September 26: Ilya Kaminsky, Poetry Reading – Buttrick Hall 101
♦ September 26: Ilya Kaminsky, Poetry, Buttrick Hall 101
The reading will take place in Buttrick Hall 101. The book signing will start at 6:00 pm, followed by the reading which will begin promptly at 7:00 pm.
Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic, The New York Times’ Notable Book, and Dancing In Odessa, and co-editor and co-translated many other books, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine, and Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva. He is the recipient of The Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The National Jewish Book Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, The Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, Lannan Fellowship, Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, and Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize. His poems have been translated into over twenty languages, and his books are published in many countries. In 2019, Kaminsky was selected by BBC as “one of the 12 artists that changed the world.” He currently teaches in Princeton and lives in New Jersey.