Ariana Reines is the author of three books of poetry, a play and several translations. She has taught at Columbia and UC Berkeley. She maintained a Tumblr for a year but now it is dead.
1. My mother was an English major at Wellesley in the late 60s. On the bookshelf in our house, she kept all of her poetry books from the classes she took: John Donne, T.S. Eliot, W.B.