Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles is a poet, writer and art journalist widely known for their practice of vernacular first-person writing across genres. Forthcoming from Fonograf in April 2026 is Birdwatching, a long unpublished poem from 1978 with three early books. They live in NYC & Marfa, TX.
The morning I learned that Alice had died the night before I was in my car on east third street and I felt I was sitting in a giant gong. The whole neighborhood tolled for Alice (and I think that would make her giggle) and even though I’m not still there I feel like it’s tolling still.
Eileen Myles is a poet with 22 books and is a member of @1000people1000 trees and East River Park Action all opposing the ESCR plan.
Mostly I knew things about John Giorno when I first saw him perform. That he was a Buddhist, and it sounded like he had been a junkie, and from his poem I thought I understood that it was still hard for him to not do junk. Turns out that was fictional.
Eileen Myles is the author of nineteen books including I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, and a reissue of Chelsea Girls, both out in fall 2015, from Eco/Harper Collins.
Eileen Myles is a poet who lives in New York. She had a conversation in the Rail last summer with Jeremy Sigler about her collection The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art. The Inferno, a poet's novel will be out this fall. She's teaching in Missoula, MT this spring, well, now.