The Sunlight of Odessa: Poet Ilya Kaminsky

Beneath the jump is one of the first articles we published in Experience magazine: a feature on Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky. Kaminsky, who taught at the Port Townsend Writers' Conference in both 2005 and 2006, was born in Odessa, in the former Soviet Union. His family received asylum from the US government and came to the United States in 1993. His book-length collection Dancing in Odessa was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.