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Reading Series Continues with Poet Ilya Kaminsky

  • published: 2019/09/30
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The Writer's Workshop Fall Reading Series continues Wednesday, October 9 at 7:30pm in the Weber Fine Arts Gallery with Ilya Kaminsky.

Ilya Kaminsky is the author of the widely acclaimed Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019). Poems from Deaf Republic were awarded Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize and the Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), and Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press, 2002). Kaminsky has won the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Foreword Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year award. His poems have been translated into numerous languages and have been compared to work by Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Marina Tsvetaeva.

Fall Reading Series
Ilya Kaminsky
Wed Oct 9
7:30pm
Weber Fine Arts Gallery

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