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- Hometown:
- Chicago
- Stage or Page or Both
- Both
- About Me:
- Lina ramona Vitkauskas is the author of three poetry books and chapbooks: THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press, 2009); Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star (dancing girl press, 2006); and Shooting Dead Films with Poets (Fractal Edge Press, 2004). Her work has appeared in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007); The Prague Literary Review; Van Gogh's Ear (Paris); The Chicago Review; Aufgabe; Drunken Boat; White Fungus (New Zeland); MiPoesias; Paper Tiger (Australia); and In Posse Review Multi-Ethnic Anthology edited by Ilya Kaminsky.
She wrote the preface for the experimental fiction book, A Step Inside (Cervena Barva Press, 2006) by French poet and writer, Denis Emorine, and, in addition, has won awards and acknowledgements including an honorable mention for STORY Magazine’s Carson McCullers Award (1999); semi-finalist for the Cleveland State University Open Poetry Series (2002); and was one of Another Chicago Magazine’s nominees for a 2009 Illinois Arts Council award. She is an upcoming Lithuanian contributor to the web collaboration, UniVerse, a United Nations of Poetry, (www.universeofpoetry.org) and has served as curator of a poetry event at Woman Made Gallery.
She was the co-editor of the online literary magazine, milk magazine, www.milkmag.org, for 8 years and has an MA in Creative Writing from Wright State University. Lina has read at/in various venues and series including: the Red Rover Experimental Series, the Balzekas Museum Of Lithuanian Culture, Quimby's, Woodland Pattern Bookstore, the Around The Coyote Arts Festival, Myopic Books, and the Lithuanian Arts, Literature, and Political Conference.
Forthcoming publications and upcoming projects include poetry in the journal, Ariel; a spoken word CD titled Opaque Lunacy (accompanied by koto player, Jeff Wichmann of TENKI); and a series of ekphrastic chapbooks responding to foreign films. Poet Denise Duhamel has commented that Lina’s poetry, “employs humor and kitsch…the dazzling underside confronts intolerance and terrorism with a wise brilliance.”
Her web site is www.linaramona.com.
- Website:
- http://www.linaramona.com
- Favorite Poet or Author:
- Mina Loy, Wallace Stevens, Andre Breton, Lorca, Ashbery,
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