[Soasiastudents] REMINDER: TODAY- SHULMAN and RAO at the Elliot Bay Book Company, 7:00-8:30 PM

[Juned Shaikh]

*Tuesday, Oct 17, 2006, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM*
Location:		
Elliott Bay Book Company
101 South Main Street
Seattle, WA 98104


The Elliott Bay Book Company and Open Field Media present a poetry reading session by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman from their book God on the Hill:  Temple Poems from Tirupati (OUP).

Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman, both noted for their translations of the classical Telugu literature of India, will talk about fifteenth century poet Annamayya’s temple poetry, some of which is collected in God on the Hill: Temple Poems from Tirupati (Oxford).  Telugu scholar and Open Field Media director, Sailaza Easwari Pal and David Shulman will read selected poems from this work, which was performed earlier this year at the Public Gardens in Hyderabad.

The evening begins with a free public reception for the authors, beginning at 7 p.m., and will also include a short performance by Lalitha M., a Carnatic singer and scholar, who will sing selected poems in the original Telugu.


Date:			Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Program:		7:00 p.m.		Reception for Authors

 			7:30 – 8:30 p.m. 	Introduction to Annamayya
                                                 Poetry Readings and Songs

Location:		
Elliott Bay Book Company
101 South Main Street
Seattle, WA 98104

Annamayya is a beloved fifteenth-century South Indian temple poet who inspires the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims that visit God Venkateswara at Tirupati temple everyday and is cherished in the world of Carnatic music.  Annamayya’s poems were originally published on copper plates and preserved in the temple.  God on the Hill is the first collection of translations from Telugu that brings his poems to life for a contemporary English language audience.


Juned Shaikh,
Ph.D. Student,
Department of History,
RA, South Asia Center,
University of Washington.
juneds at u.washington.edu