His work can be found in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Boston Review, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry and The Yale Review. He is a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he holds the Margaret T. Kaminsky emigrated to the United States in 1993 from Odessa, Ukraine with the fall of the Soviet Union. “Dancing In Odessa,” Kaminsky’s first book, received the Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, a Lannan Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship, the NEA Fellowship, Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. “Deaf Republic” was a New York Times Notable Book for 2019 and was named Best Book of 2019 by numerous publications. It was a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, the Forward Prize for Poetry and T.S. “Deaf Republic” received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the National Jewish Book Award. The event, “The Language of Poetry in a Time of Crisis: A Poetry Reading and Conversation with Ilya Kaminsky,” is presented by the Department of Literatures in English in the College of Arts & Sciences (A&S).
in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall.
Poet, translator, and essayist Ilya Kaminsky will read poems, discuss his collections “Dancing in Odessa” and “Deaf Republic,” and speak about his new work on Thursday, March 24 at 5 p.m. In recent weeks, Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “ We Lived Happily During the War” has been shared across social media as communities throughout the world have followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. During times of war and hardship, poetry can offer a particular solace and insight.
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