This coming Sunday, I will be reading in The Phoenix Reading Series at Bengal Curry in New York City. The event starts at 5:30, and there will be an open mic, but you need to go down to the restaurant on Saturday in order to sign up. For event details, please click here. , and I hope you will come down to hear not just me, but also the two wonderful poets with whom I will be reading, Yuyutsu Sharma and Shannon Kline. Mike Graves is the series host.
Bengal Curry – 5:30-7:30
65 West Broadway
New York, NY 10007 – 2292
212.571.1122
Between Murray and Warren.
1 1/2 blocks below Chambers St
Take the 1, 2, 3, A, C or E trains to Chambers Street
The bios of all involved speak for themselves. (You can read about me here.)
Yuyutsu Sharma
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 eight poetry collections including, Space Cake, Amsterdam, & Other Poems from Europe and America, (Howling Dog Press, Colorado, 2009), Annapurna Poems, (Nirala, New Delhi 2008), Everest Failures (White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu, 2008) www.AroundAnnapurna.de – Eine photographic-poetische Reise um die Annapurnas, Nepal, www.WayToEverest.de: A photographic and Poetic Journey to the Foot of Everest, (Epsilonmedia, Germany, 2006) with German photographer Andreas Stimm 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. University of California, Davis, and Sacramento State University, California. His works have appeared in Poetry Review, Chanrdrabhaga, Sodobnost, Amsterdam Weekly, Indian Literature, Irish Pages, Delo, Omega, Howling Dog Press, Exiled Ink, Iton77, Little Magazine, The Telegraph, Indian Express and Asiaweek. Currently, he edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing and contributes literary columns to Nepal’s leading daily, The Himalayan Times.
Shannon Kline
Arkansas native, Shannon Kline, is a playwright, poet and performer who has worked in many aspects of the entertainment industry. She is a proud member of both Actors’ Equity Association and The Dramatist Guild. Shannon’s first play, REUNION, a full length drama in the Southern Gothic Style about an adopted woman who searches for her identity, was recently presented at the National Conference on Adoption in Manhattan, and subsequently at The Drilling Company Theater, where it garnered praise and support for a commercial production in 2012. Shannon is also co-Author of Presto-Change-O!, a musical that premiered at Amas Musical Theater in Manhattan. Other theatrical writing credits include PILLARS, at the Minetta Lane Theater, directed by Terrence Mann and revue shows for Gulf Coast Casinos. As a poet, Shannon had the good fortune to study by invitation with renowned poet and translator, Marie Ponsot, winner of the Nat’l Book Critics Circle Award. Shannon’s poetry premiered as part of a political ballet she was commissioned to write for a dance company in residence at the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow in 2009, for Tony nominated choreographer, Dan Siretta. Her first collection of poetry, Lemon Ice- Box Pie is to be published in 2011.
Michael Graves
Michael Graves is the author of a full-length collection of poems, Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990). In two thousand four (2004), he was the recipient of a grant of four thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500.00) from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. He is the publisher of the small magazine PHOENIX. Many years ago, he was a student of James Wright and organized a conference on James Wright at Poets House in 2004. And he became a member of P. E. N. a couple of years ago. In addition to leading a James Joyce Ulysses’ Reading Group, he has published thirteen (13) poems in the James Joyce Quarterly and read from them and others of his poems influenced by Joyce to a gathering of the Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart.
