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Yuyutsu RD Sharma & Lisa Zimmerman @ Wolverine Farm
All you poetry lovers in the north country of Colorado take note! The “Poet of the Himalayas,” Yuyutsu RD Sharma, will be reading his work at Wolverine Farm in Fort Collins. He will be joined by Lisa Zimmerman, who is one of a dozen Colorado poets featured in the new issue of PRATIK, the international literary journal that Mr. Sharma edits. The reading kicks off at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 2nd.Read More
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Join Us for a PRATIK Launch Reading
I’m excited to be joining Yuyutsu RD Sharma, poet of the Himalayas, for the launch of the hot-off-the-press issue of PRATIK. I hope you’ll join us! Yuyutsu is a renowned poet from Nepal who has performed his work for audiences around the world. He is also the editor of PRATIK, a literary journal that has featured poets from dozens of countries, including Ireland, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, and of course Nepal. Poets representing more discrete communities—from Los Angeles and Ottowa to the Basque region of Spain—have also appeared in its pages.Read More
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Colorado Poets in the New Issue of PRATIK
Pratik is an international magazine of contemporary writing edited by Nepalese poet Yuyutsu Sharma. This issue—Number 3 of Volume 18—includes a dozen Colorado poets: Dan Beachy-Quick Raza Ali Hasan Linda Hogan Joseph Hutchison Mark Irwin David Mason Juan J. Morales Veronica Patterson Pattiann Rogers Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Wendy Videlock Lisa Zimmerman This capacious issue—170 pages—is available online here.Read More
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BRISTLECONE July 2022 is Live!
Here’s the link to the July 2022 issue of Bristlecone.Read More
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In Case You Missed It…
Here is a link to the Loveland Poet Laureate Reading last night featuring yours truly and the extraordinary Lisa Zimmerman. I believe a good time was had by all! ~~~~ P.S. Here’s the first online review of the reading: https://secondlettersalon.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-review-of-moons-and-saints.html.Read More
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Zoom in to Hear Me and Lisa Zimmerman Reading from our New Books!
I’m excited to be Zoom-reading with the wonderful poet Lisa Zimmerman on Thursday, December 9th, at 7 p.m. Mountain Time. Register in advance to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sduGuqzsoGdRjqF3qjtGxnFzocxWeLgIi Lisa will be reading from her new collection, Sainted, which I read over the weekend and rapid clip and then returned to for a slower, more savoring experience. I highly recommend it…. I’ll be reading from my new collection, Under Sleep’s New Moon, a gathering of “rescued poems” from my first decade-and-a-half of writing. Again, register in advance at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sduGuqzsoGdRjqF3qjtGxnFzocxWeLgIi After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Zoom.Read More
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Poetry Month 2016: Lisa Zimmerman
The Exiled Poet Reads to a Mostly Middle Class White Audience The white page is pure amnesia. —Bei Dao When the Chinese poet read his poems in his original tongue symbols turned in his mouth dissolved into words, little singing sounds flew around his face like papery moths saved from a burning decade and into the audience small black brooms swept between two centuries a child’s hands letting go a few, a hundred, numberless silk stars. [From How the Garden Looks from Here] ~ From the publisher’s Web site: Lisa Zimmerman received her M.F.A. from Washington University in St.Read More
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Join Us in Louisville on August 16th for “Image and Word”
Click Here for Tickets All proceeds benefit the Louisville Cultural Council All proceeds benefit the Louisville Cultural Council Click Here for TicketsRead More