{"640014":{"#nid":"640014","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ilya Kaminsky Featured in WVIZ\/PBC Special on Anisfield-Wolf Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/ilya-kaminsky\u0022\u003EIlya Kaminsky\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was profiled as part of a television special recognizing the recipients of this year\u0026#39;s Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The special was broadcast on PBS\/ideastream on October 1 and was hosted by Henry Louis Gates.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the special, producers\u0026nbsp;paid a visit to Kaminsky\u0026#39;s home in Atlanta, where he talked about his experience growing up deaf and the ideas behind\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDeaf Republic\u003C\/em\u003E, the book of poems for which he won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for poetry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I was a child who saw the world through images,\u0026quot; Kaminsky said. \u0026quot;You\u0026#39;re walking down the street and you can see people\u0026#39;s lips move, but you also see the branches move. You also see the cats watching stuff on top of a car, the birds fly down on the bench, and it\u0026#39;s all a language.\u0026nbsp;And you don\u0026#39;t necessarily make a difference between the language of the\u0026nbsp;birds flying and the language that you read on people\u0026#39;s lips.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;What Ilya does in his book is open our eyes to the power of silence,\u0026quot; said Rita Dove, one of the award\u0026nbsp;jurists, \u0026quot;and also opens our eyes to ways in which we tend to think of deafness as something that is lacking, as opposed to something that can be embraced.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/gbrPuvTrCxM?t=1807\u0022\u003EYou can watch Kaminsky\u0026#39;s segment\u0026nbsp;at this link.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In the special, producers\u00a0paid a visit to Kaminsky\u0027s home in Atlanta, where he talked about his experience growing up deaf and the ideas behind\u00a0Deaf Republic, the book of poems for which he won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for poetry."}],"uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-10-08 15:19:39","changed_gmt":"2020-10-08 19:56:05","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631266":{"id":"631266","type":"image","title":"Ilya Kaminsky","body":null,"created":"1579284359","gmt_created":"2020-01-17 18:05:59","changed":"1579284359","gmt_changed":"2020-01-17 18:05:59","alt":"","file":{"fid":"240240","name":"RS513_20C10302_P36_024-scr.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS513_20C10302_P36_024-scr.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS513_20C10302_P36_024-scr.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":203442,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RS513_20C10302_P36_024-scr.jpg?itok=9GEaLcsA"}}},"media_ids":["631266"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"},{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}