031 - The power of poetry and critical thinking with Tomas Venclova

Tomas Venclova is one of the best known figures in Lithuania. He is a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, scholar, philologist and translator of literature. Full list of his works you can find here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Venclova He is one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. He was invited by Czesław Miłosz to teach at the University of California at Berkeley. He did not return to Lithuania until its independence in 1991. Since 1980 he has taught Russian and Polish literature at Yale University.