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Poet, novelist, performer & art journalist Eileen Myles, once described in Artforum as “one of the most restless minds in contemporary lit,” reads from her newest collection, titled I Must Be Living Twice. Myles is the author of nineteen books, including Chelsea Girls. She received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writers' grant for The Importance of Being Iceland and the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America. She’s a Guggenheim fellow and in 2014 she received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. She lives in New York.
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Poet, novelist, performer & art journalist Eileen Myles, once described in Artforum as “one of the most restless minds in contemporary lit,” reads from her newest collection, titled I Must Be Living Twice. Myles is the author of nineteen books, including Chelsea Girls. She received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writers' grant for The Importance of Being Iceland and the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America. She’s a Guggenheim fellow and in 2014 she received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. She lives in New York.
Presented by the Program in Poetry and Poetics and Poem Present.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to jmhaley@uchicago.edu.
