2025 Summer Workshop Program
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This workshop is full-on praise for the act of writing poetry. In a time of political unrest the act of writing a poem is significant, a gathering force. But prose has a way of making the poem not so much safe as having a home, an institution even where the poem can thrive. So we’ll shuttle between the two during the week, one kind of explaining or relieving the other. We’ll look at newcomers and unknowns (as of today) Ashley D. Escobar and Frank Rubino, some known powers: Kafka, Mary Robison and people who do both like John Keene. I want to also sing praise to the xolotl, a little Mexican dog that accompanies souls to the underworld. We don’t plan to die, but I think this is mortal stuff we’re about in the act of writing and we need a friend, a dog or a writing practice to help us make our way. And I must say that the writers I’ve mentioned might change in the months that will pass before we meet. But I promise the writers will be cool. Also we will work with a nude model in one session, we will watch a film in another (or a bit of it) and I urge bringing a fetish object of some sort with you, no jewelry please, stuffed animals or what not–an inanimate friend to make texture in our writing studio.
Biography
Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Their newest books are Pathetic Literature and a “Working Life”, poems. Myles’s 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). They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.
