Eileen Myles
March 21–22, 2016
- Reading: Streaming video, MP3 audio
- Discussion: Streaming video, MP3 audio
Bio
Eileen Myles is a poet and writer who was born in Boston and later moved to New York City in 1975 to pursue their career as a poet. They were deeply involved with the St. Mark's Poetry Project, where they studied with poets Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan among others and later served as the Project's artistic director. They are a professor emeritus at UC San Diego where they founded and taught and directed the writing program, and founded an MFA degree program. In 2012 they were the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship to complete experimental memoir Afterglow. They have published many books of poetry and experimental fiction, most recently Snowflake/different streets (2012) and Inferno (a poet's novel) (2010). Myles's work is known for its deceptively direct and straightforward language that often contains biographical details, as notably in Inferno and "An American Poem" from Not Me (1991). But Myles's short lines and first person perspective lead their readers down complex, emotional paths that weave through different memories, time periods and city streets -- sometimes literally, as with their poems composed while sitting in LA traffic in Snowflake.
Reading for the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program, March 21, 2016
- Introductory Remarks by Al Filreis (6:09): MP3
- Introductory Remarks by Lily Applebaum (1:44): MP3
- Introductory Remarks by Amanda Silberling (1:01): MP3
- Introduction (1:24): MP3
- Last Supper (2:30): MP3
- Scribeners (1:49): MP3
- Unnamed New York (1:15): MP3
- Reading your Name (0:40): MP3
- Cigarette Girl (1:03): MP3
- Greece (0:49): MP3
- That Rat's Death (5:07): MP3
- Excerpt from "Chelsea Girls" (12:00): MP3
- A Gift for You (2:17): MP3
- You (0:24): MP3
- Western Poem (1:56): MP3
- Silvia (0:29): MP3
- May 26th (0:12): MP3
- Lark (1:42): MP3
- Failed Appointment (0:57): MP3
- Kitchen Holidays (0:45): MP3
- A (4:11): MP3
- What Tree am I Waiting (1:33): MP3
- Summer (0:53): MP3
- Writing (0:46): MP3
- Concluding Remarks by Al Filres (0:51): MP3