I was honoured to read alongside Canadian poets Amanda Merpaw, Kerry Jo Bell, Kimberley Orton, Margaret Code, Simon Constam, and Vironika Wilde!
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Check out new poems from my upcoming chapbook, Lines of Demarcation, @shockfemme!
New poems in Schlag
So excited to announce a few poems from my upcoming chapbook, Lines of Demarcation, are featured in a recent issue of Schlag.
Keeping up…featured on moving poems.com
“I fear we have not been keeping up with the always-original videopoetry of Lina Ramona Vitkauskas. This one from last year has a pretty intriguing origin story: It began with Chilean poet, Vincente Huidobro. The opening / preface of his poetic masterpiece, Altazor, launches into a metaphysical cascade of imagery. This was exciting to a young…… Continue reading Keeping up…featured on moving poems.com
Videopoem stills featured at MOCA
So honoured that The Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto has featured video stills of my videopoems as part of a larger, open call extension of the current Jeffrey Gibson installation, I AM YOUR RELATIVE. It’s an examination of migration and how our roots all meaningfully intersect. If you’re in Toronto, please check out all…… Continue reading Videopoem stills featured at MOCA
Plukanian poem at Boston CyberArts Gallery
Excited to announce that my collaboration with visual AR artist and curator Michael Lewy will be a part of an exhibit called Alpha 60 at Boston CyberArts gallery. Michael is a visionary artist and curator who worked with Hoverlay on this multi-geo-locational installation. Plukanian Poem Kappa (presses) KOO The visator (detects) KOO We do not rank differently You and I (From) Tentura to Antitentura (Not…… Continue reading Plukanian poem at Boston CyberArts Gallery
New poems • Coven Editions
New poems from my upcoming chapbook, Lines of Demarcation are featured in the February 2022 issue of Deathcap.
New cinepoem • Translating Myself
I revisit the idea of innate language—languages we have always known and have yet to speak. https://vimeo.com/638462673 One of my last cinepoems, Keeping Up with the Huidobros, used a confrontational method of translating a translation, more specifically, leveraging the homophonic (sound) to get new meaning from poems. In this latest cinepoem, “Translating Myself”, I apply…… Continue reading New cinepoem • Translating Myself
New Poems • the tiny
So honored to have my work featured in this issue of the tiny! https://www.thetinymag.com/current-issue
Alpha 60 SciFi • Poetry & Augmented Reality
https://vimeo.com/627640202 So proud to have a collaborator in Boston-based visual artist, Michael Lewy. Besides his brain being amazing, he is a master curator, having amassed a great group of talented visual artists to create a ongoing project called Alpha 60 SciFi. Check it out here.
Selected! International Migration & Environmental Film Festival
Humbled and pleased to announce that three of my cinepoems have been selected to be screened at the International Migration & Environmental Film Festival (Winnipeg, Canada). The International Migration and Environmental Film Festival is a non-profit cultural organization that raises awareness about migration and environmental issues through the medium of film. The event will take…… Continue reading Selected! International Migration & Environmental Film Festival
Selected! Art Visuals & Poetry Festival Vienna
I’m so excited to announce that my cinepoem, Push<>Pull, has been selected for the Vienna Arts Visuals & Poetry Film Festival from November 9 to 13. Stream online at the festival’s website! https://videopress.com/v/50rHoOFA?resizeToParent=true&preloadContent=metadata
New Cinepoem Series • Mosaic of Time
I’m curating a monthly cinepoem series for Mutable, my former publisher. Please check out “Mosaic of Time” on a monthly basis to view future, featured cinepoems and the evolution/creation of a “mosaic” film. Stay tuned!
New Cinepoem Series • Mosaic of Time
I’m curating a monthly cinepoem series for Mutable, my former publisher. Please check out “Mosaic of Time” on a monthly basis to view future, featured cinepoems and the evolution/creation of a “mosaic” film. Stay tuned!
9th International Video Poetry Festival (Greece)
Extremely proud to announce that my work was included as part of this impressive list of filmmakers, video poets, and artists – Sunday, June 6, 2021.
Good blurbs
“The poetic worlds Vitkauskas creates are like reverse matrioszka, nesting dolls that only expand rather than recede.” —Mark Tardi, The Circus of Trust (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017)
New Cinepoem Series • Mosaic of Time
I’m curating a monthly cinepoem series for Mutable, my former publisher. Please check out “Mosaic of Time” on a monthly basis to view future, featured cinepoets and the evolution/creation of a “mosaic” film. Stay tuned!
Private Lives • OCAD Online Exhibit
Very pleased to announce that one of my cinepoems is featured in this OCAD School of Continuing Studies Exhibit! I am a student at OCAD currently, finishing my Digital Skills certificate in late 2021.
Keeping Up With The Huidobros • (New Cinepoem, 2021)
https://vimeo.com/512335102 It began with Chilean poet, Vincente Huidobro. The opening / preface of his poetic masterpiece, Altazor, launches into a metaphysical cascade of imagery. This was exciting to a young poet like me—at age 29 with some Spanish knowledge and seeking a manifesto to climb (the name “altazor” is a combination of the noun “altura”…… Continue reading Keeping Up With The Huidobros • (New Cinepoem, 2021)
Canadian League of Poets – Poetry Pause
“…like a contemporary Tsvetaeva through a landscape of the uncertain and surreal…”
“Splendid, grotesque, violent, but always loving, Lina ramona writes like a contemporary Marina Tsvetaeva through a landscape of the uncertain and surreal; the language is made from the nervousness and energy of every bee in the hive. Part ‘rotten aorta’ and part ‘snapdragon wine’, the poems in HONEY IS A SHE form a buzzing network…… Continue reading “…like a contemporary Tsvetaeva through a landscape of the uncertain and surreal…”
SELECTED! 9th International Video Poetry Festival • Athens, Greece (2021)
I AM THRILLED to have 5 of my short-short cinepoems selected for the 9th International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece in March 2021 The International Video Poetry Festival is organized and promoted by the Institute for Experimental Arts in cooperation with Void Network. Every year, the committee of the Institute for Experimental Arts selects…… Continue reading SELECTED! 9th International Video Poetry Festival • Athens, Greece (2021)
“…she combines Handmaid’s Tale & mad science with the meaningful meaningless dialogue of politics & propaganda…”
Daniel Borzutzky, 2016 National Book Award Winner (Poetry): “It is strange to occupy the world of Lina ramona Vitkauskas’ poems, a world where beef takes nebulous forms, Jacques Derrida and Batman speculatively coincide, where cumin forms into fists, where W.H. Auden sets things on fire, while Sartre cowboys ride into a present tense that combines…… Continue reading “…she combines Handmaid’s Tale & mad science with the meaningful meaningless dialogue of politics & propaganda…”
FINALIST! Midwest Video Poetry Fest
I’m thrilled to announce that my cinepoem, I AM NOT YOU ARE, has been selected as a finalist for the inaugural Midwest Video Poetry Fest (2020). The details: “We received over 1600 submissions and chose just 36 films to include in our two-day festival, which will take place on November 19 and 20, 2020. At…… Continue reading FINALIST! Midwest Video Poetry Fest
Poets • (New Cinepoem, 2020) – Featured on Moving Poems.com
In 2013, I set out to write a poetry book that raged against the poetry MFA machine within the corporate-modeled university system. At that time, it was clear that, over the decade previous, universities, which employed most of the poets and writers whom I knew, were looking to level any sense of artistic freedom and…… Continue reading Poets • (New Cinepoem, 2020) – Featured on Moving Poems.com