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FROM SAGARMATHA TO OLYMPUS MONS:YUYUTSU RD SHARMA & DAVID B. AUSTELL

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FROM SAGARMATHA TO OLYMPUS MONS:YUYUTSU RD SHARMA & DAVID B. AUSTELL

FROM SAGARMATHA TO OLYMPUS MONS

YUYUTSU RAM DASS SHARMA

& DAVID B. AUSTELL

READING THEIR NEW AND SELECTED WORKS

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24TH at 7:00pm


Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, New York University

238 Thompson Street (corner of Thompson Street and West 4th Street, beside the NYU Kimmel Center)

This event is free and open to the public. The authors’ books will be available for purchase.


DR. DAVID B. AUSTELL (United States) is an emerging voice in the arena of contemporary American poetry. Austell grew up in the southern part of the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, his love of poetry growing from deep roots: from his mother who sent poetry, sacred and secular, to him all through college with her letters, and from his father who read Shakespeare and Coleridge to him as a child. He completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he also completed his Ph.D. in Higher Education focusing on International Education. He 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 dissertation, The Birds in the Rich Forest, concerned Chinese students in the United States during the Student Democracy Movement). In 1992, he was a Fulbright grantee in Korea and Japan. He is currently the Executive Director of the Office of Global Services at New York University in New York City where he is also an adjunct Associate Professor of International Education in the NYU Steinhardt School His first book of poetry, Little Creek, was published in January 2011 by Nirala Press, and his second volume, Garuda (also published by Nirala), was released in March 2012. David’s poetry has also appeared in Infusion Magazine, and in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow.

More: http://www.davidaustell.blogspot.com/

David Austell Reading with Yuyutsu Sharma in Summit, NJ
Saturday, December 22, 2012: 7:30 pm: From Chomungla to Olympus Mons: Readings from Yuyutsu Sharma and David Austell at Mondo Summit,426 Springfield Avenue, Third Floor, New Jersey, www.mondosummit.com

Last Updated on Sunday, 17 February 2013 13:28
 

Evoking the Himalayas: A Reading In Berkeley by Yuyutsu Sharma

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Evoking the Himalayas: A Reading In Berkeley by Yuyutsu Sharma
Evoking the Himalayas
A READING IN BERKELEY BY
Yuyutsu Sharma


Jan19, 2013, 6:30 pm,
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 – 510.849.2568
www.lapena.org/


Enjoy delicious food and sangrias from the La Peña restaurant, Cafe Valparaiso (cafevalparaiso.com), while hearing Yuyutsu read!
The internationally renowned Himalayan poet and environmental activist, Yuyutsu Sharma, currently on the last leg of his US tour, shall evoke the spirit of high gods and discuss the ongoing ecological crisis prevalent in Nepal Himalayas. Due to current political chaos and senseless modernization, the region has turned into the world’s highest dumping ground, ‘God’s colossal Grave’. The poet shall read from his recent book, Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu and Nepal Trilogy, a 900 page book that he has authored with distinguished German photographer, Andreas Stimm. A rare opportunity to know and interact with “the poet from the top of the world.”
The reading will be followed by a brief Q&A .


Suggested Donation, $10 – $20 but pay what you can, no one turned away for lack of funds. Time:  Doors open at 6, reading at 6:30.

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, (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.

Last Updated on Sunday, 17 February 2013 13:20
 

Poetry at London Olympics 2012

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Yuyutsu Sharma to be the Guest Poet at Poetry Parnassus to celebrate London Olympics 2012
June 7th, 2012

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/poetry-parnassus/poets/sharma-yuyutsu

http://www.mptmagazine.com/article/event-join-mpt-at-poetry-parnassus-southbank-centre-26th-june--1st-july-2012-26/

Yuyutsu R. D. Sharma

Last Updated on Sunday, 10 June 2012 20:36 Read more...
 

Milarepa Reading

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Yuyutsu Sharma's New Book Reading!
Friday, April 27, 2012 6:00pm until 8:00pm


Yuyutsu Sharma’s new book,
Milarepa's Bones, Helambu
33 New Poems
ISBN-81-8250-032-X 2012 Hard pp.82


At JujoMukti Tea Lounge,
211 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10009


"Formed by 20th century South Asian and North American poetry movements and himself a verbal renewer of his country’s literature, Yuyutsu indefatigably writes along rivers and paths, mountains, valleys and villages, verse after verse…" Dr. Christoph Emmrich, South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at the University of Toronto.

www.niralapublications.com - www.yuyutsu.de

Directions: Subways F, M (2nd Ave & Houston);
6 (Astor Place; 8th St and 4th Ave.);
Bus 14A from Union Square
(3rd St stop and Ave. A).
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Phone: 19177768438.

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 April 2012 08:08
 

Florida Reading

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FAMOUS NEPALESE 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 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 252 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach.
For more information, contact Cinematique at 386-252-3118 or Dr. Axelrod, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 386-492-2409.

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 April 2012 08:02
 
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