BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.4.6.4//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-983@sites.udmercy.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T183000 DTSTAMP:20260112T191838Z URL:https://sites.udmercy.edu/campusconnection/events/triptych-virtual-aut hor-series-features-poets-ilya-kaminsky-katie-farris/ SUMMARY:Triptych virtual author series features poets Ilya Kaminsky &\; Katie Farris DESCRIPTION:Detroit Mercy's English Department welcomes poets Ilya Kaminsky &\; Katie Farris\, who will read their work for the 2026 Triptych seri es on Thursday\, March 19 at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom.\n\nTriptych is a virtual reading series featuring award-winning authors in conversation with Detroi t Mercy’s Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall. Triptych events are free and o pen to the community.\n\nIlya Kaminsky was born in Odesa\, Ukraine\, in 19 77\, and arrived to the United States in 1993\, when his family was grante d asylum by the American government. He is the author of the poetry collec tions Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa\, and is co-editor and co-tra nslator of many other books\, including the Ecco Anthology of Internation al Poetry and In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine.\n\nHis work\, whic h has been translated into over twenty languages\, has been a finalist for a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award\, and is t he winner of many awards including The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, the Nat ional Jewish Book Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an NEA Fellowship and Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize. Odesa\, Kaminsky’s collaboration wit h the photographer Yelena Yamchuk\, was listed by Time Magazine among Th e 20 Best Photo Books of 2022.\n\nHe has worked as a law clerk for San Fra ncisco Legal Aid and the National Immigration Law Center. In 2019\, Kamins ky was selected by the BBC as “one of the 12 artists that changed the wo rld.” He currently teaches in Princeton and lives in New Jersey.\n\nKati e Farris is the author of the memoir-in-poems\, Standing in the Forest o f Being Alive\, which was listed as a Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 Poet ry Books for 2023\, as well as shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize. She is also the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls\, and the chapbo oks A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving\, winner of the 2021 Chad Walsh Poetry Award\, Thirteen Intimacies and Mother Superior in Hell. Most r ecently she is winner of the Pushcart Prize.\n\nHer work has appeared in  The New York Times\, Granta\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Nation\, and Poe try\, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is the co-translator of sever al books of poetry from the Ukrainian\, French\, Chinese and Russian\, mos t recently\, The Country Where Everyone's Name is Fear\, Translations of L ydmila and Boris Khersonsky.\n\nShe graduated with an MFA from Brown Unive rsity and is currently an associate professor of poetry at Princeton Unive rsity.\n\nTriptych events are held via Zoom on third Thursdays in January\ , February and March\, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.\nRegister here! LOCATION:https://linktr.ee/detroitmercyenglish END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR