The Zoomuse project started by unofficial Subud Poet Laureate Emmanuel Williams has merged with the Poems for Peace project, initiated by SICA co-founder Latifah Taormina. The first reading in this merger was given by Andrew Schelling on October 21, 2021. This is now a third Thursday at 11am monthly series on Zoom produced by SICA’s Andrew Hall and curated by Adelia MacWilliam, Chair of SICA-Canada and your humble narrator.Consider bookmarking the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81799264950

There has been a little pushback regarding poets who have not been opened in Subud and we welcome this discussion. Should Subud be insulated from the larger world and continue its decline in membership and its aging demographics, or should we engage? This is an emphatic bet on engagement. Below are links to the Schelling reading and the Poems for Peace event on World Peace Day last September 21. We hope to stage an in-person Poems for Peace event in 2022 as a SICA collaboration between SICA-International, SICA-Canada and SICA-USA.

This is a recording of Andrew Schelling’s SICA ZoomMuse Poems for Peace poetry reading held on October 21, 2021. This event is part of a monthly series of ZoomMuse Poetry Reading of Poems for Peace, co-sponsored by SICA USA and SICA Canada.

Andrew Schelling is a poet, translator of Sanscrit, Pali and other old India languages, an essayist and for the past 30 years a teacher at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where he teaches poetry in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and Sanskrit for the Religious Studies program. Along with being a poet and translator, Schelling is an ecologist and naturalist, having travelled extensively in North America, Europe, India, and the Himalayas.

Schelling’s poetry collections include A Possible Bag (Singing Horse Press, 2013), From the Arapaho Songbook (La Alameda Press, 2011), Old Tale Road (Empty Bowl Press, 2008), Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poetry (Talisman House, 2002), The Road to Ocosingo (Smokeproof Press, 1998), and Old Growth: Poems and Notebooks 1986-1994 (Rodent Press, 1995). He is also the author of Wild Form, Savage Grammar: Poetry, Ecology, Asia (La Alameda Press, 2003).

In 1992, Schelling received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India (Broken Moon Press, 1991). His volumes of translation also include For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai (Shambhala Publishers, 1993) and The Cane Groves of Narmada River: Erotic Poems of Old India (City Light Books, 1998). Schelling has received two grants for translation from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.