Dangerous Words, Unexpected Destinations

The North Shore Poetry Salon Series will host a free poetry event at the Salem

Athenæum on Sunday, April 12. Five poets, whose work is sure to broaden your

horizons, will read.

Maria Bennett, Kristine Doll, Shreejana Sharma, Yuyutsu Sharma, and Bill Wolak

will offer a Spring inventory of risky declamations on the themes of intimacy, loss,

alienation, perishability, travel, and unexpected pleasures. Each of the poets will

offer temptations, celebrations, and insights. In addition, they will explore various

destinations in the world of “the other” through their translations from around the

globe, including brief stopovers in Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Persian, and Nepalese.

The afternoon will feature the distinguished Indian/Nepali poet Yuyutsu Sharma,

who is currently on a tour of North and South America. Having just returned from

Nicaragua, where he read his poetry in the streets of Managua with Ernesto

Cardenal to an audience of thirty thousand people, Mr. Sharma will offer poems that

evoke both the daunting primordial landscape of the Himalayas and the

contemporary space cake of Amsterdam.

Meet the poets

This a free event, however, donations to the Athenæum will be enthusiastically

accepted.

Salem Athenæum 337 Essex Street Salem, MA salemathenaeum.net