Erkut Tokman is a Turkish poet, editor, translator, visual and performance artist. He studied acting and modern dance in London and Bucharest and staged at Windsor Royal Theatre (U.K). He is the founder of performance-based interdisciplinary art movement "Open Poetry Movement", which rejects classical performance concept based on text but instead create collectively post-performance text or art forms from performance interacting with public in public places. He performed internationally at various festivals and public places including LitVest-Timişoara, Poetry Cafe-London, Borders Festival-Venice, International Workshop Festival-London, and Malamut Performance Festival-Ostrava. He is the author of six verse collections and has recent poems in New Humanist and Poetry Buenos Aires. He is a member of Turkish and Italian P.E.N Centers as well as Exiled Writers-Ink. and Poetry Society of U.K .He won the Italian Ministry of Culture Translation and Quasimodo Jaci Poetry Awards. He lives and works as an engineer, currently in Ostrava.