Eileen Myles
- Price
- $12*
- Genre
- Talks
- Season
- Winter/Spring 2025
- DATE
- JAN 16
- TIME
- THU, 8:30 PM
- country
- USA
* Discounts available for REDCAT members, students & the CalArts faculty and staff
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About
An evening of sharp humor, startling revelation and innovative life writing with Eileen Myles. Myles is a Lambda award-winning poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer whose vernacular first-person work has made them one of the most recognized and influential writers of their generation. In dozens of groundbreaking books, Myles has gathered up raw experience with verve and tenderness, from the cult classic auto-fiction work Chelsea Girls (1994) based on their life as a young queer artist, to the recent experimental dog memoir Afterglow (2017), and in moment-defining poetry collections like Not Me (1991) and I Must be Living Twice (2016), producing a rhapsody of attention critics have referred to as “uncanny” and “divine.”
Ruthlessly unguarded, surgically self-parodic and infinitely funny, Myles’s poems chop lines into uncanny units.
—
Mary Jean Chan, The Guardian
Presented by REDCAT, the MFA Program in Creative Writing of California Institute of the Arts, the Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence Program.
about the artist
Eileen Myles (b. 1949, they/them) is a poet, novelist, and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Pathetic Literature, which they edited, came out in the fall of 2022. Their newest collection of poems, a “Working Life,” is out now. Their fiction includes Chelsea Girls (1994) which just won France’s Les Inrockuptibles Prize for best foreign novel, Cool for You (2000), Inferno (a poet’s novel) (2010) and Afterglow (2017). Writing on art was gathered in the volume The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009). Their books of poetry include Evolution (2018) and I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014. Their Super 8 road film “The Trip” is on YouTube. They live in New York and in Marfa, TX.
