Celebrated poet and essayist Eileen Myles comes to BAM on March 1 as part of our Eat, Drink & Be Literary series. Illustrator Nathan Gelgud revisits Myles' participation in the 1992 presidential election, when she ran as an "openly female" write-in candidate.
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Note: Most of the dialogue attributed to Myles comes from her original campaign letters, but some of it is made up.
Sources:
- eileenmyles.net, where you can read the campaign letters
- Interview with Myles by Morgan Parker in The Literary Review
- Article and interview with Myles by Joanna Rothkopf at Jezebel
- Maureen Dowd's 1991 New York Timesarticle about the Bush speech
- "An American Poem" at the Poetry Foundation
See more work by Nathan Gelgud on his website.
Eileen Myles comes to BAM on March 1 as part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary.