{"id":3657,"date":"2025-04-19T18:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/social-justice-book-club-deaf-republic-by-ilya-kaminsky-bpl-virtual-program-4-29-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T18:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:29:34","slug":"social-justice-book-club-deaf-republic-by-ilya-kaminsky-bpl-virtual-program-4-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/social-justice-book-club-deaf-republic-by-ilya-kaminsky-bpl-virtual-program-4-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Book Club: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (BPL Virtual Program 4\/29\/2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Event date:<\/strong> April 29, 2025 <br \/><strong>Event Time: <\/strong>06:30 PM &#8211; 08:00 PM<br \/><strong>Description:<\/strong><br \/>For National Poetry Month, we will read Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky. The story opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear\u2015they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. <\/p>\n<p>This parable in poems follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya\u2019s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky\u2019s Deaf Republic confronts our time\u2019s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.<\/p>\n<p>Books will be available at the Atrium, or read it on the Libby or Palace Project app.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date: April 29, 2025 Event Time: 06:30 PM &#8211; 08:00 PMDescription:For National Poetry Month, we will read Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky. The story opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Social Justice Book Club: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (BPL Virtual Program 4\/29\/2025)\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/social-justice-book-club-deaf-republic-by-ilya-kaminsky-bpl-virtual-program-4-29-2025\/#more-3657\" aria-label=\"Read more about Social Justice Book Club: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (BPL Virtual Program 4\/29\/2025)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}