The art, life, and times of Lithuanian Poet Judita Vaiciunaite (1937-2001) is highlighted at this bi-lingual event with Svaja Worthington and Leslie Fried. Judita Vaiciunaite's poetry "explored a wide field of experience, from Lithuanian mythology to jazz, and from historical figures to contemporary city dwellers. Regarded as a poet of the city and the night, she is also a re-creator of myths... She was fascinated by human events which occur within the backdrop of Vilnius' Old City, where she spent most of her life... The beauty and meaning for her are contained in details of everyday life and fragments of our daily existence." Svaja Vansauskas Worthington was just 18 months old when her family fled Lithuania to escape the devastation caused by World War II. For the past 40 years, she has called Alaska home. In 2013, she was named the Honorary Consul from the State of Alaska to the Republic of Lithuania. Although retired, Svaja occasionally teaches one English class at UAA Anchorage’s Chugiak-Eagle River campus. Her translations of 2 poems by Judita Vaiciunaite appear in Cirque Literary Journal Vol. 6, no. 2. Leslie Fried is the curator of the Alaska Jewish Museum in Anchorage. She received a BA in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Oregon and holds a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington. Also a poet, many of her poems have appeared in Cirque Literary Journal.