"for you" by Eileen Myles

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend June 21, 2018   for you   Eileen Myles

the shape of this   & her smell   & the shine in the small lit room to the boy   replace him w you & let me love that shine in you   let me.                Copyright © 2018 Eileen Myles. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "I write in many different ways, but one is to write long rambling works. Sometimes there's just one moment that works for me as a poem, and I think this is that. It's suggestive about itself and what sticks to it and who it can be for. I'm asking a lover to be part of my process and let me love them like that." —Eileen Myles   Eileen Myles's new poetry collection, Evolution, is forthcoming from Grove Press in September. They are also the author of Afterglow (A Dog Memoir) (Grove Press, 2017). They divide their time between New York City and Marfa, Texas.   Photo credit: Libby Lewis Poetry by Myles   Evolution (Grove Press, 2018) "Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem II]" by Adrienne Rich "At the Touch of You" by Witter Bynner "[another poet]" by CAConrad June Guest Editor: D. A. Powell   Thanks to D. A. Powell, author of Repast: Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2014), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Powell and our guest editors for the year. Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038