tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198842882773539432024-03-17T02:23:28.569-07:00Yuyutsu SharmaPoet from the HimalayasYuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-13191382320688571042024-02-06T00:25:00.000-08:002024-02-06T00:46:43.298-08:00NYWW/ HLF in Kathmandu: May 22 -June 2, 2024<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg11nKkpRUNH44DqB1kQSpCXn7svDB9NSuRJ5v-dYzS_pXMLwFWNZkqdj25nP1wT_g7NZ6b3PrCjCS1VBX3YAG-R1SnwrjJB_zIrK_DEfvDP86ZBa3PR6DlCAA_4iyV4wYPp2LNLmyW5j2IwPwpmHsQJRspVG1mHa4TwO1Xm-DhuhaKBNMoxekhjH6crZut/s1600/420643301_122110626344180209_6885125158772320240_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="1600" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg11nKkpRUNH44DqB1kQSpCXn7svDB9NSuRJ5v-dYzS_pXMLwFWNZkqdj25nP1wT_g7NZ6b3PrCjCS1VBX3YAG-R1SnwrjJB_zIrK_DEfvDP86ZBa3PR6DlCAA_4iyV4wYPp2LNLmyW5j2IwPwpmHsQJRspVG1mHa4TwO1Xm-DhuhaKBNMoxekhjH6crZut/w640-h182/420643301_122110626344180209_6885125158772320240_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br /></span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-language: HI;">NYWW in
Kathmandu: Himalayan Literature Festival</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-language: HI;">May
22-June 2, 2024</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjvZDWySvctQsXJzPEPeWat1Sg12r-2GOIAMOOFCEuwCIZp4CF99aMLXdDpgdRwmB2faQhPoyLtmj94auykcfIthVnU0IsqZuHKZoOFasxmnf-GMNi-jOb0FLsMldo2NEHr12KO81IhCVFOz6RPUNl5AUCGAap98W_9hPyWUeBeR0IddtJ9vr5TUaamYF/s2048/Flyer%20%20final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1451" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjvZDWySvctQsXJzPEPeWat1Sg12r-2GOIAMOOFCEuwCIZp4CF99aMLXdDpgdRwmB2faQhPoyLtmj94auykcfIthVnU0IsqZuHKZoOFasxmnf-GMNi-jOb0FLsMldo2NEHr12KO81IhCVFOz6RPUNl5AUCGAap98W_9hPyWUeBeR0IddtJ9vr5TUaamYF/w454-h640/Flyer%20%20final.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b>NYWW in Kathmandu: Himalayan Literature Festival--an
international literary conference hosted by New York Writers Workshop in a
partnership with White Lotus Bookstore, Kathmandu, featuring Tony Barnstone,
Ravi Shankar, Yuyutsu Sharma, Tim Tomlinson, and others. Panels, workshops,
readings, cultural excursions, flowing into the two-day Himalayan Literary
Festival, followed by five nights in the rural areas of the Pokhara Valley on
Lake Fewa, and Chitwan National Park, home to tigers, the one-horned rhinoceros,
and gharial crocodiles. In the city, visits to temples, yoga & meditation
centers, interactions with shamans, and with local poets and writers. In the
countryside, encounters with the landscapes of the Annapurna mountains, and
with the wildlife of Chitwan.</b></span></i><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br />
<b><i> </i></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0yToI80wFFnz299258nVm5czNOYZWoje6Mol904YIZH12R8SCyH4B_ZrRMcdA5sxqEmgh3IjMYAvo3WwfH7D0kNgN3wuum5i-gRZ1Ch-Re75xxk14yAIzr8TTjXYk4B5iJ6sl3efY7OJqVJLYFE7lzXsYvD5Ca0bCX66fMGMdzMBMs4UpNWbVr3tWi4Y/s1023/Patan___Shikhar_Bhattarai-1629279746.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="1023" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0yToI80wFFnz299258nVm5czNOYZWoje6Mol904YIZH12R8SCyH4B_ZrRMcdA5sxqEmgh3IjMYAvo3WwfH7D0kNgN3wuum5i-gRZ1Ch-Re75xxk14yAIzr8TTjXYk4B5iJ6sl3efY7OJqVJLYFE7lzXsYvD5Ca0bCX66fMGMdzMBMs4UpNWbVr3tWi4Y/w640-h426/Patan___Shikhar_Bhattarai-1629279746.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /><i><br /></i></b><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b><i><br />
Dates: May 22 - June 2, 2024.</i></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"><b><i><br /></i></b>
</span><span style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-language: HI;">The
Package</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">eight workshops* – generative
and evaluative (*two workshops in temples)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">eight panel talks – a range of
topics inc translation, voice, neutrality, image<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">welcome drinks + canapes,
three dinners, three lunches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">outside cultural events (optional)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">four readings – three faculty
readings, one participant reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">generous free time for writing
& exploration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">airport pickup<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">inner city transportation to
conference events / RT coach to Pokhara<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">accommodations at KGH Group
properties (links below at †) at each location, breakfast included<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">The Cost* [register thru paypal
button, or via wire transfer -- details below]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">Early Bird Special (until Feb 15):
US $1475<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">After Feb 16: US $1845<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">*NYWW Members: 20% off full price<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">*NYWW Athens/NYWW Sardinia
participants: 20% off full price<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">*APWT Members: 10% off full price<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The Schedule* </span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span>
May 22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">6:00 PM Orientation/Meet the
Faculty (reception)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">7:30 NYWW Welcome Dinner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">May 23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">9:30 AM Convocation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">10:15 AM Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">12:15 PM Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">2:00 PM Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">5:30 PM Reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">7:15 Dinner (open)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">May 24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">9:30 AM Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">11:15 AM Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">1:00 PM Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">2:15 PM Monkey Temple /
Shaman House<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">6:00 PM Reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">7:15 Dinner (open)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">May 25<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">9:00 AM all day excursion/pack
lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">7:00 PM Dinner (open)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">May 26<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">10:00 AM Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">12:15 PM Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">2:00 PM Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">7:00 PM Dinner (open)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">May 27<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">Himalayan Literary Festival Day 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">workshops/panels/readings/cultural
events<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">May 28<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">Himalayan Literary Festival Day 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">workshops/panels/readings/cultural
events<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">7:00 PM NYWW Dinner (celebration)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">May 29<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">8:30 AM depart for Waterfront
Resort, Lake Fewa, Pohara<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">Evening: discussion/panel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">May 30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">9:30 AM Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">Evening: discussion/panel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">May 31<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">8:30 AM depart for Chitwan
National Park<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">Evening: discussion/panel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">June 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">9:30 AM Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">Evening: Reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">Farewell Dinner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">June 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">return to Kathmandu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">June 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">departures<o:p style="font-size: 9pt;"></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4UtHcWU_FldWdE7Y3zf2rdkF11z1SvpKRGnzbLP1LspmTM9SSSX57_L84Walt-dMimclxpsp_xdFlBOtcuk7Y3__Y0CeYsiQbM_RGHfhQ344pXHPOIrvKAKsBXL2AEPJak74YLedl6H_ZyqYi1oHrrjAaEGCjgLBEBnKPOOr9XUpOLavUl41BPrVnV2TR/s1358/NYWW%20HLF%20FLYER%201.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="1358" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4UtHcWU_FldWdE7Y3zf2rdkF11z1SvpKRGnzbLP1LspmTM9SSSX57_L84Walt-dMimclxpsp_xdFlBOtcuk7Y3__Y0CeYsiQbM_RGHfhQ344pXHPOIrvKAKsBXL2AEPJak74YLedl6H_ZyqYi1oHrrjAaEGCjgLBEBnKPOOr9XUpOLavUl41BPrVnV2TR/w640-h422/NYWW%20HLF%20FLYER%201.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><br />
† The <a href="https://ktmgh.com/KGH/" target="_blank">KGH Group</a> will
be our hosts at the following properties:<br />
May 22 - May 27: <a href="https://ktmgh.com/park-village-resort/" target="_blank">Park Village</a> <br />
May 27 - 29: <a href="https://ktmgh.com/kathmandu-guest-house/" target="_blank">Kathmandu Guest House</a> (home base for Himalayan
Literary Festival)<br />
May 29 - May 31: <a href="https://www.ktmgh.com/waterfront-resort/" target="_blank">Waterfront Resort</a> (on the lakefront, Pokhara)<br />
May 31 - June 2: <a href="https://ktmgh.com/maruni-sanctuary-lodge/" target="_blank">Maruni Sanctuary Lodge</a> (Chitwan)<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivh5KymkDwVKQ4Lb1pEzmPHrlAb267_CmQcQGS2ajhAQCiqYbzKr8HiUkfSczFlt5Rjeze1SpA9VG-ppHWgp_bYeurCMgspPrutQKoPVA3BpezDlotEdpxCWidjlRyBotGkDUtiStFoZF8NdYo6uGRxP1zmvbJiETPh_yQS8NHgJyealhG0wQ9pBK2e0sk/s1366/NYWW%20KLF%20FLYER%202.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="1366" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivh5KymkDwVKQ4Lb1pEzmPHrlAb267_CmQcQGS2ajhAQCiqYbzKr8HiUkfSczFlt5Rjeze1SpA9VG-ppHWgp_bYeurCMgspPrutQKoPVA3BpezDlotEdpxCWidjlRyBotGkDUtiStFoZF8NdYo6uGRxP1zmvbJiETPh_yQS8NHgJyealhG0wQ9pBK2e0sk/w640-h426/NYWW%20KLF%20FLYER%202.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">REGISTER by wire/bank
transfer to avoid paypal fees:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">TD Bank, N.A. Wilmington, DE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-language: HI;">New York Writers Resources, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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author of 22 books and a music CD, including <i>Pulp Sonnets; Beast
in the Apartment; Buda en Llamas: Antología poética (bilingual); Tongue
of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki; The Golem of Los Angeles; Sad
Jazz: Sonnets;</i> and <i>Impure.</i> He is also a translator or
co-translator of world literature, primarily Chinese but also Spanish and
Urdu. Among his awards are: The Poets Prize, the Strokestown
International Prize, the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, The John Ciardi Prize, The
Benjamin Saltman Award, and fellowships from the NEA, NEH, and California Arts
Council. He co-edited the anthologies Republic of Apples,
Democracy of Oranges: New Eco-Poetry from China and the United States; Dead
and Undead Poems; and Monster Verse. His new publications are a
co-translation from the Urdu, <i>Faces Hidden in the Dust: Selected
Ghazals of Ghalib</i> and a creativity tool, <i>The Radiant Tarot:
Pathway to Creativity.</i> He is currently working on a libretto for an opera.
Click to visit <a href="https://www.whittier.edu/academics/english/barnstone">Tony’s website</a>.
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linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology. Described by
poet Keki Daruwalla as the author of “the first significant volume of
post-modern poetry written by an Indian”, she has published three books of
poetry: <i>The Hyoid Bone (1992), The Ayodhya Cantos (1999) </i>and<i> Yellow
Hibiscus (2004)</i> as well as a highly acclaimed novel <i>Mad Girl's
Love Song</i> (HarperCollins, 2013) and most recently a linguistics
monograph, <i>Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st
Century.</i> (Bloomsbury Academic. 2020). Nair studied in Kolkata and
England, and obtained her doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1982.
Widely recognized for her work in the areas of linguistics, cognition and
literary theory, she has taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the
National University of Singapore and the University of Washington at Seattle.
Her creative and critical writings are taught on courses at universities such
as Chicago, Kent, Oxford and Washington. Her ‘polyphonous’ literary style seeks
to connect her varied interests in literary theory and cultural studies. She
claims that the impulse to turn out “fat academic volumes and fragile books of
verse” is the same in her case – to discover the limits of language. Her
ambition, she says, “is simply to write and research, whatever the genre and
whatever the odds”. In 1990, Nair won the first prize in the All India Poetry
Society/ British Council competition. Her work has since appeared in <i>Penguin
New Writing in India (1992), Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary
Indian Poets (2002),</i> and several other anthologies. It has also been
translated into languages as varied as Swedish, Macedonian, Bengali and Hindi.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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who writes in Chinese and English. Her poems and translations have been
widely published and anthologized in many countries. She has co-organized
international poetry events in China, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, and
Ethiopia, and she frequently reads at poetry festivals around the
world. Her current projects include Pagoda, her second
full-length collection in Chinese, <i>The Black Sheep of Jilebute,</i>
translations of poems by Jidi Majia (forthcoming in Ireland), <i>Say to
the Soul</i>, translations of poems by Xiao Xiao, and <i>The Rain Train,</i> co-translations
of poems by Biplab Majee (forthcoming in Kolkata). She loves teaching poetry
workshops to children and adults, and spending time with poets and artists from
around the world.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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translator, and professor, Ravi Shankar is the author and editor of
over fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, including, most recently, Tallying
the Hemispheres: Selected Essays, and the award-winning memoir, <i>Correctional.
</i>Other books include <i><a href="https://www.poetravishankar.com/the-many-uses-of-mint.html"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Many Uses of Mint: New and
Selected Poems: 1998-2018</span></a> ; <a href="https://www.poetravishankar.com/language-for-a-new-century-contemporary-poetry-from-asia-the-middle-east--beyond.html"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Language for a New Century</span></a>:
Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East, and Beyond; <a href="https://www.poetravishankar.com/the-autobiography-of-a-goddess.html"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Autobiography of a Goddess</span></a>; <a href="https://www.poetravishankar.com/deepening-groove.html"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Deepening Groove</span></a>; <a href="https://www.poetravishankar.com/what-else-could-it-be.html"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">What Else Could it Be</span></a>;
</i>and <i><a href="https://www.poetravishankar.com/instrumentality.html"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Instrumentality</span></a>, </i>poems
from which have appeared around the world. Translated into over 12 languages
and recipient of a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner as well as winner
of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, Shankar has taught at such institutions as
Columbia University, Fairfield University, the City University of Hong Kong and
the University of Sydney. He has held fellowships from the Corporation of
Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Jentel Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the
Arts, the Blue Mountain Center and many others. He currently teaches for New
York Writers Workshop and Tufts University and lives a nomadic existence
centered around Boston, Massachusetts and Sydney, Australia. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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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 Ram Dass Sharma is a world-renowned
Himalayan poet and translator. Yuyutsu Sharma is one of the few poets in
the world who make their living with poetry. Named as “The world-renowned
Himalayan poet,” (<i>The Guardian</i>) “One-Man Academy” (<i>The Kathmandu
Post)</i> and “Himalayan Neruda” (Mike Graves, <i>Brand Called You</i>),
Yuyutsu is a vibrant force on the world poetry stage. He
has published ten poetry collections including, <i>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</i>. Three books of his
poetry, <i>Poemes de l’ Himalayas</i> (L’Harmattan, Paris), <i>Poemas
de Los Himalayas</i> (Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) and <i>Jezero
Fewa & Konj</i> (Sodobnost International) have appeared in French,
Spanish and Slovenian respectively. In addition, <i>Eternal
Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic
Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma</i> has also
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. When back home, he goes trekking in the
Himalayas. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma edits <i>Pratik: A Quarterly
Magazine of Contemporary Writing.</i><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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Tomlinson is the author of the chapbook <i>Yolanda: An Oral History in
Verse</i>, the poetry collection, <i>Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set
on Fire,</i> and the short story collection, This Is Not Happening to You.
Recent work appears <i>in Bangalore Literary Review, Live Encounters, Tin Can
Literary Review, </i>and<i> Best Asian Short Stories 2023</i> (ed. Dr
Anitha Dev Pillai). A new collection, <i>Listening to Fish: meditations
from the wet world</i>, will appear on Nirala in Spring 2024. Tim has lived in
the Bahamas, China, Italy, the Philippines, Thailand, and various cities in the
US, including New Orleans, Miami, Boston, and New York City. He is the director
of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, <i>The
Portable MFA in Creative Writing</i>. He teaches writing in NYU’s Global
Liberal Studies. <br />
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to a Riot; Bread, Cement, Cactus: A memoir of belonging and dislocation</i>.
She is also the editor of <i>Unbound: 2000 Years of Indian Women's Writing</i>.
Other published works include the novella <i>Gulab</i>, one
collection of short stories Love Stories # 1 to 14, and a collection
of essays <i>Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales</i>. She is
also the co-author of <i>The Good Indian Girl</i> (with Smriti
Ravindra) and a short book of illustrated poems <i>Crush</i> (with
Gynelle Alves). She received the Tata Literature Live Award for fiction (2020)
for <i>Prelude to a Riot</i>, which was also shortlisted for the JCB prize
the same year, and the Nine Dots Prize (2019) for her essay <i>Bread,
Cement, Cactus</i>. She won The Hindu Playwright Award (2018) for her
script <i>Untitled 1</i> and her radio script ‘Jam’ was named
regional (South Asia) winner for the BBC’s International Playwriting
Competition (2011). Her work has appeared in several anthologies and literary
journals including <i>The Griffith Review, The Aleph Review, The
Massachusetts Review, The Portside Review, The Missing Slate </i>and<i> Out
of Print. </i>She trained as a journalist and has published essays and columns
in several magazines and websites, including <i>Caravan, Republica
(Italy), Griffith Review (Australia), Frontline, The Hindu, Scroll.in, BBC
Hindi, Outlook, Mint Lounge, First Post, DNA, Open, Elle, GQ India</i> and<i>
Conde Nast Traveler</i>. She has also written and directed several short
films and the documentary film, In her words: The journey of Indian women. She
is currently a doctoral scholar at Durham University.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EdPX12Mw5eEfOJwXBslp2cYwRfQPNhzef_FDsLMSPW2OWLHBEbRiGp-tRjwL6NE0SXmkMTmP7H83O_-4ZfA1f-peLvBKMz-i3JII4Vu2RsDfLFr9jLBADk1lW6juL0h28P8ZDYjvT8usIdzuc_5aMyQEQlcXd0VqOHzgndkToBdi8eX3u6BKgJbmVzD2/s1717/Julie%20Williams-Krishnan.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1717" data-original-width="1717" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EdPX12Mw5eEfOJwXBslp2cYwRfQPNhzef_FDsLMSPW2OWLHBEbRiGp-tRjwL6NE0SXmkMTmP7H83O_-4ZfA1f-peLvBKMz-i3JII4Vu2RsDfLFr9jLBADk1lW6juL0h28P8ZDYjvT8usIdzuc_5aMyQEQlcXd0VqOHzgndkToBdi8eX3u6BKgJbmVzD2/w200-h200/Julie%20Williams-Krishnan.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />Julie
Williams-Krishnan </i><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;">is a fine
art and freelance photographer, artist, and educator who teaches photography
and leads workshops at university and community level. Julie served as the
Director of Programs at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester,
Massachusetts (USA) for five years. She has served a juror for the Somerville
Arts Council and the Winchester Public Schools, a committee member for
FlashPoint Boston photography festival, and on the committee for the
Renaissance Photography Prize, an international photography competition that
raises money to support younger women with breast cancer. Julie’s personal
photographic practice investigates identity and personal narrative. She has
exhibited her photographs at Melrose Tiny Gallery, The Sanctuary, Cambridge Art
Association, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Khaki Gallery, and Zullo
Gallery in the Boston region, the Colson Gallery in Easthampton, Massachusetts,
and The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, A. Smithson Gallery in
Texas, as well as other venues in Boston, London, and Oxford. She has also been
included in online exhibitions with “Don’t Take Pictures” and “Lenscratch.” She
earned her MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster in
London, UK. Based in Boston Massachusetts (USA) since 2010, Julie lived in
London (UK) for more than 16 years and has traveled to more than 75 countries.
She lives in a multi-cultural family and travels regularly to India. Learn more
about Julie’s work at <a href="http://www.jwkphotography.com/">www.jwkphotography.com</a> and
on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/juliewilliamskrishnan">instagram</a>. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HI;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXz-cd0GMw4OsHDdQOkmznf5Sp5LZah341h7NdhkadJuGdwlHVIvRPzvdw9jJAhbKe9jIieCUr38-97ydBWdGxjGnZw8IYh93o8p_pdZnzhoKjlfnjCfaSEX-Wp3qythNRaSd2hI0-LV5pmKEcWo36rkmb8fE17gZOZyEkifGztpx0Do5bMSChwFrFWibh/s1171/Rochelle%20Potkar.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1171" data-original-width="1029" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXz-cd0GMw4OsHDdQOkmznf5Sp5LZah341h7NdhkadJuGdwlHVIvRPzvdw9jJAhbKe9jIieCUr38-97ydBWdGxjGnZw8IYh93o8p_pdZnzhoKjlfnjCfaSEX-Wp3qythNRaSd2hI0-LV5pmKEcWo36rkmb8fE17gZOZyEkifGztpx0Do5bMSChwFrFWibh/w176-h200/Rochelle%20Potkar.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><br />Widely
anthologized, <b>Rochelle Potkar</b> is a prize-winning poet, author,
and screenwriter based in Mumbai. She is the author of <i>Four
Degrees of Separation</i> (poetry<i>), Paper</i> Asylum (haibun)
- shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020, and <i>Bombay
Hangovers </i>(short fiction). An alumna of Iowa’s International Writing
Program (2015) and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, University. of Stirling
(2017), her poetry film Skirt featured on Shonda Rhime's Shondaland
via the Visible Poetry Project. She is on the syllabus boards (English
Lit) of two top universities in Mumbai. As a creative-writing mentor, she
conducts online poetry workshops for the Himalayan Writing Retreat and was
invited thrice to Iowa’s International Writing Programs: Summer Institute 2019
and Between the Lines 2022, 2023 as a creative-writing teacher. Her
prize-winning manuscript of poetry <i>Coins in Rivers</i> is due out
in April 2024 by Hachette India. (@rochellepotkar)<o:p></o:p><p></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-57119197904361306812024-01-10T00:35:00.000-08:002024-01-10T00:38:29.172-08:00Kathmandu Launch of Pratik's Special Australian Issue<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">KATHMANDU
LAUNCH</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Her
Excellency Ms. </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/felicity.volk?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVJeQVHfonOmNuJxFaE8uUZUZXGRFg1K6RXIfg7hMou5LKiDXaCmkKLfjVXFU8EHJgZSP0fRPEhomy_tZKN-65yQHC6vJlJKtfcQ-YIrBnZBQJ23Cv4a6H5puyQIxcCGRfe-DeFisxOMCtjvTz0p2lpXdctnWdvnmzFvvPLr22uhIj-LReL1iXyXo0Fc2XOyw4&__tn__=-%5dK-R"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: red; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Felicity Volk</span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">,</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">the
Australian Ambassador <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">looks
forward to hosting you at the launch of</span></i><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Fire
and Rain</span></i><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Special
Australian Issue of</span></i><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Pratik
Magazine</span></i><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Edited by </span></i><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Yuyutsu Sharma with</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "inherit",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0070c0; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"> Sally
Breen & Jennifer Mackenzie as Guest Editors</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Date:
Thursday, 11 Jan 2024</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Time:
3 pm</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Venue:
The Australian Embassy, Kathmandu, Nepal</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Entrance
by Invitation Only</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">To
confirm invitation, write to</span></i><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></i><a href="mailto:whitelotusbookshop@gmail.com"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">whitelotusbookshop@gmail.com</span></i></a><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> or call 9803171925</span></i><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDf7fbdbfyA9oqRcdjAQ0TtJjHCd2FNvXgE902XIvfpCjXexyWfFwzAzrjVvs39YsVZrnD-RWUFxC49BD95R2FWHtzklGqi7t2n8fELqCaVPjFeOuOzFbGCfORb5FfpexUCgE2c3WkVXzF0M7_0Mmwnfll2XJ2VRtlZezk2iwSy1UA0BWoiRlRQ9GQ-z81/s3602/FINA%20(Australia%20Special%20Issue%20Invitation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2401" data-original-width="3602" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDf7fbdbfyA9oqRcdjAQ0TtJjHCd2FNvXgE902XIvfpCjXexyWfFwzAzrjVvs39YsVZrnD-RWUFxC49BD95R2FWHtzklGqi7t2n8fELqCaVPjFeOuOzFbGCfORb5FfpexUCgE2c3WkVXzF0M7_0Mmwnfll2XJ2VRtlZezk2iwSy1UA0BWoiRlRQ9GQ-z81/w400-h266/FINA%20(Australia%20Special%20Issue%20Invitation.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></i><p></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-47787653525129745232023-12-14T08:13:00.000-08:002023-12-14T08:29:13.691-08:00Yuyutsu Sharma’s 2023 Tour<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 11.75pt;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5KByWyFjcdqb48Sxn-M3Nj0kekOdY60w5uCuRADsX-DlVsRxO5rghoWTCnc9vfosbvL1ujnPapFQoFrVjibkSCM1fNQIibBo90u3Aff2dEvGGwKr1juU4ljLun7ikmo3M1qyqIjjBNYk8VmCSU-grDbGnHUAi8M9apDAydESKXBoAtd4TxVGDqdwoARP/s2048/Su%20Party.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2048" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5KByWyFjcdqb48Sxn-M3Nj0kekOdY60w5uCuRADsX-DlVsRxO5rghoWTCnc9vfosbvL1ujnPapFQoFrVjibkSCM1fNQIibBo90u3Aff2dEvGGwKr1juU4ljLun7ikmo3M1qyqIjjBNYk8VmCSU-grDbGnHUAi8M9apDAydESKXBoAtd4TxVGDqdwoARP/w640-h404/Su%20Party.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Monday November 20, 12: 30 pm, <b>Yuyutsu Sharma reading
at Women’s Club<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Redondo Beach,</b> <span style="background: white; color: #202124;">400 S Broadway, Redondo Beach, 90277 </span>CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Saturday, November 16, 5 pm-8 pm, <b>Yuyutsu Sharma
reading with Tony Barnston and Suzanne Lummis at the formal launch of Pratik’s
Noir Issue </b>at Whittier College, 13406 E, Philadelphia St,
Whittier, CA 90602 Host: Tony Barnstone</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi348ZIZQ1hNtLwSFuFY9Qpu61sc5DgMzUEBN4S31izYJPqv4BLcOhbcbuGKG5-ScwwUXxDxmCcU0kChQZACWQg-FGZjhDZJYAih_oaQ-VYnf4K0CzbRm3yzJz7TdXlgITCI3z4-B00gpLR0OwvY3IcTt0dguy7CEJRndktKFnmChCaH8eKtoNViH4kMcMl/s2048/Whittier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi348ZIZQ1hNtLwSFuFY9Qpu61sc5DgMzUEBN4S31izYJPqv4BLcOhbcbuGKG5-ScwwUXxDxmCcU0kChQZACWQg-FGZjhDZJYAih_oaQ-VYnf4K0CzbRm3yzJz7TdXlgITCI3z4-B00gpLR0OwvY3IcTt0dguy7CEJRndktKFnmChCaH8eKtoNViH4kMcMl/w640-h480/Whittier.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2228; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sunday, November 16, 5 pm-8 pm, <b>Yuyutsu Sharma
reading James Ragan Host Elena Scota. </b></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1436 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA
90401-2302, United States</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.75pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Saturday, Nov
18, <b>the launch and readings from Pratik’s Noir Issue at Chevalier
Bookstore</b> 133 N Larchmont Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90004<b> </b>Host: <b>Chevalier
Bookstore</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.75pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIdJJpYc8QQ4VZDcY1KfihQQyvJPE8YV1EeB9mTHsi8tn_32WPJEhM0XipK-RnPJKc6WdUPn-0SxMrVDiyMIhD5x7sJOGpnHZE9grAqIyZoRS8kkma1Aoz50VUtFRXONnC6ZphByF6uBwvp7TNjqoTJUYIeA6YpRt5ESuljoGYCPQQ64Mbljjyy4zd4FbR/s2048/Chivalier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIdJJpYc8QQ4VZDcY1KfihQQyvJPE8YV1EeB9mTHsi8tn_32WPJEhM0XipK-RnPJKc6WdUPn-0SxMrVDiyMIhD5x7sJOGpnHZE9grAqIyZoRS8kkma1Aoz50VUtFRXONnC6ZphByF6uBwvp7TNjqoTJUYIeA6YpRt5ESuljoGYCPQQ64Mbljjyy4zd4FbR/s320/Chivalier.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.75pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Saturday, Nov 14,
5 pm-8 pm, <b>Yuyutsu Sharma Reading at Fairleigh Dickinson and the
Screening </b>of “I see my world shaking’ short film based on a Yuyutsu
poem by <b>Stephan Bokas</b> at School of Arts, Fairleigh Dickinson
University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.75pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Monday, 30 Oct,
Yuyutsu Sharma Guest Lecture at Liberal Studies, NYU. 726, Broadway, New York
Host: Tim Tomlinson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.75pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Saturday, Oct 28,
5 pm-8 pm, <b>Yuyutsu Sharma reading Marguerite Maria Rivas, Staten
Island Poet Laureate, </b></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/tim.tomlinson?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZU3a_zPLqX_z0FgFAz_zyNeqJ2_Qdo9RVfGb0GQMiOkHBdvbgzRftvPmqpnBqggEryv7P6pdbvWPOQJ-PapP4tIMDLpojTu4zLnVO1Nt_BtyVN6wDE8ZvbMRIvddKDiE6q46mdfIa63L_Z_ebmg8Ql1d_6G2t5MvIZiigexqbjCOA&__tn__=-%5dK-R"><b><span color="windowtext" style="mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tim Tomlinson</span></b></a></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> and </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/empurpler?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZU3a_zPLqX_z0FgFAz_zyNeqJ2_Qdo9RVfGb0GQMiOkHBdvbgzRftvPmqpnBqggEryv7P6pdbvWPOQJ-PapP4tIMDLpojTu4zLnVO1Nt_BtyVN6wDE8ZvbMRIvddKDiE6q46mdfIa63L_Z_ebmg8Ql1d_6G2t5MvIZiigexqbjCOA&__tn__=-%5dK-R"><b><span color="windowtext" style="mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ravi Shankar</span></b></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> at ETG
Bookstore, Staten Island Host: ETG Bookstore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Sunday Oct 17, 2023 5.30 pm </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Yuyutsu<b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> Sharma Art of Literary
Translation: Master Class at NYU Spanish Department. </span></b>Host:
Mariela Dreyfus</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Sunday Oct 12, 2023, 3 pm </span></i><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Yuyutsu</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;"> <b>Sharma
at Round Table on Poetry and Artificial Intelligence reading, </b>The
Americas Poetry festival of New York<b>, </b>City College, 25 Broadway,
New York</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjspgdVtRvE4JuensC0GepvploIU9RuGSCjcIBE0jF2nZIgX7dfZPbAqCslLa-J9c-F6K0L04eOHqDgT3eYgMgCoCKUJP97IVrRPxZGUPHOaupG3077rAT5N-3eh4BE42aPLLCkllGSh78makA9yjcaCQHzYr3AU8GedE-yMyX_2tB7ARSyjD3kE77ff5JZ/s2042/397579581_10159894288561220_2709545742725904629_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="2042" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjspgdVtRvE4JuensC0GepvploIU9RuGSCjcIBE0jF2nZIgX7dfZPbAqCslLa-J9c-F6K0L04eOHqDgT3eYgMgCoCKUJP97IVrRPxZGUPHOaupG3077rAT5N-3eh4BE42aPLLCkllGSh78makA9yjcaCQHzYr3AU8GedE-yMyX_2tB7ARSyjD3kE77ff5JZ/w640-h309/397579581_10159894288561220_2709545742725904629_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Sunday Oct 12, 2023, 4 pm </span></i><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Yuyutsu<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> Sharma at Round Table
Poetry Reading</span></span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;"> at The Americas Poetry festival of New York,
City College, 25 Broadway. Host: The Americas Poetry Festival of New York</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Sunday Oct 12, 2023, 4 pm </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Yuyutsu<b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> Sharma at Multilingual
Poetry reading </span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">at the Consulate General and
Promotion Centre of Argentine Republic in New York<b>, for </b>The
Americas Poetry festival of New York</span><b>, </b>12 W 56<sup>TH</sup> St.
New York Host: Argentine Republic in New York</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQGhLA5PdpyntLpEjDDq_9Pyd9gTl8jU_XRMNd2cePo4H0FYUSnVPSWL0RYR_HqQMgIF1DZK_hBXNaVoALADf9lwzfTtReUtMnBIeVTqQP6o7JCLLh3wbDdMbHQmpDxERjK5RmqiP8EAGT_sOugrq9Pgnyafk3Qu8BP0mgF5fcxr0SWSrWzO5U0ahuZj8/s915/397577468_10159879371301220_8302410508497594762_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="915" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQGhLA5PdpyntLpEjDDq_9Pyd9gTl8jU_XRMNd2cePo4H0FYUSnVPSWL0RYR_HqQMgIF1DZK_hBXNaVoALADf9lwzfTtReUtMnBIeVTqQP6o7JCLLh3wbDdMbHQmpDxERjK5RmqiP8EAGT_sOugrq9Pgnyafk3Qu8BP0mgF5fcxr0SWSrWzO5U0ahuZj8/w640-h378/397577468_10159879371301220_8302410508497594762_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Thursday Oct 5, 2023 7 pm <b>Grantwood Poetry
reading with </b></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/tim.tomlinson?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXG77Aav_3RjP9G3cPBPWkcqd6QzlhaOQa5X2IL_AYhoP8gz8Iq2AnGdcwFnm_jon2cbabwYCnH9WjbK28PCzBVsk0a1ZQlOB-sL5D2OiTnjd96NdzIH9QPz_oNHBE1oRrIoL8yeinCCCn4O1WPEMMHg1begp2Shm5iDab4Z5nYbrtgxb6IAIith4vML4TJyvk&__tn__=-%5dK-R"><b><span color="windowtext" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tim
Tomlinson</span></b></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> at 207 Edgewater, Cliffside Park,
New Jersey Hosts: </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/raymond.turco?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXG77Aav_3RjP9G3cPBPWkcqd6QzlhaOQa5X2IL_AYhoP8gz8Iq2AnGdcwFnm_jon2cbabwYCnH9WjbK28PCzBVsk0a1ZQlOB-sL5D2OiTnjd96NdzIH9QPz_oNHBE1oRrIoL8yeinCCCn4O1WPEMMHg1begp2Shm5iDab4Z5nYbrtgxb6IAIith4vML4TJyvk&__tn__=-%5dK-R"><span color="windowtext" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Raymond
Turco</span></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> and John Barrale.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Tuesday Sept 14, 2023, 4-6 pm</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> <b>Magical Poetry from the Himalayas</b>: <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Celebrations and poetry with Yuyutsu Sharma & Annie Finch</span></b> 40
Loisaida Ave, St. Francis Kites Club, East Village, New York<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimNR6y3ehoBRAO9QG1exkgG4c5MmcO4Yr6dqXwA_CuK41LB5avw6Mhayx99n1bOX12QpqFTqD2FQ1OCe_5OK_3K-6iA1OtChtfEWJQjv6b-3UpyRj1kvSH3_-m-yjk4tIj83OM3BlwEyss513MvjXJQQ0gxAMTanh9WyHk2EgAuw-y1NWAizMPXRl_VV36/s1920/402310154_10160418416242851_8234509575214956277_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimNR6y3ehoBRAO9QG1exkgG4c5MmcO4Yr6dqXwA_CuK41LB5avw6Mhayx99n1bOX12QpqFTqD2FQ1OCe_5OK_3K-6iA1OtChtfEWJQjv6b-3UpyRj1kvSH3_-m-yjk4tIj83OM3BlwEyss513MvjXJQQ0gxAMTanh9WyHk2EgAuw-y1NWAizMPXRl_VV36/w640-h360/402310154_10160418416242851_8234509575214956277_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><p></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-77393987543869361642023-04-27T02:34:00.002-07:002023-04-27T02:34:15.845-07:00Delighted to be featured in Italian poet and editor, Igor Costanzo's column in Bresciaoggi today!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbUyhE35A0_HdXOM-jwWgRm5kKJkUaVljjXtEIPaOO1VG0ZwYCo5LSPJxuIaVtWZoAiFlHuUKfNf4oc1zoU4JGckoZ5C0QQnbxepo5YcpHv4BBUCDqn0nEJomCXL5KADwUNtxU0UGOdc8Fm8dcKDlpBpuo4dxAyOhnujPmL4qt6EA5lbhy9r_3N8vZA/s960/Igor%20on%20Yuyu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="746" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbUyhE35A0_HdXOM-jwWgRm5kKJkUaVljjXtEIPaOO1VG0ZwYCo5LSPJxuIaVtWZoAiFlHuUKfNf4oc1zoU4JGckoZ5C0QQnbxepo5YcpHv4BBUCDqn0nEJomCXL5KADwUNtxU0UGOdc8Fm8dcKDlpBpuo4dxAyOhnujPmL4qt6EA5lbhy9r_3N8vZA/w498-h640/Igor%20on%20Yuyu.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-44422154092164359242023-04-20T23:11:00.003-07:002023-04-20T23:17:27.979-07:00 Mother's Day Poem from Yuyutsu Sharma's upcoming book, "In Lord's Messy Workplace: New Poems<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">My misgivings</span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Yuyutsu Sharma</span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5OU82nGuyQo8VXYUGVKgjisHPGLUB15P1Xlyc90ob-sKOrPkVnje2LCafSsdKv0zVXclFcG3cTDp7pwdguw5rl1d_zvB4vYhc8daFFn4oZqtvt8YP9W-fTu0IKiC999WlZJxEWtwJ3S-lvEV60n0tJaasdYm0C3Q-5eKmcaHyTDqjVdcg9xob1naAog/s562/Delo%20intervew.pdf%20-%20Adobe%20Reader%20-%20Copy.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="562" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5OU82nGuyQo8VXYUGVKgjisHPGLUB15P1Xlyc90ob-sKOrPkVnje2LCafSsdKv0zVXclFcG3cTDp7pwdguw5rl1d_zvB4vYhc8daFFn4oZqtvt8YP9W-fTu0IKiC999WlZJxEWtwJ3S-lvEV60n0tJaasdYm0C3Q-5eKmcaHyTDqjVdcg9xob1naAog/w640-h442/Delo%20intervew.pdf%20-%20Adobe%20Reader%20-%20Copy.bmp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mother’s Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I don’t have anything <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to post on my wall today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I see them debating <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">forgotten frontiers of humanity’s walk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lysol, Liberty, Languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">lighting lamps, banging plates <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">pranks to raise demons <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">from their hidden dungeons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mother’s Day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I don’t have anything<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to post today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Only shady sketch <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of my loud betrayals <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">slowly eating the innards <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">of my fast-fading body<br />
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">where the Lord rests, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">keeping a rigorous <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: georgia;">record of my misgivings.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-1188867040935972652023-04-01T08:33:00.005-07:002023-04-01T08:33:34.847-07:00Upcoming ALS SINGAPORE LIVE: EPISODE 3 focused on Lost Horoscope <p>Upcoming ALS SINGAPORE LIVE: EPISODE 3 </p><p>focused on Lost Horoscope moderated by Alka Balain.</p>Link: <span class="xv78j7m" spellcheck="false">https://www.facebook.com/asianliterarysociety</span><br /><span class="xv78j7m" spellcheck="false">#asianliterarysociety</span> <span class="xv78j7m" spellcheck="false">#livesession</span> <span class="xv78j7m" spellcheck="false">#alssingapore</span> <span class="xv78j7m" spellcheck="false">#YuyutuSharma</span> <span class="xv78j7m" spellcheck="false">#losthoroscope</span><div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdBwA7p_3iZpvhrGl8d9NOcV9KcxyjAicLxFaaSHNl9qzhF4-kUFP2fGadragOW22ppnYpPPfn4k5_MOZDwClarP2S9DKBtsfmuVuqyxkmHw3QMk9LNRBrGVFtXVZOvmeSIXe672IKrbVF6-KoNMz7TgcoNE7KeGtg0sBRcx5jcFvwu_8fCavJwsdvw/s940/Sibgapore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdBwA7p_3iZpvhrGl8d9NOcV9KcxyjAicLxFaaSHNl9qzhF4-kUFP2fGadragOW22ppnYpPPfn4k5_MOZDwClarP2S9DKBtsfmuVuqyxkmHw3QMk9LNRBrGVFtXVZOvmeSIXe672IKrbVF6-KoNMz7TgcoNE7KeGtg0sBRcx5jcFvwu_8fCavJwsdvw/w640-h536/Sibgapore.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="xv78j7m" spellcheck="false"><br /></span></div></div>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-28879248043671437512023-03-05T23:04:00.002-08:002023-03-05T23:04:20.709-08:00Indian poet CP Surendran on Lost Horoscope by Yuyutsu Sharma<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbHpjljL40mZI-b1LGMgQhKt0zDea92k1rhxl6bWSGE_Vu490aGiVXQ_ovw7JHN2B3ioX46PaI-TVO1-D7pX5kERqGpgwSgIRht_m4gEXPlIa3u0g_S91ut9z5eMlLUqgu0CbdcHq61k8XzCjp2jLLadeje-T9p60foVnfSgmbvjzRNAzfNPrh5uVYWA/s1600/cp2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="913" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbHpjljL40mZI-b1LGMgQhKt0zDea92k1rhxl6bWSGE_Vu490aGiVXQ_ovw7JHN2B3ioX46PaI-TVO1-D7pX5kERqGpgwSgIRht_m4gEXPlIa3u0g_S91ut9z5eMlLUqgu0CbdcHq61k8XzCjp2jLLadeje-T9p60foVnfSgmbvjzRNAzfNPrh5uVYWA/w366-h640/cp2.jpg" width="366" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Lost
Horoscope</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> is a
longish, Gerontian type of poem; an old man trying to come to grips
with his life. The narrator in Yuyutsu Sharma's poem is looking for his
horoscope - ‘A scroll of homemade scented paper’. In the process, he realizes
that all the predictions that the ‘lanky priest’ made, may have been already
lived in a series of ‘monstrous Nostradamus moments.’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">How are
these moments suffered or even survived? By means of a phrase. In poem after
poem, Yuyutsu Sharma negotiates his experiences in terms of language, the only
tool that the poet has: the word is the way out of the world bearing in on
him like a tidal wave. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Dai, Chengdu, for instance, the overtures,
even invasions, of a lady (‘Her eyes shone like blackbirds/in the white nest of
her singing face’) are made sensible as attempts to find the name of a
relationship that can explain the attraction she feels for the poet. The
poem is a search for a word that resolves the violence of the interactions:
Dai, meaning brother. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yuyutsu’s
poetic persona perceives himself, naturally, as an endangered species. Its
sanity and even survival are wholly dependent on words, a means to re-live and
make sense of the little catastrophes that the hour hands of the clock tick
through. Words and phrases, that eternalize the near-apocalyptic Nostradamus
moments. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Words and phrases that help the narrator to wrap the universe around
his eyes; with the verbal shades on, he can gaze deep into the heart of the
moment that nearly destroyed him. An accurate word is born when the poet dies a
little every time he brings his experience-at first an event, then
meaning-to speech. It is in this sense that in these new poems,
Yuyutsu Sharma finds his lost horoscope.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">--CP
SURENDRAN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>C.P. Surendran</b> is a poet, novelist, journalist and
screenplay writer. His poetry collections include <i>Gemini II, Posthumous
Poems, Canaries on the Moon</i> and <i>Portraits of the Space We Occupy</i>. He
is the author of three novels, <i>An Iron Harvest</i>, <i>Lost, Found</i> and
most recently, <i>One Love and the Many Lives of Osip B.</i> He divides his
time between Bombay and Delhi.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;">Lost Horoscope & Other New Poems by Yuyutsu Sharma</div><div style="text-align: center;"> ISBN 978-8195781638
pp. 72 Hardcover Rs. 495 </div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Amazon USA : <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp</span></a> Amzon
UK : <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp</span></a> Amazon
India: <a href="https://www.amazon.in/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.amazon.in/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp</span></a> Amazon
CANADA: <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.amazon.ca/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX7HaSb-lBQCRS9livBSSGQbpMAfV44jXq2Z0tIwPZM2jB1CZViSvEqXgIg787X89K29FAYxBDFXKl9w4-pdR6m4tTM1Tz9pYrDKh1fOP1pXzutn7-yV3T_g1cd099OUhUlc9cJIk_z_QuUMocYnfAwEQcVb8p6ethKShOVkeVvfl2QCI69IulKMhRog/s2486/Lost%20Horoscope%20final%20(5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2486" data-original-width="1658" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX7HaSb-lBQCRS9livBSSGQbpMAfV44jXq2Z0tIwPZM2jB1CZViSvEqXgIg787X89K29FAYxBDFXKl9w4-pdR6m4tTM1Tz9pYrDKh1fOP1pXzutn7-yV3T_g1cd099OUhUlc9cJIk_z_QuUMocYnfAwEQcVb8p6ethKShOVkeVvfl2QCI69IulKMhRog/w426-h640/Lost%20Horoscope%20final%20(5).jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br />Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-4189485857045963712023-02-18T09:08:00.007-08:002023-02-19T19:48:08.205-08:00 Her Excellency Ms. Felicity Volk, Australian Ambassador to Nepal at the Kathmandu Launch of Yuyutsu Sharma's Lost Horoscope & Pratik's Special South Asia Issue<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>"...Yuyu takes my
breath away with the unexpected and the new. He has an unwavering
capacity to startle with the perfect image, with his attention to small,
revelatory detail and his sly, understated humour, often directed at
himself."<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span lang="EN-AU">Book launch – Yuyutsu Sharma – 18
February<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span lang="EN-AU">Lost Horoscope/Pratik South Asia Vol
18 No 1-2<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQUMu3EXgbkj5wNwvD625eb6Ung8JM9QsS4JcZ3wtTvTipmVHOMWUccufHRaZlU6C06OCmjsJXUw8vZ0nlhKKE623Y1AN_Y_QdGi4h6S0XvwdvIXiNZM7edd3YtXjj73IeRL7_N_UiZbt5BUWaDT5q9cjdqt024g_Ig3C3_wguIPaOBuXNZf2mWSxHhw/s1600/Launch%20SN%20Mishra%204.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQUMu3EXgbkj5wNwvD625eb6Ung8JM9QsS4JcZ3wtTvTipmVHOMWUccufHRaZlU6C06OCmjsJXUw8vZ0nlhKKE623Y1AN_Y_QdGi4h6S0XvwdvIXiNZM7edd3YtXjj73IeRL7_N_UiZbt5BUWaDT5q9cjdqt024g_Ig3C3_wguIPaOBuXNZf2mWSxHhw/w480-h640/Launch%20SN%20Mishra%204.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by SN Misra</span><o:p></o:p></p><span lang="EN-AU"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">With the words of Yuyu’s own invocation
at the beginning of his new volume of poetry, I greet this gathering of book lovers:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>“Believe me,<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>I’m risking my life here<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>coming out in the open<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>to sit in Café Mozart<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>to resume my routine<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>of pouring sparks<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>from my tamed sleep<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>onto the pages of my moleskine<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>notebook that had remained<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>blank for more than a year.”</i></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i><br /></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">Namaskar distinguished guests, friends
and Happy Maha Shivaratri.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">I’m delighted to join you to celebrate Yuyutsu
Sharma and to thank him for risking his life at the Café Mozart, for resuming
his routine with his notebook and for unravelling the vermilion thread of his
lost horoscope, inviting us into that most intimate space of birth chart and
poet’s heart.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">Yuyu, I’m grateful for the honour of
speaking for a few minutes at the dual launch of <i>Lost Horoscope</i> and Volume 18
of the journal, <i>Pratik</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">I first had the pleasure of meeting Yuyu
last year. He appeared in an email having heard that I was a writer as well as
diplomat. We began a correspondence that led to a book exchange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, Yuyu first manifested physically in
my world as a package of books – <i>Annapurna Poems, A Blizzard in my Bones,</i> past
editions of <i>Pratik</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He assume the shape
that all writers take, namely a universe delivered in the most economical
confines of bound pages.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">And soon after, Yuyu appeared in the
flesh when we had a long lunch at my residence at the Australian Embassy
compound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talked for hours about
books and writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I count it as a gift
from Nepal that I’ve had the chance to experience this country through the
prism of Yuyu’s eye and painted by his hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">In addition to crossing paths with Yuyu
last year, I also crossed paths with myself - as in the self that is ordained
in my stars.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">For the first time in my life, thanks to
a Nepali artist friend, I had my birth chart drawn up by a priest and read to
me by an astrologer who lives in the shadow of Pashupatinath. In a drawer in my
Bansbari bedroom, I have a red and gold woven pouch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within this is my own ‘scroll of scented
homemade paper’, the sort that Yuyu writes of in his titular poem, Lost
Horoscope; a ‘crumpled calendar of chaos/ with astral lines and circuitous
loops’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">In my case, I went searching in the
stars to make sense of a brief, doomed love. It was one in a series of
exercises to exorcise the loss. A tarot card reading and numerology by a
soothsayer, a Tantric meditation retreat led by an anagarik, Sunil Babu Pant,
(not nearly as racy as it might sound to those with a stereotypical western
understanding of Tantra). I joined a puja led by a lama at a monastery in
Boudhanath, lit butter lamps, and had regular shiatsu massages with a
dreadlocked dog whisperer in Budhanilkantha.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">As Yuyu writes, I was ‘Humming the
prayers drenched in the Monsoon showers/ of the Himalayan valleys/ rolling in
the world of spirits and sages.’ But ultimately, my healing sprang from the
reliable doctoring of time and distance, the medicine of all peripatetic
wanderers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">So, when Lost Horoscope arrived a couple
of weeks ago, penned by another peripatetic wanderer, I was reminded of the
universe’s love of symmetry and the comfort it takes in overlapping orbits of
space and time, something we might call destiny. And I’m so happy that my
destiny has overlapped with Yuyu’s here in Kathmandu.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">I have welcomed <i>Lost Horoscope </i>as an old
friend. Yuyu’s wry pitting of mysticism against the prosaic is deeply familiar
to me as a way of viewing the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">He writes of (quote):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>‘a dingy world of my Punjabi town<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>where God was the only resort’</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">and:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>‘a moldy world of rickety realities<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>a hyperbole of spirited domes<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>a medley of omens, <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>spirits wheeling in and out of our
sleep’.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">But as much as I might read such observations
and think, I love this because I recognise it, because I know it; on page after
page Yuyu takes my breath away with the unexpected and the new.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has an unwavering capacity to startle with
the perfect image, with his attention to small, revelatory detail and his sly,
understated humour, often directed at himself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">In Dai, Chengdu, we meet a girl named
Xio Xio, who asks the writer ‘How old are you?’. We’re told her ‘eyes shone like
blackbirds in the white nest of her singing face’, and in her slender waist is
‘a gold-spangled ring with a tiny lotus dangling out of it’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">But romantic possibility dissolves when she
dispenses the writer with the delicious flick of her observation regarding his
age, ‘You must be Dai then, an elder brother, I was wondering how to address
you’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">In "Unstitching a California Poem," a
woman tells Yuyu ‘You dress too elegantly to be a poet from Tibet or wherever
you say you are from’. She calls him ‘Yoyo’ and, when she asked him to gift her
his tie, he ‘looked into her green eyes, and saw wild animals prowling there’
and meekly handed the apparel over.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">Yuyu demonstrates an immaculate capacity
to weave his personal narrative into the warp of the historical, at once
illuminating both.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">In <i>Lost Horoscope</i>, he writes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>‘I’ve faint memories of a lanky priest<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>his small-pox face, his tiny head
wrapped up<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>in a large white starched cotton turban.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>Under the light of a marooned sky<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>we went to his cubicle-shaped shop<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>along the narrow brick lanes<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>leading to the main bazaar that<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>the Muslims of our town/ had left behind
in rush,<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>prior to crossing<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>the bleeding borders,<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>almost a decade<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU"><i>before my birth.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">The sweep of Yuyu’s canvas in <i>Lost Horoscope</i>,
the richness and piquancy of the tableau of characters to which Yuyu introduces
us, including himself at different ages, renders this poem at once epic in its
ambition and yet intimate in its invitation into the poet’s private navigation
of destiny and memory.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">This collection underlines Yuyu’s
reputation as one of the region’s foremost poets, ‘The Himalayan Neruda’, as
American poet, Mike Graves, puts it. But as we move to the subject of today’s
second launch, Volume 18 of Pratik, we are reminded that Yuyu is not just a
formidable creator, but a talented and diligent curator.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">And so we celebrate his capacity to
choreograph both his own work in the <i>Lost Horoscope</i> collection, and the
assembled works of others in his careful editing of <i>Pratik</i>. And we are grateful
to him that he devotes as much, if not more, effort to discovering and
amplifying the voices of other writers, as his own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His is an uncharacteristic generosity among
the writing tribe.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">Looking at the extensive list of
contributors to the South Asian issue, it is clear that Yuyu has a covening
power second to none. And I am honoured to have an excerpt of my first novel,
Lightning, included in the collection. I join the South Asian edition as a
writer currently based in the region, and with a protagonist in Lightning who
is a Pakistani, Ahmed, who has made himself out to be an Afghan to gain asylum
in Australia in the early 2000s.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">Travelling through the pages of Pratik,
has been a miraculous and joyous travelling back in time for me, to my first
diplomatic posting in Bangladesh in the early 1990s. Through this issue of
Pratik, I have been reacquainted with women I knew at that time: Nasima
Sultana, Taslima Nasrin and even Carolyne Wright, their translator from Bengali
and herself an accomplished poet who was in Dhaka on a Fulbright scholarship,
if I recall correctly, when I was posted there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">So, in addition to feeling grateful to
Yuyu for making space for my Ahmed’s story in <i>Pratik</i>, I deeply appreciate that
he has reunited me with friends from over thirty years ago. Another Lost
Horoscope, rediscovered. Another reminder of the way destiny calls us back to
itself whatever detours we might make. Another reminder that, however far we
might journey away from a place and its people, we are ultimately travelling
back towards them, because we walk the surface of a round earth. Because time,
as we know from Yuyu’s Lost Horoscope, is not linear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">This notion of travelling away from home
to travel towards it leads to themes in my own writing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Yuyu has asked me to read a section from my
novel, Lightning, as appears in <i>Pratik</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">By way of introduction, my protagonist Ahmed,
a Pakistani surgeon, is recounting the story of his journey by boat to
Australia as a refugee, only to be incarcerated in a migration detention centre
on Christmas Island, off the Australian mainland. Ahmed describes his journey with
the camouflage of third person to his companion as they drive through the
Australian desert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">‘The man lost everything when the boat
capsized — his photos, his medicine, his money, his clothes, such as they were,
and so on. For the first two days after he arrived, he simply lay on the grass
outside his quarters in the detention centre. He lay face down on the ground
and the grass thatched his forehead and his cheeks. He felt the earth solid
beneath his fingers, his wrists, his forearms, his upper arms, his chest,
groin, thighs, shins, the tops of his feet, his toes. He breathed in the sand
around the roots of the ground cover; he inhaled the dust. He discovered that
dust is not the same wherever you are in the world. And that sand is not sand.
The fact that the ground smelled unfamiliar was painful to the man, yet he was
glad to be attached to something that in its mustiness proclaimed its age and
promised not to shift too far, too fast, something that assured him it wouldn’t
drown him nor draw him down into its depths. The back of his head was hot with
the sun and his neck burned. The soles of his feet too. It hurt him to walk. It
hurt him to breathe. It hurt him to be alive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">‘He told the Christmas Island detention
centre officials that he was an Afghan and that he had fled religious
persecution. The other refugees knew this was not the man’s truth but they also
knew that truth wears many guises. If truth were dressed in an Afghan chadri rather
than a Pakistani burqa, was it any less the truth under its cloth? If it were
fleeing from Islamic fundamentalists in Kabul instead of an equally dangerous
threat in Islamabad, was it any less the truth behind the particularities of
its fear? The survival instinct teaches you that truth must be supple, pliable.
The molecules that comprise it are the same whatever state they take. H2O is
H2O, whether liquid, ice or vapour. The words truth uses to describe itself
must be allowed some licence, some flexibility. A brittle truth breaks and then
its essence is spilled, wasted, lost.’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">And this reflection takes me back
finally to Yuyutsu’s poetry in his <i>Lost Horoscope</i> collection. Yuyu’s work, like
a Bohemian artist’s, embodies the four ideals of truth, beauty, love and
freedom. He writes with a raw honesty, supple candour and with great elegance. His
opening lines are a perhaps unwitting metaphor for this stance : ‘Believe me,
I’m risking my life here, coming out in the open…’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">Yuyu takes us with courage and
conviction into the ambiguous layers where we are reminded of the mystical and
often painful essence of our living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">And as he races to Café Mozart, hoping
to recover what lay in the horoscope he lost decades ago, he helps us, his
readers, to rediscover and understand ourselves better, too, as part of the
crumpled calendar of chaos where destiny and self-determination intersect.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-AU">Thank you. Dhanyabad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_vxx4EcsPH3pWtb8k9-znEa2ZS8AKRfyhTe0OqScX6nl8rk4-aH7kU5gXxFMKSSo9HzdkXDIcsPPVoIowCe-ZrxRT7A8VjRDeCqOu7mLfNHWf6gMNIWeudAMcgBzVjeCROr_zu_17L4wAa1zYHw5w-n9pmmG5OZKopojCS6DGRiF2TTpfvz0tctM1vw/s1526/Photo%20by%20Bikas%20Roniyar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1526" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_vxx4EcsPH3pWtb8k9-znEa2ZS8AKRfyhTe0OqScX6nl8rk4-aH7kU5gXxFMKSSo9HzdkXDIcsPPVoIowCe-ZrxRT7A8VjRDeCqOu7mLfNHWf6gMNIWeudAMcgBzVjeCROr_zu_17L4wAa1zYHw5w-n9pmmG5OZKopojCS6DGRiF2TTpfvz0tctM1vw/w640-h396/Photo%20by%20Bikas%20Roniyar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Bikas Rauniar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Australia’s Ambassador to Nepal, <b>Felicity Volk</b> has
published two novels, <i>Lightning </i>(Picador Australia) and <i>Desire Lines</i>,
(Hachette Australia). She studied English literature and law at the University
of Queensland before joining Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade (DFAT). After diplomatic postings in Bangladesh and Laos, and following
the birth of her two daughters, she began writing for publication while
continuing to work at DFAT. Volk is recipient of a grant and fellowships from
artsACT and the Eleanor Dark Foundation, (Varuna, the Writers’ House). Several
of her short stories have won awards. “No place like home,” was a prize-winner
in The Australian Women’s Weekly/Penguin Short Story Competition (2006), “Steal
it with a kiss” won the Angelo Natoli Short Story Award (FAW National Literary
Awards) and “Ite, missa est” (Go, you are sent forth) won the 2013 Carmel Bird
Long Story Award. </p><span lang="EN-AU"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p></span><p></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-17252543115000536992023-02-04T10:09:00.007-08:002023-02-04T10:13:19.382-08:00From the Archives : Nabina Das : "A Trek with the Buddha Bard," A review of Yuyutsu Sharma’s ANNAPURNA POEMS: Poems New & Collected, 2008<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 107%;">Nabina Das<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%;">A Trek with
the Buddha Bard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>A review of Yuyutsu Sharma’s <i>ANNAPURNA POEMS</i>: <i>Poems
New & Collected</i>, 2008<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p>http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/atrekwiththebuddhabard.aspx</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMc4REQvz8aqJaW5GiOggBJagjHfJfEkrP055ANvXDSYq5u0ODykkk-99s1418DgARsGORxR18L6s6TJOuowujrrlh6TPg7ajiCrQv6k9Di-zRe0LqoCVdDIKf84HoClJDuFgPCiNPGzA18FpfixJKcqhVObwrKnLK71uOiXEj1fWEomJzj74OGIKbLQ/s1509/Annapurna%20Poems%20front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1509" data-original-width="989" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMc4REQvz8aqJaW5GiOggBJagjHfJfEkrP055ANvXDSYq5u0ODykkk-99s1418DgARsGORxR18L6s6TJOuowujrrlh6TPg7ajiCrQv6k9Di-zRe0LqoCVdDIKf84HoClJDuFgPCiNPGzA18FpfixJKcqhVObwrKnLK71uOiXEj1fWEomJzj74OGIKbLQ/w420-h640/Annapurna%20Poems%20front.jpg" width="420" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yuyutsu RD Sharma’s face is like a mountain terrain, when
the earth emerges in the gods’ peaks after a flash flood or when a river has
receded after the monsoon’s regal fury. I noticed this as soon as I sat down
opposite to him in the surprisingly sparsely populated Barista coffee shop in
New Delhi’s fashionable Khan Market shopping area. Poet of the Himalayas,
Yuyutsu’s greeting resounded almost true in what he wrote in “In the Mountains”:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fragile my eyeglasses<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">fragile and foreign<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I take them off;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There’s a speck of a scar in them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the mule path<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I take them off<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to face the green<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">stretch of mountains<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">beneath the saddle of Annapurnas.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well, almost true, because he didn’t wear eyeglasses at our
meeting! His dark irises reflected the green he writes about and the twining
paths he sees better without his educated eyeglasses. And since we met to chat
– we didn’t waste time to get on first-name terms – the discussion rightfully
turned quickly to his meditative collection Annapurna Poems, a Nirala Series
book published in 2008.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On that sweltering summer evening, leafing through the
Annapurna poems brought in a sudden whiff of cool mountain air. Musical and
reflective. Indeed, Yuyutsu’s poetic tenor is pretty much that of a bard, his
voice that treks higher and higher into the wild beautiful upper Himalaya
bringing alive the smile of the Buddha and the semiotics of the region’s
everlasting gods and goddesses, the Yeti and other resident animals, the
soulful rivers, and the ice-kissed rain. True, Yuyutsu laments the loss of a
familiar landscape he witnessed prior to political trouble fanning out across
Nepal. But his enthusiasm is very much rooted to the peoples’ grasp of their
own surrounding, the Nepal that is home to communities and creeds, whether he
sees them in the backdrop of the Maoist insurgency or that of a defunct
monarchy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the level of language, this poetry takes us straight into
the heart of the mountain country, Nepal’s unique ethos and the nature that
entertains both snowy seasons and hidden eternal gardens. The mule paths, the
‘leech-greasy’ forests, the spells under which the mountain people live and
tell fantastic tales, the ‘magnificent daggers of snow’, all build up a world
where nature is more than just a phenomenon. It is a companion to the poet and
his perception. The cognitive faculty of the poet and the reader works in
tandem in recognizing the many layers of meanings unfolded in each aspect of
“Annapurna Poems”, exactly like the different layers of the snow. The
permafrost is made of the century-old legends and tales on which have grown new
fables and events.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yuyutsu is a poet of expressions as he traverses a train of
simplicity. He does not twist language in any show of wizardry. He believes in
words and sentences, as they are known and heard in the Himalayan reality, to
take him along the mountain journey to rediscover the known nomenclature and
trusted actions. All he does is re-paint the scenes of Annapurna in unique
details and from surprising angles. Like little Tibetan thangkas. In these
scenes, he tells us about those place names that ring out the jeweled
eco-system of a mountain town or village as familiar as our recurrent dreams.
With him we walk the salt tracks, the gorge trails and visit Birethanti.
Ghorepani, Gandrung, Tadapani, Lake Fewa, and many such tongue-trilling spots.
For him,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Hillside roosters<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Punctual, announcing the dawn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">are known elements. If sometimes they might appear
delightfully alien to our practiced eyes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Possessing floral<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Faces of riverside birds<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They still draw us into the world of Annapurna like ice
drops in the cracks (Yuyutsu himself says in the foreword of the book that his
poems exist in each crack of this magnanimous mountain world).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even in this pristine surrounding something troubles the
poet who watches the spray of the white surf:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">on greasy crotches<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">of huge mossy rocks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">started singing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">coughing out<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">the cacophony of cruel cities<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Yuyutsu’s poetry one might like to find the Blake-ian
dilemma of having to dividing the human soul between Nature and its sufferance,
mingle her own fate and existences with that of gods, the Yeti and shamans, and
the myriad mysterious of Shangri-La, where imageries take fantastic shapes and
have their own sensual and sensuous existence (River: Morning)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">each time I come<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">to her deafening banks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">to gleam my dreams<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">over the plump flanks of her warm body<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">and a wrinkle appears<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">across the shriveled leaf of my life.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, he is not merely a romantic poet. What comes across
is his deep admiration for the Annapurna region as a system tied to the rest of
the world – those parts of the world where he is a traveler of a different kind,
giving talks and workshops, reading his published work and attending literary
events. In the context of these ‘worldly’ acts where he attributes his own
poetry having the “otherworldly” and “archival” quality, he is very much a
realist. The book’s first section, “Little Paradise Lodge”, is an account of
Nepal and Annapurna’s past and present. Interestingly, ‘lodge’ appears to be a
pun on ‘lost’ as if he was talking about a ‘little paradise lost’. To me the
poems in this section are very much a ‘lost and found’ affair.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the other hand, quite prominently, his Eliotesque sarcasm
for the modern city life and the external influences on his much loved
landscape of rains and snows adorn the images he paints in “Rains”:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">This summer they held me up<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In the deserts of their skyscrapers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">my face in the dark<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">feeling tips of snow sacred fishtails of Machapuchchare.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In “Mules” too, their ringing bells are but ‘beating notes
of a slavery modernism brings’. While mapping the ‘bloodthirsty mule paths
around the glacial of Annapurna’, Yuyutsu watches:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">cartons of Iceberg, mineral water bottles,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">solar heaters, Chinese tiles, tin cans, carom boards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">sacks of rice<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">and iodized salt from the plains of Nepal Terai.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">human and mule lives meet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rain, river, snow, singing gorges and brooks rule the
landscape of Annapurna Poems. The romance is palpable between the poet and his
subject, almost Sufi in character, ‘madness’ being one of its virtues. Yuyutsu
is in complete enchantment of his terrain as a lover is and this love’s longing
is realized in a woman’s physical quest (A Lonely Brook):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">a lonely woman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">waits for a stranger to come<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">and burst<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">the ice frozen between her thighs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">to make a flame<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">of her cold sleep<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Conversation with the river (River) is a personal history, a
sequel to the secret rendezvous with the beloved and is artistically lusty.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Between your decisions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">and my flickering lamps<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">the river mad<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">you, you poet, you bastard, go away!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With Yuyutsu we travel to Ghandrung where a ‘young girl of
the scarlet shawl waits/for the colorful procession/of mules carrying cartons
of Tuberg beer to pass’ or to Ghorepani, all the while delightfully
apprehensive or even curious if a Yeti was following ‘your trail in the
desolate mountains’.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Among these portraits resembling eternity’s passing of time
in the mountain world, we empathize with the pain in the poets voice (Fish):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Wives wait the final winter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">of my rot, opening up<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">the greed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">of their slithering fish<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I return to a poem<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I postponed decades ago<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">to touch the mating serpents<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">slithering on the tip of illicit door<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">called death.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The book’s second section “Glacier” takes this sentiment to
a crescendo as one feels literally like climbing heights with titles like Kala
Patthar, Gauri Shankar, Summit and The Buddhist Flag Flutters and looking below
with a rooster’s eye view at the fields, the forests and the (once) playful
courtyards with their brass bells. The overture continues with the third part
“Sister Everest”, a pithy and less descriptive section. In that, the latter is
highly evocative. If the first sections read like an ethereal ‘inward’ trek
through the upper Himalayan terrain, this section readies us for the fourth one
– “The Annapurna Man” – rooted more in the poet’s ‘outward’ experiences. A very
brief section, it spews more pain than pleasure. To some extent, I came out of
the book through this section with a sense of abrupt termination, as if
Yuyutsu’s pain had to invite a quick clinical surgery. For this, the poetry in this
section seems disjointed from the book’s original spirit.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Especially, I felt “Silence” is too much of rumination, too
personal and reads more like purgation than poetry. The best piece in this
section is “Space Cake, Amsterdam”, a witty poem combining introspection and
observation by ‘this man from Kathmandu’ (one may well imagine, the rest of our
chat that evening centered around that one fantastic experience Yuyutsu
recounted to me). The air-conditioned air at that Barista throbbed at my mirth
on reading and re-reading the line – ‘whatever happens, you can always make a
comeback’!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yuyutsu R D Sharma’s website is http://www.yuyutsu.de where
one can find recent updates about his work and readings. And he has made a
comeback, for he has just released “Space Cake, Amsterdam” from Howling Dog
Press (I am yet to have a copy) and is currently working on Pratik, a
collection of contemporary Indian poetry, with the renowned Indian-English poet
Jayanta Mahapatra.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nabina Das </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Quataquatantankua</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">"The pigeons strutting freely in your courtyard</p><p class="MsoNormal">coo like exhausted porters</p><p class="MsoNormal">climbing the mule paths in the singing gorges.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Their guttural quataquatantankua --</p><p class="MsoNormal">they seem to be using human language,</p><p class="MsoNormal">a kind of hushed speech that robbers might use."</p><p class="MsoNormal"> -- ("Little Paradise Lodge" by Yuyutsu RD Sharma; Annapurna Poems, 2008) </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Emeralded into the crevices</p><p class="MsoNormal">of words</p><p class="MsoNormal">our roads emerge with</p><p class="MsoNormal">coffee and brine</p><p class="MsoNormal">to fan out far towards a city</p><p class="MsoNormal">a peak, a town --</p><p class="MsoNormal">each an odd-eyed rooster</p><p class="MsoNormal">in one legged-patience.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I see one losing its blue</p><p class="MsoNormal">in the smear of newsprint</p><p class="MsoNormal">another being pocketed</p><p class="MsoNormal">by hands that grope --</p><p class="MsoNormal">grope my soft tissues</p><p class="MsoNormal">benath the skin of gauze</p><p class="MsoNormal">but the ones bunched deep</p><p class="MsoNormal">inside my throat go untouched!</p><p class="MsoNormal">So, I can gurgle: "Quataquatantankua,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Quataquatantankua, Quataquatantankua."</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Ramro chha, ramro chha, ramro chha?</p><p class="MsoNormal">And the reply bubbles</p><p class="MsoNormal">up in the foothill methane:</p><p class="MsoNormal">All is good, nothing's amiss</p><p class="MsoNormal">where gods sleep; we keep awake to</p><p class="MsoNormal">sharpen our verbs in the dawn.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Xx074dQAMJ81F-Zli8kX976B60xsFC_KRicSY8_OjtOqim7CB9oAjA7_kcaCg1gvvcOi-17Fqs9v1Ioro_0v_BkC5bNgXTqjZXNG_zuL7v8ZVuC1cDRj_u2MkQgYATE2SJkPcYz-51OmS816Qzp4Q3_3R737vEydFU_RmLRAaMPFRzCDUAmwwKGTOw/s1055/Das-Nabina-gr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1055" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Xx074dQAMJ81F-Zli8kX976B60xsFC_KRicSY8_OjtOqim7CB9oAjA7_kcaCg1gvvcOi-17Fqs9v1Ioro_0v_BkC5bNgXTqjZXNG_zuL7v8ZVuC1cDRj_u2MkQgYATE2SJkPcYz-51OmS816Qzp4Q3_3R737vEydFU_RmLRAaMPFRzCDUAmwwKGTOw/w640-h458/Das-Nabina-gr.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nabina Das lives two lives, shuttling between USA and India. Her poetry and short stories have been published widely in literary journals and anthologies across North America and India. A 2nd prize winner of a recent all-India Poetry Contest organized by HarperCollins-India and Open Space, she is a 2007 Joan Jakobson fiction scholar from Wesleyan Writers’ Conference, and a 2007 Julio Lobo fiction scholar from Lesley Writers’ Conference. An Assistant Metro Editor with The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, NY, and a journalist and media person in India for about 10 years, she now freelances. An M.A. in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, her other interests are theater and music. Formally trained in India classical music, she has performed in radio and TV programs and acted in street theater productions in India. She blogs when not writing.</p><div><br /></div>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-10080983470390674522023-02-03T21:03:00.000-08:002023-02-03T21:03:01.064-08:00From the Archives: Yuyutsu Sharma : BOMB Magazine Interview, "Subtext: Kathmandu Poet In New York by Susie DeFord"<p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 34.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Subtext: Kathmandu Poet In New
York by <a href="https://bombmagazine.org/authors/susie-deford"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: blue; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Susie DeFord</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I became familiar
with Yuyutsu RD Sharma’s poetry on his recent long stay in New York to promote
his latest collection </span></i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Space Cake Amsterdam</span><i><span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Howling Dog Press 2009). </span></i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Space Cake</span><i><span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a beautifully designed book with artwork by the artist Henry
Avignon.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_smajhiWMW0CfVNTFW0TMbYr3nzNcU5OhRoAgF9AEb_T4MPbGqv-7d05I7TXC32UGkkM6dLvDfSzTRWnBeUpDvshw4ezZ9-c873cwFSkve-FiBGB23APVPkcN-wMOWls97FrLP0g1x2XgEEXyEw7gQnpJu7M-Eghm8OpwVaZ7qbokGkDq35j55zgHrg/s1067/yuyutsu1_body.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_smajhiWMW0CfVNTFW0TMbYr3nzNcU5OhRoAgF9AEb_T4MPbGqv-7d05I7TXC32UGkkM6dLvDfSzTRWnBeUpDvshw4ezZ9-c873cwFSkve-FiBGB23APVPkcN-wMOWls97FrLP0g1x2XgEEXyEw7gQnpJu7M-Eghm8OpwVaZ7qbokGkDq35j55zgHrg/w480-h640/yuyutsu1_body.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I became familiar with Yuyutsu RD Sharma’s poetry on his recent
long stay in New York to promote his latest collection<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Space
Cake Amsterdam</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(<a href="http://www.howlingdogpress.com/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: color 200ms ease 0s;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Howling Dog Press</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span>2009).<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Space
Cake</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">is a beautifully designed book
with artwork by the artist Henry Avignon. In the Beat tradition, the Nepali
poet chronicles his travels through Europe and America. Some of his experiences
are comical—in the title poem “Space Cake Amsterdam” the poet accidentally eats
hash cake in Amsterdam. Some are beautifully imagistic, like “Temple, London,”
where he describes seeing a homeless woman at the top of an escalator as if she
is “a hillside shrine/ that our goddesses/ always prefer to live on.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Yuyutsu
RD Sharma has published seven previous poetry collections including<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Annapurna
Poems</span></cite><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">, (Nirala, New Delhi 2008),<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Everest
Failures</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(White Lotus Book Shop,
Kathmandu, 2008)<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Way
To Everest: A Photographic and Poetic Journey to the Foot of Everest</span></cite><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">,
(Epsilonmedia, Germany, 2006) with German photographer Andreas Stimm, and a
translation of Irish poet Cathal O’ Searcaigh poetry in Nepali in a bilingual
collection entitled<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Kathmandu:
Poems, Selected and New</span></cite><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">, 2006. He is a recipient of fellowships and
grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar
Foundation, amongst others. His works have appeared in<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Poetry
Review</span></cite><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Chanrdrabhaga</span></cite><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Sodobnost</span></cite><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Amsterdam
Weekly</span></cite><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">, and several other magazines. Currently, he edits<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Pratik,
A Magazine of Contemporary Writing</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">and
contributes literary columns to Nepal’s leading daily,<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The
Himalayan Times</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">and<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Newsfront
Weekly</span></cite><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">. He recently published his first novel and a book of his prose
writing on the ongoing political turbulence in Nepal entitled<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Annapurnas
and Stains of Blood</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(Niral
Publications 2009).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Susie DeFord</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">What was your first introduction
to poetry?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Yuyutsu RD Sharma</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">My first introduction to poetry
took place in holy places in India. My father was a devout follower of Naga
ascetics and my grandfather’s place, Nakodar, Punjab, where I grew up, had
great religious flavor. Our family deity was a serpent spirit, Guga Sian, and
my grandpa and I would go to the shrine during the annual festival. On one such
visit, I became possessed by the serpent spirit and started crawling around the
shrine like a serpent. After the incident, everyone in my family started
respecting me as a demigod. But I was going to an English school and felt very
upset about what my friends would think of me. They would think, I feared, that
I am crazy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I
was also getting acquainted with the Western science and logic and over the
years I carefully suppressed the ecstasy. Only later when I grew up, I learned
how I had ignored a very spiritual awakening in my life and that the experience
was a gift from the gods for me. Only sometimes now the gods visit me and I
feel a rush of that frenzied forgotten wind when I write poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">SD</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">American poet David Ray, who you
met while attending the University of Rajasthan, encouraged you to write and
publish your poems. Will you tell us about your relationship with him and how
it’s influenced your work?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">YRDS</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Meeting David Ray was a watershed
in my life. I was aspiring to be an actor before I met him. But meeting him and
working on the special issue of<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">New
Letters</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">with him as his assistant made me
aware of contemporary Indian as well as American poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">David
was very humble and kind and unlike other snooty and pedantic professors at the
Department of English and taught me what would later become basics of a Western
Creative Writing course. We would often meet in the evening and wander in the
local streets and university gardens discussing poetry. He introduced me to
William Carlos Willaims, e.e. cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Synder, Robert
Bly, John Ashbury and other American poets’ works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">His
wife poet Judy Ray would often feed me as I had very little money to survive
and my friendship with David made me very special on the campus, to the extent
of annoying many prudent Indian professors who thought it below their high
pedestal to befriend a research scholar in a casual intimate way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">SD</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Your poems in<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Space
Cake Amsterdam</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">seem very Western-thinking in
nature and somewhat reminiscent of the Beats. What are some of the similarities
and differences you see in European/ American poetry and Eastern/ Nepali
poetry?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">YRDS</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Well, if you go to India not many
poets know much about American poetry. But almost every poet is familiar with
Whitman and Ginsberg. I recently wrote a column in the Kathmandu Post called
“Chasing Ginsberg.” Ginsberg traveled a lot and made friends all over the
subcontinent and his use of Mantra as one breath unit format for his poetry is
so remarkable.<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Howl</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">is very well known in the
subcontinent and Beats employed Indian devotional traditions to see deliverance
from grinding sterility of a Western world obsessed with work and material
success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">SD</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">You write a lot of travel poetry.
How did you become so interested in travel? What was the big trip you took?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">YRDS</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Many people think I am a big
traveler. But it’s not true. I started traveling only a decade ago. I loved my
mother so much that I didn’t want to leave her. I always feared something would
happen to her the moment I leave the subcontinent and I won’t be able to come
in time to help her in case of emergency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">But
luck had terrible design in store for me and my mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">My
mother had a stroke and I stayed by her bed for couple of weeks. The doctors
said it would take some time, maybe few months for her to recuperate. She had
lost her speech and had difficulties in eating. My brother Shakti and I brought
her home and started taking care of her. After a while, I decided to go to New
Delhi for couple of days and take care of some urgent pending business. Two
days after I took a night train and found her on the floor…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
very thing I feared happened. Since then I have been traveling without any
fears because you get exactly what you fear the most in life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">SD</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">At your book party at Bowery
Poetry recently you talked about having to do a “cleansing ritual” every time
you return from your travels to Kathmandu. Will you tell us a bit more about
this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">YRDS</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">That was just a joke, I meant my
mother would have done it, as she never let me eat any meat and even onions and
garlic never entered her kitchen. If you cross an ocean in the Hindu worldview,
you lose your caste, that’s why the Hindu kings never ever made any expedition
to conquer any world, inviting colonial monsters to ravage innocent populations
for centuries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">SD</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Your book,<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The
Way to Everest</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">is a gorgeous poetry and
photography collaboration between you and Andreas Stimm about trekking in
Everest. How did you two meet and decide to collaborate on this project?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">YRDS</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Well, Andreas and I met at
Frankfurt Book Fair. He came with his girlfriend to my stall and asked me to
sign<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The
Lake Fewa & a Horse</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">and
sought permission to use some of the poems for his photo exhibition in Stuttgart.
Later he asked if he could use the poems in his book on Annapurnas. I had no
idea what the book will be like.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Later
when I was in Heidelberg doing a workshop at South Asian Institute that Andreas
came to my friend Professor Christopher Emmrich’s residence and he showed me
the book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I
was overwhelmed by his stunningly superb gift. This was so special and I have
never seen a book of poetry like this. Andreas is an amazing photographer and
truly cultured European and works in black and white panoramic format only. Now
we are doing a trilogy on the Himalayas, bringing together Everest, Annapurnas
and Helambu in one big 700 page book that will be first of its kind: a
poetry/picture book on the Himalayas..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">SD</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">You edit<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Pratik</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">magazine and translate poems from
several languages and are very active in the Nepali literary scene. Who are
some Nepali writers you’d like to see get more attention internationally for
their work and why?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">YRDS</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Pratik</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">is a very historic literary
journal. It was published in Nepali by very significant poets for many decades
and later in 1990, I revamped it and started editing it in English. We have
done several special issues and introduced almost all the significant writers
of the Indian subcontinent with a focus on Nepal. We also recently published
special British and Dutch issues with British poet Pascale Petit and Dutch poet
Harry Zevenbergen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I
know you won’t believe it but it’s true that everyone in Nepal is a poet. Nepal
has vibrant literary scenario and poetry and politics have always remained
inseparable in Nepal. Poets have protested against despotic rulers and helped
in ushering democracy in Nepal. One great Nepali poet I have translated is
Gopal Prasad Rima. He was very much instrumental in bringing down the downfall
of oligarchic Rana regime and later when the democracy came, he was ignored
until his death. I am working on a full length book of his poems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 1rem;"><span class="initials"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">SD</span></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Your bio says you have “completed
his first novel and a book of his prose writing on the ongoing political
turbulence in Nepal entitled,<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Annapurnas
and Stains of Blood</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">is due
2010. Will you tell us more about these projects?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">YRDS<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span>Yes,<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Annapurnas
and Stains of Blood</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">came out
just this year. I got a copy in New York. The book deals with my readings of
the political turmoil as an average citizen or as a poet. I have been
contributing columns to<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The
Himalayan Times</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">and<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></span></span><cite style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The
Kathmandu Post</span></cite><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">for a decade now and the books
also uses some of my best known columns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19.5pt; margin: 0.75rem; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I
have also been working on this novel and am looking for a literary agent to
publish it in the West. The novel deals with life of an individual in a failed
nation, and how he comes in terms with his own failures in a nation that’s
constantly reeling under endless cycle of political turbulence. I hope you will
see it soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dog Press</a>.</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Univers",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-44593817629430447352022-12-10T21:41:00.001-08:002022-12-10T21:41:13.962-08:00Christmas Poetry Party and Reading from "STRONGER THAN FEAR" Anthology<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbUdIupwq24YJAudT6dy2tvJMTPcuEdq6NoEy6W1LbNcUfb3dvL9AU0aOBLmjA5vG8p0HEaztSk5Nm_6B5w-8aqVJsf4Virhk-Ca--IhL41V1f4CAV6qaMncELVOxhs_nw74889gmAGdbH2-w6X0WP0Si2DqawlQHY4kMIc0HdhGH5ysaWB31DyujHg/s2048/party.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1135" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbUdIupwq24YJAudT6dy2tvJMTPcuEdq6NoEy6W1LbNcUfb3dvL9AU0aOBLmjA5vG8p0HEaztSk5Nm_6B5w-8aqVJsf4Virhk-Ca--IhL41V1f4CAV6qaMncELVOxhs_nw74889gmAGdbH2-w6X0WP0Si2DqawlQHY4kMIc0HdhGH5ysaWB31DyujHg/w354-h640/party.jpg" width="354" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Yuyutsu Sharma’s Christmas Poetry Party and Reading from "STRONGER THAN FEAR" Anthology</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sunday 11 December, 2022, 2 pm. Flatiron Restaurant Parkslope, 397 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Phone 718 965 4000<br />Readings by<br />Yuyutsu Sharma<br />David Austell<br />Jill Hoffman<br />Ruth Danon<br />Stephen Massimilla<br />Hilary Sideris<br />Fran Antmann<br />Mervyn Taylor<br />Paola Corso<br />Mike Graves<br />Su Polo<br />Steven Klett<br />Jack Tar<br />Didi Champagne<br />Maharzan Rajan<br />& Others</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Also there will be a Special Celebration of "STRONGER THAN FEAR: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice" Anthology(Edited by Carol Alexander & Stephen Massimilla)</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Some of the contributors to the Anthology including Hilary Sideris, Mervyn Taylor, Paola Corso, Ruth Danon, Yuyutsu Sharma and Stephen Massimilla, shall read at the venue along with their fresh work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFULAmSNijSHT81gFMQM7rsv9nf9p2FS6nb9L_QV73ipX62rofJ2mQLxk5pgpL_gRfAykZ07LjU8-IrE44x3GbWAKhC_v9CxnlEb3JNAm_uPeb74q-lKbOuvI56CHn9JpVBKs_RVJAj5Hom0LfEfYs5GjIVjd6gBx5HtRM4DKA_aJRub7vZIbe5SB2A/s639/Stronger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="426" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKFULAmSNijSHT81gFMQM7rsv9nf9p2FS6nb9L_QV73ipX62rofJ2mQLxk5pgpL_gRfAykZ07LjU8-IrE44x3GbWAKhC_v9CxnlEb3JNAm_uPeb74q-lKbOuvI56CHn9JpVBKs_RVJAj5Hom0LfEfYs5GjIVjd6gBx5HtRM4DKA_aJRub7vZIbe5SB2A/w426-h640/Stronger.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br />Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-73338016494071583592022-12-06T11:35:00.007-08:002022-12-06T11:39:09.895-08:00"Artful Design" American Poet and Former Erie, Pa Poet Laureate's Amazon review of Yuyutsu Sharma's Lost Horoscope<p><br /></p><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 769.427px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjfjOc2rlVryx_EGuC5rSoJFn2E4yvGkevnjg1AgxVr2XPAvNFabUclH_GtkQIhw2P8aJP3MAAYQMUu03NHkEN5mj4bQTVPTHfJOfHvSLGmJZkT2h5ljM0IPh8fA4ikl-cADRacf35XWHqdBR0qhn3PTTGuJubgqEak2MDRM7nCMM8VzMMqiDSPPINg/s1162/lost-horoscope-front-.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1162" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjfjOc2rlVryx_EGuC5rSoJFn2E4yvGkevnjg1AgxVr2XPAvNFabUclH_GtkQIhw2P8aJP3MAAYQMUu03NHkEN5mj4bQTVPTHfJOfHvSLGmJZkT2h5ljM0IPh8fA4ikl-cADRacf35XWHqdBR0qhn3PTTGuJubgqEak2MDRM7nCMM8VzMMqiDSPPINg/s320/lost-horoscope-front-.webp" width="211" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/419884288277353943/7333801649407158359"><br /> Artful
Design</a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Consider the
presentation of Yuyutsu Sharma's "Lost Horoscope", </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">an artful
design. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A slim
volume in a sturdy hardcover, divided into three nicely diverse parts, each
with its own title, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">each part, and in fact the whole collection, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">comfortably
sized to be read whole, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">like three sides of a vinyl record.</span></p></div><b>--Charles Joy</b></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 769.427px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;" /><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost Horoscope & Other New Poems </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;">by Yuyutsu Sharma ISBN 978-8195781638 pp. 72 Hardcover Rs. 495</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 769.427px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;"> Amazon USA : </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1470b7; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp</a></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 769.427px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;"> Amzon UK : </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1470b7; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; 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color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitalw8GUQvntH_etkGI3rTsx1u_EeYJBOiLIH-YL95IEoa1SupawdBZki0VF8qFURUYBnpQKySPUG_jySufUCLQXQxcPP4BquXiD62rXGvZZDpleQk4wQ72CRqluiGX0UODZbtIYki5qg3CTFK8hh2dDwhCZG2GCPr8IonhjYc2T37iG9SiO5SZv_hgw/s4332/Christmas%20Party%20final%20Red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4332" data-original-width="2400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitalw8GUQvntH_etkGI3rTsx1u_EeYJBOiLIH-YL95IEoa1SupawdBZki0VF8qFURUYBnpQKySPUG_jySufUCLQXQxcPP4BquXiD62rXGvZZDpleQk4wQ72CRqluiGX0UODZbtIYki5qg3CTFK8hh2dDwhCZG2GCPr8IonhjYc2T37iG9SiO5SZv_hgw/w354-h640/Christmas%20Party%20final%20Red.jpg" width="354" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; 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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 48pt;">Christmas
Poetry Party</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 48pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Plus
A Reading From</span></i><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 21pt;">"STRONGER
THAN FEAR"</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 21pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Anthology</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sunday 11 December
2022, 2 pm. Flatiron Restaurant Parkslope, 397 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Phone
718 965 4000 RSVP: <a href="mailto:pratikmagsubmissions@gmail.com">pratikmagsubmissions@gmail.com</a>,</span></p></div><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyuAtRbIYbEmN7Tqs7PytKEryopzQ522j8RK8-b5gffzL7sTtALPqq-SpMTelJKxxQgg_Hc5UWfxhqTeVBQOxlqCYKyr-Px4krN0oH3aoUMM3bg_aYA2oerue-cEQ0CKPM40ZwWonwybvMYo8MHI13BCao-F137Jp0KyRQYgfl3fPbnqHs3SoRFqEaYw/s1223/Christmas%20Image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">David Austell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Ruth Danon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Stephen Massimilla<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Hilary Sideris<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Fran Antmann<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Mervyn Taylor</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Paola Corso<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Mike Graves<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Steven Klett<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Jack Tar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Didi Champagne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20pt;">Maharzan Rajan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 14pt;">& Others</span></i></p></div><p><span style="text-align: center;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><b><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;">Also, there will be a Special Celebration of</span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: left;"> </span></b></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><i>"STRONGER THAN FEAR: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice" Anthology</i> (Edited by Carol Alexander & Stephen Massimilla)</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;">Some of the contributors to the Anthology including <i>Hilary Sideris, Mervyn Taylor, Paola Corso, Ruth Danon, Yuyutsu Sharma </i>and <i>Stephen Massimilla</i>, shall read at the venue along with their fresh work.</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8mQuk6sLDjHLNSxhih4yxu4G1uo-sY14xe7enj8UH5j9KDEzbbyPcB4lfe8z1ytV1jelPlNu7dVkDeMsdUrHJVBDB1JYpNY2l6gjua-vrl5O4-H2d0xFUNUCYNx21GBUFt-wrzfBUXXHpNV9p1JmH4wfNMFoq2RDf5lXr170J1MHaQSPQ_3o4wVuZTg/s648/Stronger.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="432" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8mQuk6sLDjHLNSxhih4yxu4G1uo-sY14xe7enj8UH5j9KDEzbbyPcB4lfe8z1ytV1jelPlNu7dVkDeMsdUrHJVBDB1JYpNY2l6gjua-vrl5O4-H2d0xFUNUCYNx21GBUFt-wrzfBUXXHpNV9p1JmH4wfNMFoq2RDf5lXr170J1MHaQSPQ_3o4wVuZTg/w426-h640/Stronger.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">In this timely and timeless collection, remarkable poets—both emerging and established—bring myriad traditions, styles, and vital perspectives to pressing questions, such as how poetry can help us to overcome obstacles to empowerment, compassion, social change, and educational opportunity. Drawing from the work of teachers, artists, and activists, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Stronger Than Fear</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;"> moves us into sudden and startling awareness. These poems arrive at their truths with insight and generosity, with courage and spirit.</span><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div></div>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-772475036323235922022-12-05T07:41:00.004-08:002022-12-05T08:12:15.031-08:00 "The sheer range is like a spectrum that incarnates divinity." Indian poet and scholar Divya Joshi's Amazon Review of "Lost Horoscope"<p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Infused with stimulating wisdom, splendid craft and profuse imagery</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111;"><b>https://www.amazon.com/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp</b></span></span></p><p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyYLr2VvePH-VcH1RnDadMpkUhHTVophwn2nFDYvV7eG--G-oE011Cepm92Rp40gfqmXsqNPFRAfPj1YQGnnlYHhN2vYvkaQgNaHLosMJJV0LRSb1PqKA1kCBXkqbj1W4XMJ5Q7cGLgTqH6WRK__YUfuOwW17l76MNs75E1bkcy3oPbK6GrCpTEGbxlw/s1162/lost-horoscope-front-.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1162" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyYLr2VvePH-VcH1RnDadMpkUhHTVophwn2nFDYvV7eG--G-oE011Cepm92Rp40gfqmXsqNPFRAfPj1YQGnnlYHhN2vYvkaQgNaHLosMJJV0LRSb1PqKA1kCBXkqbj1W4XMJ5Q7cGLgTqH6WRK__YUfuOwW17l76MNs75E1bkcy3oPbK6GrCpTEGbxlw/w422-h640/lost-horoscope-front-.webp" width="422" /></a><div><br /><div class="a-row a-spacing-mini review-data review-format-strip" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 784.417px;"></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 784.417px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">A phenomenal bunch of poems that heal, inspire and rehabilitate. </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 784.417px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">Right from the sacred cover that asks to hold mind steadfastly to the feet of guru, the poems descend like salubrious air and the “jasmine jewels” “lost in the horoscope” spring “out again” to spread and sprinkle brilliance and magnificence. The images and metaphors amazingly fulfill their spiritual goals by expressing, through multiple forms “a scroll of a scented /homemade paper /tied up in a vermilion thread “of faith and culture.</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 784.417px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">The structure captivates and drips down “through the dank drawers” to a “dingy world of Punjabi town”. Also comes along a risk of life, a “decadence of beliefs”, of “prophecies being true”.</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 784.417px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 784.417px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"> The sheer range is like a spectrum that incarnates divinity. Poems like the “Lost Horoscope” and “Where would my story end?” come once in million years.</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 784.417px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"> Fascinating must read masterpiece!!! </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 784.417px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2486" data-original-width="1658" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJkbZw8RpE7FxHASP4u2AoFPhnf2alGrcDe0IGkwWbc9sU6sXpBygoXe2FxpAqj2YqKa2WR4_E7yBV907LZRM9gH8RttWNG4ZUj02Nzzh1lEGu_wa0GMDp9uix5GuDlY88rNwvdpShWTicvffm8DNO8tV5kJD2n-j-jweWKNSVcdbaz2CTar2Cc7a7kw/w426-h640/Lost%20Horoscope%20final%20(5).jpg" width="426" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div><br /><div><i><br />Lost Horoscope </i>takes us into a world we westerners don''t know - Yuyutsu Sharma travels the world and writes from and within that traveling connecting the urgent present with an urgent past, a modern world with an ancient one. </div><div><br /></div><div>The title poem that opens the book is a knockout, bringing the poet back to writing after a time of silence and plague, connecting to memories of childhood even as it situates us in our present plague ridden contemporary reality. </div><div><br /></div><div>Other poems are exotic, erotic, and deeply critical of a certain crudeness in the contemporary world even as the speaker finds himself embedded in it. </div><div><br /></div><div>The writing is gorgeous; the journey well worth</div><div>undertaking,</div><div><br /><a class="x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp">https://www.amazon.com/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp</a><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-12798289540553803822022-10-24T09:19:00.005-07:002022-10-24T09:32:11.268-07:00Upcoming Sacramento Readings: Sacramento Poetry Alliance and Poetry of the Sierra Foothills<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUV_6dXbl72qMsazOLFp98oFXEVClfLhcmXcejxEzEng0VQaja_GbX2nf2Kf_PB-wjGJ0D-L5Ijwv0OzmQVtmTKbq7QOSOUmPu84Dgd6zjAdPIQb8AazaYw4gxm2CCeGRh9Tv04RCbMEE2adb59NF7mGz7-8hgfxOgRSb2KjYPJ9QE3JeYZYZrWzyl3w/s960/Sac%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="960" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUV_6dXbl72qMsazOLFp98oFXEVClfLhcmXcejxEzEng0VQaja_GbX2nf2Kf_PB-wjGJ0D-L5Ijwv0OzmQVtmTKbq7QOSOUmPu84Dgd6zjAdPIQb8AazaYw4gxm2CCeGRh9Tv04RCbMEE2adb59NF7mGz7-8hgfxOgRSb2KjYPJ9QE3JeYZYZrWzyl3w/w640-h344/Sac%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #2e363f; display: inline-block; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 5px;">Yuyutsu Sharma, Katy Brown and Allegra Silberstein</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #565c68; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #565c68; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><div class="event-description-html" id="event_description" property="schema:description" style="color: #565c68; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Saturday, October 29, 4:00pm - The world renowned poet from Nepal, Yuyutsu Sharma, will read his poetry at the Sacramento Poetry Alliance Salon, Residence in Land Park, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, CA. He will be joined by the fabulous duo Katy Brown and Allegra Silberstein reading and dancing their poetry. Following the reading, there will be October Festivities … music by Mark Carlson on accordion, perhaps some lieder along with food, drink and merriment.<br /><br />Yuyutsu Sharma has published nine poetry collections including, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems (Nirala, 2016), Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, (Nirala, 2016), Milarepa’s Bones, 33 New Poems, (Nirala, 2012), Nepal Trilogy, Photographs and Poetry on Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang (www.Nepal-Trilogy.de, Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe, 2010), a 900-page book with renowned German photographer, Andreas Stimm, Space Cake, Amsterdam, & Other Poems from Europe and America, (2009, Indian reprint 2014) and Annapurna Poems, 2008, Reprint, 2012).<br /><br />Yuyutsu’s own work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch. He edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing and contributes literary columns to Nepal’s leading daily, The Himalayan Times.<br /><br />Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world to read from his works and conducts creative writing workshop at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home.<br /><br />Katy Brown, a resident of Davis, California, is a Supervisor of Social Workers in Adult Protective Services in Sacramento and has won awards in The Ina Coolbrith Circle, The Berkeley Poets Dinner, and California Federation of Chaparral Poets competitions. She has had poems in Glass Art Magazine, Wee Wisdom, Daily Word, Harpstrings, and Song of the San Joaquin among others. Her workbook, Poetry Potions, was used in schools for nearly twenty years and is being released in a digital format. Her other writing credits include automobile humor, greeting cards, a multiple-ending book, and a series of short mysteries for young readers.<br /><br />In 2010 Allegra Silberstein was named the first ever Poet Laureate of the City of Davis. A longtime Davis teacher (now retired), dancer, and philanthropist, Allegra is known widely for her work as coordinator for The Other Voice, a reading series that takes place at the UU Church of Davis, and for her support of local writers. Her poems have been published in Poetry Depth Quarterly, The Yolo Crow, Blue Unicorn, Rattlesnake Press, Poetry Now, Iodine Poetry, Poetry of the New West, California Quarterly, and other journals. She has also placed poems in a variety of anthologies, including The Sacramento Anthology: One Hundred Poems, Gatherings, A Woman’s Place, and Where Do I Walk.Her first chapbook, Acceptance, was published in 1999. She is currently working on many full-length books of poems.<br /></div><p style="color: #565c68; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="color: #565c68; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /><br />Also check out other <a href="https://allevents.in/sacramento/art?ref=ep_desc_also" style="color: #565c68; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sacramento Art & Theatre Events Tickets">Arts Events in Sacramento</a>, <a href="https://allevents.in/sacramento/literary-art?ref=ep_desc_also" style="color: #565c68; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Literary Art Events in Sacramento | Writers Meetup & Poetry Events In Sacramento">Literary Art Events in Sacramento</a>, <a href="https://allevents.in/sacramento/workshops?ref=ep_desc_also" style="color: #565c68; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sacramento Seminars & Workshops | Motivational, Business & Training Workshops in Sacramento">Workshops in Sacramento</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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height: auto !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">On Sunday, October 30, at 2 pm at Chateau Davell, join Poetry of the Sierra Foothills for poetry readings and an open mic. This month the featured poet is world renowned Himalayan poet and translator, Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma 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, Poemas de Los Himalayas, and Jezero Fewa & Konj have appeared in French, Spanish and Slovenian respectively.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">He has held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen's University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, University of California, Davis, Sacramento State University, California, Beijing Open University, New York University, New York and Columbia University, New York.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The Library of Congress has nominated his book of Nepali translations, entitled Roaring Recitals; Five Nepali Poets, as Best Book of the Year 2001 from Asia under the Program, A World of Books International Perspectives. Yuyutsu’s own work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Yuyutsu was at the Poetry Parnassus Festival organized to celebrate London Olympics 2012 where he represented Nepal and India. In 2020, his work was showcased at Royal Kew Gardens in the exhibit Travel the World at Kew. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieB-fxQnDrshUV6JqqM32ZWwJX7han_QnKh-nsZ0YS_kojTYMPg2RgutWrYUpNUsGRedcAnOWw6diHO6B-TY78PjcTkgykHkEx4RNtS7gpivW6O-pUTp-mzGiJ81iCcRhJkWQfUffI9MutP21WKjT39-q-4v7Gx2RoIPQiZsjksmQu1omFV06QC2tIHw/s5610/Lost%20Horoscope%20book%20party.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5610" data-original-width="3810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieB-fxQnDrshUV6JqqM32ZWwJX7han_QnKh-nsZ0YS_kojTYMPg2RgutWrYUpNUsGRedcAnOWw6diHO6B-TY78PjcTkgykHkEx4RNtS7gpivW6O-pUTp-mzGiJ81iCcRhJkWQfUffI9MutP21WKjT39-q-4v7Gx2RoIPQiZsjksmQu1omFV06QC2tIHw/w434-h640/Lost%20Horoscope%20book%20party.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Yuyutsu Sharma's <span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">Lost Horoscope book party</span></b></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="background-color: white; 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background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/dp/8195781632?ref=myi_title_dp</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>“The world-renowned Himalayan poet”</i></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><b>—The Guardian</b></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">“<i>Like “globes of light” along a narrow path through “blind night,” these syncopating couplets offer neither escape nor absolution, but something more tangible for “bleary-eyed wanderers”: Company along the way.”</i></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><b><i>—Charles Bernstein</i></b></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><i>“Yuyutsu Sharma should be known as The Himalayan Neruda”</i></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><b>—Mike Graves</b></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">“<i>Yuyutsu Sharma is one of the finest poets on planet earth”</i></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">— <b>Sean Thomas Dougherty</b>, author, T<i>he Second O of Sorrow</i></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><b><i>Lost Horoscope</i> is a grand poem of loss, healing and recovery in the Covid times by Himalayan poet Yuyutsu Sharma. The title poem captures, in words of American poet James Ragan, “an enlarged memory of his childhood and his creative will to recover and rediscover what healing eternal truths lay, lost and buried in our collective unconscious decades and centuries ago.”</b></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><b>The book also showcases 13 new poems that Yuyutsu wrote before the Pandemic and bear testimony to his evolution as a poet, celebrating diversity of multiple forms and faith. Here folk imagination fuses with the personal histories to recreate his encounters with the wayward shadows of his relentless travels around the globe: a young woman revealing her actual age in a Chengdu bar, a lost lover on the flagstone steps of the Annapurna’s steepest climb, a stranger’s request to compose a poem at a birthday party in a San Francisco, a scorpion scar on the marble shoulder of an Australian interpreter in Beijing Book bar, the sighting of jasmine flowers at Vishnu’s alter at a Boston Art Exhibit, a hillside grandma’s advice revealing the wisdom of eating ants to improve eyesight and a demon child on a giant swing ready to unhinge the hunger of the huddled huts in the high Himalayas. In the final poem, the poet reminisces on his life wondering where the story of his travels around the world would come to an end.</b></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><b>These powerful, humane and heart-rendering poems composed in the heat and hush of Yuyutsu’s travels are true jasmine jewels of the modern-day wisdom restored to seek solace in our turbulent times. Another tour de force from the maestro who makes his living as a poet and wears his world and his vocation like his coat to create eternal gems of the contemporary times.</b></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><i>“I feel unable to praise Yuyutsu Sharma’s new collection adequately. I think of Whitman, Neruda, Lorca. Sharma is a fever and river, at moments a rhapsody and the gods sing through him even his workshop is messy. Yuyutsu Sharma should be known as The Himalayan Neruda not only for the torrents of images and compassion and outrage in his poetry but for the range of his subjects, themes and imagery. Reading him I feel as I do when reading Neruda that he could make first rate poetry out of anything, as he ranges like a vartic voice of the Himalayas through the natural beauties of Nepal and cities of the world.”</i></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">—<b>Mike Graves</b>, American poet and teacher, City University of New York, author, <i>A Prayer for the Less Violent Offenders</i></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">“A mini epic of recovered and enlarged memory.”</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">—<b>Robert Scotto,</b> Author, <i>Imagined Secrets</i>, Professor, Baruch College</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><i>“There’s a brilliance in the mind of the poet whose imagination created this gem of a poem out of the “crumpled calendar of chaos,” aptly called the “Lost Horoscope.” I was hypnotically immersed in the structure of steps that each stanza offered, hurling the reader down into memory, into the “wingless realm of illogical proclamations” and the resultant “wasteful heap of despair,” while seeking “solace, sleep, and salvation” to arrive at the epiphany that “perhaps all those prophesies were true.” Like an Eliot poem, to gain the enlightenment inherent in this poem, you must read the poem again to capture the nuance and metaphysics of the allusions connecting each image, each stanza, to recover the revelatory “medley of omens” leading to the abyss of “imminent doom.” One must journey, “sight fractured,” through the “moldy world of rickety realities” –typhoid, covid– while “humming the prayers, drenched in the Monsoon showers of the Himalayan valleys rolling in the world of spirits and sages.” Like the poet, one must risk the life of his creative will to recover and rediscover what healing eternal truths lay, lost and buried in our collective unconscious decades and centuries ago… a magnificent sight-healing journey.” </i></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><b>— James Ragan,</b> the Emerson Poetry Prize, NEA Fellowship, the Swan Foundation Humanitarian Award</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">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 Ram Dass Sharma is a world renowned Himalayan poet and translator.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">He has published ten poetry collections including, <i>The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam</i> and <i>Annapurna Poems</i>. Four books of his poetry have appeared in French, Spanish and Slovenian.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">Widely traveled author, he has read his works at several prestigious places including Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry, Belfast, P.E.N, Paris, Whittier College, California, WB Yeats’ Center, Sligo, Gustav Stressemann Institute, Bonn, Rubin Museum, New York, Cosmopoetica, Cordoba, Spain, The Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin, Lu Xun Literary Institute, Beijing, The Guardian Newsroom, London, Trois Rivieres Poetry Festival, Quebec, FIP, Buenos Aires, Slovenian Book Days, Ljubljana, Royal Society of Dramatic Arts, London, Gunter Grass House, Bremen, International Poetry Festival, Granada, Nicaragua, Nehru Center, London, Beijing Normal University, March Hare, Newfoundland, Canada, London Olympics 2012, Frankfurt Book Fair, and Villa Serbelloni, Italy.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">He has held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen’s University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Beijing Open University, New York University, New York and Columbia University, New York.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;">In 2020, his work was showcased at Royal Kew Gardens in an Exhibit, “Travel the World at Kew.” 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.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="text-align: center;">Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma edits <i>Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-31868563677256248142022-10-14T09:06:00.004-07:002022-10-14T09:09:15.127-07:00Yuyutsu Sharma's Lost Horoscope & Other New Poems released<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpyi0hkUALVQRCfeUehXfXUMgmPsIJjBGBmcsgIl3Sdl4fMa0bGIYybKEhP1d203wse6-g91qptUtPku0H0L8UBm9JTFFb0TWlGmODCbw9DA_XLLHsDUPNdoHSdGcSJY726KdqCZdzMgmUFX57kpDab2KU1dn3-hCT-aZAcCT1XvaL7mRdA7__cfMNsQ/s2486/Lost%20Horoscope%20final%20(5).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Guardian</strong></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.625em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Like “globes of light” along a narrow path through “blind night,” these syncopating couplets offer neither escape nor absolution, but something more tangible for “bleary-eyed wanderers”: Company along the way.” </em></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—Charles Bernstein</strong></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Yuyutsu Sharma should be known as The Himalayan Neruda”</em></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—</strong><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">M</em><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ike Graves</strong></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Yuyutsu Sharma is one of the finest poets on planet earth”</em></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—American poet Sean Thomas Dougherty</strong>, author, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Second O of Sorrow</em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost Horoscope</em></strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a grand poem of loss, healing and recovery in the Covid times by Himalayan poet Yuyutsu Sharma. The title poem captures, in words of American poet James Ragan, “an enlarged memory of his childhood and his creative will to recover and rediscover what healing eternal truths lay, lost and buried in our collective unconscious decades and centuries ago.”</strong><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The book also showcases 13 new poems that Yuyutsu wrote before the Pandemic and bear testimony to his evolution as a poet, celebrating diversity of multiple forms and faith. Here folk imagination fuses with the personal histories to recreate his encounters with the wayward shadows of his relentless travels around the globe: a young woman revealing her actual age in a Chengdu bar, a lost lover on the flagstone steps of the Annapurna’s steepest climb, a stranger’s request to compose a poem at a birthday party in a San Francisco, a scorpion scar on the marble shoulder of an Australian interpreter in Beijing Book bar, the sighting of jasmine flowers at Vishnu’s alter at a Boston Art Exhibit, a hillside grandma’s advice revealing the wisdom of eating ants to improve eyesight and a demon child on a giant swing ready to unhinge the hunger of the huddled huts in the high Himalayas. In the final poem, the poet reminisces on his life wondering where the story of his travels around the world would come to an end.</strong><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These powerful, humane and heart-rendering poems composed in the heat and hush of Yuyutsu’s travels are true jasmine jewels of the modern-day wisdom restored to seek solace in our turbulent times. Another tour de force from the maestro who makes his living as a poet and wears his world and his vocation like his coat to create eternal gems of the contemporary times.</strong></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I feel unable to praise Yuyutsu Sharma’s new collection adequately. I think of Whitman, Neruda, Lorca. Sharma is a fever and river, at moments a rhapsody and the gods sing through him even his workshop is messy. Yuyutsu Sharma should be known as The Himalayan Neruda not only for the torrents of images and compassion and outrage in his poetry but for the range of his subjects, themes and imagery. Reading him I feel as I do when reading Neruda that he could make first rate poetry out of anything, as he ranges like a vartic voice of the Himalayas through the natural beauties of Nepal and cities of the world.”</em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">—M<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ike Graves, </strong>American poet and teacher, City University of New York, author, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Prayer for the Less Violent Offenders</em></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “A mini epic of recovered and enlarged memory.”</em></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—</em><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Scotto, A</strong>uthor, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagined Secrets</em>, Professor, Baruch College</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There’s a brilliance in the mind of the poet whose imagination created this gem of a poem out of the “crumpled calendar of chaos,” aptly called the “Lost Horoscope.” I was hypnotically immersed in the structure of steps that each stanza offered, hurling the reader down into memory, into the “wingless realm of illogical proclamations” and the resultant “wasteful heap of despair,” while seeking “solace, sleep, and salvation” to arrive at the epiphany that “perhaps all those prophesies were true.” Like an Eliot poem, to gain the enlightenment inherent in this poem, you must read the poem again to capture the nuance and metaphysics of the allusions connecting each image, each stanza, to recover the revelatory “medley of omens” leading to the abyss of “imminent doom.” One must journey, “sight fractured,” through the “moldy world of rickety realities” –typhoid, covid– while “humming the prayers, drenched in the Monsoon showers of the Himalayan valleys rolling in the world of spirits and sages.” Like the poet, one must risk the life of his creative will to recover and rediscover what healing eternal truths lay, lost and buried in our collective unconscious decades and centuries ago… a magnificent sight-healing journey.”</em> <strong style="border: 0px; 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box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 6px; vertical-align: bottom;" /></figure><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">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, <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma</strong> is a world renowned Himalayan poet and translator.<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He has published ten poetry collections including, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Second Buddha Walk</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, </em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nepal</em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Trilogy,</em> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Space Cake, Amsterdam </em>and <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Annapurna Poems</em>. Four books of his poetry have appeared in French, Spanish and Slovenian.<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Widely traveled author, he has read his works at several prestigious places including Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry, Belfast, P.E.N, Paris, Whittier College, California, WB Yeats’ Center, Sligo, Gustav Stressemann Institute, Bonn, Rubin Museum, New York, Cosmopoetica, Cordoba, Spain, The Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin, Lu Xun Literary Institute, Beijing, The Guardian Newsroom, London, Trois Rivieres Poetry Festival, Quebec, FIP, Buenos Aires, Slovenian Book Days, Ljubljana, Royal Society of Dramatic Arts, London, Gunter Grass House, Bremen, International Poetry Festival, Granada, Nicaragua, Nehru Center, London, Beijing Normal University, March Hare, Newfoundland, Canada, London Olympics 2012, Frankfurt Book Fair, and Villa Serbelloni, Italy. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He has held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen’s University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Beijing Open University, New York University, New York and Columbia University, New York.<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /></strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2020, his work was showcased at Royal Kew Gardens in an Exhibit, “Travel the World at Kew.” 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.<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma edits <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.</em><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">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, <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma</strong> is a world renowned Himalayan poet and translator.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He has published ten poetry collections including, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Second Buddha Walk</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, </em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nepal</em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Trilogy,</em> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Space Cake, Amsterdam </em>and <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Annapurna Poems</em>. Four books of his poetry have appeared in French, Spanish and Slovenian.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />Widely traveled author, he has read his works at several prestigious places and held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen’s University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Beijing Open University, New York University, New York and Columbia University, New York.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2020, his work was showcased at Royal Kew Gardens in an Exhibit, “Travel the World at Kew.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">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.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma edits <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.</em></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-6641" data-attachment-id="6641" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="yuyu-photo-new-1" data-large-file="https://niralapublications.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/yuyu-photo-new-1.jpg?w=584" data-medium-file="https://niralapublications.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/yuyu-photo-new-1.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://niralapublications.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/yuyu-photo-new-1.jpg" data-orig-size="720,480" data-permalink="https://niralapublications.com/2022/09/28/lost-horoscope-other-new-poems/yuyu-photo-new-1/" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" src="https://niralapublications.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/yuyu-photo-new-1.jpg?w=720" srcset="https://niralapublications.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/yuyu-photo-new-1.jpg 720w, https://niralapublications.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/yuyu-photo-new-1.jpg?w=150 150w, https://niralapublications.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/yuyu-photo-new-1.jpg?w=300 300w" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); 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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Sunday 2 Oct, 2022 2 pm</span></em> <strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Yuyutsu Sharma reading at Droichead Art Centre </span></strong>with
Drogheda Creative Writers Host: <strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Marian Clarke</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><em style="font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Tuesday Oct 4. 6 pm to 7 pm</span></em> <strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Translating poetry to and from Nepali with Yuyutsu Sharma </span></strong>Trinity
Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation 36 Fenian Street D02 CH22 Dublin,
Ireland <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.ie%2Fe%2F421269106237%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3zaMCAenwFqNK3u5syims5skpxAK4AYhem8ihBpkGYZIe1zAFs4Z_gB2U&h=AT2NBKGEL9F7XF5KeAt9UnQVkL6NPxJXt2HXMb0J-GdpLJZhoClPHwKpVNIZ5bT4agiT6HGrSegby4YLiTF6NVENbm-TtxMGB7X2WwUEU6HKkjPadetLTr92r-HXVMhprEA" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1470b7; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/421269106237/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><em style="font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Friday 7 Oct, 2022. 8 pm </span></em>Y<strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">uyutsu Sharma reads with Michael Coady and Mark Roper,</span></strong> ,
Poetry Plus – Carrick-on-Sui Hosted by <strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Margaret O’ Brien</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><em style="font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Saturday 8 Oct,2022 5-7 pm</span></em> :<strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Yuyutsu Sharma reading with Irish Poets, Eilean Ni
Chuilleanain, Michael O’ Loughlin, Gabriel Rosenstock, Emer
Davis , Judith Mok, Anne Tannam , Patrick Chapman, (</span></strong>with<strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> Reeti Mishra </span></strong>as Special Gues<strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">t)</span></strong>, in Dublin the Foxrock residence, Indian
Embassy in Ireland event 5 and 7pm A high tea with poetry and music Host:<strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> Indian Embassy in Ireland.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">United States</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Saturday, October 29, 4:00pm</span></strong> Yuyutsu Sharma
will read his poetry at the Sacramento Poetry Alliance Salon, Residence in Land
Park, 1169 Perkins Way, Sacramento, CA.. After the reading, there will be music
and October Festivities with food.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Sunday, October 30, 2:00pm</span></strong> Yuyutsu will be
reading his poetry at the beautiful Chateau Davell Winery, 3020 Vista Tierra
Drive in Camino, CA. To be followed by an Open Mic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Saturday, 12 November, 2022,</span></strong> Yuyutsu RD
Sharma reading Live Poetry with Stephen Massimilla and Mary Lau Buschi,
Beacon, NY <strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Host: Ruth Danon</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Friday,</span></strong> <strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">18 November Time: 6:30-8:30</span></strong> Yuyu
reading at Yale Club with Jeton Kelmendi from Kosovo, Bill Wolak & Others
at 50 Vanderbilt Avenue (between 44th & 45th Streets across from Grand
Central Station) New York, NY 10017 either 17th or 18th floor (TBA)
by invitation only Sultan Catto, Host: <a href="mailto:SCatto@gc.cuny.edu" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1470b7; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">SCatto@gc.cuny.edu</span></a> <strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Bill Wolak</span></strong>, Coordinator williamwolak@netzero.net<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Sunday, 20 November, 2022 Time: 6:30-8:30</span></strong> Yuyu
featuring at Ray MacNeice’s Monthly event, Cleveland Ohio,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px;"><strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Friday, 2 Dec, 2022 </span></strong>Calling All Poets reading
with Mary Louise and Michael O’Mara, Beacon, NY</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-62015872606738037872022-10-03T10:10:00.001-07:002022-10-03T10:10:09.165-07:00Yuyutsu Sharma to read with distinguished Irish Poets at Indian Embassy in Ireland<p><br /></p><p>To celebrate the 75 years of India's Independence, the Indian Embassy in Ireland hosts an evening of poetry where Yuyutsu Sharma reads with distinguished Irish poets, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Michael O’ Loughlin, Gabriel Rosenstock, Emer Davis , Judith Mok, Anne Tannam , Patrick Chapman, (with Reeti Mishra as Special Guest), in Dublin the Foxrock residence, Indian Embassy in Ireland event 8 oct, 5 and 7pm A high tea with poetry and music Host: Indian Embassy in Ireland</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXVyjN5Wtc3rhCz9N0EUXJR79rRNyArQdjF_IHekfsGv0iC95cQSTfEuZxoDfulUZp1moq1mgOnVp9UAIthqLGD6iX3lCuSliHHrInSxp4Kix800O7-L7Wc7Oylx8oiGfmFHkWjw1Agj2pmrrNyZsBi6VNCPX4Jbe_HttQ_6Q51lTMVcd5ZSltjGVNQ/s900/Poster%20Indian%20Embassy.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="900" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXVyjN5Wtc3rhCz9N0EUXJR79rRNyArQdjF_IHekfsGv0iC95cQSTfEuZxoDfulUZp1moq1mgOnVp9UAIthqLGD6iX3lCuSliHHrInSxp4Kix800O7-L7Wc7Oylx8oiGfmFHkWjw1Agj2pmrrNyZsBi6VNCPX4Jbe_HttQ_6Q51lTMVcd5ZSltjGVNQ/w640-h452/Poster%20Indian%20Embassy.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-46042069801494559952022-05-27T10:45:00.003-07:002022-05-27T10:52:24.921-07:00Yuyutsu Sharma's Five Poems in Converse: An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poets published to celebrate 75 years of India's Independence edited by Sudeep Sen<p style="text-align: center;">Yuyutsu Sharma's Five Poems in Converse: An Anthology of Contemporary English Poetry by Indians published to celebrate 75 years of India's Independence (Pippa Rann, 2022)</p><p style="text-align: center;">Edited by Sudeep Sen</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDvsGcQPB0znLYuvMgaXhPplP9k-wZZSCKyUvkLoQRmc3ydzPXL0yVZpF1-GtjZkgsdcqCFXXfC1lKHIC0N7VMZsaEI71DlKd3XneMEhjFjYs0rZaEFRWk7AXJ1Y2Xcu8hvtF5UJxlkUVGoikhNxnH9jbiizg7dx9N_Le7IEBwBZz_qSppKwgg6OmCA/s1126/FSxTmn0VUAAChRH.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1126" data-original-width="736" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDvsGcQPB0znLYuvMgaXhPplP9k-wZZSCKyUvkLoQRmc3ydzPXL0yVZpF1-GtjZkgsdcqCFXXfC1lKHIC0N7VMZsaEI71DlKd3XneMEhjFjYs0rZaEFRWk7AXJ1Y2Xcu8hvtF5UJxlkUVGoikhNxnH9jbiizg7dx9N_Le7IEBwBZz_qSppKwgg6OmCA/w418-h640/FSxTmn0VUAAChRH.jpg" width="418" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXp4fh56sNcNoDW0ddTSdZjgT2-jw2R5qCugJ75Cp1x_lfdRIo501bVvIb7F9FmnugdngX0jr8jPVUGzloyqYzDMEE67fppN0NToLbC0lA7IXiaUUh8lAxPyF14ZTqo8grrU3T0Hb6_cGM7OypfT9xIgmP8aoZqAerWB2KdwF5IiEUuMxfdwi-gRvBA/s2108/CONVERSE%20Ilya,%20Tharoor,%20Niven%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1478" data-original-width="2108" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXp4fh56sNcNoDW0ddTSdZjgT2-jw2R5qCugJ75Cp1x_lfdRIo501bVvIb7F9FmnugdngX0jr8jPVUGzloyqYzDMEE67fppN0NToLbC0lA7IXiaUUh8lAxPyF14ZTqo8grrU3T0Hb6_cGM7OypfT9xIgmP8aoZqAerWB2KdwF5IiEUuMxfdwi-gRvBA/w400-h280/CONVERSE%20Ilya,%20Tharoor,%20Niven%20(1).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-456853794184134372022-03-16T05:59:00.002-07:002022-03-16T06:02:08.740-07:00American Poet Mike Graves on Yuyutsu Sharma's upcoming collection, "In God's Messy Workplace: The 2020-21 Poems"<p> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; font-size: medium;"><i><b>I feel unable to praise Yuyutsu
Sharma's new collection adequately. I think of Whitman, Neruda, Lorca. Sharma
is a fever and river, at moments a rhapsody and the gods sing through him even
his workshop is messy. Yuyutsu Sharma should be known as The Himalayan Neruda
not only for the torrents of images and compassion and outrage in his poetry
but for the range of his subjects, themes and imagery. Reading him I feel as I
do when reading Neruda that he could make first rate poetry out of anything, as
he ranges like a vartic voice of the Himalayas through the natural beauties of
Nepal and cities of the world.</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">—</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif";">Mike Graves,</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> American poet
and teacher, City University of New York, author, <i>A Prayer for the Less Violent Offenders:</i></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .4in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.4in 0in 0in; mso-hyphenate: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNE3EHQ2YFxRzMP0A2RmBSxIpDsOGC5OOPF58QC0wTNlZsS3P-qR3F8OGKihd-9TiYE0AG2_HNCvI7Yl2UxHYtH1ROVHUiEsc_S2wy8C6aSEbcxEvyyBMQpb5Ry5XO1iJQzTRot6ofBiON-f5YuFnSL-C1dpjOihfRH5h5ceOO8wZ6dWMAdnl1qypqcQ=s879" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="879" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNE3EHQ2YFxRzMP0A2RmBSxIpDsOGC5OOPF58QC0wTNlZsS3P-qR3F8OGKihd-9TiYE0AG2_HNCvI7Yl2UxHYtH1ROVHUiEsc_S2wy8C6aSEbcxEvyyBMQpb5Ry5XO1iJQzTRot6ofBiON-f5YuFnSL-C1dpjOihfRH5h5ceOO8wZ6dWMAdnl1qypqcQ=w640-h590" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Michael Graves</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> is the author of four chapbooks, two
of which are digital, and three full-length collections. The chapbooks are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Outside St. Jude’s</i> (R. E. M.,1990), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blatnoy </i>(madhattersreview3.com, 2005), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Illegal Border Crosser</i> (Cervena Barva,
2008), and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fifteen Villanelles</i>
(Robert Perron.com 2020). The full-length books are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Adam and Cain</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In
Fragility</i> (Black Buzzard, 2006, 2011) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Prayer for the Less Violent Offenders: Selected Short Poems of Mike Graves</i>
(Nirala, 2017). He has published fifteen poems in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The James Joyce Quarterly</i> and has read from his “Joycean Poems” to
a gathering of the James Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mark, April 12, 2002.
His poem “Apollo to Daphne” appears in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gods
and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths</i> (Oxford, 2001) The Ludwig
Vogelstein Foundation awarded him a grant in 2006. He organized the conference,
Baptism by Fire: The Work of James Wright at Poets House, NY (March 27, 2004).
And he has been coordinating and hosting the Phoenix Reading Series for about
twenty years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-54172903756971567062022-03-13T05:34:00.001-07:002022-03-13T05:34:55.059-07:00Charles Bernstein on Yuyutsu Sharma's upcoming, "In God's Messy Workplace: The 2020-21 Poems"<p> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif";"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Like “globes of light” along a narrow
path through “blind night,” these syncopating couplets offer neither escape nor
absolution, but something more tangible for “bleary-eyed wanderers”: company
along the way. </span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">—</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif";">Charles Bernstein,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "serif";"> author
of <i>Near/Miss</i> and <i>Pitch of Poetry & </i></span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "sans-serif";">the winner of the 2019 Bollingen Prize for American Poet</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "sans-serif";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7fjip1pN9uumL2r472SpB0pVeGHTTBxTJGsGNZre6Jo9Eu89igADil-Q5kptIAhlaLNSjpvWrWGT0FI5lClha0GNAtHKIbrknw5F2NcEVuZQVtxvp-0ZoDN4XJRZPGd0HQBvlbW6RqAQF4TbD86OQD9hRNHVef1bnBmdOns2Gm4d7fW6CyXIDfNMCPg=s591" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="591" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7fjip1pN9uumL2r472SpB0pVeGHTTBxTJGsGNZre6Jo9Eu89igADil-Q5kptIAhlaLNSjpvWrWGT0FI5lClha0GNAtHKIbrknw5F2NcEVuZQVtxvp-0ZoDN4XJRZPGd0HQBvlbW6RqAQF4TbD86OQD9hRNHVef1bnBmdOns2Gm4d7fW6CyXIDfNMCPg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br />ry<span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "sans-serif";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt;"><br /></span></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-89566765376856689212022-03-11T22:30:00.004-08:002022-03-11T22:54:21.889-08:00James Ragan on Yuyutsu Sharma's "Lost Horoscope," Epilogue to his upcoming book of poems, In God's Messy Workplace: The 2020-21 Poems<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“There's a brilliance in the mind of the poet whose
imagination created this gem of a poem out of the "crumpled calendar of
chaos," aptly called the "Lost Horoscope." </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>I was hypnotically immersed in the structure of steps that each
stanza offered, hurling the reader down into memory, into the "wingless realm
of illogical proclamations" and the resultant "wasteful heap of
despair," while seeking "solace, sleep, and salvation" to arrive
at the epiphany that "perhaps all those prophesies were true." </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Like
an Eliot poem, to gain the enlightenment inherent in this poem, you must read
the poem again to capture the nuance and metaphysics of the allusions
connecting each image, each stanza, to recover the revelatory "medley of
omens" leading to the abyss of "imminent doom." </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>One must
journey, "sight fractured," through the "moldy world of rickety
realities" --typhoid, covid-- while "humming the prayers, drenched in
the Monsoon showers of the Himalayan valleys rolling in the world of spirits
and sages." Like the poet, one must risk the life of his creative will to
recover and rediscover what healing eternal truths lay, lost and buried in our
collective unconscious decades and centuries ago... </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>a magnificent sight-healing
journey.”</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinYabQ8SxcPG3pMYmPGKtMLa0cN3hvnVwaKuKFgbYytb-VIEQ2q0E5DvpKk0qE2bWtYXJTa3ZsZJxI621IwTomB22M4g6ZKf9q-6zu_Co9Mcb78I3js_56EZeHfxQP_E2iM_xhZQl3inMTj0HSpqLIwWTICWeNQgrQ10pH9aMmg-Rd8DdYpYE5AChKCA=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinYabQ8SxcPG3pMYmPGKtMLa0cN3hvnVwaKuKFgbYytb-VIEQ2q0E5DvpKk0qE2bWtYXJTa3ZsZJxI621IwTomB22M4g6ZKf9q-6zu_Co9Mcb78I3js_56EZeHfxQP_E2iM_xhZQl3inMTj0HSpqLIwWTICWeNQgrQ10pH9aMmg-Rd8DdYpYE5AChKCA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">James Ragan</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> has published 10 books of poetry and
is translated into 15 languages with poems in <i>Poetry, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, World Literature Today</i> and
30 anthologies. Plays produced in the U.S. Moscow, Beijing, Athens, Prague.
Honors include 2 Honorary Ph.D’s, 3 Fulbright Professorships, the Emerson
Poetry Prize, 9 Pushcart nominations, NEA Fellowship, the Swan Foundation
Humanitarian Award, and the Platinum Prize at Houston’s Int. Film Festival as
subject of the documentary, “Flowers and Roots, Ambassador of the Arts.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Yuyutsu Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14846473551152553553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-419884288277353943.post-40562595700699276272022-02-28T21:48:00.002-08:002022-02-28T21:48:31.539-08:00Announcing CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, Pratik's Australian Poetry Edition, Fire and Rain <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAG_P1GzxCnWhhgDWU4ovBxW-67BbvNymZt6Z7BennKr1D2tNaLoJK9-tqav_1vStxd30ufyLKs0g7By4xEzZGhUvb2RiQKci6neLYs_cTypOUq4YsHpTx6j5Re7VKWj7lcSeVI4gctCIyuEEY8lL0z6NEtgbr4jv57KZ5VfUakOhPr6U8fTT-5USyRw=s2813" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2813" data-original-width="2250" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAG_P1GzxCnWhhgDWU4ovBxW-67BbvNymZt6Z7BennKr1D2tNaLoJK9-tqav_1vStxd30ufyLKs0g7By4xEzZGhUvb2RiQKci6neLYs_cTypOUq4YsHpTx6j5Re7VKWj7lcSeVI4gctCIyuEEY8lL0z6NEtgbr4jv57KZ5VfUakOhPr6U8fTT-5USyRw=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Fire and Rain </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">– Call for Submissions + $500 AUD Cash Prize<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Fire and Rain</span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> – <i>Pratik:A Magazine of Contemporary
Writing</i>Australian Poetry Edition </span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://niralapublications.com/new-booksarrivals/pratik-magazine/pratik-magazine-2/"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">https://niralapublications.com/new-booksarrivals/pratik-magazine/pratik-magazine-2/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> co-curated and supported by APWT </span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://www.apwriters.org/"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">https://www.apwriters.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">+ $500 AUD cash prize for winning entry. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Asia Pacific
Writers and Translators (APWT) and <i>Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary
Writing </i>invite submissions for <i>Fire and Rain</i> – a special edition of
the magazine focused on Australian poetry. The theme acts as a kicking off
point and is open to interpretation – we seek previously unpublished poetry
that evokes a sense of Australia – either geographically, spiritually, politically,
linguistically,culturally,or otherwise. This edition celebrates the diversity
of Australian poetic perspectives and voices – we welcome submissions from both
established and emerging poets, indigenous writers and LGBTIQ+ community. We
are open to experimental forms and multiple submissions are permitted. Previous
well received special editions of <i>Pratik </i>magazine have focused on
writing from Ireland, Los Angeles and Nepal amongst others and we foresee <i>Fire
and Rain</i> will contribute to this ongoing international conversation with
vibrant new work from Australian poets. </span><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in;">Pratik</span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;"> published quarterly is
edited by the world-renowned Himalayan poet, Yuyutsu Sharma in Kathmandu and
has become a significant international platform of creative writing. You can
access previous editions of <i>Pratik </i>here </span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://pratikmagazine.blogspot.com/"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">http://pratikmagazine.blogspot.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;">and it is also available for
purchase via Amazon. Readers for this edition will be editor of <i>Pratik</i>YuyutsuSharma,
Executive Director of APWT and author Dr Sally Breen and celebrated Australian
poet Jennifer Mackenzie. One entry selected by the readers will be awarded the
$500 AUD cash prize. Submission is open to financial members of APWT – not a
member? Join here: </span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: #373737; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Visit our
Submittable Page to enter: </span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ndnaCmOxl2fjxAG1mCGg44l?domain=drunkenboat.submittable.com" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">https://drunkenboat.submittable.com/submit</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Submission
close: April 1<sup>st</sup>2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><strong><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Submission Guidelines</span></strong><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Submissions
are open to emerging and established Australian poets who are financial
members of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators. New members are welcome
to submit – you can join APWT via the following link: </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: windowtext;"><a href="https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Unpublished
poems only.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We
accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us if your work is
picked up elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No
more than five poems may be submitted. There is no line-limit. Poems may
be any length, any style, but must feature reference to some aspect of
Australia as identified in the blurb.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Multiple
submissions are allowed, but each new submission requires a new fee.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Please
include a brief cover note with your professional bio and a brief introduction
via the submittable page where indicated. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Submission
fee of $5 USD.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Deadline
is midnight April 1<sup>st</sup>, 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
decision of the readers is final and no correspondence will be entered
into regarding work submitted. If you have a general query about the callthen
please feel free to contact </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: windowtext;"><a href="mailto:admin@apwriters.com"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">admin@apwriters.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Social Media Call for Subs Version <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Fire and Rain
</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">– Call for
Submissions<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Fire and Rain</span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> – <i>Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary
Writing</i> Australian Poetry Edition co-curated and supported by APWT + $500
AUD cash prize for winning entry <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Asia Pacific
Writers and Translators (APWT) and <i>Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary
Writing </i>invite submissions for <i>Fire and Rain</i> – a special edition of
the magazine focused on Australian poetry. The theme acts as a kicking off
point and is open to interpretation – we seek previously unpublished poetry
that evokes a sense of Australia – either geographically, spiritually, politically,
linguistically, culturally, or otherwise. This edition celebrates the diversity
of Australian poetic perspectives and voices – we welcome submissions from both
established and emerging poets, indigenous writers and LGBTIQ+ community. We
are open to experimental forms and multiple submissions are permitted. </span><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in;">Pratik</span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;"> published
quarterly is edited by the world-renowned Himalayan poet, Yuyutsu Sharma in
Kathmandu and has become a significant international platform of creative
writing. You can read more about the call and enter via our Submittable Page</span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ndnaCmOxl2fjxAG1mCGg44l?domain=drunkenboat.submittable.com" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">https://drunkenboat.submittable.com/submit</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;">Submission is open to financial
members of APWT – not a member? Join here: </span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">https://www.apwriters.org/become-a-member/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1;">Submissions close on April 1<sup>st</sup>
2022. </span></p>
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