Please join us on Wednesday, May 11 at 7p.m for a Round Table discussion devoted to Joseph Brodsky and Anna Akhmatova. The purpose of this Round Table talk is to acquaint the participants  about life and works of Russian-American poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky. In 1961, Brodsky was introduced to Anna Akhmatova. She was one of the most prominent Russian poets of the time, the last great representative of Silver Age of pre-revolutionary Russian culture. Akhmatova was among the first to recognize Brodsky’s poetic gift. Thus Akhmatova had been recognized by Brodsky as fulfilling the need for spiritual guidance and mediation between sacred and secular worlds. Her life and poetry had a constructive effect and linked him to an eternal culture, to his fullest potential and the unity of his personality as a whole, and this connection gave to Brodsky’s creative works its universality and its human validity. During our third Round Table talk, we will discuss Brodsky’s essay “The Keening Muse” (1982) and his poems dedicated to Anna Akhmatova. Round Table discussion is led by Elena Neznamova – Associate Professor, MA in Psychosocial Studies – Birkbeck University, Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Scholar. (In English)