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Join Living Writers for a presentation by Ilya Kaminsky author of Deaf Republic. This virtual event is free and open to the public. It begins at 4:45 p.m.

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Real-time captioning and simultaneous ASL interpretation via Zoom will be provided.

Born in Odessa in the formed Soviet Union, Ilya Kaminsky emigrated to American in 1993, settling in Rochester, NY, with his family, who were asylum seekers. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Selected poems from Deaf Republic won Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize as well as the Pushcart Prize. Mr. Kaminsky’s other awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award and Foreword magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year. A trained lawyer, he lives in California and teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University.

A signature program of Colgate University since 1980, Living Writers is a master class in how works of literature come to be. It’s free, and anyone can join: alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students, friends of the University. The only prerequisite is a passion for reading.

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Living Writers is led by faculty in the Department of English with generous support from the Olive B. O'Connor Fund as well as the President and the Provost/Dean of the Faculty.

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