Eileen Myles
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EILEEN MYLES AND GETTING PAID
Eileen Myles gives me hope. Not necessarily for money for poetry. Although I did get paid £50 for my poems in Tin House and that felt somehow a little validating. Even more than the money was having poems in Tin House and the generosity of poet friends. Eileen Myles, like many I would imagine, gives… Read more
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MAP LITERARY
Some poems from my ms MILK TOP MAGIC HAT over at Map Literary: http://www.mapliterary.org/marcus-slease.html little men in my bathtub, rainy Bukowski southwest train to Reading, E.T. and rocket ships in Milton Keynes. Some fantastic poetry and fiction over there. Like Anne Gorrick’s measurements to the sun for example. Stellar! It is part of my book… Read more
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THE CRANIUM IS A SPACE TRAVELER’S HELMET
READING FROM NEW BOOK RIDES IN MY FLAT IN EAST LONDON DOCKLANDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmm3xjknAc “There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate” There are mashups with train rides forwards and backwards all around the U.K. Rides is part of my nomadic surrealist project. AVAILABLE OVER HERE: RIDES … Read more
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I LOVE DICK
Chris Kraus’ I Love Dick is opening a space for me to exist in. To move around in. She says, “Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill- getting larger cause you’re entering another person’s language, cadence, heart and mind.” And that’s when I feel most alive. Expansive writing. Expansive… Read more
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Eileen Myles in Vilnius
Eileen Myles reading in Vilnius. Terrific! Expansive and open and generous. Her confidence is contagious. I think she opens up the space and all the people in that space. So many poetry readings feel closed and sometimes suffocating. We need more open spaces (in body, mind, and spirit). We need more expansive poetry and art.… Read more
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SCHOOL OF FISH AT SPORK
MY POEM SCHOOL OF FISH IS OVER AT SPORK. YIPPPIEEE . . . http://sporkpress.com/ Read more
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POETRY RECEIPT SCROLL FROM BRITISH MUSEUM
Erkembode (DAVID KELLY-MANCAUX) has created a saintly scroll of my poems (a minimalist version of Kerouac’s On the Road). Erkembode created the poetry scroll while working the gift shop at the British Museum. He said the till was going crazy spewing out poems instead of numbers for receipts. These poems are conversational vernacular poems. A… Read more
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reading from The New Vision
except from my novella in progress THE NEW VISION. Inspired by William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Eileen Myles, Feminism, psychedelic revolutions, Mormon youth, Utah and much more Read more
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IT POPS
Ewa is making chapbooks for my Victorian toilet bowl reading with Richard Barrett this Tuesday. Drawings by David Kelly-Mancaux. The Chapbook is called IT POPS. Ewa made a chapbook a few years ago with nail varnish for the cover called Balloons. I think there is a theme. http://www.artslav.com/ Read more
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cool for you
eileen myles. reading cool for you with a cool video of her dwelling space!!! https://vimeo.com/28244303 Read more
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Marcus Slease Interview at The Volta
A BIG THANKS TO JIM GOAR FOR THE GREAT QUESTIONS. WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT. LIKE NY SCHOOL POETS AND PHILIP WHALEN, AND POOR CLAUDIA. ALSO ABOUT NOMADIC POETICS AND TRAVEL AND SURREALISM. INTERVIEW UP NOW AT THE VOLTA/CONVERSANT http://theconversant.org/?p=5588 Read more
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ON THE ROAD FROM CANTON OHIO AND EAST LONDON
Marcus Slease and John Estes. Over here. John Ashbery and Eileen Myles are in the conversation. Many others too. Canton, Ohio and East London. Check it out over here at Likestarlings: http://www.likestarlings.com/poems/marcus-slease-john-estes/#1 Read more
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saint mayer saint spit saint myles and saint tea
My reading at Hardy Tree in London on Saturday 23rd Nov 2013. pocket rubbings, aliens, mormons, boy scouts, a blooming tattoo, conversations with saints and work of Eileen Myles, Sister Spit, Michelle Tea, Bernadette Mayer and others from new ms in progress: ANOTHER KIND OF MISSION thank you Saint Erkembode! thank you SJ Fowler! Thank… Read more
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EILEEN MYLES
One of my favourite poets and people of all time. She has a new website. It is very good. I go there almost everyday. http://www.eileenmyles.com/index.php Read more
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IT’S ALMOST PORN
EILEEN MYLES IS COMING TO TOWN!! yipppiiieeee!!! ONE OF MY FAV POETS OF ALL TIME! Read more
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public access poetry and poetry project
listening to Ted Berrigan on public access poetry . . oh yeah . . . wish there was a poetry project in London!!!!!!!!!! public access poetry Read more
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colin herd
just read the poems again . . . and became even happier!!! Very very happy!!! So many possibilities for poetry just when I was feeling that straight jacket again . . . . Eileen Myles, Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer meet Colin Herd!!! Please don’t leave the island mr. Colin Herd . . . we need you!!!… Read more
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Never Mind the Beasts 