Inna Krasnoper: The Body and Translingualism. Poetry Reading and Conversation

The Second Seminar on Multilingual Poetry, hosted by the UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, is sponsored by the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy and co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies.

About the Event

How do languages overlap, inform each other, and shake their settled places? How does the native language decenter itself? What is (en)count(er)ed in language mixing? What are the grounds to set and reflect poetic practice? Berlin-based poet and dance artist Inna Krasnoper writes and publishes poetry in Russian, English, German and in combinations of those languages. She will read her poems in the original and in translation, and discuss their contexts. Q&A are led by SEEELC Chair Igor Pilshchikov.

About the Speaker

Inna Krasnoper graduated from the Chto Delat Collective School of Engaged Art in Saint Petersburg and holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from the University of the Arts in Berlin. Her Russophone poetry collections include Nitki torchat (Loose Threads), published by the Voznesensky Center in 2021, and Dorogoi chelovek (Dear Person), published by NLO in 2024. Her poetry has also appeared in Vozdukh, [Translit], Zerkalo, Nosorog, F-pis’mo, and other periodicals, as well as in German, English, and Polish translations. Her multilingual poetry has appeared in her chapbooks Over Sight (Eulalia Books) and Sealed (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press), in Annulet, antiphony, mercury firs, TILT, and elsewhere. Krasnoper’s first English-language poetry collection, dis tanz, was published by Veliz Books in 2025.

Selected publications by Inna Krasnoper:

♦ Poetry selection in Vozdukh http://www.litkarta.ru/projects/vozdukh/issues/2024-43/krasnoper/
♦ Poetry selection in Vsealism https://vsealism.ru/inna-krasnoper-my-menya-priglasili/
♦ Collaborative translations into English in Milk Press https://poetrysocietyny.org/inna-krasnoper
♦ Poetry selection in Annulet https://annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Inna-Krasnoper-it-is-the-end-of-the-day
♦ Poetry selection in stadtsprachen magazin https://stadtsprachen.de/en/text/poems-9/