Episode #274- EILEEN MYLES-Home, meditation, money, tea bags, girlfriends & more. Plus: Hermes the tortoise!

We are over the moon to welcome EILEEN MYLES back to the program.    We talk about Meditation, the concept of home, Making money as an artist, films, tea bags, coparenting, girlfriends ex girlfriend, tolerating the intolerable, activist groups, self-care, ambition and creativity.    Plus, Nicole gives an Unsolicited Whole Foods music review, hardcore music revisit & introduces HERMES THE TORTOISE!  Eileen Myles  is a Sagittarius, a poet, a  novelist, a performer and an art journalist. Their more than twenty books include Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice, Chelsea Girls, afterglow, and MORE.  Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters.    Eileen joined me from their home in Marfa, Texas to talk about their new book of poetry, A Working Life.  “With intelligence, heart, and singular vision, a “Working Life” shows Eileen Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers.”   They ALSO have a giant, beautiful, important new anthology, Pathetic Literature.  Go get both!