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Poets Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky offer a collaborative presentation of their works on deafness, the challenges of facing cancer, and the war in Ukraine. In person and Zoom livestream.
Register for the Zoom livestream at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pXuVy65ARq2lKBzQVyFqDA
Blending performance with conversation, the poets explore how poetry can make meaning out of tragedy and steady us through hardship.
About the Poets:
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union, in 1977, and arrived to the US in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the government. He is the author of "Deaf Republic" and "Dancing In Odessa" and co-editor and co-translator of many other books. His work was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, and Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize, and was also shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Neustadt International Literature Prize, and T.S. Eliot Prize (UK). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship. He currently teaches in Princeton and lives in New Jersey.
Katie Farris is a poet, writer of hybrid forms, and translator. Her most recent book is "Standing in the Forest of Being Alive," which Publishers Weekly named one of the Top Ten Books of 2023. She is also the author of the chapbook "A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving," which won the Chad Walsh Poetry Award from Beloit Poetry Journal. Her earlier collection is "boysgirls," a hybrid-form book. Her awards include the Pushcart Prize, Orison Prize, and Anne Halley Prize from Massachusetts Review. She also is the award-winning translator of several books of poetry from the French, Ukrainian, Chinese, and Russian. In addition to her poetry and translations, Farris writes prose about cancer, the body, and its relationship to writing, such as in her recent, widely circulated essay in Oprah Daily. She graduated with an MFA from Brown University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry at Princeton University.
For more poetry programming, visit the landing page for "Verse and Voice: A Festival of Poetry" taking place from April 18-May 2 at the library.
This event is part of the Being Human Festival (US) 2026 and is organized in partnership with the Princeton University Humanities Council and co-sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts. In partnership with humanists and humanities organizations across the country, the National Humanities Center is supporting numerous public events across the U.S. These community-focused events, organized and presented by local artists, scholars, and educators, highlight the incredible breadth of the humanities and demonstrate how they add depth and meaning to our lives, help us understand ourselves and one another, and provide context for the complex world around us. The American edition of the Being Human Festival, begun in 2024, is the latest international expansion of the Being Human effort, launched in the United Kingdom in 2014.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Poetry | Lectures & Panels | Humanities | *Registration Requested |
TAGS: | BHF |
