Guest host Jeff Alessandrelli talks with Eileen Myles about living between New York and Marfa, poetry as daily (and not daily) practice, sobriety, vernacular writing, putting together a new and selected, their new poetry collection A WORKING LIFE, aesthetic criticism, touring, Bobby Vee, translators, and more.

Eileen Myles' books include Pathetic Literature, For Now (an essay/talk about writing), Evolution, Afterglow (a dog memoir), I Must Be Living Twice: new and selected poems, Chelsea Girls, and most recently A Working Life. The Trip, their super-8 puppet road film, can be seen on YouTube. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.

Jeff Alessandrelli is the director/co-editor of Fonograf Editions and BUNNY. fonografeditions.com

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.

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