Date/Time
Date(s) - March 19, 2026
6:30 pm
Detroit Mercy English Triptych series link
Detroit Mercy’s English Department welcomes poets Ilya Kaminsky & Katie Farris, who will read their work for the 2026 Triptych series on Thursday, March 19 at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Triptych is a virtual reading series featuring award-winning authors in conversation with Detroit Mercy’s Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall. Triptych events are free and open to the community.
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine, in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of the poetry collections Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa, and is co-editor and co-translator of many other books, including the Ecco Anthology of International Poetry and In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine.
His work, which 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 the winner of many awards including The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship and Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize. Odesa, Kaminsky’s collaboration with the photographer Yelena Yamchuk, was listed by Time Magazine among The 20 Best Photo Books of 2022.
He has worked as a law clerk for San Francisco Legal Aid and the National Immigration Law Center. In 2019, Kaminsky was selected by the BBC as “one of the 12 artists that changed the world.” He currently teaches in Princeton and lives in New Jersey.
Katie Farris is the author of the memoir-in-poems, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, which was listed as a Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 Poetry 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 chapbooks 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 recently she is winner of the Pushcart Prize.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and Poetry, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is the co-translator of several books of poetry from the Ukrainian, French, Chinese and Russian, most recently, The Country Where Everyone’s Name is Fear, Translations of Lydmila and Boris Khersonsky.
She graduated with an MFA from Brown University and is currently an associate professor of poetry at Princeton University.
Triptych events are held via Zoom on third Thursdays in January, February and March, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
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