Ilya Kaminsky
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Reading at ASU Old Main, Carson Ballroom
Admission: Free
Ilya Kaminsky has received many prestigious awards, including the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. Kaminsky's first book, Dancing in Odessa, was named Best Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWard Magazine. In addition to his 2002 chapbook, Musica Humana, Kaminsky's poems have appeared in many literary journals. A native of Odessa in the former Soviet Union, Kaminsky and his family were granted asylum in the US in 1993. He has served as Writer in Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy, practiced law on behalf of immigrants, the impoverished and the homeless, and will soon teach in the graduate writing program at San Diego State University.
Ilya Kaminsky's mini-residency at ASU is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English, and additionally made possible by the Women’s Studies Program, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Poetry.
