Ariana Reines's 'Rilking' Workshop Archive Is Now Online

The archive of Ariana Reines's online daily workshop, "Rilking"—"in which the poet and a number of readers gathered on Zoom to explore the mysterious reaches of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies," as Bookforum's Paper Trail describes it—is now available to watch. The workshop came to a close on April 7, but the site features video from each session, and other resources: shared PDFs, dream journals, testimonials, zines, and other media. Even a snippet of these readings is enough for your whole quarantine:

LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET READ BY DENNIS HOPPER

THE PANTHER POEM READ BY ROBIN WILLIAMS FROM AWAKENINGS

RILKE'S DUINO ANGELS AND THE ANGELS OF ISLAM - KAREN J. CAMPBELL

RAINER MARIA RILKE ASTROLOGY

ATTIC FUNERARY STELE OF BACO, SOCRATES AND ARISTONIKE

ESSAYS ON DOLLS - HEINRICH VON KLEIST, CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, RAINER MARIA RILKE

TO LOVE THE TORAH MORE THAN GOD - EMMANUEL LEVINAS

YOSL RAKOVER TALKS TO GOD - ZVI KOLITZ

LETTERS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE 1892-1910

LETTERS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE VOL II 1910-1926

IF YOU DO WELL, CARRY! THE DIFFERENCE OF THE HUMANE WITH BRACHA L. ETTINGER

(The actual links to those shared readings are here.) Reines's workshop will resume with a new topic on April 22: INANNA: DAYS OF SUMER. We can only assume this means a reading of the epic Sumerian poem, "The Descent of Inanna," (c. 1900-1600 BCE), which chronicles the journey of the great goddess Inanna. Alice Notley would approve!