Sunday, October 29, 2017

Himalayan Workshop with Poet Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma



https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/himalayan-workshop-poet-yuyutsu-rd-sharma



Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma, photo
Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma
Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma, photo at NYU
Yuyutsu at NYU
November 11, 2017 - 12:00pm-2:30pm 
Advance signups recommended by calling 510-981-6148. Join us in the 4th floor Story Room for an exciting cultural and writing workshop with Himalayan poet Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma. Using mantras, prayers, folk music and striking panoramic slides of Nepal from his book, Nepal Trilogy, itinerent poet, anthologist, and translator, Yuyutsu, will discuss the oral and folk traditions of the Himalayas and read poems from his travels in three regions of the Himalayas --Everest, Annapurnas and Helambu. Reading from his books of poetry, Annapurna Poems and Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu, and more recent, Quaking CantosNepal Earthquake Poems, Yuyutsu will share Nepal's history and describe how poets have played key roles in the making of Nepal and ushering in democracy. Yulyutsu's books will be available for sale and autographing. Attendance limited to 50 people. Advance Signups Recommended by calling 510-981-6148.First come, first served at the door if seats available.
Yuyutsu was a shaman in his childhood. He spent time with the Himalayan sages as his father was a devout follower of certain religious holy men who do not stay in one place more than a couple of days. He believes his current wandering poet's path is a result of his association with Naga ascetics. In the workshop, Yuyutsu will read poetry from his recent travel books, Space Cake Amsterdam and Other Poems from Europe and North America and A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, and will discuss the art of writing poems as the poet travels across continents.
Yuyutsu 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, Yuyutsu RD Sharma is an internationally acclaimed South Asian poet and translator. He has published nine poetry collections.
See Yuyutsu's blogspot.


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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Brooklyn Launch of Yuyutsu Sharma's Eternal Snow


Saturday, Oct 21, at 6 pm to 9 pm Brooklyn Launch of Yuyutsu Sharma’s Eternal Snow and A Workshop with the Himalayan Poet, Hosted by Yoga Sole, Windsor Terrace Brooklyn – 254 Windsor Place – Brooklyn, NY 11215 Tel: 718.541.1382 , Reading$ 10pp  Workshop $25pp Reading included) www.yogasole.com Host : Evalena Leedy evalena@yogasole.com

Boston Launch of Eternal Snow at Out of the Blue too Gallery, Cambridge


Monday, Oct 23, at 7:00 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading at Boston Launch of Eternal Snow with Timothy Gager at Out of the Blue Gallery,  in the Stone Soup Poetry Series, at  541 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Host: Chad Parenteau

Sunday, October 22, 2017

NEW WINE POEM: The Wine Glass: A History of Eons by Yuyutsu Sharma

A canopy
of bejewelled stars

opens up
in my heart

as it slowly
spreads in my shrivelled veins.

I enter you
quaking like a supernova

shuddering
from a vague memory

of a colossal
crash that took place

eons
before my birth…




Just published in Wine Poetry Bilingual Anthology, Voces del Vino edited by Maria Palitachi



Friday, October 20, 2017

Yuyutsu Sharma Workshop and Reading at Berkeley Public Library, California!

 Yuyutsu Sharma Workshop and Reading at Berkeley Public Library, California!
https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/himalayan-workshop-poet-yuyutsu-rd-sharma

Himalayan Workshop with Poet Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma




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 an internationally acclaimed South Asian poet and translator.
He 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 TrilogyPhotographs and Poetry on Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang (www.Nepal-Trilogy.deEpsilonmedia, 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).
Yuyutsu also brought out a translation of Irish poet Cathal O’ Searcaigh poetry in Nepali in a bilingual collection entitled, Kathmandu: Poems, Selected and New (2006) and a translation of Hebrew poet Ronny Someck’s poetry in Nepali in a bilingual edition, Baghdad, February 1991 & Other Poems. He has translated and edited several anthologies of contemporary Nepali poetry in English and launched a literary movement, Kathya Kayakalpa (Content Metamorphosis) in Nepali poetry.
Three books of his poetry, Poemes de l’ Himalayas (L’Harmattan, Paris), Poemas de Los Himalayas (Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) and Jezero Fewa & Konj (Sodobnost International) have appeared in French,  Spanish and Slovenian respectively.
In addition, Eternal SnowA Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma has just appeared.
Widely traveled author, he has read his works at several prestigious places including Poetry Café, London, Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry, Belfast, New York University, New York, The Kring, Amsterdam, P.E.N, Paris, Knox College, Illinois, Whittier College, California, Baruch College, New York, WB Yeats’ Center, Sligo, Shi Shangzhuang, Hebei, China, Gustav Stressemann Institute, Bonn,  Rubin Museum, New York, Cosmopoetica, Cordoba, Spain,  Beijing International  Book Fair, The Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin, Columbia University, New York, Lu Xun Literary Institute, Beijing,  The Guardian Newsroom, London, Trois Rivieres Poetry Festival, Quebec, Arnofini, Bristol, Borders, London, FIP, Buenos Aires, Slovenian Book Days, Ljubljana, Royal Society of Dramatic Arts, London, Gunter Grass House, Bremen, GTZ, Kathmandu, International Poetry Festival, Granada,  Nicaragua, Nehru Center, London, Beijing Normal University, The Beijing Bookworm, Universidad Abierta Interamericana (UAI) / Indian Embassy, Buenos Aires, March Hare, Newfoundland, Canada, Gannon University, Erie, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Sahitya Academy, New Delhi, Indian International Center, New Delhi, and Villa Serbelloni, Italy.He has held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen’s University, Belfast,
He has held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen’s University, Belfast, the University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, University of California, Davis, Sacramento State University, California, Beijing Open University and New York University, New York.
His works have appeared in Poetry Review, Chanrdrabhaga, Sodobnost, Amsterdam Weekly, Indian Literature, Irish Pages, Delo, Modern Poetry in Translation, Exiled Ink, Iton77, Little Magazine, The Telegraph, Indian Express and Asiaweek.
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. He just published his nonfiction, Annapurnas & Stains of Blood: Life, Travel and Writing a Page of Snow, (Nirala, 2010). He edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing and contributes literary columns to Nepal’s leading daily, The Himalayan Times.
He was at the Poetry Parnassus Festival organized to celebrate London Olympics 2012 where he represented Nepal and India. Yuyutsu is the Visiting Poet at Columbia University, New York and has just returned from China where had gone to read and conduct workshops at Beijing Normal University.
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.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Announcing the release of Fourth Edition of Yuyutsu Sharma​'s book, Annapurna Poems....



Annapurna Poems: Poems Selected and New Paperback – 2017

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8182500923

This is the fourth edition of a major anthology from one of South Asia's most prominent poet's who has made Annapurna region his home for last two decades. Yuyutsu's devotion for the mountains and the people living there is unparalleled. Though his work was interrupted with the rise of insurgency and the consequent political turmoil in the Himalayan nation, the poet continued to long for the hidden valleys and mule paths where, as the scriptures say, the soul of the Gods lives. Even in his dreams he conjures the treks to the remote Himalayan regions, searching for life on the bleeding mule paths of human struggle, listening to the chorus of cicadas and dramas of hunger and strife in the hushed grounds of Little Paradise Lodge, chartering history of human attempts to invade the realm of eternal snow with moving cameras, frozen spaghetti and plastic bags.Like exquisite fields of Himalayan flowers, these are poems of high artistic integrity about harsh truths of mystery, history and humanity. Sensual, sharp and stunning, these concrete images will leave the readers breathless. A huge achievement, bringing alive the unsung agony of the people of the high Himalaya

Last poem from Annapurna Poems: Fourth Edition being released next week

Silence

The moment I enter the Valley, nausea thrashes my well-being. A chill seeps into my bones and I close my eyes. Near Annapurna glacials, I had remained quite cosy, next to a warm hearth. Right away, I regret my return to the slum of human destiny, an ashtray of our shattered dreams.

At last, I open my eyes to see Buddha’s kingdom suffering like a snail. Where are the villages of huge brass bells? What fumes have filled the spacious squares of rituals? What vehicles have trampled fields of fragrance?

Overnight, a demon has sucked the fragrances of this once an exhilarating valley, leaving it deserted —  wrinkled and crumpled sheet of a newspaper.

In a fraction of a second, its century of silences has been shattered eternally. Without a regret or guilt.

I open my eyes to enter this labyrinth of nightmares, nonplussed that the floral fields I celebrated in my dreams never actually existed.

I open my eyes to discover that the first casualty of this expansion, silence. A cadence of a melody I’d carried like a sacred song all these years, a nucleus of my water wells. Has it been unscrupulously misplaced and forgotten in the schemes of the cities?

Awestruck, I feel all these days and weeks, I’d remained at ease when I was alone on the mule paths. But the moment I entered the city, I lost them all, syllables of the secret song that I hummed all these times.

It’s in the cities that I’ve spent the saddest moments of my life.


Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Yuyutsu Sharma’s Upcoming Reading Tour 2017: New York, Massachusetts & California


http://niralapublications.com/yuyutsu-sharmas-upcoming-reading-tour-2017-part-two-new-york-massachusetts-california/


Saturday, Oct 21, at 6 pm to 9 pm Brooklyn Launch of Yuyutsu Sharma’s Eternal Snow and A Workshop with the Himalayan Poet, Hosted by Yoga Sole, Windsor Terrace Brooklyn – 254 Windsor Place – Brooklyn, NY 11215 Tel: 718.541.1382 , Reading$ 10pp  Workshop $25pp Reading included) www.yogasole.com Host : Evalena Leedy evalena@yogasole.com
Monday, Oct 23, at 7:00 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading at Boston Launch of Eternal Snow with Timothy Gager at Out of the Blue Gallery,  in the Stone Soup Poetry Series, at  541 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Host: Chad Parenteau https://outoftheblueartgallery.com/

Saturday, November 11 at 1:00 pm until 2.30 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading and workshop Berkeley Public Library, Hosted by Berkeley Public Library,  2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA  Workshop at 10.00 am to 12 pm Host: Isobel Schneider, ischneider@cityofberkeley.info,  https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/ (Details to be confirmed soon)
Monday, November 13, at 7 pm until 9 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading as Feature Poetat Poetry Express Berkeley. Hosted by Poetry Express Berkeley, at Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Nearest Cross St. California, Host: Jim Barnard,  poetryexpress@gmail.com, www.poetryexpressed.com
Tuesday, November 14, at 6:30 pm, Yuyutsu Sharma reading at The Long Island Launch of Eternal Snow,  Port Jefferson Free Library, 631 473-0022 100 Thompson Street Port Jefferson, NY, 11777, 631-473-0022 Fax: 631-473-2903 info@portjefflibrary.org Hosted by Kat Lamberg
Saturday, November 18, at 2 pm until 4 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading with David Austell & Barbara Novack at Oceanside Library  30 Davison Ave, Oceanside, NY 11572, USA. Hosted Peter V. Dugan, 516-287-5239  http://www.oceansidelibrary.com/

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Yuyutsu Sharma/Andreas Stimm new photo-poetry book, Nepal: Sherpa & Co published in Germany

Yuyutsu Sharma's new poetry picture book with distinguished German photographer Andreas Stimm is out in German language edition...
Andreas' colour photos for the first time...

http://www.sherpaundco.de/



»Sherpa & Co.« Transport per pedes im Himalaja

Gedichte von Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma
Fotografien und Text von Andreas Stimm


Wer trägt heute noch über sechzig Kilogramm auf dem Rücken ... ?
Strommasten, Holzbalken, Satellitenschüssel, Bewehrungseisen, Hühner, Felsbrocken oder sogar Menschen? Der Sherpa! Wirklich der Sherpa? Wer sind die Träger im höchsten Gebirge der Erde, welche unsägliche Lasten auf den steilen Bergpfaden befördern? »Sherpa & Co.« erzählt in dreiundvierzig aktuellen Bildporträts von tragenden Nepalesen – quer durch den Himalaja. Aus dem Annapurnagebiet über das Manaslumassiv bis in die Höhen am Fuße des Everest!
 
 Das Buch: Nepal – »Sherpa & Co.« Transport per pedes im Himalaja
108 Seiten, Texte, 43 Fotografien und 3 Gedichte. Fadengebundener Inhalt mit Softcover aus Feinstkarton.
ISBN 978-3-98108-836-6 Preis 10,00 € zzgl. 1,00 € Porto.
Alle Rechte vorbehalten
©2017 Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe
Gedruckt in Deutschland
ISBN 978-3-9810883-6-6
www.SherpaUndCo.de
Impressum:
Epsilonmedia-Verlag ◊ Graf-Eberstein-Str. 57 ◊ 76199 Karlsruhe ◊
Deutschland ◊ www.epsilonmedia.de ◊ 0721-8643421
Nepal: www.Nepal-Trilogie.de 
Fotografie: Hasselbald-XPan-Photographie
 
 

 
 



Sunday, October 1, 2017

A Poem for Gandhi Jayanti Celebration --Yuyutsu Sharma

In the Absence of the Towers,
Gandhi
Yuyutsu Sharma
















In absence
of Twin Towers, it was his statue

in Union Square
that became the solid shaft

of my light in the whirling city
of rattling trains, my memory key

to the numbered streets
of this mandala of steel, siren and seeds…

Larger than life figure
standing in the grassy triangle,

his feeble staff
from South Africa shining from

the glow of his compassion,
his eyes looking onto

the Green Market
stalls from Upstate,

Apple cider, wine, pretzels,
Organic cupcakes, Dead sea salt

and across the Square
Barnes and Noble store, Occupy Wall Street kids,

skating Latinos
and that black boy from Hudson River Valley

his chessboard
of Power Games spread on a small table

with an empty little chair
in the freezing cold

waiting for someone to come
and invest his precious coin or a dream

and spend some quality time
under the murky skies

likely to turn cobalt blue,
a flame of a feather

of a singing blue jay…


From A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8182500729





















The Gandhi Statue at Union Square, New York