Westminster to host poetry reading

NEW WILMINGTON, PA.

Ilya Kaminsky, award-winning and internationally acclaimed poet, will read from his works at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Maple-Witherspoon Room of Westminster’s McKelvey Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Kaminsky lost most of his hearing at age 4 and began to write poems in 1994 after the death of his father. His most recent collection, “Deaf Republic,” will be published this month. Kaminsky also co-founded Poets for Peace, which sponsors poetry readings across the globe to support relief work.

For information, call Dr. David Swerdlow, professor of English, at 724-946-7345 or email dswerdlw@westminster.edu.