Kaminsky came to the United States with his family in 1993. A graduate of Brighton High School who studied as an undergraduate at the University, he is the author of Dancing in Odessa, which won the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine. It also was named Best Poetry Book of the Year in 2004 by ForeWord magazine. His highly acclaimed poetry has appeared in the New Republic, American Literary Review, and Salmagundi. Ramke teaches writing and contemporary literature and edits the Denver Quarterly at the University of Denver. He is the author of eight books of poetry including Matter, Airs, Waters, Places, and The Difference Between Night and Day, which won the Yale Younger Poets Award. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Boston Review, the Ohio Review, and American Notes & Letters. He is currently working on his upcoming book of poetry titled Birds Fly Through Us, which will be released in 2007. Both readings are free and open to the public and will take place in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library. The Plutzik Series is administered by the Department of English. For more information, call x5-4092.
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Plutzik offers double dose of poetry
he Plutzik Reading Series continues its spring season with two back-to-back poetry readings on the River Campus. At noon on Tuesday, April 11, Ilya Kaminsky, who was born in the former Soviet Union, will read selections from his work. Contin¬uing the series on Thursday, April 13, at 8 p.m., Bin Ramke, a poet and professor of English at the University of Denver, will present a reading.
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