Dr. Dmitry Kuzmin is a poet, translator, and editor, originally from Moscow. His poetry has been published and anthologized internationally, in the original Russian and in translation. In 1989, Kuzmin founded Vavilon (Babylon), the Union of Young Poets, which was the hub of Moscow’s experimental poetry scene. Since 1993, he has headed ARGO-RISK Publishers. He has edited the online Russian literary project, vavilon.ru, since 1996, and Vozdukh (Air), the leading Russian poetry magazine, since 2006.
Among his numerous other projects, Kuzmin directed the monthly Moscow Literary Life (1996–2002), edited the first Russian young writers’ magazine Vavilon (1992–2003), the first Russian gay writing magazine RISK (1996–2002), and the first Russian haiku magazine Triton (2000–2004). Kuzmin is the co-author of the award-winning text-book Poetry (2016), and the author of a book-length study of one-line poetry (NLO, 2016). He compiled the first Russian anthology of prose poems (2000), the first anthology of contemporary Russian poetry written outside Russia (2004), an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in Slovenian translation (2010), and an anthology of present-day Russian LGBT writing in Spanish translation (2014).
Kuzmin won the Andrei Bely Merit Award in Literature (2002). He emigrated from Russia to Latvia in 2014 for political reasons, and founded “Literature without borders,” a publisher and translation center that offers residencies for poets and translators. He has coordinated, since 2017, the yearly festival “Poetry without borders” in Riga, Latvia. Kuzmin has taught poetry and literary translation at universities, internationally, including at Princeton University in 2014.
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