#  The Trans Poetics of Eileen Myles - talk by Jack Parlett 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 23, 2022** 

 12:00PM - 01:15PM EST 

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 **Zoom**  



 

 



 

 **The Trans Poetics of Eileen Myles**    
Wednesday, February 23, 12:00-1:15 pm EST [Join here.](https://harvard.zoom.us/j/3610164431)

 **Readings to be discussed:**

- [Awkward-Rich, "Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading like a Depressed Transsexual"](/file_url/1008)
- [Knittle, Davy "On Eileen Myles’s 'Hot Night': queer / urban / image"](https://jacket2.org/commentary/eileen-myles%E2%80%99s-hot-night-queer-urban-image)
- [Muñoz, José Esteban - "Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's "The Sweetest Hangover (And Other STDs)"](/file_url/1007)
- [Myles, Eileen - selected poems](/file_url/1010)
- [Myles, Eileen - "The Lesbian Poet"](/file_url/1009)

 **Jack Parlett** is a writer and literary scholar specializing in queer studies and American literature. Having completed a PhD at Cambridge University in 2019, he is now a Junior Research Fellow in English at University College, Oxford, where he also teaches literary theory and modern American literature. His *The Poetics of Cruising: From Whitman to Grindr*, based on his doctoral research, is being published this month. *Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise*, a cultural and literary history of the bohemian and queer resort, will be published this June. He published his debut poetry book same blue, different you in August of 2020.

 His poems have appeared in *Hotel*, *Blackbox Manifold* (co-written with Anne Stillman as ‘Otto & Gisel’), *Visual Verse* and the BFI Flare LGBTQ+ Film Festival zine. His reviews and essays have appeared in *Literary Hub*, *Poetry London*, *SPAM zine*, *Burlington Magazine*, the C*ambridge Humanities Review* and *Dazed and Confused*.

 When not writing or teaching he works freelance in events production for 5x15, a London-based events company, and Sayers & Doers, in New York. He is currently working on two projects: a book about flamboyance as a queer concept and practice, and a study of the relationship between Harlem Renaissance literature and travel writing. More information and links to his work can be found at [jackparlett.com](http://jackparlett.com/).

 *Generously supported by the [Regan Fund](https://socialscience.fas.harvard.edu/regan-fund), the [Program in General Education](https://gened.fas.harvard.edu/), and the [Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality](/).*



 

 



 

 

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