Since 2004, Ukraine has been locked in a struggle with Russia to maintain autonomy—be it via puppet government officials, propaganda, or bloodshed. To date, more than 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have died defending their right to be independent. As a Lithuanian-American with some Ukrainian roots, I am deeply disturbed as I watch this series…

Sheep year is time to heal after the chaos of 2014’s Horse year. What is of value now is intimacy, family and close friendships. We can be more caring, kind and sensitive with each other. Develop a gentle heart, open to love and acceptance on all levels. Another theme of Sheep year is to express…

“The universe is an infinite sphere, the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.”

Now this quiet seems quiet. Now these pallid proclivities. Now I swallow hard behind the chickadee tree, institutional glass, ugly starfruits. Now little Poetry Priest gets up. Now thick, round rainmaker tightens laces woven through bootholes. Now seahorses swallowing my toes. Now here’s your big brash girl— with a spadix in her teeth, wanting so much.   Okiagari-koboshi, “the…

SHE IS ONE OF THE TREASURES OF HUMANKIND.

6 – Do you have any theoretical concerns behind your writing? What kinds of questions are you trying to answer with your work? What do you even think the current questions are? Russian sociolinguist Bakhtin wrote of heteroglossia, the idea of language hierarchy or conflict within the mind and how it influences language decisions. This meant…

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I transcontinentally conversed with the publisher/director of Mutable Sound books (and music) to discuss my newest book, SPINY RETINAS. Check it out.

Amy Catanzano, author of Starlight in Two Million, discusses poets whose works use science (“from [the perspective of the] investigative, speculative, conceptual, documentary, and more) to “science as a form of address to and from the notion of the other.” My work is featured at the end of this insightful piece and a poem line…

I’m writing a new poetry chapbook and it addresses what is happening in Ukraine from the perspective of a Lithuanian-American (as we watch news events unfold daily, the West and Russia’s once-somewhat-civil ties unravel). I’m using the metaphor of lack of clarity (or vision, or even precision) via a mythological group of female Baltic snipers….

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Here’s a delightful blurb about poetry & place by me. Here’s an interview about poetry & place featuring me and Larry Sawyer. Here’s some of my poy-ems dealing with dream places/spaces.

Accomplished poet of The New Yorker and The Believer, Virginia Konchan, reviews my Shearsman title here at The Rumpus. Purchase A Neon Tryst from Shearsman Books.

My newest book, Professional Poetry, is now available on Amazon. Like, right now. Buy it up, share with friends, rejoice in its instructional and compelling wonder. Become a part of it, live it, feel it, own it. Wrap yourself in its luxuriousness. Get crazy with it. Slap yourself with it. Then love it some more. Poetry…

Review of James Pate’s The Fassbinder Diaries (CCM, 2013) by Lina ramona Vitkauskas To view a Fassbinder film: You must possess simultaneous restlessness and patience (as in life) You must be prepared to watch characters continue on paths they seemed doomed to repeat, self-destruct once they break free (as in life, perhaps helplessly watching a…

Check out new dream-inspired poems from my upcoming chapbook, These Are My Dreams, at Spork http://sporkpress.com/?p=4396