From “Last Will and Testament”
Because cemeteries are too pricey
I would like to be deposited on a public bench
and not in the earth
Ilya Kaminsky
Poetry
Daily
In Occupied Cities, Time Doesn’t Exist: Conversations with Bucha Writers
“I speak about time, yet I can’t help but recall how I was looking at Serhiy, a refugee boy at the Poznan train station.”
Conversations to the Tune of Air-Raid Sirens: Odesa Writers on Literature in Wartime
“What is it all for, if tomorrow I—and Odesa—may not exist?”
In Odesa: Recommended Reading
She writes to me to say that she hears explosions outside her windows.
A Poem Is Not a Frontal Assault: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield
“A poem is not a frontal assault, it is the root tendrils of ivy making their way into the heart’s walls’ mortar.”
Promiscuity Is a Virtue: An Interview with Garth Greenwell
Poet Ilya Kaminsky talks to Garth Greenwell about sex, “between-ness,” and moments of profound happiness.