![]() A long time poetry editor at Words Without Borders, and Poetry International, he has also edited several anthologies of poetry from around the world, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (HarperCollins), which is widely used in classrooms all over the country. Over the years, Kaminsky has also become known for his passionate advocacy of translation of international literature in the United States. Both books were written in English, Kaminsky's second language. Kaminsky is the author of critically acclaimed collections of poetry, Dancing in Odesa (2004) and Deaf Republic (2019). He started to write poems in English in 1994. His family was granted asylum to live in the United States in 1993 due to anti-semitism in Ukraine, and settled in Rochester, New York. He began to write poetry as a teenager in Odesa. He became hard of hearing at the age of four due to mumps. Kaminsky was born in Odesa, former Soviet Union (now Ukraine), on April 18, 1977, to a Jewish family. In 2019, the BBC named Kaminsky among "12 Artists who changed the world". ![]() ![]() ![]() He is best known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him several awards. Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. University of California, Hastings College of the Law. ![]()
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