An Evening with Ilya Kaminsky
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An Evening with Ilya Kaminsky
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 7:30 p.m. ET
Appropriate for: All Audiences
The Writing House
FREE, no tickets required
Join the Interlochen Arts Academy Creative Writing Division as they host an accessible reading, Q&A session, and book signing with Los Angeles Times Book Award-winning poet Ilya Kaminsky. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Kaminsky has penned three poetry collections and served as a co-editor and co-translator of many other books. His most recent collection, Deaf Republic, received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry and the National Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and other notable accolades. Kaminsky’s poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, the Academy of American Poets, Kenyon Review, and Adirondack Review and have been translated into more than 20 languages. He currently teaches at Princeton University.
To better serve our community, we are committed to accommodating needs and creating an environment that is a welcoming and comfortable arts experience for all.
The accommodations available at this event include:
- Closed captioning
- Sensory Toys*
- Noise-cancelling Option*
- Light-softening Option*
- House lights lowered down to 50%
- Barrier Free Entrance
- Ability to enter/exit the event as needed
- Large Print Programs
- Safe Space to enter and continuously watch/listen to the show with monitor and speaker access
*Requests for sensory/fidget devices are available upon request by asking a member of the event staff.