tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4435225894259587632024-03-05T09:43:54.163-08:00 Yuyutsu Sharma’s Eternal SnowAn Anthology of Poems originating
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467776116898893916noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443522589425958763.post-22596977836649926932018-03-02T21:15:00.002-08:002018-03-02T21:15:48.415-08:00Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eternal Snow </em>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</b><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-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 online.</strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not all the contributors are professional poets. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eternal Snow</em> also captures the poetic voices of a</strong> <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hairstylis</strong>t<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, 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.</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">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.”</em></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">–James Ragan,</strong> Distinguished American Poet & Author of <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Too Long a Solitude</em> & <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hunger Wall</em> among others</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467776116898893916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443522589425958763.post-34710479323390066892017-02-13T21:00:00.001-08:002017-02-14T00:27:52.798-08:00Quataquatantankua : A Poem & A Trek With the Buddha Bard By Nabina Das<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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they seem to be using human language,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Emeralded into the crevices of
words<br />
our roads emerge with coffee and brine<br />
to fan out far towards a city a peak, a town --<br />
each an odd-eyed rooster in one-legged patience.<br />
I see one losing its blue<br />
in the smear of newsprint<br />
another being pocketed<br />
by hands that grope --<br />
grope my soft tissues<br />
beneath the skin of gauze<br />
but the ones bunched deep<br />
inside my throat go untouched!<br />
So, I can gurgle: "Quataquatantankua, Quataquatantankua,
Quataquatantankua."<br />
Ramro chha, ramro chha, ramro chha? And the reply bubbles<br />
up in the foothill methane:<br />
All is good, nothing's amiss<br />
where gods sleep; we keep awake to sharpen our verbs in the dawn.</span><br />
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RD Sharma’s face is like a mountain terrain, when the earth emerges in the
gods’ peaks after a flash flood or when a river has receded after the monsoon’s
regal fury. I noticed this as soon as I sat down opposite to him in the
surprisingly sparsely populated Barista coffee shop in New Delhi’s fashionable
Khan Market shopping area. Poet of the Himalayas, Yuyutsu’s greeting resounded <i>almost
true</i> in what he wrote in “In the Mountains”: <i>Fragile my
eyeglasses/</i> <i>fragile and foreign</i>/<i>I take them off; </i>/<i>There’s
a speck of a scar in them. </i>//<i>On the mule path </i>/<i>I take
them off </i>/<i>to face the green </i>/<i>stretch of mountains </i>/<i>beneath
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almost true, because he didn’t wear eyeglasses at our meeting! His dark irises
reflected the green he writes about and the twining paths he sees better
without his educated eyeglasses. And since we met to chat – we didn’t waste
time to get on first-name terms – the discussion rightfully turned quickly to
his meditative collection<i> Annapurna Poems</i>, a Nirala Series book
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">On that
sweltering summer evening, leafing through the Annapurna poems brought in a
sudden whiff of cool mountain air. Musical and reflective. Indeed, Yuyutsu’s
poetic tenor is pretty much that of a bard, his voice that treks higher and
higher into the wild beautiful upper Himalaya bringing alive the smile of the
Buddha and the semiotics of the region’s everlasting gods and goddesses, the
Yeti and other resident animals, the soulful rivers, and the ice-kissed rain.
True, Yuyutsu laments the loss of a familiar landscape he witnessed prior to
political trouble fanning out across Nepal. But his enthusiasm is very much
rooted to the peoples’ grasp of their own surrounding, the Nepal that is home
to communities and creeds, whether he sees them in the backdrop of the Maoist
insurgency or that of a defunct monarchy.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">On the
level of language, this poetry takes us straight into the heart of the mountain
country, Nepal’s unique ethos and the nature that entertains both snowy seasons
and hidden eternal gardens. The mule paths, the ‘leech-greasy’ forests, the
spells under which the mountain people live and tell fantastic tales, the
‘magnificent daggers of snow’, all build up a world where nature is more than
just a phenomenon. It is a companion to the poet and his perception. The
cognitive faculty of the poet and the reader works in tandem in recognizing the
many layers of meanings unfolded in each aspect of “Annapurna Poems”, exactly
like the different layers of the snow. The permafrost is made of the
century-old legends and tales on which have grown new fables and events.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Yuyutsu
is a poet of expressions as he traverses a train of simplicity. He does not
twist language in any show of wizardry. He believes in words and sentences, as
they are known and heard in the Himalayan reality, to take him along the
mountain journey to rediscover the known nomenclature and trusted actions. All
he does is re-paint the scenes of Annapurna in unique details and from
surprising angles. Like little Tibetan <i>thangkas</i>. In these scenes,
he tells us about those place names that ring out the jeweled eco-system of a
mountain town or village as familiar as our recurrent dreams. With him, we walk
the salt tracks, the gorge trails and visit Birethanti. Ghorepani, Gandrung,
Tadapani, Lake Fewa, and many such tongue-trilling spots. For him, <i>Hillside
roosters</i>/<i>Punctual, announcing the dawn </i>//are known elements. If
sometimes they might appear delightfully alien to our practiced eyes: <i>Possessing
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still draw us into the world of Annapurna like ice drops in the cracks (Yuyutsu
himself says in the foreword of the book that his poems exist in each crack of
this magnanimous mountain world).</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this pristine surrounding something troubles the poet who watches the spray of
the white surf: <i>on greasy crotches </i>/<i>of huge mossy rocks </i>//<i>started
singing … coughing out </i>/<i>the cacophony of cruel cities</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yuyutsu’s poetry one might like to find the Blake-ian dilemma of having to
dividing the human soul between Nature and its sufferance, mingle her own fate
and existences with that of gods, the Yeti and shamans, and the myriad
mysterious of Shangri-La, where imageries take fantastic shapes and have their
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time I come </i>/<i>to her deafening banks </i>//<i>to gleam my
dreams </i>/<i>over the plump flanks of her warm body … and a wrinkle
appears </i>/<i>across the shriveled leaf of my life.</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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he is not merely a romantic poet. What comes across is his deep admiration for
the Annapurna region as a system tied to the rest of the world – those parts of
the world where he is a traveler of a different kind, giving talks and
workshops, reading his published work and attending literary events. In the
context of these ‘worldly’ acts where he attributes his own poetry having the
“otherworldly” and “archival” quality, he is very much a realist. The book’s
first section, “Little Paradise Lodge”, is an account of Nepal and Annapurna’s
past and present. Interestingly, ‘lodge’ appears to be a pun on ‘lost’ as if he
was talking about a ‘little paradise lost’. To me the poems in this section are
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other hand, quite prominently, his Eliotesque sarcasm for the modern city life
and the external influences on his much loved landscape of rains and snows
adorn the images he paints in “Rains”: <i>… This summer they held me up </i>/<i>In
the deserts of their skyscrapers. … my face in the dark </i>/<i>feeling
tips of snow sacred fishtails of Machapuchchare.</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Mules” too, their ringing bells are but ‘beating notes of a slavery modernism
brings’. While mapping the ‘bloodthirsty mule paths around the glacial of
Annapurna’, Yuyutsu watches: <i>cartons of Iceberg, mineral water bottles, </i>/<i>solar
heaters, Chinese tiles, tin cans, carom boards </i>//<i>sacks of rice </i>/<i>and
iodized salt from the plains of Nepal Terai. … human and mule lives meet</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Rain,
river, snow, singing gorges and brooks rule the landscape of Annapurna Poems.
The romance is palpable between the poet and his subject, almost Sufi in
character, ‘madness’ being one of its virtues. Yuyutsu is in complete
enchantment of his terrain as a lover is and this love’s longing is realized in
a woman’s physical quest (A Lonely Brook): <i>a lonely woman </i>/<i>waits
for a stranger to come </i>//<i>and burst</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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frozen between her thighs </span></i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">//<i>to
make a flame</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with the river (River) is a personal history, a sequel to the secret rendezvous
with the beloved and is artistically lusty. <i>Between your decisions</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flickering lamps </span></i><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">/<i>the river mad </i>/<i>you,
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Yuyutsu we travel to Ghandrung where a ‘young girl of the scarlet shawl
waits/for the colorful procession/of mules carrying cartons of Tuberg beer to
pass’ or to Ghorepani, all the while delightfully apprehensive or even curious
if a Yeti was following ‘your trail in the desolate mountains’.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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these portraits resembling eternity’s passing of time in the mountain world, we
empathize with the pain in the poets voice (Fish): <i>Wives wait the final
winter </i>/<i>of my rot, opening up </i>/<i>the greed </i>/<i>of
their slithering fish </i>/<i>I return to a poem </i>/<i>I postponed
decades ago </i>/<i>to touch the mating serpents </i>/<i>slithering
on the tip of illicit door </i>/<i>called death.</i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book’s second section “Glacier” takes this sentiment to a crescendo as one
feels literally like climbing heights with titles like Kala Patthar, Gauri
Shankar, Summit and The Buddhist Flag Flutters and looking below with a
rooster’s eye view at the fields, the forests and the (once) playful courtyards
with their brass bells. The overture continues with the third part “Sister Everest”,
a pithy and less descriptive section. In that, the latter is highly evocative.
If the first sections read like an ethereal ‘inward’ trek through the upper
Himalayan terrain, this section readies us for the fourth one – “The Annapurna
Man” – rooted more in the poet’s ‘outward’ experiences. A very brief section,
it spews more pain than pleasure. To some extent, I came out of the book
through this section with a sense of abrupt termination, as if Yuyutsu’s pain
had to invite a quick clinical surgery. For this, the poetry in this section
seems disjointed from the book’s original spirit.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Especially,
I felt “Silence” is too much of rumination, too personal and reads more like
purgation than poetry. The best piece in this section is “Space Cake,
Amsterdam”, a witty poem combining introspection and observation by ‘this man
from Kathmandu’ (one may well imagine, the rest of our chat that evening
centered around that one fantastic experience Yuyutsu recounted to me). The
air-conditioned air at that Barista throbbed at my mirth on reading and
re-reading the line – ‘whatever happens, you can always make a comeback’!</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "palatino linotype" , "serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">NABINA
DAS is a poet and fiction writer currently based in Hyderabad. She teaches
Creative Writing and has won several writing awards and grants at home and
abroad while being published widely. Her poetry has been translated into
Assamese, Bengali, Hindi and Croatian</span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">o</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; line-height: 18.48px;">riginating from Yuyu’s Works, Readings and Workshops,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">An Anthology
of 100 Poets' </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Interactions with the Himalayan Poet </span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">as we have received more than 150 poems already from 93 poets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">More submissions are pouring in with special last-minute requests.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thanks to all the contributing to this fir</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;">st of its kind anthology focused on the influence of a traveling Himalayan poet. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We intend to finalize and start working towards publication of the book within couple of weeks.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Here is the updated list of poets who have contributed to the anthology</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> - The Editors</span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467776116898893916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443522589425958763.post-45597500344842214232014-09-28T12:15:00.000-07:002014-09-28T12:23:44.850-07:00The Mountain Man’s Gifts: Kathleen D Gallagher on her Experiences of Working on Yuyutsu Sharma's "Eternal Snow" <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I first became acquainted with the Yuyutsu Sharma at a
poetry reading at the Literary Café in Cleveland where I was a local feature
poet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yuyutsu was a lovely surprise
international guest poet who was invited to read with us along the frozen Lake
Erie Shore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He read before me, and I was
in awe and honored and humbled to follow his lead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was impressed not only by his poetry, but
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A year passed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Once again, on his way back from his travels out West by
train, Yuyutsu appeared in Cleveland, Ohio at Mac’s Backs where he was giving
many of his remarkable writing workshops and readings that he performs all over
the world from New York to California to the Florida Keys and everywhere in
between and beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that night, I
walked down into the basement of that coffeehouse with a belly full of grief
over having recently lost a lost a loved one, and I had no words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Instead, I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>concentrated on my goal at hand, and reveled
in my luck to be able to host his visit by securing a reading for him at The
University of Akron/Wayne College where I teach composition and literature. Later
we travelled together in a huge ice and snowstorm to the International Poet’s
Hall in Erie, Pa. where he would be the feature poet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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On the way there, we took a stop in my hometown, Ashtabula,
Ohio and it was there that poet Yuyutsu Sharma, charmed by my small lake town
and its former glory of dock industry and drawbridge history, turned to me
after looking at the barren and frozen waters and encouraged me to revisit my
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was magical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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I imagined that I might once again visit my lake home town
of beauty and sadness, and from his teachings and poems and encouraging words,
I found my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading Yuyutsu’s poem,
“The Lake Fewa, an Unfinished Poem,” I first became acquainted with his power
of poetic influence in the following lines: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“…from the fury of the goddess who created the
lake to avenge the unkind inhabitants of the valley. ..”<br />
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greatly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it wasn’t until we stood
together looking at the massive frozen Lake Erie that I imagined that I might
once again visit my home town of beauty and sadness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, I was reborn creatively through the
power of words, as in the passage from “The Lake Poem,“ where he writes,
“….Move towards the root of the lake/serpentine twist of the birth canal…”<br />
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In my poem, “Lake Erie: Daughter of Sorrows, “ I broke my
grieving silence and wrote:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Turning my
sorrows into joy, softening my heart, you transform the spirit of all my sister
Lakes.”<br />
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For this is Yuyutsu Sharma’s gift to all of us: The rebirth of
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His writings and teachings transform writers, allowing them to
reach into their own writing dreams and visions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, Yuyutsu’s work and example has far
reaching effects: From fellow editor and academic David Austell in “Garuda” who
writes “…the regal man-bird rises as high as Om/then falls again, searching for
every evil thing to destroy…”, to “Himalaya” by writer Sharon Aveningo who
writes: “….You are my mule/my companion, my friend/my communal bastard brother/
born of stallion and ass….,” to Chuck Joy’s poem “Mountain Man and Cold Fish,”
where “….Mountain man came stumping down the valley wearing an animal skin,”
Yuyutsu’s poetic influence is great.<br />
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fellow editor David Austell,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
assistant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>editors Jen Pezzo <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Tracie Morell have had the privilege to
read, his influence on so many others’ creative writing experiences proves to
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Evocations from his own poetic stories and musings and life
teachings, come to us, teach us, inspire us, and reach us from his own home
poetics, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>creative gifts from the “forehead
of the sky” where he emerges to be with us on his poetry visits and workshops<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">I met Yuyu on social
network first. We have poetry in common and luckily, I discovered, over the years, both of us have rambled in the familiar Ohio
poetry circles. However, I had the opportunity to meet him in person through
Kathleen Gallagher. She suggested my venue, Akron Night Murmurs, as a great
place to hold one of his poetry workshops. I was extremely delighted and
flattered to promote and host such a poet! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">“A Himalayan Poet
in Akron Workshop” sounded magical, and it truly was. He opened the evening
with his favorite Mantras, shared his experiences as a shaman in childhood,
spoke about the Himalayas and New York, shared his poetry, and talked about his
travels around the world. He was fun, encouraging, and inspiring to everyone
who participated in the workshop. In
turn, we shared poetry, music, and vaudeville skits with him after the
workshop. It was a great night of creative energy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">When I first met
Yuyu, I had never been to New York. I shared with him that I was going to visit
there for the first time ever on a redeye tour with some friends soon. His face
lit up and that was that. He could not
believe I’d never been there. When I
finally got there, my friends and I were bonafide tourists for an entire day. We
crammed as many sights as we could into our short visit. Yuyu made sure to see
me before our bus took us back to Akron. He met me an hour before departure and
teased me for hanging out in Times Square like a tourist. I ran through the city streets behind him,
barely able to keep up with his brisk walk as we looked for a place to have
tea. We reveled at the fact we had just missed each other earlier that day at
the Magnolia Bakery, one of his favorite places to go. In fact earlier that day he was shooting in
West Village for a video on his poem, “You Are a New Yorker” with his NYU Tisch
student. We didn’t have much time before my bus left, but he made sure I was
supplied with snacks for the trip home, a warm hug, and an invitation to one
day see how real New Yorkers live. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">Yuyu’s life is
poetic. He has inspired me in ways beyond the written page, in how he treats
those around him, and in his approach to travel and life. I especially admire
the way he makes fellow poets feel like family and how he wants everyone to
feel the same enthusiasm for all the things he finds fulfillment and joy in: Poetry,
The Himalayas, and New York being the BIG three. So it makes me happy to see how this
particular poet’s influence resonates throughout the world and know it will
continue to do so, long into the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">Working as an
editorial assistant on the staff of Yuyutsu Sharma’s <i>Eternal Snow: An Anthology of Poems originating from Yuyu’s
interactions, Readings and Workshops</i> has been an honor and a pleasure.
Being part of a team of inspired and creative people is where I feel most “at
home”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">Most importantly,
I am extremely thankful to learn from, work with and get to know Yuyu, Kathleen,
Tracie Morell, and David Austell during this process and to be able to read
some incredible work by poets from around the world. Being part of this team has enriched my own
artistic endeavor and has turned out to be a happy side effect from being
around such incredible talent and passion for poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is about process. Writing, editing, and then writing some more is the
evolution of voice. Poetry is the utterance of voice, and the Muse is
real. Poets who write with great conviction to the Muse are indeed
possessed by poetics coloring everything they witness in lines. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div>
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have the opportunity to shape the multitudinous voice of an anthology with work
from around the world is a rare opportunity for any writer/editor.
Yuyutsu is one of those exceptional breeds who are not only skilled
artistically, but he is also a Muse, and he brings people together across
borders and oceans, across cultural barriers as well. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div>
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met him only twice, briefly. There was an instant cerebral connection,
and passion was expressed freely, which in my frigid town, full of refugees,
off Misery Bay, is an unusual experience. We seemed to realize despite
our different races, we are the same breed. There are so few people open
to the instantaneous passion of poetry, but Yuyu evokes it. And he knows
it, so he expresses gratitude for that rare gift, which made me want to give
him my own gifts of poetry. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yuyu
has given us the opportunity through the process of creating an anthology of
the works of those he has touched with his expressive way. He certainly
is the only Poet I know who can pull off saying “crotch” with an
elegance. It is something so special to have the ability to pull
utterance and expression out of people from different cultures, and it is even
more amazing that he seems to know what people he meets need to be in contact
with each other. Then he makes it so. His choice to bring Kathleen
Gallaghar, Jen Pezzo, David Austell, and myself together as the Editorial Board
was to bring people together who share a fierce passion for beauty and
art. Maybe the four of us mirror his passion in some way, and that’s what
he sees in our collaboration. Whatever the case may be, he has opened the
dialogue to engage the passion for Muse, and it is a great hope of the Editorial
Staff to do the Muse justice.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467776116898893916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443522589425958763.post-88475385817264883072014-05-31T09:50:00.001-07:002014-05-31T09:57:07.648-07:00Yuyu Poem for the Anthology, Eternal Snow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 16pt;">'</span></b><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 16pt;">All the way from Kathmandu'</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">If it's a yak-a hirsute goat-like creature-</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">I will use it to keep down the grass</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">Choking my back garden in Lewisham</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">Where the grass has lain unmown all year</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">In getting my yak back from Shoreditch</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">I can see the headline in the 'Sun'</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">"Yak in a sack of smack found in the back</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">of a bus at Catford Garage"</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">I know I can despatch a swift email</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">To that phlegmatic poet AF Harrold</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">Who wrote:"113 ways of looking at a
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">Surely he'll have the solution</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">To my dilemma</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">And can arrive at an admirably sedate</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">Decision-he's so so English-</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;">Maybe I'm getting all of a lather</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Center</span></i><i><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 9pt;">,
London</span></i><i><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fellow poets and writers! Deadline for <i>Eternal Snow </i>has been extended! Please see the submission directions below and share this information with others! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you have had the pleasure of meeting or interacting with Yuyu or had the opportunity of attending this internationally renowned Himalayan Poet’s workshops, you are herein invited to submit to the upcoming anthology, tentatively named, <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Eternal Snow:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>An Anthology of Poems Originating from Yuyu’s Works, Readings and Workshops.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467776116898893916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443522589425958763.post-91200320723620115152014-04-15T16:39:00.000-07:002014-04-15T16:39:20.384-07:00Yuyu Anthology Poem, Getting High by Lorraine Conlin<div class="Body1">
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">He
takes me to his world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">an
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">flows
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">treeless
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">cascades
past seasons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">rivers
of morning rise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">unveiling
valleys of glacial flow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">I
inhale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">mists
of monsoon rains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">eternal
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">showers
fields of forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">musk
deer grazes on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">magnolia
and mint<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">I
exhale red rhododendron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">slants
of sunlight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">clove,
cumin, coriander<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">He
takes me to this place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">his
temple, his shrine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">with
words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">floating
like dust motes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">by
Lorraine Conlin/2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Loraine Conlin</span></b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> is a U.S.
Customs Broker at Kennedy Airport. She
hosts “Tuesdays With Poetry” for Poets in Nassau. She is on staff for PPA, hosting at Sip This
and Bellmore Bean Café. Lorraine is an
active member of the LIPC and East End Poetry workshops and on the staff of
PPA. Her poems can be found in numerous
publications. She is a breast cancer
survivor and a “student of life”.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467776116898893916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-443522589425958763.post-7921506873181990502014-03-26T18:40:00.000-07:002014-03-26T18:40:04.982-07:00Yuyu Anthology Poem Excerpt and "The Letter from London" by Maria Heath<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Maria Heath</span><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">( A Poem for Yuyu at Poetry
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here is a
fragment from the poem to appear in <i>Eternal
Snow</i> along with “Letter from London” she sent to Yuyu after finishing her
long poem. The editorial team worked on about two dozen drafts of the Letter
and finally with Yuyu’s suggestion agreed to publish her first draft in First Person
to give our readers a feel of Maria’s passionate commitment to the Muse…( Eds.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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IV<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The next afternoon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">cotton white. I think I shuffled some of my poems
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">me quiet as a chrysalis, arms folded across chest,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">biting a lip...You then, a mirror to thought,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the missing wing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">After a while, consuming cake -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that seemed not to be cake, but a froth-light
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">creatures of a kind, though actually it was lemon
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it was you who made it unearthly, my shaman calling
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">of the waves, I had after all shared cake before at
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">but never had it been so mysterious -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">at some stage we smiled, then laughed... and I felt
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">a tremor like a fine fissure in a fortress wall, a
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A Letter
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">By Maria
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">Drury
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Dear Yuyu,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good to hear that the readings
around New York are going well and your recent collections of poems are well
received. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Over the winter since we were in
contact by letter, I found myself rather preoccupied with trying to write a
prose autobiographical work mainly inspired by trips and revisits that cohere
around a theme, which I haven’t spoken about with you, but wish to explore in a
literary form. It seems likely this project will take up a few more weeks, at
the very least. I would like to see if I can convert the material into a play,
but I’m more than happy to take some time out to contact you about my poem, </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Parnassus to New York<i>, submitted for, </i>Eternal
Snow<i>.<b> </b>The connections
with you and the editors of the anthology are all very welcome as a way to
counteract the solitude that can accompany creativity, and also because of the
inspiration to be found in reading the other poets’ works.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You recently expressed an
interest in a hearing more about the emergence of the poem </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Parnassus to New York<i>. Here then is a rough
outline of how it evolved and some of the inspiration behind the piece.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At first I had no thought in mind
whatsoever about writing poetry connected with the Parnassus Festival that
summer, the place that we me, - You as the poet from Nepal, whilst I attended readings,
lectures and a poetry workshop with Mimi Khalvati. I think that we had both
been at the lecture by Jo Shapcott on Marianne Moore prior to our initial
encounter outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall. I had spoken to her briefly after
the lecture and then, as I walked towards the river, quite suddenly you were
there and we began talking as though we already knew each other (although we
had never before met).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The immediacy to our meeting that
summer’s day, and the intensity of our exchanges the next afternoon, seemed
almost elusive to transcription into words, and following such unprecedented or
quite startling situations, I find quite often that I start use imagistic type
writing to describe them as I feel freed then from more quotidian conceptual
constraints. Our early experience of each other included, I feel, a rather
extraordinary sense of something unexpected yet somehow inevitable.. The
afternoon subsequent to our initial encounter, I felt quite apprehensive about
reading and exchanging my poems, but as though a surrender of a kind was
inevitable, as though in a sense, I had quite literally no choice but to
cede to some kind of a rescue, as though retrieved from the riverbank like
something that had been found. Later, I came up with the word ‘feral’ to
connote a range of connected meanings, and also a hint to some kind of damage
or neglect at some stage of my life that I’ve been writing about quite recently,
in connection with certain trips and revisits to places evoking a memory trace
of that time. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sense of surrender, I recall
that I passed through that day resonated with religious experience to a degree.
Yet was far more unique and individual and all the more valuable to me – a
transcendence we created for ourselves instead of set up in advance by a shared
culture of formal liturgical expression. I wonder at times if there was in fact
a shamanic aspect to this encounter, although I cannot be sure. I would like to ask
you more about Shamanism in your culture and how it connects up with poetry. Imagery
connected with mountain landscape later emerged in the poem partly to convey an
exulted sense of imaginative height. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That meeting came to an end and
we parted ways and did not meet again for quite a few months. Encouraged by
attention to my writing, from you and other poets around this time --- both
George Szrites, who I value for his time and encouraging comments, and
Josephine Dickinson who proof-read my poem </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Parnassus to New York, <i>I secluded myself at home
in Drury Lane for much of the time whilst you were home in Nepal following the
July festival, both writing and editing rather committedly and completing
several new poems in quite close succession. With the sense that you modelled a
way of being as a poet, not purely as a reflector of self and ideas, rather as
a conduit of education and literary connection, a more selfless and outgoing
creative attitude began to emerge than I feel I had experienced. By the autumn
of 2012, I had written quite a few stanzas about our initial meeting, and when
you arrived back in England I found that you were reading at The Poetry Café during
a brief stop-over on the way to America,so naturally I attended, happy to hear
you perform for the first time in my life…<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The day after your reading the
morning coffee and conversation in Queen’s Park was a good way to get to know
each other further and to read some more of your poetry and because I found
that I wanted to spend as much time with you as I could that day it seemed a
good idea to travel by cab together to Heathrow in time for your afternoon
flight.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After you left for your plane, I
remained a while in the Heathrow airport reflecting on our initial meeting and
enjoying the suspended sense of somehow being in a portal in between London and
other worlds. It was then really that the second stage of writing began at
which point I still had no idea that I would write a relatively long poem, just
the sense that I was capturing some thoughts as they arose, like an artist may
keep a sketch book perhaps as they travel around. At times I forget the images
and ideas that I have I my mind if I don’t write them down. I can access them
for a limited time and then they retreat back into the depths of my mind and
more often than not I cannot fully retrieve them or recall very little of the
imagery that may briefly have arisen in connection with specific inspiration, or
the cadence and flow may have altered if I have changed my emotional state… but
by writing them down I create an authentic kind of a record that later I can
work with later in a fuller aesthetic way. And although there could be both
development and modifications the original drafts can guide quite profoundly
the voice in which the poem is to emerge. So I took a few notes in a book that
I happened to have with me at the time then travelled on the tube into central
London charting down thoughts, not really looking ahead in any real way, just
dwelling in the present and the recent past of our meeting that day.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not really wanting to return
straight home, perhaps because I wanted to continue in that bubble of
creativity for a while longer before usual routines and environments impacted
upon that intellectually fertile kind of a state, I walked for a while by the
Thames. Here I recalled the day of our first encounter, and also considered my
trajectory as a poet and the idea of exploring and charting a series of ideas
in a poem that somehow moves philosophically from one kind of insight onto
another, with the travels throughout that day gradually crystallizing to embody
a series of philosophical perspectives.The initial imagery of escape,
imagination and projection, moved onto a sense of oneness and
interconnectedness and from this I then arrived at a sense of some kind of
vocation as expressed in the final stanzas of Parnassus to New York arising in
part from a semi-conscious layer and defiant to a purely logical explanation at
the outset, but which I decided to respect as integral to the poem.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Looking briefly at possible
influences upon my poem, having read </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Upanishads,<i> as well as some Buddhist
writings whilst a student of Theology and Philosophy in London, this seam of
inspiration fused somehow with my previous readings of the Romantic poets as
well as the surrounding urban landscapes I looked upon that day, to create the
response to my surroundings which soon emerged as the later stanzas of the
poem. Friendship of course was a significant motivator for the poem and the
sense that by focusing my thoughts as an expression to you that I could more
eloquently express them than if the reader remained vague and unidentified in
my mind. Nonetheless I had a sense that it could be read by a wider audience
and did have this idea in my mind to a point as it was being written down.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The final stage of writing </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Parnassus to New York <i>involved drawing the
elements together and evolving the structure and shape of it, out of the
rougher earlier drafts, a rather organic process, the content determining the
form rather as a waterfall over rock leaves a decisive trace…<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> As far as I remember I sent an early version
of the poem to you around January 2013 and then completed it in autumn last
year. There is more, far more, I could say about the poem and if I re-read it I
could identify specific images and what they signify to me, butfor now, I feel
that I should now refrain from offering further thoughts on the subject of my
submitted poem as the work exists in its poetic form for a reason, because I
cannot or do not wish to say it any other way.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thanks to you, Kathleen Gallagher
and the other editors on board, for reading and responding to the poem. Your
encouragement and appreciation has helped me to overcome self-doubt which
perhaps was sewn at a certain stage in my life and has been quite difficult for
me to overcome. I would be happy for the work to reach a wider audience
especially in the setting you envisage, a forum for poets who you have worked
with or encountered in some way.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Looking forward to seeing the
anthology as it emerges, knowing far less about the final outcome perhaps than
the editors at this stage, I am in a state of comparative suspense and happy to
be a part of this dynamic and exciting creative process. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wishing you well for the
remainder of your tour. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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poetry regularly around London. Her writing has appeared in T<i>umbleweed Hotel </i>and <i>The Wolf, </i>among others. Currently, she is working on her first
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it in a new light with Himalayan poet Yuyutsu Sharma.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(Thus, as I hosted Yuyutsu Sharma
on his recent tour from Cleveland, Ohio’s Mac’s Backs, to Orrville, Ohio to The
University of Akron/Wayne College, (where I teach English and was excited to
introduce a real life traveling poet from high Himalayas to my college students), to the International
Poet’s Hall in Erie, Pa., I did not know that an impromptu trip to my hometown
would prompt a rush of my own poetry dormant in my veins. That I, too, would be inspired and that it would
rush the spring of creativity in my life.
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Yuytusu felt instantly attached to
my small hometown--Ashtabula, its harsh weather and beauteous lake, Erie, and
winter snowy expanse flung him back to his own land of snow and harsh winters.
He was later invited with warm welcome arms to join an online group called
Growing Up in Ashtabula. This triggered
my headlong leap into my childhood that I had forgotten in the mad rush of life
in various Midwestern cities, then marriage followed by my active life as an
independent woman author and artist . I began
my quest to research my own past for my new book of poems centered on
Ashtabula. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">“Them<b> </b>Ashtabula peonies only got two eyes---<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> supposed to have three. Cold weather’ll kill ‘em.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I had no idea our backyard flowers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">stemmed from some epic where Zeus, saving Paean <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">from the wrath of Asclepius would become one: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">A bright-eyed God of Healing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In those slumbering eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">All I saw were the pesky king-size black ants<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">we plucked and placed in old mason jars, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">captivated the ants who devoured <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">lushness without harm, in harmony of opposites---<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I would have stopped grumbling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I would have gathered pale pink and lavender bouquets, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">setting vases on tables---dining and side and bedside,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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distinguished senior lecturer of English at the University of Akron/Wayne
College, an award winning writer (2007 Writer’s Digest Honorable Mention for a
feature article entitled “Cutting Storm,” and a 2011 Honorable Mention for her
essay “Flying Objects” in the 2011 Writer’s Digest competition). She is also a
poet with works in journals such as South Coast Poetry Journal; Issue #15
(Honorable Mention for “Focal Point” judged by writer/poet James Dickey).
Gallagher has edited several books including:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395143195682_4824">Footpaths to Ancient Campsites in
Copley Township, Ohio: 2006<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>by
Robert D. Haag, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Dialogue
with A Christian Proselytizer by Todd Allan Gates, September 2010.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395143195682_4825" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;">She is a former NEOMFA creative
writing student at Kent State University. Gallagher was a finalist in the First
Grand Tournament event through Writing Knights Press which resulted in her
first poetry chapbook,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>I See
Things are Falling</i>. She was nominated for a Pushcart prize in December 2012
through Writing Knights</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395143195682_4832" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;"> </span>Press.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For my current Intermediate Poetry Class, we are required to go to at least two poetry readings over the course of the semester. So, when I received an email that there remained only a few spots open for a reading and master class at NYU’s Creative Writing House, I signed up pretty quickly, mostly for the sake of completing my requirement for this class. The poet that was leading this master class was Yuyutsu Ram Das Sharma, a Nepalese poet who most recently authored “Milarepa’s Bones”.</div>
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I arrived quite early for the reading and found that I was one of two undergraduates in a small class dominated by Creative Writing MFA students. To be honest, I was eager for the reading to start and to finish so I could seek refuge in my bedcovers and Jane Austen’s Emma.</div>
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What I did not expect was to leave this event completely spiritually and creatively rejuvenated. Yuyu’s poetry, and even his lecture, spoke to me on a level that I didn’t actually know existed. To be honest, I had become rather creatively and spiritually disillusioned over the past few months. This reading, that I had treated with such nonchalance–i wanted only to get it over with–ended up being exactly what I needed in so many ways.</div>
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Yuyu writes about the earth, in particular the Himalayas. He writes of the staggering power of nature to bring us down to the ground, to destroy us, to inspire us to live, to heal us, to take everything away and give it back. The way he read his poems made them at once song-like and booming, reminiscent of the deep and drawn out syllable “Om” that created the universe</div>
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I was fully engaged for the length of his talk. The stories from Hindu mythology that he told us in between made me feel as if I was in my grandmother’s presence.</div>
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For me, this poetry reading was a spiritual experience. It made me realize that my relationship to poetry is, indeed, a highly spiritual one. I look for connections to the people around me, to the city around me, to the universe around me, when I read poetry.</div>
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One day, I would like to be able to convey, in my poetry, the kind of feeling and movement that Yuyu manages to convey in his booming yet lilting, universal and earthy poems.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I have a loved friend who tells me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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like yours are so important. It's a way to network and connect on a
professional level, but on an artistic or creative level it goes much deeper.
You probably know this, but the people that you share your experiences with
come away with something new in their hearts, not only new tools to enhance
their writing, but an enlightenment to a different type of world...an
experience only you can share. I think of poets as gardeners of communication
and knowledge. You plant seeds and hopefully, one day you will be able to see
what will grow from them. The majority of the world has forgotten the
importance of poetry. There is an awakening happening though. We are on the
cusp of it! Keep doing what you do as long as you enjoy it. You have a gift. As
poets, we put mirrors up to the world, but we can change it too. In addition, therein
lies magic. The poems that people share with you after your workshops are
proof. It's very special…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you have had the pleasure of meeting or interacting with Yuyu or had the
opportunity of attending this internationally renowned Himalayan Poet’s workshops, you are herein invited to submit to
the upcoming anthology, tentatively
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Morell Ravi Shankar Lori Ann Kusterbeck Eileen O’Connor Chuck Joy Lorraine
Conlin Kathleen D Gallagher David Austell Maria Heath
Christopher Wheeling Renay Sanders Mindy Kronenberg Shawn Aveningo Bill Wolak Tim Kahl T.M.
Göttl Steve Brightman Jen Pezzo Thomas Jenney Agnes Marton Russ Green Katya Johanna Shannon Kline Timothy Gager Kymberly Avinasha Brown Devin
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<span style="background: white;">David B. Austell is Assistant Vice President and
Director of the Office of Global Services at New York University in New York
City, where he is also an Associate Professor of International Education in the
NYU Steinhardt School (adjunct). 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. In 1992, David was a Fulbright grantee in Japan and Korea. The love
of poetry grows from deep roots, and in David’s case from his parents: his
mother who sent poetry, sacred and secular, to him all through college with her
letters, and his father who read Shakespeare and Coleridge to him as a child.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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English at the University of Akron/Wayne College, an award winning writer (2007
Writer’s Digest Honorable Mention for a feature article entitled “Cutting
Storm,” and a 2011 Honorable Mention for her essay “Flying Objects” in the 2011
Writer’s Digest competition). She is also a poet with works in journals such as
South Coast Poetry Journal; Issue #15 (Honorable Mention for “Focal Point”
judged by writer/poet James Dickey). Gallagher has edited several books including: <i>Footpaths to Ancient Campsites in Copley Township, Ohio: 2006 </i>by Robert D. Haag, and <i>Dialogue with A Christian Proselytizer by Todd Allan Gates, September 2010. </i></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">She is a former NEOMFA creative writing
student at Kent State University. Gallagher was a finalist in the First Grand
Tournament event through Writing Knights Press which resulted in her first
poetry chapbook, <i>I See Things are Falling</i>. She was nominated for a Pushcart
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is a poet and author of “Imaginary Conversations”
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by the Poets Haven in 2012 and "Lucid
Brightenings" to be published by Writing Knights Press in May of
2014.She has been published in several anthologies and online zines; is
one
of the of the Stark County Library's "How Sweet it Is Adult Poetry"
contest winners in 2012; and was a finalist in the Writing Knights Grand
Tournament of 2013. Jen received a Pushcart nomination in 2012 through <i>Poet's Haven</i>. In
addition to her writing, she also runs and coordinates a monthly open
mic called “Akron Night Murmurs” that showcases local poets and
musicians.<b> </b>She is currently the feature performance poet with the band Serene II<b> </b>and a board member of the Barberton Gallery of Fine Art. </span><br />
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Tracie Morell is the past managing Editor of <i>Lake Effect:
Journal of the Literary Arts</i>, from 2001-2003, and prior to that she served
as co-editor of non-fiction. Her work has appeared in <i>Anemone Sidecar,
Menacing Hedge, B&Y Dog,</i> <i>Inclement,</i> <i>Foliate Oak Literary
Magazine, Gravel, Aperion Review, among others</i>. She received a nomination
for the 2013 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web. She was a finalist for the
Erie County Poet Laureate in 2012. Recently, her work has been translated to
German.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has a degree (honors with
distinction) in English Literature from Pennsylvania State University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tracie lives in the snowy tundra of the Rust
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";"><i>Edited
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<b>David Austell & Kathleen D Gallagher</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you have had the pleasure of meeting or interacting with Yuyu or had the opportunity of attending this internationally renowned Himalayan Poet’s workshops, you are herein invited to submit to the upcoming anthology, tentatively named, <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Eternal Snow:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>An Anthology of Poems Originating from Yuyu’s Works, Readings and Workshops.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">Poems by<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tony Barnstone </span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;">John</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Clarke </span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tracie Morell </span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lori Ann Kusterbeck</span><u1:p></u1:p></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Eileen O’Connor </span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Chuck Joy </span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lorraine Conlin</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;"><br /><b>David B. Austell </b>is Assistant Vice President and Director of the Office of Global Services at New York University in New York City, where he is also an Associate Professor of International Education in the NYU Steinhardt School (adjunct). 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. In 1992, David was a Fulbright grantee in Japan and Korea. The love of poetry grows from deep roots, and in David’s case from his parents: his mother who sent poetry, sacred and secular, to him all through college with her letters, and his father who read Shakespeare and Coleridge to him as a child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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