Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky is a hard-of-hearing Ukrainian-born Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled The Blessed City. With Paloma Capanna, he co-founded Poets for Peace, which sponsors poetry readings across the globe to support relief work. He has also worked as a clerk for the National Immigration Law Center and for Bay Area Legal Aid. He has also served as the editor of the online journal In Posse Review. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ilya-kaminsky]