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Poet, playwright, performing artist, and translator Ariana Reines discusses Paradise Lost, John Milton's landmark seventeenth-century biblical epic. A fifteen-minute Q&A will follow Reines‘s lecture.
Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, playwright, performer and translator whose work spans poetry, theatre, visual art and theology. Her newest books include A Sand Book (Tin House: 2019), winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award, Wave of Blood (Divided: 2024), now available in Danish and Norwegian, and The Rose (Graywolf: 2025, Penguin UK: 2026). Her Obie-winning play Telephone (2009) has been staged across the US and internationally, with a new production by PETE in Portland, OR this summer, and her performances include Divine Justice (Performance Space), Mortal Kombat (Whitney Museum of American Art 2015), Lorna (Martin E. Segal Theater 2013) & many others. Reines is the translator of TIQQUN's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl (2011), Baudelaire's My Heart Laid Bare (2011), and others. She has held named chairs at UC Berkeley and Scripps College, and has taught poetry at universities and community organizations across the United States and Europe. Since 2020 Reines has led Invisible College, an online hub for the study of poetry, sacred texts, and the arts. Author photo by Collier Schorr.
