virtual artists collective poetry
Jonas Zdanys was born in New Britain, Connecticut, in 1950, a few months after his parents arrived in the United States from a United Nations camp for Lithuanian refugees. He is a graduate of Yale University and earned a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York. He is the author of thirty-nine books, thirty-six of them collections of poetry written in both English and Lithuanian and of translations from the Lithuanian. He has received a number of prizes and book awards for his own poetry and for his translations of Lithuanian poetry into English. His work has been supported by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the International Research and Exchanges Board with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council on Russian and East European Studies of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. He has taught at Yale University and the State University of New York, served for more than a decade as the state of Connecticut’s Chief Academic Officer, and is currently Professor of English and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Sacred Heart University.
more (in English) on the exhibit at the Lithuanian National Library
"Tarpduryje, ištikus laikui," (by Kornelijus Platelis) in Literatūra ir menas, 9 July 2010.
"Jonas Zdanys: Poet of 'two worlds'," The Daily Campus, 26 September 2008.
"Jonas Zdanys: Breathing Life into Poetry," University of Connecticut Creative Writing Program 2008-2009 Yearly Review [pdf]