Ariana Reines in Conversation

Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator. Her recent books include The Rose, Wave of Blood, and A Sand Book, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award.

Reines has created theatre and performance for Performance Space New York, The Whitney Museum, Works+Process at The Guggenheim, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne, the Cherry Lane Theatre, and many others, and has given thousands of readings and master classes around the world.

Her play Telephone has been been adapted and reimagined across the United States and Europe since 2009. In 2020, while a Divinity student at Harvard, Reines created Invisible College, a study hall for poetry, sacred texts, and the arts.

Jessie Kindig is an editor and writer in New York City. She is senior editor for the humanities at Yale University Press, contributing editor for the feminist magazine Lux, and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her writing has appeared in Orion, n+1, The Point, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and elsewhere, and she is the editor of The Verso Book of Feminism (Verso, 2020). Among other projects, she is the dramaturg for performer Sophia Brous’ ongoing work, “Set Pieces.”