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Ariana Reines

Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, and performing artist from Salem, Massachusetts. Her most recent books are The Rose (2025) and Wave of Blood (2024). A Sand Book (2019), won the Kingsley Tufts Prize and was longlisted for the National Book Award. In 2020 she founded Invisible College, a hub for the study of poetry, sacred texts, and the arts.

‘Facing the threat of our own destruction’: Ariana Reines in Conversation with Eva Birch

I was first taken with Ariana Reines’s poetry during the Melbourne pandemic lockdowns – one of the longest lockdowns globally. I was part of an online poetry reading group reading modern and contemporary American poetry, including Reines. I wasn’t reading much otherwise, but A Sand Book (2019, Tin House Books) was a comforting object with a strong aura on my bedside table.

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