Dmitry Kuzmin
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Dmitry Vladimirovich Kuzmin (Russian: Дми́трий Влади́мирович Кузьми́н), born in December 12, 1968, is a Russian poet, critic, and publisher.
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[edit] Biography
Dmitry Kuzmin was born in Moscow, son of the architect Vladimir Legoshin and the literary critic Edwarda Kuzmina; among his grandparents were the critic Boris Kuzmin and the prominent literary translator Nora Gal. In 1985-87 he was enrolled in philology at the Moscow State University, but was expelled from it. He graduated with a Bachelor degree in philology from the Moscow State University of Education in 1993. For a brief period of time he was employed as a teacher of literature in a Moscow secondary school. In 2005, he got a PhD for his thesis on one-line poems. He lives in Moscow.
[edit] Activities
Kuzmin started his literary career in 1988 by organizing a group of poets who now are known as the "Vavilon" circle of poets/writers (which means "Babylon"). He and his friends started publishing an independent book series called “ The Library of Young Literature”. In 1993 he founded the ARGO-RISK Press (Russian: АРГО-РИСК), an independent poetry press. In 1996 he published the first issue of the gay almanac called RISK. In 1997 he created the reference site Vavilon.ru where he listed a number of Russian writers. Kuzmin declared that the main purpose of the site was to resist the huge wave of “commercial literature”, which began flooding the Russian market for the first time since the 1920’s. In 2007, he founded LitKarta, another reference site that provides information on some members of the Russian literary community.
Kuzmin organised quite a number of poetry readings and festivals, "non-commercial", as he referred to them. He claims that he has published about 300 books by other writers (mostly leaflets). He won a few awards for promotion of the works by young writers (including the Andrei Bely Prize). He edits the literary magazine called Vozdukh, and is a contributing editor of the literary journal titled St. Petersburg Review. Kuzmin actively promotes gay culture and fights homophobia.
Kuzmin's poems and essays appeared in some Russian literary magazines. He has yet to publish an individual collection of his poetry. There were occasional translations of his work into English, French, and Italian.
[edit] Selected Bibliography
[edit] As editor
- The almanac: RISK (In Russian:1996-2000)
- The haiku almanac: Triton (In Russian:2000-2004)
- Short Texts: An Anthology of One-Line Poems (In Russian:2000)
- Ulysses Released: Contemporary Russian Poets Abroad (In Russian:2004)
- Nine Measurements: An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Poetry (In Russian:2004)
[edit] As co-editor
- Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States Dalkey Archive Press, 2004.
- An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets University Of Iowa Press, 2005.
[edit] As publisher
- The Series: “Library of Young Russian Writers” (In Russian:1993-1998)
- The Series: “Generations” (In Russian:2004-present)
- The Series: “Vozdukh” (In Russian:2004-present)
- The Poetry Journal Vozdukh (In Russian:2006-present)
[edit] English Translations of His Poems
Some of his poems have been translated into English and have appeared in the following publications:
- Essay in Poetics: Journal of Neo-Formalist Circle. Newcastle, Keel University, 1994. / Tr. Robert Reid
- Out of the Blue: Russia's Hidden Gay Literature. An Anthology. Edited by Kevin Moss. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1996. / Tr. Vitaly Chernetsky
- Crossing Centuries: The New Wave in Russian Poetry. Jersey City, Talisman House Publishers, 2000. / Tr. Vitaly Chernetsky
- St. Petersburg Review
