Kevin M. F. Platt

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Kevin M. F. Platt is a professor of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on global socialist and global russophone cultures as well as history and memory in Russia and eastern Europe, and translates poetry from Russian and Latvian. His most recent book is Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders (2024).

A Conversation with Maria Stepanova

March 2023
Kevin M. F. Platt, Mark Lipovetsky
Photo by Andrey Natotsinsky Maria Stepanova is a prizewinning poet and the author of In Memory of Memory, a volume of creative nonfiction that has been recognized with many Russian a…
Introduction

March 2023
Mark Lipovetsky, Kevin M. F. Platt
Citizen-activist Evgenia Isayeva doused herself with red paint as part of the “Heart Bleeds” action near the Duma Tower, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 27, 2022. Her banner reads: “My heart bleeds. /…
Poetry in the Cloud: An Experiment, Results, and n+1 Hypotheses

November 2011
Kevin M. F. Platt
The seven poems published on the following pages are the offspring of a happy, twenty-first century union—between the ancient art of poetry and the Internet. In March 2011 twenty or so Russian and Ame…