laureate of the United States. Also defined as video poetry are videos without the presence of poetry as text. Some media poems utilize words in motion, emphasized in their iconic and typographical aspects grounded in the Futurist tradition. These pieces are elaborated digitally using animation software and computer graphics. Among the authors who explored this genre in the 1990s are Arnaldo Antunes, and Caterina Davinio. Among sound and performance artists related to poetry performance in video (but emphasizing the specific video language) are Akhenaton, Hedwig Gorski, Litsa Spathi,Gabriele Labanauskaite with group AVaspo and Fernando Aguiar. Mrigankasekhar Ganguly, at age 22, made first poetry film in Bengali 'megh bolechhe' which was screened at Kolkata press club. In 2011 he directed his second poetry film 'Iti Apu' recited by Soumitra Chatterjee. Video poetry is used as part of the movement created by Manish Gupta to spread the beauty of South Asian languages via poetry. He has been creating meaningful internet content since 2014 and has been a torchbearer for many other projects that are starting to take root. Hindi Poetry is from the best of scholars with renditions by celebrities from film, television and theatre. Similar works in Urdu Poetry making Hindi Urdu Cool Transgender artist Kalki Subramaniam made a series of video poetry based on her Tamil poetry book 'Kuri Aruthean' based on the personal experiences of her struggles for dignity and being a transgender person. Selected pieces were also screened at Schwules Museum Germany. Notes References Eduardo KAC, New Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies, "Visible Language" Vol. 30, No. 2, Rhode Island School of Design, 1996 AAVV, La coscienza luccicante. Dalla videoarte all’arte interattiva, Gangemi, Rome 1998 S. BORDINI, Videoarte e arte, Ed Lithos, Rome 1995 Caterina DAVINIO, Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali (Techno-Poetry and Virtual Reality), essay with preface by Eugenio Miccini (It/En), Mantova, Sometti, 2002. Caterina DAVINIO, “Parole virtuali. La poesia video-visiva tra arte elettronica e avanguardia”, in "Doc(K)s. Un notre web” (book & CD), serie 3, 21, 22, 23, 24, Ajaccio (F) 1999 Caterina DAVINIO, "Scritture/Realtà virtuali" in "Doc(K)s" (web), 2000 Teresa IRIBARREN, "Subaltern Mediators in the Digital Landscape: The Case of Video Poetry", Target. International Journal of Translation Studies, 29:2, 319–338, 2017 Sandra LISCHI, "Elettronica, videoarte e poetronica", in Vito ZAGARRIO (a cura di), Storia del cinema italiano 1977–1985, Guido Lombardi Sandra LISCHI, Visioni elettroniche, Fondazione Scuola Nazionale di Cinema. Collection: Biblioteca di bianco e