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Lecture and Reading by Eileen Myles
Presented as part of CCA's Graduate Studies Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 7 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Bust magazine calls Eileen Myles "the rock star of modern poetry." The New York Times has described her as "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk female writer-performers."
Myles went to New York in 1974 to be a poet. She has since become widely known in writing circles, art circles, and queer circles as a restless interpreter of the American vernacular. She has published more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, articles, plays, and libretti. Her latest book, The Importance of Being Iceland, is the first full volume of her art-related essays and writings. The title essay offers an account of trips to Reykjavik in 1996 and 2007 to explore Icelandic poetry, art, and queer identity; the book also includes a series of conversations and essays about artists, including Daniel Day Lewis, Wakefield Poole, Ntosake Shange, and Robert Smithson.
Myles has toured twice with Sister Spit, a post-punk female performance troupe. She is a professor emeritus of writing and literature at UC San Diego. She contributes to a wide number of publications, including Parkett, aNother Magazine, The Believer, Vice, Cabinet, The Nation, Artforum, and TimeOut.
CCA's Graduate Studies Lecture Series is supported in part by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
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