Big Night Presents Eileen Myles!
- Eileen will read from her new book, The Importance Of Being Iceland
- The Buffalo Poet's Theater will present excerpts from Myles libretto "Hell"
- Chef Geoffrey Gatza will present his culinary creations
- Ekrem Serdar will screen his short films
Eileen Myles is a poet (Sorry, Tree, Not Me etc.) who writes fiction (Cool for You, Chelsea Girls) and whose The Importance of Being Iceland/travel essays in art, for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant, will be out in July from Semiotext(e)/MIT. Of Sorry, Tree, her most recent volume, Chicago Review says: “Her politics are overt, her physicality raw, yet it is the subtle gentle noticing in her poems that overwhelms.” She ran St. Mark's Poetry Project in the 80s. She conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President of the US in 1992. She is a Professor Emeritus of Writing at UCSD. She writes for Parkett, The Believer, Vice, The Nation, The Stranger, AnOther Magazine and is blogging all summer on the Harriet site. The Inferno/a poet's novel will probably be out next year. She lives in New York.
Geoffrey Gatza, a Gulf War veteran, is a poet and the publisher of Blazevox Books. A former sous-chef at the Mansion on Delaware Ave., he has a degree from the Culinary Institute of America (C.I.A.)
Ekrem Serdar was born in 1983 in Abu Dhabi. After completing high school in Ankara, he finished his B.A. in Media Study at the University at Buffalo, SUNY and is currently doing his M.F.A. in the same department. He mostly shows his work at Rustbelt Books in Buffalo and has also shown at the 2nd Electric City Spectacular (2007), the !f Istanbul Film Festival (2008) and in the Pera Museum in Istanbul (2009). He works in film and video and is a member of House Press, a poetry-centered collective of artists.
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