An Evening with Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, performer and art journalist. Their 20 books include Afterglow (a dog memoir), a 2017 re-issue of Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014, and Chelsea Girls. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, and the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America. In 2016, Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. Currently they teach at New York University and Naropa University, and live in Marfa, Texas, and New York.

Doors will be open just before 7 p.m., and we will start shortly after everyone is inside and seated. The reading will be followed by a book signing and the Co-op Bookstore will have books for sale.

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Writers Read at Concordia University has hosted authors including Roxane Gay, Mary Ruefle, Lydia Davis, Roddy Doyle, Mary Gaitskill, Tanya Tagaq, Christian Bok, Rae Armantrout, Emma Donoghue, Lisa Robertson, Gail Scott, George Elliott Clarke, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Ben Lerner and Dionne Brand.

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The Concordia Community Solidarity Co-op Bookstore is pleased to offer a viable alternative to the corporate structure, putting students’ best interests beyond our own bottom line. As a not-for-profit alternative to corporate bookstores, we are conveniently located right on Concordia’s downtown campus at 2150 Bishop St. in Montreal. Offering both new and used books, in addition to a wide variety of artisan consignments, we also boast the largest selection of sex and gender studies titles anywhere in Montreal.

Our events are free and open to the public.