Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1949, was educated in catholic schools, graduated from U. Mass. (Boston) in 1971 and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. She gave her first reading at CBGB's, and then gravitated to St. Mark's church where she studied with Bill Zavatsky, Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan. In 2007, she published Sorry, Tree (Wave Books) the latest of more than a dozen volumes of poetry and fiction including Chelsea Girls, Not Me, Skies and Cool for You. She wrote the libretti for Hell, an opera with music composed by Michael Webster which was performed on both coasts in 2004 and 06. A virtuoso performer of her work, Myles has read and performed at colleges, performance spaces, and bookstores across North America as well as in Europe, Iceland, Ireland and Russia. In '97 and again in 2007 she toured with Sister Spit, the post-punk female performance troupe; she ran St. Mark's Poetry Project during the Reagan years, and conducted an openly female write in candidate for President in 1992. In 2007 she received The Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writing fellowship. She contributes to many journals including Art in America, Book Forum, The Nation, and The Believer. She directed the writing program at UCSD for the past five years and now she just lives and writes in LA.
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Visit Eileen Myles' Myspace Page
Listen to her poem "MERK".
Listen to her poem "On the Death of Robert Lowell".
Read an interview with Travis Nichols in Weird Deer.
Read an interview with Michelle Tea in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Read a review of Sorry, Tree in Open Letters.
Read a review of Sorry, Tree in Octopus Magazine.
Read a review of Sorry, Tree in Silliman's Blog.
Read an interview with Emma Silvers in the San Diego City Beat.
PENNsound presents Eileen Myles reading from "Cool For You"
PENNsound presents Eileen Myles reading "Orleans"
PENNsound presents Eileen Myles reading "Dear Andrea"
Eileen Myles and Ali Liebegott on KBPS's "These Days"
reviews of Eileen Myles's work:
Ron Silliman — 04/22/2008
Beth Lizardo — 05/01/2007
Poem Hunter — 05/01/2007
Meg Hurtado — 05/01/2007
Beth Lizardo — 05/01/2007
Brenden Kiley — 04/07/2007
Kathleen Rooney, Open Letters — 04/01/2007
John J Geysen — 02/28/2007