{"656341":{"#nid":"656341","#data":{"type":"news","title":"\u2018In the Middle of War, He is Asking for Poems\u2019 \u2014 LMC\u2019s Ilya Kaminsky on the War in Ukraine","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/ilya-kaminsky\u0022\u003EIlya Kaminsky\u003C\/a\u003E, Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Jr. Chair in Poetry and director of Poetry@Tech in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E, the war in Ukraine hits close to home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe poet, who often writes and speaks of his childhood in Odessa, Ukraine, authored an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/13\/opinion\/ukraine-odessa-poems.html?smid=tw-share\u0022\u003Eop-ed for \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/13\/opinion\/ukraine-odessa-poems.html?smid=tw-share\u0022\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eon March 13, 2022, in which he discusses war, poetry, and the fate of Ukraine\u0026rsquo;s writers and translators \u0026mdash; many of whom he has been trying to help escape the country amid the Russian invasion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Lots of Ukrainian writers don\u0026rsquo;t want to leave,\u0026rdquo; Kaminsky wrote in the column. \u0026ldquo;They want their freedoms. They want their own languages \u0026mdash; Ukrainian and Russian \u0026mdash; in their own streets. I understand. My Jewish family keeps running from Odessa \u0026mdash; and then returning.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKaminsky is the author of two prize-winning books of poetry, \u003Cem\u003EDancing in Odessa\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003EDeaf Republic\u003C\/em\u003E. His poem, \u0026ldquo;We Lived Happily During the War,\u0026rdquo; went viral starting the day Russian troops invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.poetryinternational.org\/pi\/poem\/23211\/auto\/0\/0\/Ilya-Kaminsky\/WE-LIVED-HAPPILY-DURING-THE-WAR\/en\/tile\u0022\u003EPoetry International\u003C\/a\u003E first published the piece in 2013, the same year the Maidan protests began in Ukraine and the year before the Donbas War in Ukraine broke out.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We lived happily during the war,\u0026rdquo; the poem begins, \u0026ldquo;and when they bombed other people\u0026rsquo;s houses, we \/ protested \/ but not enough, we opposed them but not \/ enough.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKaminsky has also been keeping in contact with friends and family in Ukraine. He included some conversations in the op-ed. He also chronicles many of his discussions on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/ilya_poet\u0022\u003ETwitter\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I ask how I can help,\u0026rdquo; Kaminsky writes in the op-ed. \u0026ldquo;Finally, an older friend, a lifelong journalist, writes back: \u0026lsquo;Putins come and go. If you want to help, send us some poems and essays. We are putting together a literary magazine.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the middle of war,\u0026rdquo; Kaminsky marvels, \u0026ldquo;he is asking for poems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In an op-ed published in \u0027The New York Times,\u0027 Kaminksy discusses war, poetry, and the fate of Ukraine\u2019s writers and translators."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-03-14 21:34:57","changed_gmt":"2022-03-15 17:18:34","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"656340":{"id":"656340","type":"image","title":"Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret T. and Henry C. 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