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Eileen Myles
Comedy / Experimental / Healing & EasyListening

"SORRY, TREE is available from www.wavepoetry.com"

New York, New York
United States

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Member Since4/23/2007
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Please note: This page is maintained by Eileen's assistant. However, I will forward all correspondence directly to her. For press inquiries, booking, etc. contact Eileen's assistant at: cathymariedelacruz@gmail.com
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Massachusetts Poetry Festival Lowell, Massachusetts
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Schoolhouse Gallery Provincetown, Massachusetts

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   About Eileen Myles
EILEEN MYLES is probably America's best-known unofficial poet.

Her latest book is Sorry, Tree in which she describes “some nature” as well as the transmigration of souls from the east coast to the west.

Bust Magazine calls Myles "the rock star of modern poetry" and Holland Cotter in The New York Times describes her as "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde."

Eileen arrived in New York after college, (U. Mass. (Boston)) gaining the friendship of Allen Ginsberg, working for poet James Schuyler, becoming a habitue of the household of Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley and generally being a notable part of the turbulent punk and art scene that animated Manhattan's East Village, giving her first reading at CBGB's in 1974.

A virtuoso performer of her work - she's read and performed at colleges, performance spaces, and bookstores across North America as well as in Europe, Iceland, Ireland and Russia. She's published more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, articles, plays and libretti including Hell (an opera with composer Michael Webster, 2004) Skies, (2001), on my way, (2001), Cool for You, (a novel, 2000), School of Fish, (1997), Maxfield Parrish, (1995), Not Me, (1991), and Chelsea Girls, (stories, 1994). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e).

In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States. In the 80s she was Artistic Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project. In '97 and again in 2007 Eileen toured with Sister Spit, a post-punk female performance troupe.

She has been a professor of writing at UCSD since 2002.

In 2007 she received The Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writing fellowship.

She contributes to a wide number of publication including Bookforum, the Believer, and lately Cabinet, has written catalogue essays about Sadie Benning, Peggy Awesh and Nicole Eisenman and an archive of her weekly blog on art can be found at at http://openfordesign.msn.com/

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U.S. Poets in Mexico





Sep 26 2008 11:08 AM

Hola, Eileen!

Sister Spit: The Next Generation





Sep 26 2008 12:57 AM

Loving you is what we do.
Secret Faggot





Sep 15 2008 8:58 PM

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Sep 15 2008 7:10 AM

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Sep 13 2008 4:36 PM

Hey Eileen, Hope all is well with you
and
thanks for being a friend of U.S. Poets in Mexico!


Sheila
Michael Dean Odin Pollock





Sep 11 2008 1:04 PM

Infinite Rockin Blessings from the Land of Ice and Fire!!!!!!!!!
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Sep 4 2008 3:27 AM

Hope you get a chance to stop by at Tea Lounge for this night of music with Funk Monk on the decks. September 20th!!

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David F. Hoenigman





Aug 28 2008 1:09 PM

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Heather Fowler





Aug 16 2008 7:29 AM

Just popping in to say hi. ;) Hope all is frantic muse and good times where you are.

It's humid in San Diego these last two days. Humid? Here? Yes. Quite bizarro in the manmade oasis on natural desert for the air to be so thick and moist. Almost makes me feel like I traveled to get back home and never left.

All the brightest things, as always, xo,
H
Brandy





Aug 12 2008 11:40 PM

Eileen,

I was sorting through your arboreal apologies today and began to wonder, did you ever write about your students?

If I wrote poems (I don't, some fear of form keeps me from hitting the enter key and my prose becomes petrified in blocks) I would have had to write one about you because your teaching was real, did you know? It was so close, personal and real. It felt like the Indiana Jones ride at disney land when you're told not to look into the eyes of a statue but you do anyway because it might mean something unexpected.

I wish you well, wherever you may be. I'm in San Francisco for law school now, looking out from 11 floors above the tenderloin each night. I hope you find yourself reading out here so I can look into real eyes again.

Brandy
silly girl





Jul 26 2008 9:10 PM

Hey Cutie Patooty! Jeni Olin here. Hope you are getting on gorgeously or whatever...
Steph Castor





Jul 25 2008 9:33 PM

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Jul 21 2008 10:06 PM

Will be missing you in San Diego @ Dyke March Fest on Sat....unless....are you in town? Stop by~!
Love your work~!
love you~!
LJ
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Jun 27 2008 5:54 PM

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Jun 23 2008 4:26 PM

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Jun 18 2008 3:50 AM

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xo!
Secret Faggot





Jun 10 2008 7:01 PM

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May 27 2008 2:34 AM

Hello Eileen.
Secret Faggot





May 23 2008 8:03 PM

cathy delacruz





May 22 2008 7:50 AM

Eileen, you are my favorite Classical Opera and Vocal / Experimental / Healing & EasyListening musician. P.S. I can't wait to see Ernie in board shorts.
Michael Dean Odin Pollock





May 18 2008 4:23 PM

Thank you for adding me as a friend :)
It was wonderfull to hang out with you perform with you in Iceland with the wind in our sails :) Infinite Blessings X0
Sylvia Sass





May 14 2008 5:39 AM

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Apr 30 2008 2:30 PM

my Word Riot interview please click beetles
Rhiannon





Apr 29 2008 5:05 PM

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Apr 28 2008 8:42 PM

Thanks for the add...I LOVE your writing, you are phenomenal! Can't wait to see you read again sometime soon when you make it up the westcoast to Portland/Seattle!
KARRO





Apr 28 2008 2:21 PM

THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT..........
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Apr 14 2008 8:34 PM

Cal Arts' "Eleven Eleven" isn't out until MAY! {Per a comment I left below.} They are messing with me, mama. Messing with me.

{But they are handsome and beautiful and smart and kind and benevolent, nonetheless, as are you, as we all are.
}
Elizabeth





Apr 14 2008 6:56 PM






Thanks for the add, Eileen!
Great page: "here in the beautiful / heat / digging & digging..."
Be well.
xoxo
Sarah Sarai





Apr 13 2008 6:02 PM

As long as you're at Cal Arts in April, check out their literary journal "Eleven Eleven" in which you will see, if you are clever and faithful of heart, a poem entitled {and here I quote} "A Rhetorical Inquiry Into the Moral Certitude of Cause and Effect" by Sarah Sarai {being me}.

Dig it.

Sarah Sarai
Katia Noyes





Apr 10 2008 6:38 PM

Eating Sorry, Tree for breakfast.
David F. Hoenigman





Mar 25 2008 1:12 PM

The book that will blow the roof off everything!! - out now on amazon
Sylvia Sass





Mar 5 2008 12:11 AM

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Feb 20 2008 2:58 PM

Thank you for the add! Grazie!
Sheila Lanham





Feb 14 2008 12:47 PM

LOVE

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, EILEEN!!
Sarah Sarai





Feb 10 2008 4:43 AM

Just read a poem of yours in "Bloom." Nice work. "Cigarette Girl." Thank you.
Brandy





Feb 10 2008 2:29 AM

Hey Eileen,
I don't know if you actually see this but I thought I'd mention: A couple of days after I saw your reading (great job by the way! I brought a roommate and now she's borrowing your book of poems from me) I saw Chris Kraus at the Sex Workers Art show in DC. I saw her get on stage and was excited since she had subbed for your class. Haha. Anyway, best of luck as you continue your tours!
Dave Diotalevi





Jan 31 2008 2:27 PM

Eileen--all the best on Groundhog's Day! LOL! Hope you see only shadows that make a difference!

Dave Diotalevi
author of MIRACLE MYX

For a daily smile, check out my Where's Myx? blog and see my book in "exotic" places doing daredevil stunts! LOL!

cathy delacruz





Jan 27 2008 10:45 PM

Ernie Myles is such a star, even when he is asleep!