Eileen Myles

At 66, she has spent the last four decades in the relative obscurity of punk poet-dom, publishing over 20 books of poetry, fiction and criticism, almost all with maverick presses. A generation of female writer-performers view her as indispensable. The rest of us: Eileen who? “I’m a loudmouthed lesbian, which means mainstream invisible,” she said.

That is changing, though, and in many ways Ms. Myles — to her ecstatic bewilderment — has Hollywood to thank. / Brooks Barnes, New York Times