Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles was a Methone resident in Athens and Paris during September 2022.

During the Athens residency, Antipodes Publications and Phenomenon Anafi organised a reading and discussion with Eileen Myles, on the occasion of the launch of their book Eva and other poems, on Tuesday, September 20th at 18:30 at Riviera open-air cinema (Valtetsiou 46, Athens). The event was coordinated by poet and translator Krystalli Glyniadaki. 

Eileen Myles came to Greece for the first time at the invitation of the Kerenidis Pepe Collection, to participate in the Phenomenon 3 contemporary art program on Anafi (July 1-14, 2019). Phenomenon commissioned the translation of the poems to Greek poets and contributed to the publication of the book. The collection –the first to be translated into Greek– consists of 15 poems and two introductory texts.

Eileen Myles (b. 1949, they/them) is a poet, novelist and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has
has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Pathetic Literature, which they edited came out in Fall of 2022. Their newest collection of poems, a “Working Life”, is out now. Their fiction includes Chelsea Girls (1994) which just won France’s Inrockuptibles Prize for best foreign novel, Cool for You (2000), Inferno (a poet’s novel) (2010) and Afterglow (2017). Writing on art was gathered in the volume The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009). Books of poetry include Evolution (2018) and I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014. Their super-8 road film “The Trip” is on YouTube. They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.