Saturday, Dec 9, at 6: 00 — 8:00 pm,Eternal Snow Readings in New York followed by Yuyutsu Sharma & David Austell Reading their fresh work at Montauk Club, Brooklyn The Montauk Club 25 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Phone: 646 591 9951, 917 293 9334
Friday, Dec 8, at 7: 00 pm-9:00, Yuyutsu Sharma reading at Poets Aloud, BJ Spoke Gallery, 299 Main Street, Huntington, New York 11743 Host: Kelly J. Powell Seating always available, limited parking, so arrive early. Admission is free; $3 donation preferred. Refreshments available.
Tuesday, Dec 5, at 6: 30 pm, Erie Launch of Eternal Snow;Yuyutsu Sharma visits Poetry Night on his international tour with the anthology Eternal Snow! Book Signing. Plus poetry open mic. Upstairs for this event. Chuck Joy, poet host. Calamari’s Squid, 1317 State St. Erie, Pennsylvania 16501 Phone: 8144594276 http://www.calamaris-squidrow.com/
Sunday, Dec 3, at 7:00 pm: Ohio Launch Of Eternal Snow. The Anthology contributors read from the book followed by Yuyutsu Sharma reading his new work. Coffee and pastries served. Saint Pio Fine Arts Institute And Conservatory. 33 3rd St SE, Barberton, Ohio 44203 Hosted by Thomas Jenney Phone: Call (330) 328-7619
Saturday, Dec 2, at 4:30 – 7:00 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma reading at Exchange House, Akron, 760 Elms St. Akron Ohio 44310 Hosted by Noor Hindi (234) 312-9709
Thursday, Nov 30, at 7: 00 pm, Yuyutsu SharmaPoet Gold & Judith Tulloch. Reading to be followed by Q&A. Organized by Calling All Poets, program host Mike Jurkovic Town Crier 378 Main St. Beacon, New York, 12508 Phone: 845 855 1300
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, 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
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
Saturday, November 11, Noon to 2.30 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading and workshop Berkeley Public Library, Hosted by Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA Host: Isobel Schneider, ischneider@cityofberkeley.info, https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/
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, 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 $25pp Reading included) www.yogasole.comHost : Evalena Leedy evalena@yogasole.com
Saturday, Oct 21, at 6 pm to 9 pm Brooklyn Launch of Yuyutsu Sharma’s Eternal Snow and A Workshop with the Himalayan Poet, Hosted by Yoga Sole, Windsor Terrace Brooklyn – 254 Windsor Place – Brooklyn, NY 11215 Tel: 718.541.1382 , Reading$ 10pp Workshop $25pp Reading included) www.yogasole.comHost : 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, Noon to 2.30 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading and workshop Berkeley Public Library, Hosted by Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA 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 Library30 Davison Ave, Oceanside, NY 11572, USA. Hosted Peter V. Dugan, 516-287-5239 http://www.oceansidelibrary.com/
Yuyu will share his experiences and recite mantras and prayers to evoke the Himalayan world, especially, Devataatma, a Sanskrit word for the Himalayas, meaning the place where Soul of the God lives. After years of traveling the globe as an itinerant poet, Yuyutsu Sharma has earned the respect and admiration of thousands of people all over the world. Yuyu will unravel the secrets of Himalayan spirituality, inducing the participants to write fresh poetry likely to be published in the second volume of Eternal Snow.
The Reading will be the
The Brooklyn launch of
“Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma”
will take place.
Editors will share their experiences of editing this mammon anthology.
Select Poets include:
David Austell, Ruth Danon, Carolyn Wells, Catherine Gigante-Brown, Jack Tar, Nancy R Lange, Bill Wolak, Mindy Kronenberg, Su Polo, Robert Scotto, Michael Graves, Bari Falise, Christi Shannon Kline, Dan Szczesny, Kymberly Brown, James Romano, Jack Tar, Marion Palm, Eugene Hyon, Patricia Carragon,
Jan Garden Castro & others will read from the book.
‘A 320-page poetry anthology, entitled, Eternal Snow, dedicated to the internationally renowned poet Yuyutsu Sharma has just been published. Subtitled as ‘A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma’ the book explores the interactions, collisions, and intersections of over 125 poets from four Continents with the Himalayan poet.
Edited by distinguished American litterateurs, David Austell of Columbia University, New York, and Kathleen D Gallagher, of University of Akron, Ohio, the mammoth anthology is “a testament to the power of words to inspire, encourage, and heal across vastly disparate cultures and distant places.”
Yuyutsu Sharma is a Himalayan poet whose works have gained a global recognition. This anthology, in particular, is a homage by poets who’ve interacted with Sharma during his legendary world tours. The poems reflect praise, appreciation, and gratitude to the mountain poet, Yuyutsu Sharma.
Not only poets, the book contains poems written after meeting or listening to Sharma’s Himalayan recitals by people from various walks of life including teachers, scientists, social workers, photographers, priests and Yoga teachers.
“When you first meet Himalayan poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma,” says, James Ragan, Professor Emeritus of English from the University of Southern California, “you are taken immediately by his quiet passion and reverence for the art and purpose of poetry, which, when taking the stage, he transforms into a voice that crosses continents and soars like the snow in wind that permeates “the solemn silence of sacred sounds” in his beloved Nepal. Through his intercession, poems become chants of eternality.”
Ragan adds, “He has sought the same in the poets represented in his anthology “Eternal Snow,” a hundred voices who, like him, give reverence to the power of words in translating truth through passion into a universal poetic of sacred sounds.”
In the Preface to the Anthology, Professor David Austell, opines, “Yuyu has touched the hearts and minds of a multitude of people and writers around the world, as evidenced in this wonderful book… It is my delight and honor to be among such a cloud of witnesses.”
“No matter where the poets live, from a small city to large, to countryside or village,” points out Kathleen Gallagher, editor of the Anthology, “Yuyutsu’s poetry and teachings transform writers from across the world, allowing them to reach into their own writing dreams and visions.
“Indeed, each poet no matter his or her walk in life, whether professional poet, performer, professor, minister, or word-loving hairstylist who scribbles down thoughts about her love for her dying mother,” Gallagher discerns, ”all have discovered his or her own creative awakenings when encountering Yuyutsu Sharma’s work. Yuyutsu’s work has far-reaching effects in personal transformation.”
In addition to scores of literary luminaries like David Ray, James Ragan, Ravi Shankar, Eileen O’Connor, Gorka Lasa, Pascale Petit, Elena Karina Byrne, Chuck Joy, Amarendra Khatua, Ruth Danon, Tim Tomlinson, Verónica Aranda, John Clarke, David Axelrod, Tony Barnstone, Art Good Times, Robin Metz, Barbara Novack, Hélène Cardona, Irene O’ Garden, Carolyn Wells, Diane Frank, Bill Wolak, ‘Eternal Snow’ is also special as it contains nearly a dozen Nepali poets including Bishwa Sigdel, Arun Budhathoki, Revegya Joshi, Shreejana Bhandari, Barun Bajracharya and Civa Bhusal.
At a local poetry gathering in Kathmandu when Nepali poet Arun Budhathoki last met Yuyutsu, he said, “With the publication of this book, I can finally pause and take a deep breath.” He added, “It’s humbling to know I have been able to speak to the world’s most sanguine voices during my decade long ramblings across the far flung continents. Not all poets have the fortune to get touched so meaningfully in their life time as I have. Now I finally can rest in peace.”
The book will be launched in New York at Yoga Sole, Brooklyn on Oct 21, 7:30 pm.
Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma
Edited by David Austell & Kathleen D Gallagher
ISBN : 81-8250-088-5 2017 Paperback pp 309 plus 24 Photo pages
Eternal Snow is a testament to the power of words to inspire, encourage, and heal across vastly disparate cultures and distant places. Over one hundred and twenty-five poets from around the world come together in this anthology to explore their interactions, collisions, and intersections with Yuyutsu Sharma, renowned Himalayan poet, journalist, translator, and editor from Kathmandu, Nepal.The book is a clear example of the new world itinerancy of the modern poet, and the global efficacy of poetry, in that Yuyu’s world travels have touched the hearts and minds of thousands of people who have heard his readings around the world and read his words in print and on-line. Not all the contributors are professional poets. Eternal Snow also captures the poetic voices of a hairstylist, a photographer, a Yoga teacher, a priest, a nurse, and a social scientist. In these pages, a young poet in Kathmandu sees her late father in Yuyu’s face; a social worker conjures the Goddess of the Children while serving the Bhutanese refugees in California; a New York University professor ponders an Asian challenge: setting her house on fire to become a real poet. The results captured in these poems attest to the literary collisions which occur when global poets meet. Eternal Snow is a singular, remarkable, and moving work of art. Includes poetry by John Clarke David Ray James Ragan Ravi Shankar Eileen O’Connor Gorka Lasa Pascale Petit Elena Karina Byrne Chuck Joy Andrew Taylor Amarendra Khatua Ruth Danon Tim Tomlinson Verónica Aranda David Axelrod Tony Barnstone Art Good Times Robin Mets Barbara Novack Hélène Cardona Irene O’ Garden Carolyn Wells Diane Frank Bill Wolak and Others
CONTENTS
PREFACE/5 INTRODUCTION/9
POETRY
All the Way from Kathmandu John Clarke / 23
It is so dark so I made me a torch Tracie Morell / 25
Old Ways Lori Ann Kusterbeck / 26
Oppositely Charged Ions Ravi Shankar / 28
Annapurna’s Mercy Eileen O’Connor / 30
Solar tear Gorka Lasa / 31
Machapuchere (Fishtail Mountain) Pascale Petit / 33
The Mountain man and Cold Fish Chuck Joy / 35
Getting High Lorraine Conlin / 36
Yuyutsu Paul Nash & Denise La Neve / 37
hello yuyutsu Andrew Taylor / 38
for yuyutsu Amarendra Khatua / 39
Ancestral Home Meera Ekkanath Klein / 40
Three Poems Sometime Whose Lodge Is This in the Holy Sky? Who We are Eskimo Pie / 42
His Dark Eyes Christi Shannon Kline / 45
From a Lotus Petal Revigya Joshi / 48
Two Poems Snow After Tagore David Ray / 50
Two Poems Lake Erie: Daughter of Sorrows Failure to Bloom Kathleen D Gallagher/52
Two Poems The Judgment of Innocents Three Kathmandu Poems David B. Austell/56
Parnassus to New York Maria Heath Beckett / 63
Moving Everest James Ragan / 70
Stateside Renay Sanders / 72
Himalayas Shawn Aveningo / 74
El Cartero Del Rey The King’s Postman Juan Carlos Abril / 76
Yak Brothers Tim Kahl / 79
Ode to a Himalayan Poet Dom Kafley / 81
Travel in Solo Class Judy Ray / 83
Below the Tatra Mountains Tera Vale Regan / 84
Four Poems Canon for Bears and Ponderosa Pines Letter To Scott From The Waterfall Letter From A Secret Mountain Place Last Night In The Himalayas Diane Frank / 86
Of Yuyu Lady K (Kathy Smith) / 92
In the Silence of the Snow Karen Corinne Herceg / 93
Two Poems Ushas Namaste Kate Lamberg / 94
O Holy Bagmati River Penny Kline / 97
Burning on the Pyre Sharon Metzler-Dow / 99
Tibetan Still Life, Pokhara, Nepal M. L. Williams / 102
Two Poems The Durbar of Nepal Pinnacles Robert Scotto / 104
Exile Nicole Barriere / 107
Four Poems To Yuyu On the E train After Yuyu At Gray’s Papaya on Broadway Anne Fritz / 108
Intersections Irene O’Garden / 112
Vocation Ruth Danon / 113
Three Poems The Forehead of the sky To slap my Face A Dawn of Democracy Mary E. Weems / 115
The little Lamp of Mine Roopa Ramamoorthi / 117
The Summoner Dan Szczesny / 119
Seven Stanzas for Yuyutsu Sharma Nancy Aidé Gonzalez / 121
The Circle Nancy R Lange / 123
Four Poems Easter Monday Climb Sleepers Imperfect Human Michael Graves / 126
Pilgrimage to Changu Narayan Eugene Hyon / 130
Meeting Sharma Marcus Bales / 132
Poems Peter V. Dugan / 133
Beasts are awakening… Aixia de Villanova / 134
Hey you there, in a Katmandu bookshop Leah Taylor / 137
Man from the mountains Cristina Querrer / 139
Two Poems New Have you been to Tibet? Incense Bari Falese / 141
Two Poems Vertigo Travelmarvel Agnes Marton / 144
Two Poems Living in Silence Outdoor Yoga Meditation Haiku Patricia Carragon / 147
Long After Dd. Spungin / 149
Ayer anochecía en Katmandú Yesterday Dusk Was Falling in Kathmandu Verónica Aranda / 151
This is Yuyutsu Samantha Bear / 155
Great Divides Darlene Costello / 158
Three Poems City Gardener Veiled Yahrzeit Mindy Kronenberg / 159
Yuyutsu in America David Axelrod / 162
Two Poems Beast in the Apartment The Parable of the Burning House Tony Barnstone / 163
Dhaulagiri Russ Green / 168
After Yuyu Alessandra Francesca / 170
The Quataquatatankua Nabina Das / 171
Sharma Charms Ronnie Norpel / 176
Two Poems This Time in Kathmandu Bishnu’s (pie & chi) Eddie Woods / 177
Two Poems It Will Not Be Apparent from the Crazy Circus
From the Crazy Circus Kim Nuzzo / 180
My Looks Cliff Fyman / 182
One Rupee Barun Bajracharya / 185
The Birth of Sagarmatha Charles Peter Watson / 186
Want Christopher Wheeling / 188
Voor Yuyutsu, For Yuyutsu, Merik van der Torren / 189
After Li Po Art Good Times / 191
All That Falls Robin Mets / 194
Landscape with Snow Erica Mapp / 195
Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma Bill Wolak / 197
Someday you will understand Roxanne Hoffman / 200
Two Poems Wishes Your Smile Civa Bhusal / 202
I’ll simply proceed D. B. Meltzer / 204
Untitled Gypsy Poem Cee Williams / 205
If you die one day Bidur Prasad Chaulagain / 207
Namaste Vicki Iorio / 208
What Matters Barbara Novack / 210
Sherpa Wisdom Mary Ryan Garcia / 211 Blue Panther Grey Theresa Göttl Brightman / 214
A Steady Trundle of Footfalls Steve Brightman / 216
The Dirt the Dirt Jack Tar / 218
Upon Meeting Maya Kymberly Avinasha Brown / 220
Namaste Catherine Gigante-Brown / 221
Meeting Yuyutsu Sharma Marion Palm / 223
Three Poems My Mother Ceridwen Peregrine Pantoum Parallel Keys Hélène Cardona / 225
Pre-Acid André Baum / 229
I’m an “Open Mic Gypsy” Phillip Giambri / 231
Kirat Devin Wayne Davis / 235
Spice Alex Symington / 237 A Poet of Higher Realms Rajesh Siddharth / 238
Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma
Edited by David Austell & Kathleen D Gallagher
ISBN : 81-8250-088-5 2017 Paperback pp 309 plus 24 Photo pages
Eternal Snow is a testament to the power of words to inspire, encourage, and heal across vastly disparate cultures and distant places. Over one hundred andtwenty-five poets from around the world come together in this anthology to explore their interactions, collisions, and intersections with Yuyutsu Sharma, renowned Himalayan poet, journalist, translator, and editor from Kathmandu, Nepal.The book is a clear example of the new world itinerancy of the modern poet, and the global efficacy of poetry, in that Yuyu’s world travels have touched the hearts and minds of thousands of people who have heard his readings around the world and read his words in print and on-line.
Not all the contributors are professional poets. Eternal Snow also captures the poetic voices of ahairstylist, a photographer, a Yoga teacher, a priest, a nurse, and a social scientist. In these pages, a young poet in Kathmandu sees her late father in Yuyu’s face; a social worker conjures the Goddess of the Children while serving the Bhutanese refugees in California; a New York University professor ponders an Asian challenge: setting her house on fire to become a real poet. The results captured in these poems attest to the literary collisions which occur when global poets meet.
Eternal Snow is a singular, remarkable, and moving work of art.
“When you first meet Himalayan poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma, you are taken immediately by his quiet passion and reverence for the art and purpose of poetry, which, when taking the stage, he transforms into a voice that crosses continents and soars like the snow in wind that permeates “the solemn silence of sacred sounds” in his beloved Nepal. Through his intercession, poems become chants of eternality. He has sought the same in the poets represented in his anthology “Eternal Snow,” a hundred voices who, like him, give reverence to the power of words in translating truth through passion into a universal poetic of sacred sounds.”
–James Ragan, Distinguished American Poet & Author of Too Long a Solitude & The Hunger Wall among others
Yuyu has touched the hearts and minds of a multitude of people and writers around the world, as evidenced in this wonderful book, Eternal Snow…The poetry included in this volume speaks to the constant intersections with Yuyu Sharma, collisions of persons, spirits, literary visions, affect and effect, all of which have at their center this remarkable person and precious talent. It is my delight and honor to be among such a cloud of witnesses.–David Austell in Preface to Eternal Snow
No matter where the poets live, from a small city to large, to countryside or village, Yuyutsu’s poetry and teachings transform writers from across the world, allowing them to reach into their own writing dreams and visions. Indeed, each poet no matter his or her walk in life, whether professional poet, performer, professor, minister, or word-loving hairstylist who scribbles down thoughts about her love for her dying mother, all have discovered his or her own creative awakenings when encountering Yuyutsu Sharma’s work. Yuyutsu’s work has far-reaching effects in personal transformation.–Kathleen Gallagher in Introduction to Eternal Snow
David B. Austell, Ph.D. is Associate Provost and Director of the International Students and Scholars Office at Columbia University in New York City where he is also an Associate Professor of International Education in Teachers CollegeColumbia University (adjunct). David has over thirty years of executive leadership experience in International Education, and is a frequent writer and presenter in his professional field. David has undergraduate and graduate degrees in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Higher Education, focusing on International Education; his doctoral dissertation, The Birds in the Rich Forest, concerned Chinese students in the United States during the Student Democracy Movement. David was a Fulbright Fellow in Japan and Korea in 1992. He is also a poet, and his third book of poetry, The Tin Man (regarding the life of St. Joseph of Arimathea), is forthcoming from Nirala Press in 2017.
Kathleen D. Gallagher is a poet, writer, editor, graphic artist, and distinguished senior lecturer of English at the University of Akron/Wayne College. She is an award-winning writer (Honorable Mention for the feature article, “Cutting Storm” (2007), and Honorable Mention for the essay, “Flying Objects” (2011) in Writer’s Digest competitions). Kathleen’s poetry has appeared in journals including the South Coast Poetry Journal: Issue #15 (Honorable Mention for the poem, “Focal Point,” judged by writer/poet James Dickey). In the graphic arts, her collage, “One Woman,” was chosen for the cover of Pushcart nominee Michelle Reale’s book, If All They Had Were Their Bodies (Burning River Press, 2011). Kathleen was a finalist in the Writing Knights Press First Grand Tournament which resulted in her first poetry chapbook, I See Things are Falling. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in December 2012. In addition to her writing, poetry, and artwork, Kathleen has edited several books including Footpaths to Ancient Campsites in Copley Township, Ohio, by Robert Haag (2006); and Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer, by Todd Allan Gates (2006).
