Ilya Kaminsky
Author

Poems

Gunshot english

Translations: de

Alfonso in Snow english

Translations: de

Still Newlyweds english

Translations: de

Firing Squad english

Translations: de

Lullaby english

Translations: de

While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses english

Translations: be de

A Cigarette english

Translations: be de

We Lived Happily During the War english

Translations: be ru

That Map of Bone and Opened Valves english

Translations: be

While Helicopters Circle, Sonya and Alfonso Drink in the Shower english

Of Weddings Before the War english

Translations: be

Mother Throws Milk Bottles at Soldiers english

10 AM Bombardment english

Between Arrests english

[I kissed a woman] english

To Live english

Elegy english

Translations: lv ru tr

Widower Alfonso english

A Child in His Arms english

Traffic english

Ilya Kaminsky
Author

About

* 18.04.1977, Odessa, Ukraine
lives in: San Diego, California, United States

Ilya Kaminsky was born in 1977 in Odessa in the Ukraine and started writing poems even as a youth in the Soviet Union. In 1993 he emigrated to the USA, where his family was granted asylum. At first he continued writing in Russian there, but in 2002 published his first collection of poems written in English, Musica Humana. His collection Dancing in Odessa (2004) earned him several prizes including the Metcalf Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Lannan Fellowship.
Kaminsky is among other things the editor in chief of Poetry International and the poetry editor of Words Without Borders. He is also the director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute in Chicago and works as a translator from the Russian. His poetry, which has been translated into several different languages, has gained him a great amount of attention around the world. He lives in San Diego, California.