2008 - 2009 PARTICIPANTS |
 | Eileen Myles Professor of Literature University of California, San Diego Cultural Power: Art Eileen Myles, novelist and poet, and is a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her latest book is Sorry, Tree in which she describes "some nature" as well as the transmigration of souls from the east coast to the west. Bust Magazine calls Myles "the rock star of modern poetry" and Holland Cotter in The New York Times describes her as "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde." Myles has published more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, articles, plays, and libretti including Hell (an opera with composer Michael Webster) Skies, on my way, Cool for You, (a novel), School of Fish, Maxfield Parrish, Not Me, and Chelsea Girls(stories). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e). She contributes to a wide number of publication including Bookforum, the Believer, and lately Cabinet, has written catalogue essays about Sadie Benning, Peggy Awesh and Nicole Eisenman and she blogs weekly on art at http://openfordesign.msn.com/ |
