Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/07/2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)
Categories
Award winning poet and author Ilya Kaminsky shares his life story and some of his work.
Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union city of Odessa (now part of Ukraine). He lost most of his hearing at the age of four after a doctor misdiagnosed mumps as a cold. His family was granted political asylum by the United States in 1993, settling in Rochester, New York. After his father’s death in 1994, Kaminsky began to write poems in English.
With language at once ecstatic, plain, and infused with fairy tale, Kaminsky’s poems span ages and voices to summon the stuff of life: love, grief, joy and laughter.
Presented by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, whose mission is to connect celebrated authors with the community. Ticket services provided by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
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