Too Late", "Dogs", Four for John Daley ("Mothers Things", "Echo", "Leaving", "Buffalo Afternoon"), "For Ted Berrigan", "Hotel Heidelberg", "Ich Bin…", reading from Mirrors (from section 2 and 3) including "O Love", "Stone", "Hearts:", "Sad Advice", "Wishes", "Echoes:", "Summer:", "If…", "Some Echo", "Poems Written in Buffalo, February", "Buffalo Evening", "All the Way", "Kid", "Early Reading", "Beside Her to Lie", "Circles", and "On Phrase from Ginsberg’s ‘"Kaddish’" - "Eat, drink, be merry, you fink"
  
  
  • Side B (47:14): MP3
  • Includes "So careful of…so slow to move without it…", "Coming Home", "Be of Good Cheer", "Help Heavens", "She Is Far From Me", "O Like a Bird", "Provincetown:", "North Truro Light:" "1946", "R Had Said", "Tell Story:", TC talks continues (elegiac remarks on Alex Trocchi, "a great Scot maintainer", and notes on Max Feinstein (Poem to MF)

  Reading with Joel Oppenheimer, who is not on this recording.

Eileen Myles on PennSound Daily

• July 21, 2010: "LA Lit: New Programs, PSAs and Clouds Conference"
• September 26, 2008: "Eileen Myles: New Video and Audio Offerings"

Reading "Lorna and Vicki" at St. Mark's Poetry Project

• Complete recording (3:26): MP3

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2017 Eileen Myles. Used with permission of Eileen Myles. Distributed by PennSound.