Critical Essays

Your Connected Notebook: The Instagram of Eileen Myles
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Your Connected Notebook: The Instagram of Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, performer and art journalist who ran a write-in candidacy for president twenty-five years ago when the bulk of our presidential candidates were straight, white, male, and wealthy. But you wouldn’t know any of this from their Instagram page, where their bio reads, simply, “poet.”