Nov
04
World Poetry Salon VIII:
Ilya Kaminsky, Carrie Erving and Chris Loxley with Patricio Ferrari
Experience words and music from around the globe at the World Poetry Salon, a new series presented in partnership with Limelight Poetry, a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting world poetry. Each event features readings by a celebrated poet set to live music by a musician of the same cultural background.
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This salon will feature a reading by poet Ilya Kaminksy, accompanied by singer Carrie Erving and cellist Chris Loxley. A printout will be available for attendees to follow along with Kaminksy's poetry during the reading. Following the reading, Kaminksy will be interviewed by event host Patricio Ferrari.
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POET
Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union, in 1977, and arrived to the US in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the government. He is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) and co-editor and co-translator of many other books. His work was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, and Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize, and was also shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Neustadt International Literature Prize, and T.S. Eliot Prize (UK). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship. He currently teaches in Princeton and lives in New Jersey.
“Nikola Madzirov is one of the finest poets in Europe today! I admire his genius on every page of his poetry book. He is a visionary, a true poet whom all poetry lovers in the world should know. ”
Charles Simic
“Madzirov's poems are like Expressionist paintings: filled with thick, energetic streaks they seem to emerge from the imagination and to return to it right away, like night animals caught in the headlights of a car. “We are the remnants of another age” — Nikola Madzirov succeeds in convincing us. ”
Adam Zagajewski
“Nikola Madzirov's poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet.”
Carolyn Forché
“I liked Madzirov's poetry immensely, its candour, its invention, its darkness. It is like discovering a new planet in the solar system of the imagination!”
Mark Strand
Carrie Erving
Carrie Erving is a performing singer, songwriter, and recording artist. Performance highlights include The Late Show with David Letterman, Bowery Ballroom, National Sawdust, and Rough Trade. Her music has been featured in The New York Times, WNYC’s New Sounds, NPR’s Radiolab, BBC Radio, and Berlin’s Radioeins. She holds a PhD in Arts Practice from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (Ireland) and has lived in Ireland, Berlin and New York. She currently lives in Brooklyn and performs under the moniker Shrines, and has worked with a wide array of artists, including Yo-Yo Ma and members of Arcade Fire. Described as “spellbinding” by the New York Times and “art-pop of the Björk variety” by Brooklyn Vegan, Shrines’ original EPs Release (2019) and Seasons (2024) were produced by Rosana Cabán (Psychic Twin). Shrines’ video EP of reimagined traditional Irish songs, Our Ship Is Ready, draws on her influence of sean-nós singing, learned in the oral tradition from singers in Ireland. Her latest single, The Wild, will be released in Nov. 2026, with a full-length album slated for release in 2027. Her music can be found at www.thisisshrines.com.
MUSICIAN
Musician
Chris Loxley
Chris Loxley is a cellist and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Brooklyn NY. Chris spent many years in New York City playing classical, jazz, and indie styles with a variety of bands, playing live shows and making countless records. Chris has always been known for his improvisatory style, and the looping of set of melodic and harmonic material via loop stations/pedals. More recently, he has moved north to Chappaqua NY where he currently holds an active cello/strings studio and manages an event business that tours the tri-state playing various events.
Nola S. Smith
Nola is a dance and theater artist from Brooklyn, NY. Nola was nominated for a Bessie Outstanding Performer Award for her work with Stacy Grossfield, who she has performed with since 2016. She has also recently worked with Amanda Szeglowski/cakeface, Kim Brandt, Luciana Acuna and Alejo Moguillansky (Buenos Aires) and others: and performs with the band Dead Tooth. She teaches all-levels dance and fitness classes at the Woods in Ridgewood, Queens, an affordable rehearsal space for artists that she co-directs.
DANCER
HOST
Patricio Ferrari
Patricio Ferrari (polyglot poet, translator, editor) was born in Buenos Aires and left home at sixteen, when he began a lifelong journey across continents and languages. He has since shaped a multilingual poetics that explores belonging, displacement, and the in-between. In 2025, he was awarded the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize for Mud Songs, the first volume of Elsehere, a trilogy charting how each language molds and reveals a different facet of the self—what he calls heterophony, the process of self-othering through an adopted tongue.
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World Poetry Salon VII
Forrest Gander, Zelda and Georgia b. Smith, Nola S. Smith and Patricio Ferrari
Photo by Tianyun Chen, Shengxuan Yu/Limelight Poetry & Jonathan Blanc/The New York Public Library