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.