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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

So honored to have my work featured in this issue of the tiny! https://www.thetinymag.com/current-issue

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 Alpha60 SciFi. Check it out here.

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 

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

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!

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!

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.

“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)

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!

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.

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)

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)

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

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

I want to extend my sincerest thanks to PEN America for offering me a poet’s COVID-19 relief grant. In late March, I found out that the 6-month contract job I had lined up for the rest of the year (May-Dec) was no more due to COVID. PEN helped immediately with relief, and offered a poet…… Continue reading PEN America COVID-19 Relief Grant

From a new poetry collection, “Between Plague & Kleptocracy: Invented Poetic Creations & Conversations of Seva & Bill”, in which I cross-reference poems between Vsevolod Nekrasov & Bill Knott to serve as medium and “translator” of their posthumous conversations / invented collaborations. The poems are written in the voice / tone / style of both…… Continue reading Scarcely Gilded • (New Cinepoem, 2020)

After Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition “Like a Hammer” at Seattle Art Museum (2019), I was inspired to continue exploring more deeply the pagan aspects of my Baltic culture. Gibson explores his own Native American heritage: his works include large and mid-sized figurative objects, text-based wall hangings, a selection of illustrious Everlast beaded punching bags, painted works…… Continue reading Push <> Pull • New Cinepoem (2020)

When I wrote my 2013 collection, Professional Poetry, the poems were intended to speak to the value of the working person / poet through the lens of her/his/their “day” jobs and the artist localizing her place in this structure. I examined the commodification of poetry and the absurdity of “mktg” in this space. “I Am…… Continue reading I Am Not You Are • New Cinepoem (2020)