For this special event, award-winning poet and Obie-winning playwright Ariana Reines will read from new and recent work.
Her new collection with Divided Books, Wave of Blood, is a lyric essay wrestling with the legacies of genocide and constant war. The Rose, which will be released in April from Graywolf Press, excavates the history of "romance" as the Troubadours practised it. Though one book is ostensibly about war and the other about love, at stake in both is the space of magic and a crisis of healing. Known for her interest in sexuality, mystical experience, new media, and the possibilities of book-length poetic form, Reines has been described as 'one of the crucial voices of her generation' by Michael Silverblatt on NPR’s Bookworm. At once personal, romantic, slippery, and extreme, Reines’s poetry investigates and overturns lyric conventions and philosophical homilies.
Standard tickets £5, concessions available
