Monday, June 20, 2016

Yuyutsu Sharma: Upcoming Florida and California readings

Yuyutsu Sharma: Upcoming Florida and California readings

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FLORIDA
Wednesday, June 22, 7 to 9 p.m.
Yuyutsu Sharma as feature poet at Wine-Me on  204 South Beach Street Daytona Beach 386-871-7769.The program is presented by Volusia County Poet Laureate Dr. David B. Axelrod, axelrod@poetrydoctor.org, or call 386-337-4567
CALIFORNIA
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Monday, June 27th 7:30 pm
Yuyutsu Sharma to read with  Arturo Mantecón at Sacramento Poetry Center
Hosted by Wendy Williams, Sacramento Poetry Center 1719 25th St between Q and R, http://sacramentopoetrycenter.org
TUESDAY June 28, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Yuyutsu Sharma at the library of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, 27074 Patwin Rd, Davis CA 95616 http://www.uudavis.org/ Hosted by Allegra Silberstein
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 – 7:00 PM
Yuyutsu Sharma Poetry Reading at the Pink Palace, home of Diane Frank and Erik Levins in the Outer Sunset, San Francisco.Please RSVP to GeishaPoet@aol.com to reserve your seat!
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Thursday, June 30, 2016   7:00 – 9:30 PM
at the Himalayan Flavors Restaurant 1585 University Avenue (corner California)
Berkeley California 94703

Friday, July 1, 2016
Yuyutsu Sharma reading at Mosaic of Voices, Sacramento
Hosted by Nancy Aidé González 

Saturday, July 2nd Time TBD
Yuyutsu Sharma reading at Asian Diaspora with
Jassi Bassi, Rhony Bhopla, Meera Klein, Heera Kulkarni
Sacramento Poetry Center 1719 25th St between Q and R,
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Yuyutsu Sharma reading in San Francisco



You are warmly & joyfully invited to a POETRY READING at the Pink Palace...
 
YUYUTSU SHARMA
Author of Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems 
A Blizzard in My Bones:  New York Poems
The Nepal Trilogy:  Photographs and Poetry
about the Nepal areas of Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang 
 
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 7:00 PM

at the Pink Palace,home of Diane Frank and Erik Ievins
in the Outer Sunset, San Francisco.

Please RSVP to GeishaPoet@aol.com to reserve your seat! 
I will mail the address and directions after your RSVP.

Dessert & snack potluck at the break – bring something sweet or savory or a beverage.
(Parking on neighborhood streets – same street or around the corner.)

PLEASE NOTE:  We observe the Japanese custom of no shoes in the house.
Shoe racks are provided on the porch.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE:  This is a fragrance-free event. 
Please avoid scented skin & hair products & aftershave
so people with allergies and asthma can attend.

Please tell your friends and bring your friends!

The Fine Print...

Quaking Cantos is the creative response of a world-renowned Himalayan poet to the earthquakes that shook Nepal in 2015, killing thousands and leaving more than a million people homeless, vulnerable to the ravages of the harsh Himalayan environment. In the aftermath of the earthquakes, his North and Central American reading tours suspended, Yuyutsu returns to Nepal to bear witness to the devastation the "cosmic commotion" has caused in his own Himalayan home. "These are wonderful, troubling, and moving poems."

Yuyutsu Sharmato read at Daytona Beach

Yuyutsu Sharma to read at Daytona Beach

PRESS RELEASE
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HIMALAYAN POET FEATURED IN DAYTONA BEACH

Yuyutsu RD Sharma will be the featured poet on Wednesday, June 22, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Wine-Me on Beach Street in Daytona Beach. Mr. Sharma, who lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, will read from his two newest books: Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, and A Blizzard in My Bones: New York Poems (Nirala, 2016). He will also discuss the continuing tragedy of the earthquake that devastated Nepal a year ago.
The program is presented by Volusia County Poet Laureate Dr. David B. Axelrod. “Yuyustu’s work is of interest to more than poets. He speaks lovingly of his homeland, but he also describes all our lives.”  says Axelrod. “We who have moved from the north to Florida certainly know what it means to have ‘a blizzard in our bones.’”

In addition to teaching at Columbia University and just previously at New York University, Mr. Sharma is a recipient of a fellowship from The Rockefeller Foundation, author of nine poetry collections, and is a frequent performer and workshop teacher throughout the world.

A gifted translator, Yuyutsu’s book of Nepali translations entitled Roaring Recitals; Five Nepali Poets was nominated by the Library of Congress as Best Book of the Year from Asia under the program, “A World of Books 2001: International Perspectives.”  His own poetry has been translated into and published in seven languages.

Wine-Me is located at 204 South Beach Street and can be reached at 386-871-7769. For more information about Mr. Sharma and the program, email Dr. Axelrod,axelrod@poetrydoctor.org, or call 386-337-4567.

An Evening with the Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu Sharma in Berkeley

An Evening with the Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu Sharma in Berkeley

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Thursday, June 30, 2016   7:00 – 9:30 PM
at the Himalayan Flavors Restaurant
1585 University Avenue (corner California)
Berkeley California 94703
Currently on his West coast tour, Yuyutsu Sharma  will read from his most recent book,Quaking Cantos and A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems . 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 RD Sharma is a distinguished poet and translator. Currently Visiting Poet at Columbia University, New York and he has just returned from Argentina where he was participating in XI International Poetry Festival, Buenos Aires as a Special Guest. More www.www.yuyutsu.de orwww.niralapublications.com
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Quaking Cantos is the creative response of a world-renowned Himalayan poet to the earthquakes that shook Nepal in 2015, killing thousands and leaving more than a million people homeless, vulnerable to the ravages of the harsh Himalayan environment. In the aftermath of the earthquakes, his North and Central American reading tours suspended, Yuyutsu returns to Nepal to bear witness to the devastation the “cosmic commotion” has caused in his own Himalayan home. “These are wonderful, troubling, and moving poems.”
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A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems constitute Sharma’s reflections on what it means for a Himalayan poet to transform to a new creation….a New Yorker! Himalayan culture collides with cultures of New York City as he celebrates a shared vision of humanity forged in a metropolis and in the mountains of home.
Himalayan Flavors Restaurant Features authentic cuisine of the greater Himalayan regions Please 7:00 – 8:00 PM Dinner and socializing 8:00 – 9:30 PM Reading, book-signing, more socializing www.himalayanflavors.com
PLEASE NOTE:  Free parking available in restaurant lot and street parking after 7 PM.  Or BART to Downtown Berkeley, and walk or take 51B bus to California St. The restaurant is wheelchair accessible.
Please RSVP to Estelle Schneider at estelabella2003@yahoo.com so we can give the restaurant an estimate

The Other Voice offers a bonus reading this spring featuring well-known Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu Sharma.


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The Other Voice, sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, offers a bonus reading this spring featuring well-known Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu Sharma.
Allegra Silberstein will open for Yuyutsu making this a very special occasion.
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DATE/TIME:           TUESDAY June 28, 2016, 7:30 p.m.  
ADDRESS:             27074 Patwin Road, Davis (in the library)
 
Refreshments and open mic follow the reading
 
Yuyutsu Sharma is a distinguished poet and translator. He is currently the Visiting Poet at Columbia University in New York and will visit Argentina in June to participate in the International Poetry Festival in Buenos Aires. 
 
Yuyutsu 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),  and  Nepal Trilogy, Photographs and Poetry on Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang (www.Nepal-Trilogy.de ) Two books of his poetry, Poemes de l’ Himalayas(L’Harmattan, Paris) andPoemas de Los Himalayas (Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) just appeared in French and Spanish respectively.
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He is the 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.
 
Widely traveled, he has read his works at several prestigious venues and  held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen’s University, Belfast; University of Ottawa; South Asian Institute; Heidelberg University, Germany; University of California, Davis; Sacramento State University and New York University.  
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When he is not traveling the world reading his poetry and conducting workshops, Yuyutsu spends his time trekking in the Himalayas.
 
Allegra Silberstein Poet Laureate Emerita of the City of Davis has been widely published in journals and in several anthologies.  Her chapbooks include Acceptance by Small Poetry Press; In the Folds by Rattlesnake Review and Through Sun-glinting Particlespublished by Parallel Press in Madison, Wisconsin.  In 2015, her book, West of Angelswas published by Cold River Press.  She is also the long time host of The Other Voice. 

Sunday, April 17, 2016

A Letter from Auburn, New Hampshire about Quaking Cantos


Response to "Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems" and A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems from Lisa T, Concord, New Hampshire, I met Lisa last week at my reading and book signing at Griffin Free Public library...

Hello Yuyu,

I read your book "Quaking Cantos," and I am so impressed with your keen use of language especially when I consider that English is not your first language. The way that you marry words together shows the endlessness of your imagination and creates imagery that is staggering and vivid. Your form is as jagged and painful as the events themselves and I am struck by your ability to take on such a massive task. How painful the actual events must have been!

"The Burning Sun," is an example of this, the baby is "bare and howling in the bleeding eye of the growling sun..."

In "The Family Deity," the use of "atonement stubs," is so perfect, but to have thought of the two together is brilliant.

If I had to pick a favorite it would be "Course of Courage," for its cadence, language and imagery.

I have begun to read "A Blizzard in my Bones," and it is quite a different experience. It is fun to read the impressions of a city I love by someone with more clarity and objectivity. There is a lot of humor, irony and reality in this book and I was very amused by your poem about observing a woman on the subway putting on her make up, stop by stop.

Great work!

Namaste
Lisa T"


Sunday, February 28, 2016

New York based American poet, Michael Graves on "Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems"

In their panoramic sweep, headlong rushing catalogues, visionary moments, their courage and  compassion, numinous imagery, and beautiful music, Yuyutsu Sharma’ Quaking Cantos are worthy of comparison to “The Sleepers” of Whitman. 

These poems will shake the attentive reader like the quakes they witness. In the dramatic immediacy of their confrontation with the cosmos and powers beyond comprehension or control—powers that seem to have gone utterly mad--they recreate the terror and terrible beauty of what Rudolf Otto has called “The Holy. 

As one small example of the flood Sharma provides, consider the conclusion of “A Burning Sun”: in which for a moment a woman has left her baby kicking alone, outside playfully at the eye of heaven:

And it hit again,
the second time, right there,
burying her shoulder
deep under a pile
of mud and damp bricks,

leaving her son
bare and howling
in the bleeding eye
of the growling sun.


Michael Graves, author of Outside St. Jude’s Adam and Cain, Illegal Border Crosser and In Fragility

German Writer & Journalist Eckhart Nickel on Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems

"We cannot leave the reconstruction of the damage done by the earthquake to the conservators alone. Yuyutsu Sharma turns the devastation into vivid poetry to humanize the pain and revive the gracious dignified and loving spirit of the Nepali people in a moment of insurmountable grief, preserving the majestic and mystical ambiance of their ancient artifacts"
 Eckhart Nickel, 
German Writer & Journalist

Saturday, February 27, 2016

American Poet David Austell on Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems by Yuyutsu Sharma

There are several things immediately noticeable in Yuyu Sharma’s very powerful Quaking Cantos. The poetic form is fairly unusual (the poems are jagged and rapid fire), and even when you bind the short lines tightly in couplets, this does not relieve the feel of sharp edges. There is a great deal of fractured enjambment, for example The earth/opened up/ her jaws   (from “Nipple”) to the point that the poems themselves seem broken. This is highly successful and effective given the very difficult subject matter. Yuyu’s approach to the challenge of form in the Cantos is that of a master. The anger and grief expressed from poem to poem (and even within poems) pop up very quickly then subside like an aftershock. The reader is then often left with some indelible image: a crying lamb, a grandmother who has just died, a baby searching for the sustenance of a mother’s breast. The poetic form certainly enhances this, but it is the images, which are so electric. These are wonderful, troubling, and moving poems.  It must have drained Yuyu to the core to write of such catastrophe.

— Dr. David Austell, Columbia University, New York

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Yuyutsu Sharma to read with Christian Wiman at Columbia University…



An Evening with Christian Wiman and Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma

April 30 @ 7:30 pm

The Global Poets Series presents an evening with Christian Wiman and Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma for a poetry reading event being called Poetry in the Presence of the Holy.  There will also be a discussion as part of the readings.  The event will occur at the International House/Dodge Room, 155 Claremont, at 7:30 pm.  Please RSVP here. The Global Poets Series is a Collaborative Program of Columbia University International Students and Scholars Office and International House-New York City.
http://ouc.columbia.edu/event/an-evening-with-christian-wiman-and-yuyutsu-ram-dass-sharma/

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Presentación del libro "POEMAS DE LOS HIMALAYAS" Del poeta Indio-Nepalés Yuyutsu Sharma

Presentación del libro
"POEMAS DE LOS HIMALAYAS"
Del poeta Indio-Nepalés Yuyutsu Sharma
Sábado 25 de Abril - 1 pm
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LECTURA DE POESÍA 
Una de la voces más importantes de la poesía nepalesa y de mayor reconocimiento internacional.
Yuyutsu Sharma estará con nosotros y nos ofrecerá una lectura bilingüe (sus poemas acaban de ser traducidos
al español) junto a tres excelente poetas: 
Samantha Wischnia, 
Alejandro Chacón y
Evgueni Bezzubikoff
quienes leerán
poemas propios y célebres.

Ven a celebrar el MES DE LA POESíA con los propios poetas.

Ossining Public Library
53 Croton Ave, Ossining, NY 10562
(914) 941-2416

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Yuyutsu Sharma’s Upcoming Readings in New York, Massachusetts and Boston


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Yuyutsu Sharma is South Asia’s leading poet published by Nirala and Epsilonmedia, Germany with growing International acclaim. He is currently in New York City as a visiting poet at New York University and had several readings in Nicaragua, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Coast. Here is the list of some immediate readings in New York, Massachusetts and Boston…
Friday, April 10, 2015 Yuyutsu Sharma reading at The Grolier Book Shop, Cambridge, The Grolier Book Shop, 6 Plympton Street, Cambridge, , MA 02138, United States (map)http://www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org/
Friday, April 12, 2015 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm at Salem Athenaeum Dangerous Words—Unexpected Destinations: Yuyu Sharma to read at Salem Athenaeum Library with Maria Bennett, Kristine Doll, Shreejana Sharma & Bill Wolak.
Salem Athenaeum 337 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970 USA, Free to Public, Contact : Kristine Doll
Thursday, April 16, 6:30 pm, Yuyutsu Sharma reading with Sharon Dolin at New York University, Office of Global Studies in collaboration with NYU-SPS, at 7 E, 12 St. fifth Floor.
Tuesday, April 21, 7:30 to 9:30, Yuyutsu Sharma reading as Special Feature for Poetry Month at Sip It, 64 Rockaway Av, Valley Stream, Long Island, NY 11580 (516) 341-0491 Hosted by Lorraine Conlin
Thursday, April 30,7:30 Christian Wiman and Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma: Poetry in the Presence of the Holy, A Poetry Reading and Discussion, at International House, 500 Riverside Drive, Columbia University, New York, 10027, NY Organised by Columbia-ISSO, Columbia Global Poets Series: A poetry reading in collaboration with International House-New York City, and the Columbia School of General Studies.
http://niralapublications.com/

Monday, April 6, 2015

Dangerous Words—Unexpected Destinations: Yuyu Sharma to read at Salem Athenaeum Library

Dangerous Words—Unexpected Destinations: Yuyu Sharma to read at Salem Athenaeum Library with Maria Bennett, Kristine Doll, Shreejana Sharma & Bill Wolak

Dangerous Words—Unexpected Destinations: Five Poets Read Their Work and Translations
March 26, 2015
WHEN: April 12, 2015 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
WHERE: Salem Athenaeum
337 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970 USA
COST: Free
CONTACT: Kristine Doll
PROGRAMS’ WRITERS
Maria Bennett, Kristine Doll, Shreejana Sharma, Yuyutsu Sharma, and Bill Wolak will offer a Spring inventory of risky declamations on the themes of intimacy, loss, alienation, perishability, travel, and unexpected pleasures. Each of the poets will offer temptations, celebrations, and insights. In addition, these five poets will explore various destinations in the world of “the other” through their translations from around the globe, including brief stopovers in Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Persian, and Nepalese.
The afternoon will feature the distinguished Indian/Nepali poet Yuyutsu Sharma, who is currently on a tour of North and South America. Having just returned from Nicaragua, where he read his poetry in the streets of Managua with Ernesto Cardenal to an audience of thirty thousand people, Mr. Sharma will offer poems that evoke both the daunting primordial landscape of the Himalayas and the contemporary space cake of Amsterdam.
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Maria Bennett has published a book of poetry entitled Because You Love. Her poetry has appeared in California Quarterly, Timber Creek Review, Gargoyle, Southern California Review, River Poets Journal, Red Rock Review, Caveat Lector, The Mochila Review, Barbaric Yawp, Eclipse, Common Ground Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Pinch, Main Street Rag, Third Wednesday, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Illuminations, andPsychic Meatloaf. Recently she has published a translation of the works of the Italian poet Annelisa Addolorato with Bill Wolak entitled My Voice Seeks You: The Selected Poetry of Annelisa Addolorato, Cross-Cultural Communications, 2013. Ms. Bennett’s articles and reviews have appeared in The Daily News, Utne Reader, Epicurean, and other newspapers and magazines. Her critical work The Unfractioned Idiom: Hart Crane and Modernism was published by Peter Lang Press in 1987.
Kristine Doll is the author of the poetry collection Speak to Me Again (Feral Press, 2014). “My Friends” from this book was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. She is also a translator of Catalan poetry, including her translations into English of Joan Alcover’sElegies (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2004) and the poetry of the Catalan writer, August Bover. She is currently guest editor of The Seventh Quarry’s special edition of the translation into English of six of Catalonia’s contemporary poets. Doll’s translations and her own poetry have been published internationally in such venues as The Seventh Quarry, Cross-Cultural Communications Art & Poetry Series Broadsides, The Paterson Literary Review, Immagine & Poesia, Gargoyle and Voices Israel. She is Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Salem State University, Salem MA.
Shreejana Sharma is an emerging Nepali voice, who was born and raised in Kathmandu. She is particularly interested in Nepalese folk lore and legends. Widely travelled, she has conducted Nepali poetry translation workshops with Yuyutsu Sharma at Heidelberg University and has been instrumental in preserving the treasure of Nepali poetry in Nepalese circles. Currently she lives in Kathmandu, heads the White Lotus Book Shop, and is working on a manuscript of poems, entitled Papaji & Other Poems soon to be published in New Delhi.
Yuyutsu Sharma is the 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. He is a distinguished Indian/Nepali poet and translator. He has published nine poetry collections including, Nine New York Poems: A Prelude to A Blizzard in My Bones, 2014, Milarepa’s Bones, 33 New Poems, Nirala, 2012. Yuyutsu’s own work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch. Half the year, he travels all over the world to read from his works and conduct creative writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe, and the other half he goes trekking in the Himalayas when he returns back home to Nepal. Currently, he is in New York as a Visiting Poet at New York University.
Bill Wolak is a poet who lives in New Jersey and teaches Creative Writing at William Paterson University. He has just published his thirteenth collection of poetry entitled Love Opens the Hands: New and Selected Love Poems with Nirala Press. His poetry has appeared in over a hundred magazines. His most recent translation with Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, Love Me More Than the Others: Selected Poetry of Iraj Mirza, was published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2014. He was selected to be a featured poet at festivals in India four times: at the 2011 Kritya International Poetry Festival in Nagpur, at the 2013 Hyderabad Literary Festival, at the Tarjuma 2013: Festival of Translators in Ahmedabad, and most recently at the 2014 Hyderabad Literary Festival.