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Who is Entitled to Be a Poet? A Conversation with Eileen Myles (Part 4)

September 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Last spring, poet, novelist, librettist and one-time presidential candidate, Eileen Myles chatted with Weird Deer correspondent Travis Nichols about ideal readership, government sponsored revolution, and the big old tomb that is prose. Parts one through three appeared earlier in the week and can be accessed through the archives. This is the fourth and […]

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Tags: perestroika · Rae Armantrout · Face · California · Travis-Nichols · Eileen Myles · Conversation

Who is Entitled to Be a Poet? A Conversation with Eileen Myles (Part 3)

September 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Last spring, poet, novelist, librettist and one-time presidential candidate, Eileen Myles chatted with Weird Deer correspondent Travis Nichols about ideal readership, government sponsored revolution, and the big old tomb that is prose. Parts one and two appeared on Tuesday and Wednesday. Further installments will appear this week.

TN: I know this is […]

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Tags: Algebra · Alice Notley · Three Poems · The Inferno · James Schuyler · Travis-Nichols · Eileen Myles · Conversation

Who is Entitled to Be a Poet? A Conversation with Eileen Myles (Part 2)

September 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Last spring, poet, novelist, librettist and one-time presidential candidate, Eileen Myles chatted with Weird Deer correspondent Travis Nichols about ideal readership, government sponsored revolution, and the big old tomb that is prose. Further installments will appear this week.

TN: There’s a lot of talk about some of the damage that MFA programs can do […]

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Tags: James Schuyler · Class warfare · New York School · Frank O'Hara · San Diego · Travis-Nichols · Eileen Myles · John Ashbery · Conversation

Who is Entitled to Be a Poet?: A Conversation with Eileen Myles (Part 1)

September 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Last spring, poet, novelist, librettist and one-time presidential candidate, Eileen Myles chatted with Weird Deer correspondent Travis Nichols about ideal readership, government sponsored revolution, and the big old tomb that is prose. Further installments will appear this week.

TN: I’ve just spent the morning reading back through your work, from the first book you […]

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Tags: Tree · Irony of the Leash · San Diego · Sorry · Ted Berrigan · Travis-Nichols · Eileen Myles · Conversation

Dear Joshua (Eileen Myles)

March 26th, 2007 · 5 Comments

On Friday evening, after Eileen read at Bailey/Coy Books, I had planned to walk back home with Monica, watch a movie maybe, or perhaps just drink the half bottle of Vinho Verde I had bought earlier and drift into a stupor.
It had been a weirdly taxing week—stupid details on top of […]

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