The Lives of Writers

Eileen Myles [Guest host: Jeff Alessandrelli]

Episode Summary

Guest host Jeff Alessandrelli talks with Eileen Myles about living between New York and Marfa, poetry as daily (and not daily) practice, sobriety, vernacular writing, putting together a new and selected, their new poetry collection A WORKING LIFE, aesthetic criticism, touring, Bobby Vee, translators, and more.

Episode Notes

Guest host Jeff Alessandrelli talks with Eileen Myles about living between New York and Marfa, poetry as daily (and not daily) practice, sobriety, vernacular writing, putting together a new and selected, their new poetry collection A WORKING LIFE, aesthetic criticism, touring, Bobby Vee, translators, and more.

Eileen Myles' books include Pathetic LiteratureFor Now (an essay/talk about writing), EvolutionAfterglow (a dog memoir)I Must Be Living Twice: new and selected poems, Chelsea Girls, and most recently A Working LifeThe Trip, their super-8 puppet road film, can be seen on YouTube. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.

Jeff Alessandrelli is the director/co-editor of Fonograf Editions and BUNNY. fonografeditions.com

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.