“People loved to talk about how Frank O’Hara didn’t really care about getting published. That doesn’t jibe with my experience.”

She prefers
my phone &

using my
computer
w out the burden
of her life
last night
I described
it open
a circle
she kisses
my knee
its life
that is
my name
they thought
she had
a lot
I think
it’s enough
I mean
it’s astonishing
if I had (his)
I could
feel everything
but as it is
I know
what it is
I love your
lips.

I read
a book &
then I want
to read
another
one about
Russia

Do you
only
go to new
places
is it true
did the
planet
just get
born

Fresca’s got a new look
but I’m not drinking
that. My coke

Jill tells me about the
show she is making

I wonder if anything really needs to be revived.
Mad magazine should probably be dead by 1984
rather than: $2.50 CHEAP. It’s difficult

“The spiky poetic homelessness of My Dead Book is in relation to a devotion to not fitting in, not anywhere ever.”

Eileen Myles on the photography of Moyra Davey and Peter Hujar.

Eileen Myles on ‘F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry,’ the first anthology of its kind.

Gail Scott’s classic feminist novel ‘Heroine’ is something fabulously risky and alive.

In Can Xue’s ‘Love in the New Millennium,’ all the characters are connected to each other. There’s no one story I can tell. And they are laughing about it, too. At their own inconstancy, their changeability.

  Michael Lally’s Another Way to Play, out next week, is an awesome book and you should read every word of it. You won’t do it in a day or in many days, but during the passage of reading it you will learn something about time. Another Way to Play …

On the pleasures of stumbling upon books in the wrong places.  I found Jean Stafford’s The Mountain Lion at a thrift in Marfa. I thought, I ought to read some Western fiction, you know? It just seemed like, The Mountain Lion—who could be interes…

  This October, Damiani will release The Hungry Years, a collection of photographs from the eighties by the artist Jack Pierson. The images, taken during the height of the AIDS epidemic and featuring many of his friends, are striking for their d…

Eileen Myles has written extensively about visual art: her book The Importance of Being Iceland collects what she called “travel essays in art,” and artists and their work figure prominently in her fiction and poetry, as they have in her personal life.