ariana reines

carina finn interviewed me for htmlgiant and although i think i sound like a retarded biatch you should probably read it.

2 Jan 2012 / 4 notes

this morning when i woke up two people had sent pictures of ways they like to use my books other than, uh, reading them.

i thought it was nice. especially the “talk to me” part, wow.

27 Dec 2011 / 11 notes

this is a picture of Wayne Koestenbaum and me at CUNY this past november. it was a jew freak loveliest during which we committed, before witnesses, to writing a trilogy together: two essays and an opera. his colors were red and white and mine were black and green, obv. i feel my sbarro diet coke was not bad at all as last-minute accessory. we discussed wayne’s newest book HUMILIATION and some of mine, esp MERCURY. the official title for this conversation had something to do with pleasure and abasement, or the pleasures of abasement in poetry.

26 Dec 2011 / 7 notes

Kasey Mohammad likes Coeur de Lion and Mercury a lot, but The Cow doesn't do it for him

26 Dec 2011 / 2 notes

"ARIA" at POETS+WRITERS

i didn’t know they published this, i didn’t give it to them, but they published it.

here are some other ways to hear the aria of “aria”:

as a cheerful lullabye

in insomniac agony

as though sleepwalking

rather tenderly and not without self-assurance, like a fine book dropping from the hand of the sleeper to the floor by the bed

#mercury

26 Dec 2011

"Ariana Reines casts a powerful spell with her sublimely hardcore poems in Mercury."

a review of Mercury in The Brooklyn Rail

26 Dec 2011 / 4 notes

"each word feels chipped from a wall of darkness hidden miles beneath the earth"

i think this is nice

26 Dec 2011 / 4 notes

B + E / AAA = MERCURY

This is the forearm of Bett Williams. Bett and Emily Stern are writers, visionaries, and lovers in Santa Fe, NM, and the first people to mark themselves with MERCURY marks