Laima Kreivytė - a well know Lithuanian poet and art critic – studied at Vilnius Academy of Arts and at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. Her main interest is in the interaction between image and text. She organizes art exhibitions: at the Venice Biennale she was responsible for the Lithuanian pavilion, which showcased the Lithuanian artist Žilvinas Kempinas (currently living and working in New York City). She has published a poetry book “Sapfo skai(s)tykla”. Further, she produces and presents poetic performances, as well as participating in art exhibitions as a member of a group “Cooltūristės”.

She has translated into Lithuanian some poems of Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop.

Videos:

Opening ceremony of the poetry festival TARP 2012 at the National Arts Gallery (Vilnius). Performace “A Space Garden” (Laima Kreivytė, Žygimantas Kudirka, Gabrielė Labanauskaitė and Darius Jurevičius): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z00KWyZofqo

Presentation of the poetry book "Sapfo skai(s)tykla" at the library of Vilnius Academy of Arts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAPaAe8Gyzc

Poetry readings: Giedrė Kazlauskaitė, Laima Kreivytė https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MR6k5XW4-E

"Cooltūristės" performances: http://coolturistes.weebly.com/