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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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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.
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.
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Amnesty4AWOL's position is all resisters to the war are courageous and should be celebrated equally. AWOL, deserters, those missing movement, conscientious objectors and the rest.
The people who refuse to fight an illegal war need our support right now. Many are facing jail, there have been suicides, many have been wounded and are suffering PTSD. Canadian courts have ruled against asylum,sometimes returning them to the US. This is a critical situation.
We are targeting the presidential candidates to promise NOTHING SHORT OF A FULL PRESIDENTIAL PARDON for ALL resisters when elected. This is the the same thing President Carter did for the draft dodgers in 1978.
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.
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
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!
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}.
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!
