Visiting Poets Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris
Ukrainian-born Ilya Kaminsky's poetry has been translated into more than 30 languages and has been adapted for the stage by the Royal Court Theater and for the radio by the BBC, which selected him as "one of the twelve artists who changed the world." His collection "Deaf Republic" was named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, and dozens of other publications. He has also won the Levinson Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been shortlisted for the National Book Award, National Book Critics' Circle Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is currently the Director of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.
Katie Farris' Pushcart Award-winning poems, filled with "immersive magic and unforgettable imagery" (Literary Review), leaving the reader with "the top of one's head blown off" (Paris Review), are collected in the memoir-in-poems "Standing in the Forest of Being Alive," which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and selected as a Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Poetry Book. She is also the co-translator of books of poetry from the Ukrainian, French, Chinese, and Russian. The actor Jeremy Stong ("Succession") told Stephen Colbert that he taped her poem "Why Write Love Poetry In A Burning World" to his dressing-room mirror to remind himself of the importance and power of art.
The authors will read from their own work and from "Letters of the Alphabet Go to War," a recent book of wartime poetry they co-translated from the Ukrainian.
Free and all are welcome. Join us after the reading for a reception for the authors.
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