Roxanna Bennett Micro-interview POEMS The Trick Featuring this poet Lesson PlanDisability/ Sick Poetics Publications Ilya Kaminsky Born in Ukraine (formerly the Soviet Union), Ilya Kaminsky lost most of his hearing as a child. In 1992, at age sixteen, his family moved to the… Rita Joe Born in Whycocomagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Rita Joe was the author of six books, including her 1978 debut collection Poems of Rita Joe.… Mahmoud Darwish Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian author and poet. He was born in 1941 in the village of al-Birwa, which was destroyed by Israeli forces in 1948.…
