![]() ![]() In 1984 Myles was hired as the artistic director of St. In 1979 they worked as an assistant to the poet James Schuyler. There, Myles first met the poet Allen Ginsberg, whom they admired and who became the subject of several of their poems and essays. Mark's Poetry Project, which promoted the idea of the "working artist." There they studied with Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Paul Violi, and Bill Zavatsky, and were given a template for creating art in the context of community. ![]() In New York they participated in writing workshops held at St. ![]() Myles moved to New York City in 1974 with the intention of becoming a poet. They attended Catholic schools in Arlington, Massachusetts, and graduated from UMass Boston in 1971. Life and career Early life and education Įileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 9, 1949, to a family with a working-class background. Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as "one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature." The Boston Globe described them as "that rare creature, a rock star of poetry." In 2012, Myles received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow (a memoir), which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog's life. Poetry, non-fiction, fiction, performanceĮileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. ![]()
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