Comments on Breakfast with Eileen Myles

She looks like David Spade.

I love Eileen Myles! I remember hearing her read for the first time at New College in San Francisco in, I think, 1997 and having the feeling that my teachers had been hiding something about writing from me all those years. She just has that thing. I read with her years later in LA, and she was so charmingly shy. You sort of want to possess her, but can't of course. Definitely does the boring name of Poetry a great service!

eileen myles is a genius. coincidentally, her poem "november" is great

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Her comments in the audio link on being surprised that there were queer people in Auburn are incredibly condescending, even though she is admitting her mistake in being surpised, because it sounds like she is suggesting that the kids should realize that they can "go someplace different."

Maybe I misunderstood her full meaning or the broader context, given the short sound bite, but it sounded to me like classic urbanism. I'm from Auburn originally, and when I lived there twenty years ago, there were a ton of out queer kids. I don't know what it's like for kids now, but it was a fun place for me and my friends to grow up weird and different, we had each other. I hope it still is.

I know that lots of queer people choose to move to cities, but shouldn't an ultimate goal of gender and queer liberation be to to make it safe everywhere to be out, including the suburbs, especially for kids who are too young to move away?