Poetry + Place
I am from many places. Born in Virginia, raised in Chicago in a dominantly Lithuanian household. I...
Read MoreLina ramona Vitkauskas is the author of SPINY RETINAS (Mutable Sound, 2014); Professional Poetry (White Hole Press, 2013); A Neon Tryst (Shearsman Books, 2013); HONEY IS A SHE (Plastique Press, 2012); and THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press, 2010). She is the recipient of the Henry Miller Memorial Library Ping Pong Journal Prize (selected by Eleni Sikelianos) and The Poetry Center of Chicago's Juried Reading Award (selected by Brenda Hillman). Publications include Spork, Coconut, The Awl, DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, The Chicago Review, The Toronto Quarterly—among many others. With Larry Sawyer, she has co-edited milk magazine (since 1999). She has also served as a part-time faculty member at the Chicago School of Poetics for 2011-2013. Her website is www.linaramona.com.
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I am from many places. Born in Virginia, raised in Chicago in a dominantly Lithuanian household. I...
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“Jean Cocteau,” I scream into the phone, “You are a horrible husband.” I wander into his home, on...
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Now in the poison mushroom patch, my brother is bitten by mini white spiders. I spy below a...
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Molting like Constantinople, the sound of loneliness tonight: some wives view the eclipse from the...
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I was at the airport desperate to find a rhinoceros. I saw a man I was looking for, too,...
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