Interviewing Eileen Myles — Legendary Lesbian Poet & “F-Boy” | WHGS Ep. 316

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Ashley Gavin & Studio71

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This episode is POETIC, listener! Eileen Myles (they/them) is a celebrated poet, novelist, and journalist best known for “Chelsea Girls” and poems that queers everywhere tattoo onto their arms, but today they’re in the apartment to SEDUCE! We break format this episode to interview Eileen and learn about their career, history, and legendary love life. In-between, we discuss art, coming out, New York in the 70s, and how camp is the best place to have queer sex. Oh - and Ashley might even read one of her original poems… and BOY is it embarrassing. FOLLOW EILEEN MYLES Pre-order their upcoming book, “Bird Watching and Their First Three Books of Poetry”: https://fonografeditions.com/catalog/fono42-bird-watching-and-their-first-three-books-of-poetry-by-eileen-myles/ Read their other works: https://www.eileenmyles.com/books/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eileen.myles/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/EileenMyles FOLLOW ASHLEY GAVIN @ashgavs TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ashgavscomedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashgavs/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ashgavs Twitter: https://twitter.com/ashgavs Tour Dates & Newsletter: https://www.ashleygavin.com/#dates PRODUCED BY ALEX VRAHAS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alvrahas/ SUPPORT OUR PODCAST: Watch this UNCUT: https://www.patreon.com/WHGS Merch: https://shop.merchcentral.com/collections/ashley-gavin Watch on this YouTube: https://youtu.be/uaMwOiMNrto ______________________________________________ SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: HELIX: Get 27% OFF sitewide at https://helixsleep.com/gaysex HERS: Get personalized, affordable plans at https://www.forhers.com/gay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are known, and I'm going to quote so that I don't look dumb.
0:04.5	You're going to be so, I'm going to stare at you and make you feel really uncomfortable while I hear your words.
0:08.3	As like the fuckboy of like the queer literary world.
0:12.9	No, I've heard this if you know, this really funny.
0:16.0	It's like I was reading something and they were like, unless you have the libido of like Eileen Miles.
0:21.0	And I was like, what?
0:22.3	You know, like, it's just not accurate.
0:25.0	I'm like kind of more pathetic and I get crushes.
0:29.2	What if I read you some of the poems I wrote when I was like 16 years old?
0:32.8	One.
0:35.3	We're done.
0:41.3	We're done. We're done. This is a pretty epic one.
0:46.9	On the pod today, we have Eileen Miles.
0:50.7	They are an incredibly prolific and well-known poet.
0:56.4	But the reason you might know them is because they ran a presidential campaign in 1992.
1:02.8	And that very famous sort of piece of art slash poem, you know, I want a dyke to be president.
1:10.5	And then like all those descriptions, that's actually about Eileen.
1:13.9	It was inspired by Eileen's presidential run.
1:16.8	But they're most well known for Chelsea girls.
1:20.0	And apparently a lot of people have tattooed their poems onto their bodies.
1:27.1	So that's pretty incredible.
1:30.1	This is lesbian royalty here.
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