Yuyutsu Sharma to read at Poetry Parnassus

Yuyutsu Sharma has been invited to be part of Poetry Parnassus happening at Southbank Centre from 26th June to 2nd July 2012.

Poetry Parnassus is set to be the biggest poetry festival ever staged in the UK.  The Festival will be part of Southbank Centre’s Festival of the World, the Cultural Olympiad and the London 2012 Festival.  It will be a global gathering of up to 204 poets from every Olympic nation – with the world’s most exciting poets, rappers, spoken-word artists, dancers and musicians.

Yuyutsu Sharma shall read  at several venues and do workshop focused on his new book, Nepal Trilogy, Photographs and Poetry on Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang (www.Nepal-Trilogy.de, Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe, 2010), a 900-page book with German photographer, Andreas Stimm and Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu:33 New Poems, (Nirala, 2012) & Annapurna Poems (Reprint, Nirala, 2012).

http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/about-us/discover-and-do/poetry-parnassus

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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.

He has  published nine poetry collections including, Milarepa’s Bones, 33 New Poems, (Nirala, New Delhi 2012), Nepal Trilogy, Photographs and Poetry on Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang (www.Nepal-Trilogy.de, Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe, 2010), a 900-page book with German photographer, Andreas Stimm, Space Cake, Amsterdam, & Other Poems from Europe and America, (Howling Dog Press, Colorado, 2009), and recently a translation of Hebrew poet Ronny Someck’s poetry in Nepali in a bilingual collection, 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. Two books of his poetry, Poemes de l’ Himalayas (L’Harmattan, Paris) and Poemas de Los Himalayas (Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) just appeared in French and Spanish respectively.
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, Gustav Stressemann Institute, Bonn,  Rubin Museum, New York, Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin, The Guardian Newsroom, London,  Trois Rivieres Poetry Festival, Quebec, Arnofini, Bristol, Borders, London, Slovenian Book Days, Ljubljana, Royal Society of Dramatic Arts, London, Gunter Grass House, Bremen, GTZ, Kathmandu, Nehru Center, London, March Hare, Newfoundland, Canada, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Indian International Center, New Delhi, and Villa Serbelloni, Italy.

He has held workshop 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 and New York University, New York.

His works have appeared in Poetry Review, Chanrdrabhaga, Sodobnost, Amsterdam Weekly, Indian Literature, Irish Pages, Delo, Omega, Howling Dog Press, Exiled Ink, Iton77, Little Magazine, The Telegraph, Indian Express and Asiaweek.

Born at Nakodar, Punjab and educated at Baring Union Christian College, Batala and later at Rajasthan University, Jaipur, Yuyutsu remained active in the literary circles of Rajasthan and acted in plays by Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee. Later he taught at various campuses of Punjab University, and Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu.

The Library of Congress has nominated his recent 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.

Visiting Poet this spring at New York University, in June, he will participate as Guest Poet at the Poetry Parnassus Festival organized to celebrate London Olympics 2012.

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.
More: www.yuyutsu.de

Friday, April 27, 2012 6:00pm until 8:00pm

Yuyutsu RD Sharma reading with Mikki Shorr

at the Barn, Huntington,

the oldest continuously running monthly poetry series on Long Island, held the third Friday of every month, 8 pm.

Inside Out NJ Launch Reading at Williams Center April 23, 2012 [Flyer]

Celebrate at the book launch and reading – Jerseyside:

Inside Out, Upside Down,

& Round and Round
Poems Selected & New
John J. Trause

ISBN-81-8250-049-4 2012 Paper pp.83

MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012

7 P. M. – 8:30 P. M.

WILLIAMS CENTER FOR THE ARTS

1 Williams Plaza (off Park Avenue)
Rutherford, NJ  07070

www.williamscenter.org

Inside Out NJ Launch Reading at Williams Center April 23, 2012 [Flyer]

Please click on the link above for flyer attached as a Word document.

Trause will be reading selections from his book in the hometown of America’s great poet, William Carlos Williams.

Plus Yuyutsu Sharma,

General Editor,  Nirala  Series,

will present a small selection from his new book,

Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu,

(Nirala, 2012).

As an added treat the poet’s brother,

David E. Trause

may be providing live music for the celebration.

Dizzy from diving into John J. Trause’s new collection of surprising poems, I urge you to enter!

Let the title swirl and turn you into his wild array of inventions.  Witty, ribald, arch, they tease and entice. They are smart poems. With eclectic topics, he applies a scholar’s encompassing mind and an artistic eye for colorful detail. Trause is not only a prosodic humorist, he is as ever a proficient scholar, and these poems prove his rigorous power. Note his classical and Biblical knowledge, the many languages at his command, and the contemporary scenes he pulls into focus—even on a mocking tour of north NJ towns! These poems take a reader traveling through many lands of rhyme and reason; hurry to see what Trause finds “Outside the Zoo” in the poem of that title, enjoy his complex vocabulary, laugh with his riffs.  Don’t let the abstruse words retain you from the lively banter.  Run and climb. I tried to swim through, but found myself riding the waves. These poems will entertain you, make you study, make you gasp. You may turn round and read again, they will make you a little wiser than before John J. Trause took hold.

Madeline Tiger, author of From the Viewing Stand

After the reading the festivities continue at a local restaurant.

Hope you can join us.  There will also be a reception for John Trause

hosted by the Friends of the Oradell Public Library,

where Trause is the Director,

on Monday, April 30, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Press Release/Calendar Listing

FAMOUS NAPALESE POET FEATURED AT CINEMATIQUE

Yuyutsu Sharma, the renowned India-born Nepali poet from Kathmandu, Nepal, will be featured at Cinematique at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 12. Yuyutsu, whose poems have been translated into nine languages, most recently performed at New York University and Baruch College. He has published nine volumes of poetry and performed at major colleges and venues throughout the world.

His Excellency Mr. Keith George Bloomfield, Former British Ambassador to Nepal, in the preface to Yuyutsu’s newest book, The Nepal Trilogy, gave the highest praise to the work, noting the work “bring[s] to life an extraordinary region in all its striking beauty and natural harmony. The unique combination of their photographic and poetic skills succeeds in laying bare the very soul of the Himalayas.”

The reading will be accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation of photographs of Nepal and a talk by Yuyutsu about his homeland, his poetic activities, his magazine, Pratik, and press based in New Delhi, where he edits the works of international authors.

The event is open to the public with a ticket price of $7 ($5 for members of Cinematique). It is cosponsored by the Creative Happiness Institute, Inc. and the Tomoka Poets, both local non-profit arts organizations. Cinematique is located at 242 S. Beach Street, Street, Daytona Beach.

For more information, contact Cinematique at 386-252-3118 or Dr. Axelrod, axelrodthepoet@yahoo.com or 386-492-2409.

Yuyutsu Sharma Reading as Special Guest at Teacher’s College, Columbia University’s International Week:

Global Rhythm: A Serenade of World Cultures

Monday, April 2, 2012

Global Rhythm, 6:30-8PM, Milbank Chapel

Immerse yourself in songs from China, music from Ireland and Chile, Himalayan poetry and more. Join us for this special evening of music and inspirational poetry shared by TC students and notable guests as we serenade into the opening of International Week 2012. Admission is FREE. The event will be followed by a reception.

Special guest performances by: Dr. David Austell and  Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma

TC students/staff performers: Marie-Louise Bowe, Maryanne Chacko, Yuewen Jiang, Anne- Marie Hildebrabdt, Ceri Hui, Lea Lei, Natalia Saez, Kai Chung Tam.

http://www.tc.edu/i/a/document/21342_2012IweekEventFlyer.pdf

Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey & Yuyutsu RD Sharma
Friday, March 23rd, 7:00 p.m.
Poem as World / World as Poem
Reading at New York University
Natasha Trethewey and Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma
Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey’s fourth collection of poetry, “Thrall,” is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Fall 2012.  Nepali/Indian poet and translator Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is the author of many books, including “Nepal Trilogy” (Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011) and “Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu” (Nirala Publications, 2012). This event is co-sponsored with the NYU Office for International Students and Scholars.
Location: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
Friday, March 23rd, 7:00 p.m.
More: http://cwp.fas.nyu.edu/page/readingseries