Jūratė Sučylaitė is a poet, prose writer, member of the Lithuanian Writers' Union, Doctor of Educational Sciences, Professor at Klaipėda University, poetry therapist, and physician. She works in poetry therapy groups, often travels to various international conferences to give presentations and lectures about her experience, and is one of the founders of the Lithuanian Bibliotherapy Association, and headed this association for eight years.
Since 2006, she has lived in Klaipėda. In 2011, she defended her doctoral dissertation in educational sciences at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. She currently works as a professor at the Department of Psychology of Klaipėda University.
Jūratė Sučylaitė is the author of many books of poetry and prose. Her works are included in the almanacs "Poezijos pavasaris", "Baltija", "Ziemos ździałi" and others. Poems and short stories have been translated into Croatian, English, Georgian, Russian, Latvian and published in collective publications. She writes poems, prose, essays, and has published translations of poems from Ukrainian in "Duryse" and "Baltija". Together with the artist Romas Klimavičius, she organizes joint projects of video and artistic word in exhibition halls and libraries.
On October 29, at 2:00 p.m., Dr. Jūratė Sučylaitė will lead a poetry therapy session at the Mažeikiai University of the Third Age, and at 5:00 p.m., she will present her latest poetry book “Vilkolakė” at the Henrikas Nagys Public Library. The event will be attended by Ilona Papečkytė, a singer of sung poetry who has composed many songs based on J. Sučylaitė’s poems.
We invite you to an evening of poetry and songs: listen to the sensitive and expressive poems read by author Jūratė Sučylaitė, and the songs inspired by her poetry by Ilona Papečkytė.
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