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!
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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
“…a Cyrillic voyeur penning captions for a movie that knows its own democracy…”
“Lina ramona’s chapbook, Shooting Dead Films with Poets, is an improbable treasure. These fourteen poems call out to Cocteau and draw from the gamut spanning Georgic bees and a Chicago found to be antipodal to the Volga. Subtitles twine immaculately. They invoke a Cyrillic voyeur penning captions for a movie that knows its own democracy.…… Continue reading “…a Cyrillic voyeur penning captions for a movie that knows its own democracy…”
..the poetic worlds she has created are like reverse matrioszka, nesting dolls that only expand rather than recede…
The poetic worlds she has created are like reverse matrioszka, nesting dolls that only expand rather than recede ” —Mark Tardi, The Circus of Trust (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017)
PEN America COVID-19 Relief Grant
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
Scarcely Gilded • (New Cinepoem, 2020)
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)
Push <> Pull • 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)
I Am Not You Are • 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)
“…a Pynchon-esque bend…images of films translated into other tongues…languages we don’t speak or might not exist….”
“It’s a book of codes and lost histories, grainy film stock and the harder-to-catch frequencies, and there’s a Pynchon-esque bend to the work overall, a sense that the images of these films are being translated into other tongues, maybe even languages we don’t speak ourselves, languages that might not exist. There’s a gap between the…… Continue reading “…a Pynchon-esque bend…images of films translated into other tongues…languages we don’t speak or might not exist….”
Release 12 • New Cinepoem (2020)
Another poem-turned-cinepoem from Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) (now on Amazon) / Release 12. https://videopress.com/v/1qr0zpMd?preloadContent=metadata
Poem: Aluminum, Featured in HRK (Human Repair Kit)
My recent ode to #moscowmitch and his neo-Soviet benefactor, the aluminum magnate. Human Repair Kit
Screening! White Stockings Cinepoems at Chicago Filmmakers
The White Stockings cinepoems will be screened at Chicago Filmmakers 2/1!
Release 19 • New Cinepoem (2020)
New cinepoem from my latest poetry book, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Secret Airplanes Press, 2018. Read more here.
Caterpillar Suit • New Cinepoem (2020)
The talented Elina Krima + inspo for this piece Walter Oltmann First cinepoem of the year explores what it means to wear the suits of natural instinct, still moving through familial separations (especially in light of children actually being cruelly separated from parents). This is perhaps the tip of fear we collectively recycle for the…… Continue reading Caterpillar Suit • New Cinepoem (2020)
Finalist! Cinepoems at Festival Fotogenia, Mexico City
I am thrilled to announce that my White Stockings cinepoems—in collaboration with filmmaker & visionary / media artist Tess Cortés—have been selected as finalist for the upcoming Festival Fotogenia in Mexico City this December. FOTOGENIA is the first international film poetry and divergent narratives festival of its kind in Mexico City, promoting a space for alternative conception…… Continue reading Finalist! Cinepoems at Festival Fotogenia, Mexico City