Tag Archives: Deaf Republic

From May 2022, The La Romita 2020 Online Poetry Community’s Kaminsky Prompt Poems – Part Four

September 6, 2022 – 7:38 pm

                                          A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck — Ilya Kaminsky from A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on its Way to the Neck from Deaf Republic, Graywolf Press, 2019 […]

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From May 2022, The La Romita 2020 Online Poetry Community’s Kaminsky Prompt Poems – Part Three

September 6, 2022 – 5:57 pm

What something in me listens —after Ilya Kaminsky I try to hear the people breathing in parkades and the sound of talking over Molotov cocktails over making them and later the fhhhhhh shatter whoosh of the toss and the blaze in the street I don’t like to play the video footage the sound a peephole […]

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From May 2022, The La Romita 2020 Online Poetry Community’s Kaminsky Prompt Poems – Part Two

August 30, 2022 – 6:13 pm

REMAIN SILENT (With thanks to Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic) Deafness passes through us like a police whistle Dogs understand everything and bark and bark Ilya Kaminsky from the poem Alfonso Stands Answerable from Deaf Republic, Graywolf Press, 2019 Teaching Dwight Not to bark when he sees Not to bark when he hears As a service […]

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From May 2022, The La Romita 2020 Online Poetry Community’s Kaminsky Prompt Poems – Part One

August 28, 2022 – 8:07 pm

For Ukraine, Listen You are alive, I whisper to myself, therefore something in you listens — Ilya Kaminsky from the poem Alfonso, In Snow from Deaf Republic You tell me you don’t recognize your life that you hear even fear is prohibited so you hold yours close. You are running, always running,  away from all […]

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