| to hear more, go to: media.sas.upenn.edu writing.upenn.edu Eileen Myles reads "My Revolution" as part of the Contemporary Writers Series at Mills College on November 16, 2010. Eileen Myles was born in Boston in 1949, attended Catholic schools in Arlington, Mass. and graduated from UMass (Boston) in 1971. She came to New York in 1974 to be a poet. Since then she's become widely known in writing circles, art circles, queer circles and beyond as one of the most restless interpreters of the American vernacular, moving fluidly from the poetry to writing novels, essays and plays, art reviews, performances and libretti, and perhaps most notably as someone "with an uncanny knack" as John Ashbery put it, "for making people feel uncomfortable and awake... chanting softly and beautifully the harsh if humorous realities that combine to make whatever life a poet can piece together today." |
