Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940) is an American translator, editor, and poet born in Lithuania, three additional volumes he translated from the Lithuanian are by which contemporary poet, a Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema."?
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Vyt Bakaitis Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940) is an American translator, editor, and poet born in Lithuania and living in New York City. His first collection of poetry "City Country" (1991) was followed by "Deliberate Proof" (2010). Thirst, the magazine he co-edited with Benjamin Sloan, lasted only a few issues, but his translations of Lithuanian poetry are significant; particularly the 20th-century anthology "Breathing Free" (2001), which he also edited. Three additional volumes he translated from the Lithuanian are by contemporary poets Jonas Mekas and Julius Keleras. He was married to the late artist Sharon Gilbert.
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Jonas Mekas Jonas Mekas (] ; born December 24, 1922) is a Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.
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Vytautas V. Landsbergis Vytautas V. Landsbergis (born 25 May 1962 in Vilnius): Lithuanian writer, journalist, director of films and theater, children's book writer, son of Vytautas Landsbergis and father of Gabrielius Landsbergis.
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Algis Matulionis Algis Matulionis (April 9, 1947, Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Lithuanian actor, screenwriter, head of the Lithuanian Union of Cinematographers.
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Abraham Sutzkever Abraham Sutzkever (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער — "Avrom Sutskever"; Hebrew: אברהם סוצקבר; July 15, 1913 – January 20, 2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. "The New York Times" wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust."
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Eileen Tabios Eileen Tabios (born 1960) is an award-winning Filipino-American poet, fiction writer, conceptual/visual artist, editor, anthologist, critic, and publisher.
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Claire Burch Claire Burch (1925 in Brooklyn, New York – May 21, 2009) was an American author, filmmaker and poet.
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Edit DeAk Edit DeAk (September 16, 1948 – June 9, 2017) was a Hungarian-born American art critic and writer, co-founder of the journal "Art-Rite" and the non-profit bookstore and artist book distributor, Printed Matter, Inc.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for "A Coney Island of the Mind" (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of more than one million copies.
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Lionel Abel Lionel Abel (28 November 1910- 19 April 2001, in Manhattan, New York) was an eminent Jewish American playwright, essayist and theater critic. He was also a translator, and was an authorized translator of Jean-Paul Sartre, who called Abel the most intelligent man in New York City.
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Astrid Ivask Astrid Ivask (August 7, 1926 – March 24, 2015) was a Latvian-American poet.
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Analisa Leppanen Analisa Leppanen (born 1971) (has also published as Analisa Leppanen-Guerra) is an American writer, art historian and curator living in Saint Joseph, Michigan. As a scholar, she works on the art and visual culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on the historical avant-garde, in particular Dada and Surrealism. She has written on Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, Hugo Ball, Antonin Artaud, Lee Miller, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and others. She has published and lectured widely on the work of American artist Joseph Cornell.
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Norman Finkelstein (poet) Norman Finkelstein (born 1954) is an American poet and literary critic. He has written extensively about modern and postmodern poetry and about Jewish American literature. According to "Tablet Magazine", Finkelstein's poetry "is simultaneously secular and religious, stately and conversational, prophetic, and circumspect."
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Ariella Azoulay Ariella Azoulay (Hebrew: אריאלה אזולאי‎ ‎ ; born Tel Aviv, 1962) is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture.
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Udi Aloni Udi Aloni (Hebrew: אודי אלוני‎ ‎ ; born December 10, 1959) is an Israeli American filmmaker, writer, visual artist and political activist whose works focus on the interrelationships between art, theory, and action. He is one of three sons who were born to Israeli politician Shulamit Aloni.
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Collective for Living Cinema The Collective for Living Cinema was an outpost of avant-garde cinema located on White Street in Lower Manhattan in the United States of America. It regularly presented work by filmmakers such as Ken Jacobs, Johan van der Keuken, Yvonne Rainer, Christine Vachon, Dziga Vertov and many others who created films that were outside of the commercial mainstream in the United States. It also published a number of scholarly journals on film. Many of the founders studied film at Binghamton University together, where they developed a particular interest in the avant-garde.
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Vidmantas Bačiulis Vidmantas Bačiulis is a Lithuanian screenwriter, film and TV film director.
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The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, edited by Alan Kaufman is an anthology of American underground poets spanning the post-war era to the present day. First published in 1999, the collection features work from several notable poets, including Jack Micheline, Patti Smith, Harold Norse, David Trinidad, Tuli Kupferberg, D.A. Levy, Bob Kaufman, Jim Chandler, Jim Brodey, Daniel Higgs, Jack Kerouac, Bonny Finberg, David Lerner, Richard Brautigan, Allen Ginsberg, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, Carlos ac Libera Ken Kesey, Justin Chin and DianDi Prima,among others. S.A. Griffin served as a contributing editor.
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Thom Andersen Thom Andersen (born 1943, Chicago) is a filmmaker, film critic and teacher.
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Abraham Brody Abraham Brody (born 1991, New York City, United States) is an American-Lithuanian artist, musician, and composer.
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List of frequent David Lynch collaborators David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician, and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, known as "Lynchian"; this style is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. The surreal and, in many cases, violent elements to his films have been said to "disturb, offend or mystify" their audiences.
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Eliakum Zunser Eliakum Zunser (Eliakim Badchen, Elikum Tsunzer) (October 28, 1836 – September 22, 1913) was a Lithuanian Jewish Yiddish-language poet, songwriter, and "badchen" who lived out the last part of his life in the U.S. A 1905 article in the "New York Times" lauded him as "the father of Yiddish poetry". About a quarter of his roughly 600 songs survive. He influenced and was influenced by Brody singer Velvel Zbarzher, although it is not believed that they ever met.