Acclaimed poet Ilya Kaminsky will give the 24th annual Emily Dickinson Lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21, at Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium on the University Park campus. The event, which will include readings from Kaminsky’s works, is free and open to the public.
Kaminsky, born in Odessa (formerly part of the Soviet Union) in 1977, has lived in the U.S. since his family received asylum in 1993. He is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004). Kaminsky is also a co-editor and co-translator of several other books. His poetry has earned numerous accolades, including being a finalist for the National Book Award. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Whiting Award, the Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize. His work has also been shortlisted for prestigious awards such as the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Neustadt International Literature Prize, and the T.S. Eliot Prize (U.K.).
Kaminsky’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship. He currently teaches at Princeton University and resides in New Jersey.
The Emily Dickinson Lectureship in American Poetry is supported by Penn State alumni George and Barbara Kelly, along with additional funding from the Penn State Department of English.
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