eileen myles
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Notable NYC: 11/26–12/2
Saturday 11/26: Sarah Kay, Maeve Higgins, Phil Kaye, and Mark Doss read for refugees, as part of the Festival to Improve the World. The Wild Project, 4 p.m., $10. Monday 11/28: Jason Diamond launches Searching for John Hughes with a…
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Notable NYC: 11/5–11/11
Saturday 11/5: Emily Stokes, Lisa Lucas, Ann Goldstein, Summer Brennan, Stacey D’Erasmo, and moderator Michael Reynolds have Ferrante Fever. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Ari Banais and Wo Chan join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Marlena Chertock, Stephanie…
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Taking It to the Street
We had to ask everyone. Not just the people who looked “good” to get money from. And that was great because of course I was surprised by who responded and who didn’t. I feel, in general, in my life at…
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Poetry on Vinyl
Fonograf Editions, a new Portland-based vinyl record-only poetry press that aims to publish two to three spoken word poetry records on vinyl each year, is set for its first release on May 17 with Aloha/irish trees by Eileen Myles. The collection features…
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Ablaze with Care
As we said our vows, we were undone. We wept, besotted with our luck. Maggie Nelson, interviewed by Paul Laity for the Guardian, talks about her life before and during her deservedly acclaimed autobiotheoreticalnovel The Argonauts, from following Eileen Myles to New…
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Eileen Myles Is a “Hall of Mirrors”
Famous people are of course the repositories for the hopes, dreams, and shames of the non famous. Arielle Greenberg, editor of Rumpus series (K)ink: Writing While Deviant, writes searchingly about herself, Eileen Myles, poetry, and fame for the Poetry Foundation.
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Own Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Book
If you’ve ever wanted an unfiltered glimpse into the inner life of your favorite author, celebrity, or athlete, new philanthropic project Read by Famous gives you that chance. Artist Josh Greene, the project’s organizer, has gathered more than 100 copies of well-read,…
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This Week in Short Fiction
Valentine’s Day, the annual celebration of romance, named after a martyred saint who doesn’t have anything to do with love, is almost here. In recognition of the holiday, The Cut is providing a refreshing counterpoint to the flowers-and-chocolates narrative with…
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The Charismatic Loser
I think it would be a great time for men, basically, to go on vacation. Eileen Myles is interviewed by the New York Times, touching on poetry’s place in politics, and men’s place in either: open femaleness, memorable lines, and…
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A Rumpus Book Club Subscription Makes a Great Gift
We’re at that point in the holiday shopping season where if you don’t already have a gift for someone, you either have to deal with the other last-minute shoppers in stores, pay an outrageous shipping rate online and hope the post…
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I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems by Eileen Myles
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Eileen Myles’s I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Folk Poets and Scrambled Eggs
I think that’s avant-garde—the meeting of need and language. Over at Lit Hub, contemporary poetic hero Ben Lerner sits down with contemporary poetic heroine Eileen Myles to talk about vernacular, supercilious labels, the trials and tribulations of a young poet after…