On Thursday 4 and Friday 5 February, we will be hosting a 2 day symposium on Eileen Myles’s work in Paris.

Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges

9:45am-5pm, room 340 (3rd floor of the Olympe de Gouges Building).

How to get there?

For detailed instructions and directions, click HERE.

+ Poetry reading with Eileen Myles and Sarah Bahr, Thursday 4 February, 7:30pm, galerie éof, 15 rue Saint Fiacre, 75002 Paris (métro Grands Boulevards). For detailed directions, click HERE.

So far, we’ve tried to focus on the writer’s own (creative and critical) work on the first day of the P&C symposia and on broader issues of poetics and practice-based criticism with the writer on the second day. But there’s no specific preconceived program for the 2 days of the symposium: as the previous sessions of the program have shown, it seems important to let the conversation take its own course.

Please note that the morning session of the first day is devoted to preparing the conversation with Eileen Myles which will take place during the afternoon session and the second day. Eileen Myles will be joining the group at 2pm on Thursday 4 February.

Program:

Thursday 4 February
9:45am-12 > premilinary session with all participants
12-2pm > lunch
2pm > Eileen Myles will be joining us for the afternoon session
7:30pm > Poetry reading with Eileen Myles and Sarah Bahr

Friday 5 February
9:45am-12 > morning session with Eileen Myles
12-2pm > lunch
2pm-5pm > afternoon session with Eileen Myles
8pm > symposium dinner

 

From Eileen Myles’s website : http://www.eileenmyles.com/

Poet, novelist, performer and art journalist Eileen Myles is the author of nineteen books including I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems and a re-issue of Chelsea Girls, both out in fall 2015, from Ecco/Harper Collins.

Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1949, attended Catholic schools in Arlington, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts (Boston) in 1971. She came to New York in 1974 to be a poet. Her poetic education primarily took place at St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1975 to 1977, through attending readings and participating in workshops led by Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, and Paul Violi. From 1984 to 1986 Eileen was the artistic director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project.

From 1977 to 1979 she published dodgems, a poetry magazine that represented a collision of New York School, Language Poetry, performance texts, unconventional prose, as well as tossed-off notes from neighbors and celebrities. In 1977, she co-edited the feminist anthology Ladies Museum, and in 1979 she worked as an assistant to poet James Schuyler. That same year, Eileen was a founding member of the Los Texans Collective (along with Elinor Nauen and Barbara McKay), which went on to produce the play Patriarchy and the spiritual entertainment Joan of Arc.

Eileen Myles has toured and read all over North America and Europe on and off since the early 1980s. Her solo performances include Leaving New York (1989), Life (1991), and Summer in Russia (1996) at PS 122 in New York. Her plays include Feeling Blue (Parts 1, 2, and 3) at Modern Art, and Our Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, written for Alina Troyano and produced at PS 122. In 2004, she wrote the libretto for the opera Hell, composed by Michael Webster. In 2010, she created and directed her Dia Center for the Arts performance piece, The Collection of Silence, which involved dancers, poets, children, visual artists, and Buddhists in a collective public act of silence at the Hispanic Society in New York.

Her other books include Snowflake/different streets (2012), Inferno: A Poet’s Novel ( 2010), The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009), Sorry, Tree (2007), Tow (2005, with artists Larry C. Collins), Skies (2001),on my way (2001), Cool for You (novel, 2000), School of Fish (1997), Maxfied Parrish (1995), Not Me (1991), andChelsea Girls (1994). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading. As a poet and art journalist, she has contributed to a wide number of publications including Art Forum, The New Yorker, Harpers, Parkett, The Believer, Vice, Cabinet, The Nation, TimeOut, Paris Review, and AnOther Magazine. She often contributes essays to catalogs for major exhibitions such as the Whitney and Liverpool Biennials.

Eileen Myles is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writers’ grant, a Lambda Book Award, the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, was named to the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List, and received a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She lives in Marfa, TX and New York.

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