ABOUT THE EVENTAn evening on poetry and film with the iconic American writer and poet Eileen Myles (they/them), known for books such as Chelsea Girls, a "Working Life" and I Must Be Living Twice. Frankly and unfiltered, personal and worldly themes are explored in their prose and poetry. The result is a vibrant mix of emotion, humour and social criticism on topics such as gender identity, sexuality, politics and art.
At Bozar's request, Myles wrote poetry to accompany the Chantal Akerman retrospective. The Belgian filmmaker inspired Myles before, when the latter wrote the foreword to the English edition of My Mother Laughs. The new poems are printed in the publication accompanying the exhibition. On top of that, Myles will also be in residency at Bozar for a few weeks. On 30 April, there will be a meeting and a poetry reading.
ABOUT THE AUTHOREileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as "one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature." The Boston Globe described them as "that rare creature, a rock star of poetry."In 2012, Myles received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow (a memoir), which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog's life. Myles uses they/them pronouns.