Eileen Myles
(1949 - living) U.S.A.
Poet and activist
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she was educated at Catholic schools and the University of Masachussetts (Boston) before moving to Manhattan. Since then she has been a significant and versatile figure in the downtown art scene, especially associated with the "New York School" and St Mark's Poetry Project, which she directed from 1984 to 1986.
Myles has been in the vanguard of experimental writing and performance, art criticism and lesbian feminist activism in New York since the 1970s. She is a virtuoso poet performer-activist of the East Village, producing work that is at once politically engaged, erotic, stylish and funny. In q992 she was a write-in candidate for the presidency of the United States.
Source: excerpts from: Aldrich R. & Wotherspoon G., Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, from WWII to Present Day, Routledge, London, 2001
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