Let's make this birthday one to remember.

48 years old (Born on April 18, 1977)

Happy Birthday, Ilya Kaminsky! May your day be filled with more rhythm than "Dancing in Odessa," and may your celebrations echo louder than the applause from receiving both the Lannan Literary Fellowship and Whiting Writers' Award. Your poetry has danced gracefully across borders, languages, and hearts—proving that words truly have no accent.

Here's to another year of translating life's complexities into beautiful verses. May your literary critiques remain sharp yet kind, your translations seamless yet surprising, and may you continue to inspire us all with humor as timeless as your poetry. Cheers to you—poet extraordinaire and master of poetic mischief!