Sunday, March 11, 2012

Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu 33 New Poems, Just Published from Nirala



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

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.

Yuyutsu Sharma’s North American Tour, 2012

Yuyutsu Sharma’s North American Tour, 2012

Yuyutsu Sharma is one of Nepal’s leading poets published by Nirala Publications, and has a growing international reputation. He is currently in New York, and has four forthcoming readings there, details below:

Thursday, March 8, 2012 @ 7pm.: at Location: at Baruch College, Engelman Recital Hall Journeys Through Nepal and India: Yuyutsu Sharma reading with Robert Scotto and Lu Wu; Baruch Performing Arts Center, Baruch College: 25th St. (bet. 3rd and Lexington Aves.), NYC, For Free Reservations call (646) 312-5073 http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac/calendar/event.php?id=778

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

• March 21st, 6:30 p.m.: at the Launch of Christi Shannon Kline’s new book, No Child More Perfect, Nirala, 2012, the Nightingale Lounge, 213 Second Avenue@13th Street, Manhattan, New York

Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 7:00 p.m.: at the Williams Center for the Arts, William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County, One Williams Plaza, Rutherford NJ, Yuyutsu shall read from his new book, Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu ( Nirala, 2012) plus read the words of William Carlos Williams. Call the Rutherford Public Library at 201.939.8600 for more information.