Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian poet, scholar, professor emeritus at Yale University, former dissident and founding member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. After a successful career in the U.S., where he emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1977, Venclova returned to his native Lithuania and is now living in Vilnius. He will read his poems in the original Lithuanian, as well as in the English and Russian translations, and reflect, in particular, on what it means for an East European intellectual to be caught up in the historical and political turbulence of the Soviet era, as well as today.
Tomas Venclova. Poetry reading and Q&A
