Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, collaborator, and master of mixing genres. She has published 10 books of poetry (most recently, Your Kingdom, 2023) and two unclassifiable hybrid works: The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine. Memory Rehearsal (forthcoming from City Lights, May 19, 2026) is the third in a trilogy of these genre-busting family encounters, this time between a poet and her ancestral past, documenting an intersection of queer history, ancient theater, utopian visions, and modern poetry. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral work.