Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky is an Ukranian poet.

Final Reading in America (For Now)

Newsletter, Poetry, Readings / By Robert Peake

“The distant reality every day questions me / like an unknown traveler who wakes me up in the middle of the journey / saying ‘Is this the right bus?’, / and I answer ‘Yes’, but I mean ‘I don’t know.’” -Nikola Madzirov, “I Don’t Know” It was with great excitement that I drove down to …

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The Likelihood of Hope

Community, Grief Recovery, Insights, Life, Newsletter, Poetry / By Robert Peake

Keith Woodruff has a poignant article on his site about his new relationship to statistics since the passing of his son. I, too, have experienced a profound thinning of the security blanket of probability since our own loss. Every time I got on a plane to and from Oregon, I was keenly aware of how …

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