Yuyutsu Sharma: On the Last Leg of his Current Tour

Yuyutsu Sharma is South Asia’s leading poet published by Nirala with growing International acclaim. He is currently in New York City as a visiting poet at Columbia University and had several readings in New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Florida and California. He has just returned from Argentina where he had gone to participate in XI International Poetry Festival, Buenos Aires. 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. 
Here is a list of some of his upcoming readings in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
(Only Public readings are listed)

New York

Friday, July 8, 2016 at 7:00pm

Yuyutsu Sharma Reading with Ruth Danon and David Austell to read at Open Center New York to benefit victims of the Nepal Earthquake at New York Open Center
22 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016 Phone (212) 219-2527
http://www.opencenter.org/

Pennsylvania and Ohio

Sunday, July 10, 2016, 6;30
Sunday Special with Yuyutsu Sharma  and David Austell  at Poets’ Hall- 16 W 10th Meeting Room 210, Erie, Pennsylvania 16507 Hosted by Cee Williams

Monday July 11, 2016, 7 pm,

Yuyutsu Sharma to read with David Austell at Barberton Gallery of Fine Art
33 3rd St SE, # 103 Barberton, Akron, Ohio, (330) 328-7619, admission free, donations encouraged. Hosted by Thomas Jenney

Wednesday July 13, 2016, 7.00 to 9.00 pm
Yuyutsu Sharma with Elizabeth Onusko and David Austell at Mac’s Backs– Books on the Coventry, 1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 Phone: (216) 321-2665
http://www.macsbacks.com/

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Yuyutsu Sharma with Arturo Mantecón at Sacramento Poetry Center

Yuyutsu Sharma with Arturo Mantecón at Sacramento Poetry Center||| Mon, June 27 @ 7:30 pm ||| 1719 25th St

Posted on June 24, 2016

Yuyutsu  Sharma and Arturo Mantecón       Monday, June 27 @ 7:30 pm Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street Host: Wendy Williams Yuyutsu Sharma is the recipient of fellowships and grants from TheRockefeller Foundation, the Ireland Literature Exchange, the TrubarFoundation, Slovenia, among others, and is a distinguished poet and translator. He has published nine poetry collections including, A Blizzard inmy Bones: New York Poems (Nirala, 2016), Quaking Cantos: NepalEarthquake Poems (Nirala, 2016), and Milarepa’s Bones and 33 NewPoems (Nirala, 2012). Arturo Mantecón is a poet and translator born in Laredo, Texas andraised in Detroit, Michigan. His poetry has appeared in La Ventana Abierta, Poetry Now and various anthologies. A collection of his short stories, Memories, Cuentos Verídicos, y Otras Outright Lies, was published by En Casa in 2014. He has translated the poetry and prose of the mad Spanish poeta maldito, Leopoldo María Panero. He is currently translating the work of Francisco Ferrer Lerín. Poem by Yuyutsu SharmaI see my world shaking… I see my world shaking— my floor, my bed, my table, my house my pen stumbling across the soggy span of my page the stanzas splintered from the kicks of a demon awake after a sleep of million years…I see my squares mangled from the litter of a wheezing earth I see top of our towers crumble and topple onto the dried up riverbeds I see rickety bridges shudder, waters undulating in the turquoise lakes on the lofty Himalayan heights, a bowl of milk held in the hands of a fearful grandma. I see dagger of snow crashing onto the mule paths, salt routes threading through rocky terrains clogged, the sheets of snow stained from mammoth avalanches the pinnacles of snow thrust from the earth’s heart tumble and disappear in a fraction of a second in God’s colossal mouth… I see domes of our stupas crack, five colored flags fluttering before Buddha’s  own eyes bend and break, oil lamps lit by Yeti’s hollowed skull dim out in the sunken canyons of the monks’ wailing eyes… I see famished angels coming out of snow-clad sanctuaries like the saffron flames fleeing their kingdoms in exile I see them come out and lean against the mossy fences on the threshold of great canyons to ponder over the loss of  lives uttering prayers as the earth cracks open and engulfs their settlements in front of their own bemused eyes… I see shrines of our deities shake, the Lord’s own body cracked into two lifeless boulders, his mace, his scepter, his lotus, his conch shell, his brass bowls of nectar, his splintered quiver full of blunt arrows… AND WHO WILL BOTHER by Arturo Mantecón how tell one from another another from one without killing the one without fating the other without forking the paths of the homeward lamb and the sinful goat without splintering the sharp arcs of the crow into irrational numbers it is the mayhem of the word burning drowning the soluble body of the sugar and the salt the high silk hat wherein the rabbit disappears over and over again to emerge from a sleeve as a starting bouquet of doves over and over again it is to loom the sierpinski carpet until it lifts up and grazes the crescent moons of the inescapable minarets of baghdad it is to sweep the dust of gentile cantors through those dream alleys of the souqs that loll and curl like ribbons of flesh like acute angles of smoke it is to present oneself weeping and as cock naked as the humbled jesus to the cruel gasping laughter of the stars     Coming Events:  SPC and Elsewhere        Events take place at the Sacramento Poetry Center 7:30 PM (unless otherwise noted) Poetry Center Gallery June: “Comrades in the heart” by local artists Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Helen Plenert June 26, SPC and SMAC present:  An evening with Dana Gioia at the Crocker Art Museum, 6:00 PM. July 1, Host Nancy Aidé González: Mosaic of Voices with Yuyutsu Sharma and Andy Jones at the Avid Reader, Sacramento, 7 pm July 2, Host Penny Kline:  ASIAN DIASPORA with Yuyutsu Sharma, Rhony Bhopla, Heera Kulkarni, Meera Klein and Jasmeen Kaur Bassi, 2:00 pm July 11, Host Emmanuel Sigauke:  Monika Rose and Sarah Pape July 16, Host Phillip Larrea: Sacramento Voices with Susan Kelly- DeWitt, Nancy Aidé González and Mary Mackey, 4:30 pm July 18, Host Bethanie Humphreys: Hot Poetry in the Park, Fremont Park, 7 pm Sacramento Poetry Center 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, CA 95816 | Phone: 916 240 1897

Yuyutsu Sharma: Upcoming Florida and California readings

Posted on June 21, 2016

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

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!

Thursday, June 30, 2016   7:00 – 9:30 PM

An Evening with the Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu Sharma in Berkeley

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,

http://sacramentopoetrycenter.org

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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."