An Evening with Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris

Join the University of South Florida Humanities Institute and Institute on Russia in February as we host Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris for a reading, Q&A, and book signing. This event is free and open to the public.

Monday, Feb. 21 | 6:00 PM | USF TECO Hall (David C Anchin Center 4110 USF Apple Dr, Tampa, FL 33620)

Born in Ukraine, Ilya Kaminksy was granted political asylum by the United States in 1993. He has published a number of critically acclaimed books that imaginatively weave together the personal and the political. His most recent collection, Deaf Republic (2019), was a National Book Award finalist. He has won the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Foreword Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year award. Recently, he was on the shortlist for the Neusdadt International Literature Prize.

Katie Farris is an accomplished poet and translator. Farris and Kaminsky worked with fellow poet, Valzhyna Mort, to edit Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose (2014). Her most recent book is A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving (2021) which won the Chad Walsh Chapbook Series from Beloit Poetry Journal. She is also the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls (2019).

This joint event is part of a series called Creative Horizons — a collaboration between the USF Institute on Russia, the Melikian Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Arizona State University, and the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Ohio. This joint venture gives audiences in Florida, Arizona, Ohio and beyond the opportunity to hear from working artists in the region as they discuss their methods, perspectives and aspirations.

For questions or accommodations, email Jade V. at jvonwerder@usf.edu.