New York Poems by Yuyutsu Sharma

Yuyutsu Sharma's, "A Blizzard in My Bones: New York Poems"

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Posted by Yuyutsu Sharma at 10:04 AM

Yuyutsu Sharma: Yuyutsu Sharma is one of the few poets in the world who make their living with poetry. Named as “The world-renowned Himalayan poet,” (The Guardian) “One-Man Academy” (The Kathmandu Post) and “Himalayan Neruda” (Mike Graves), Yuyutsu is a vibrant force on the world poetry stage. He is also 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. Author of eleven poetry collections, most recently, Lost Horoscope, Yuyutsu has read his works at several prestigious places and held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen’s University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and Heidelberg University, Germany, Beijing Open University, New York University, New York and Columbia University, New York. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma edits Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.

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