In celebration of Ariana Reines’s urgent new book, Wave of Blood, please join us for a gathering in honor of poetic kinship, queer family, horrible and legendary fathers, and life after death.

Wave of Blood wrestles with the mind of war. It’s a furious and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, and a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness. Tonight, its author will be joined by the great Eileen Myles for a very special conversation and reading to hail this work and Eileen’s own extraordinary career in poetry, art, activism, and recovery.

Ariana says: “Back in 2015 I was at one of the lowest points in my life. Eileen and I already had this running joke going wherein I am the reincarnation of their dad, who died on my birthday (same day different year). I was sobbing to Eileen on the phone, from an airbnb in Medford Mass, when tearfully I said ‘Would your dad come back as a miserable, menstrual, femme Jewess from Salem Massachusetts?’ And Eileen goes, “‘That’s exactly what he’d come back as. And he loved doing drag—this was and is his dream.”

Attendees have the option to receive a signed copy of Wave of Blood when purchasing a ticket in Eventbrite. Copies of Wave of Blood will also be available for purchase at the event.

This program is part of PW Broadcast's Author Talks, a series highlighting authors and thinkers across disciplines.

Pioneer Works Broadcast is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, bridging the two cultures of science and the arts.