WEDNESDAY,
MAY 1st at 6:00pm
DODGE ROOM,
EARL HALL
Columbia
University
Main-Campus
at Morningside
Recipient of fellowships and grants from
The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar
Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation
of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and
Translation of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu Sharma is a world renowned Himalayan poet
and translator.
He has published
ten poetry collections including, The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake
Poems, Nepal Trilogy,
Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Three
books of his poetry, Poemes de l’
Himalayas (L’Harmattan, Paris), Poemas
de Los Himalayas (Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) and Jezero Fewa &
Konj (Sodobnost International) have appeared in French, Spanish and Slovenian respectively. In addition, Eternal
Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic
Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma has just appeared.
Half the year, he
travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at
various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the
Himalayas when back home.
Currently, Yuyutsu
Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A
Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.
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