Poetry at Tech | Ilya Kaminsky and Carolyn Forché
Thursday, Sep 27, 2018 7:30 PM
Location:
Kress Auditorium, Robert C. Williams Museum of Paper Making (Renewable Bioproducts Institute)
500 Tenth Street, NW, Atlanta, GA, 30309
A Cappella Books is proud to again be the official bookseller for Poetry at Tech.
The 17th Annual Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Poetry Reading presents Ilya Kaminsky and Carolyn Forché.
About Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former USSR, and arrived in the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum. He is the author of "Dancing in Odessa" (Tupelo Press), "Deaf Republic" (Graywolf Press in US and Faber & Faber in UK) and several other books, including "Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva" which he co-translated with Jean Valentine (Alice James Books). He has edited many collections of poems and essays, including "Ecco Anthology of International Poetry" (Harper Collins) which has been called "a modern classic." His poems have been included in "Best American Poetry" and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and translated into numerous languages around the globe. His books have been published in Turkey, Netherlands, Russia, France, Mexico, Macedonia, Romania, Spain, and China, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. His other awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, Lannan Fellowship, The American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, The Whiting Writers Award, Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize, Pushcart Prize, and others. Recently, he was on the shortlist for the Neusdadt International Literature Prize. His essays appear in publications such as The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian (UK) and Boston Review. In the past, he has served as the Director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at Poetry Foundation and the Director of Master of Fine Arts Program and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.
About Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché’s first volume, "Gathering the Tribes," winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by "The Country Between Us," "The Angel of History," and "Blue Hour." She is also the author of the memoir "What You Have Heard Is True" (Penguin Random House, 2019), a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. She has translated Mahmoud Darwish, Claribel Alegria, and Robert Desnos. Her famed international anthology, "Against Forgetting," has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice,” and is followed by the 2014 anthology "The Poetry of Witness." In 1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and culture.
