Eileen Myles: Difference between revisions

| pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref name="Wichtel">{{Cite web |title=How Eileen Myles won a battle for personal pronoun plurality |last=Wichtel |first=By Diana |work=Noted |date=30 May 2018 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/currently-profiles/eileen-myles-won-their-battle-for-personal-pronoun-plurality}}</ref>

| gender=*"I'm the gender of Eileen."<ref name="Wichtel" /><ref name="Benjamin">{{Cite web |title=Hold a Feeling: An Interview With Eileen Myles |last=Benjamin |first=Tova |work=Rookie |date=30 November 2015 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.rookiemag.com/2015/11/eileen-myles/}}</ref>

'''Eileen Myles''' is a well-known lesbian poet and writer. Myles ran for president of the USA in 1991-92. Zoe Leonard's 1992 poem, "I want a president", which begins with the line: "I want a dyke for president", was written to celebrate Myles's presidential run.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/16/zoe-leonard-archivist-of-feeling/|title=Zoe Leonard: Archivist of Feeling|last=Traps|first=Yevgeniya|date=March 16, 2018|website=The Paris Review|access-date=November 4, 2018}}</ref>  

Myles uses the labels "genderqueer" and "trans"<ref name="gqd" /> but is not comfortable with the label "nonbinary".<ref name="Meinen">{{Cite web |title=I am Legion: An Interview with Eileen Myles |last=Meinen |first=Abigail |work=Sampsonia Way |date=22 June 2018 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.sampsoniaway.org/blog/2018/06/22/i-am-legion-an-interview-with-eileen-myles/ |quote=You know, I wouldn't say I'm non-binary. Somehow it has a technical air, so somehow I don't feel comfortable with that or claim that. }}</ref>

They have been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.<ref name="poetryfoundation">{{Cite web |title=Eileen Myles |work=Poetry Foundation |date= |access-date=16 May 2020 |url= https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/eileen-myles}}</ref>

{{quote|I mean, I feel like I am very trans-identified. To some extent I felt I did, in fact, identify as a man in a woman's body. I’m starting to think that trans feelings are really at the root of homosexuality.<ref name="Russell">{{Cite web |title=Presidential thoughts: Eileen Myles on gender, sexuality and the bathroom wars |last=Russell |first=Stephen A. |work=Topics |date=2 May 2018 |access-date=15 May 2020 |url= https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/pride/fast-lane/article/2018/05/02/presidential-thoughts-eileen-myles-gender-sexuality-and-bathroom-wars}}</ref>}}