Aging and the Arts Poetry Circle: Eileen Myles

Join us for the next Aging and the Arts Poetry Circle featuring the work of Eileen Myles

Join us for a monthly poetry discussion led by The University of Arizona Poetry Center docents. This event is free, and no preparation or knowledge of poetry is necessary to participate. A reading packet will be shared. For anyone who enjoys poetry or learning more about poets in a conversational setting, this informal gathering includes many opportunities to contribute to the conversation and ask questions. It is also a great way to meet people in the community who have similar interests. The discussion will feature the work of Eileen Myles, who will read at the Poetry Center on Thursday, Oct. 26th at 7 pm.

Widely renowned, poet, novelist, performer, and art journalist, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work, in the words of the New York Review of Books, “set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match.” Myles is the author of more than twenty books including a "Working Life" (Grove, 2023), I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, and a re-issue of Chelsea Girls. Poems written by—and a character based on—Myles appeared in seasons 2 and 3 of the Emmy-winning Amazon show Transparent. Their memoir, Afterglow (a dog memoir), (Grove, 2017) paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called Rosie. Jennifer Krasinski writing for The Village Voice said: “Their exquisite slapstick tragedy Afterglow is a radical memoir about and for and by their now-deceased but forever-beloved pitbull Rosie, who the poet believes is a dead ringer for their dead father.”

Their other books include For Now (2020), Evolution (2018), 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), and Chelsea Girls (1994).

The Aging and the Arts Poetry Circle will take place in the Dorothy Rubel Room at the University of Arizona Poetry Center or in favorable weather conditions in the immediately adjacent breezeway. The event venue offers appropriate room for social distancing.

The University of Arizona Poetry Center is located at 1508 E. Helen St. Tucson, AZ 85721. Complimentary parking will be available adjacent to the building.

Please register by October 20.