A Poetry Workshop with Yuyutsu Sharma

 Saturday, 25 May, 2019 4pm-5pm

at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, 141 Front Street in D.U.M.B.O, Brooklyn, NY Transportation :  Take the F to York Street or the A/C to High Street Phone :  347-687-2375  Email : berlspoetry@gmail.com    https://berlspoetry.squarespace.com/

Yuyutsu Sharma is a Himalayan poet, currently a visiting poet at Columbia University 

After decades of traveling around the globe as an itinerant poet, Yuyutsu Sharma has earned the respect and admiration of thousands of people all over the world. He continues to have access to prestigious platforms and venues in Asia, Western Europe, and North, Central, and South America where his works are promoted and enthusiastically purchased. 

Sanskrit word for The Himalayas is ‘Devataatma’, the place where soul of the God lives. Yuyutsu would discuss the oral and folk traditions of the Himalayas and read his poems on his travels in three regions of the Himalayas –Everest, Annapurnas and Helambu. He will also do a PowerPoint presentation of my book, Nepal Trilogy with amazing panoramic b/w photos from German photographer, Andreas Stimm and discuss his evolution as a poet. 

During the workshop he will use his new book, The Second Buddha Walk: Inspired by The Second Buddha : Master of Time Exhibit at Rubin Museum, New York (Nirala) to discuss the concept of Space and Time and role of poet in the contemporary world, He will also read from Annapurna Poems and Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu and more recent Quaking Cantos : Nepal Earthquake Poems  to sketch the art of writing poetry and vocation of a being a poet today. Yuyu was a shaman in his childhood. He spent lots of time with the Himalayan sages as his father was a devout follower of naga sadhus who do not stay in a place more than a couple of days. Yuyu believes his current wandering poet’s avatar is result of his association with Naga ascetics. He will explore how the homegrown spiritual traditions shaped his writing centered on Europe and Americas.