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Yuyutsu Sharma
with local Eternal Snow Poets
Penny Kline, Tim Kahl, Allegra Silberstein,
Meera Klein and Nancy Aidé González
Monday, December 17, 7:30 pm
Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St
Host Penny Kline
🎄 Holiday Celebration 🎄
Open Mic (bring a Christmas/Holiday poem to read)
Hot Cider … Eggnog … Sweet Treats … Free Event
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Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of
One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections
with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma
Edited by David Austell & Kathleen D Gallagher
Books available for purchase.
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Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is a widely traveled Nepali/Indian writer who has read his works at several prestigious places in the world. He moved to Nepal at an early age and now writes in English and Nepali. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world to read from his works and conducts creative writing workshop at various universities in the United States and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home.
Penny Kline is the founding artistic director of Ovation Stage and is Treasurer of the Sacramento Poetry Center. She is also an actor, a playwright and a poet. She has had her own plays produced and has directed over 60 theatrical productions. You may have caught her reading her poetry in several northern California cities. Her poetry was translated into various languages for the 100 Thousand Poets for Change inaugural World Conference (2015) she attended in Salerno, Italy. In Fall of 2017, Penny read her socially conscious poetry on a tour through Italy, Macedonia, Kosovo, Hungary and France.
Tim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself, The Century of Travel and The String of Islands. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Drunken Boat, Mad Hatters’ Review, Indiana Review, Metazen, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, Konundrum Engine Literary Magazine, Parthenon West Review, Caliban and many other journals in the U.S. He is also editor of Clade Song –www.cladesong.com. He is the vice president and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Center. He also has a public installation in Sacramento {In Scarcity We Bare The Teeth}. He plays flutes, guitars, ukuleles, charangos and cavaquinhos. He currently teaches at California State University, Sacramento, where he sings lieder while walking on campus between classes.
Allegra Jostad Silberstein was born in the middle of a blizzard on a farm in Wisconsin. Her Norwegian ancestors had by-passed the flat prairie land and settled in the coulees and hills of the non-glaciated area near the Mississippi River. Love of poetry began as a child when herMom would recite poems as she worked. She has lived in California since 1963. She has over two hundred publications in journals such as Blue Unicorn, California Quarterly, Iodine Poetry Journal, Poetry Now, Rattlesnake Review and others. Also, her work is included in anthologies including: The Sacramento Anthology: 100 Poems, Gatherings: A Woman’s Place, and Where Do I Walk. She had three chapbooks: Acceptance by Small Poetry Press, In The Folds by Rattlesnake Review and Through Sun-glinting Particles published 2012 by Parallel Press. In March of 2010 she
was selected as the first Poet Laureate for the city of Davis, CA. Her first full book of poems was published by Cold River Press in the spring of 2015. Award-winning author, Meera Ekkanath Klein, deftly weaves her love of cooking and story-telling into an irresistible tale. My Mother’s Kitchen: A novel with recipes (2014, Homebound Publications) was selected as a Winner in the 2015 International Book Awards in the Multi-Cultural Fiction category. The book was also selected as Finalist in the 2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards, 2015 Beverly Hills International Book Awards and 2015 USA Best Book Awards, all in the Multi-Cultural Fiction category. She has participated in the celebrated 2015 Authors on the Move fundraiser for the Sacramento Library Foundation dinner and auction. She was featured on Capital Public Radio on. She has participated in the Local Author Festival at the Sacramento Library and has been a presenter at the 2015 Great Valley Book Fest. She has also made numerous presentations at local libraries. A former newspaper reporter and columnist, Klein, honed her writing skills in a busy newsroom. She mastered the art of Indian cooking in her own mother’s kitchen in the beautiful Blue Mountains or Nilgiris of south India. Klein currently lives in northern California and is completing a sequel to My Mother’s Kitchen, as well as working on several other writing projects.
Nancy Aidé González is a Chicana poet, educator, and activist. Her work has appeared in Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature, La Tolteca and other literary journals. Her work is featured in the Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, Sacramento Voices Anthology, and Lowriting: Shots, Rides, and Stories from the Chicano Soul. She is currently in her second year in the doctoral program in Education at the University of the Pacific.
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