Book Release Poetry Reading Art Show with Shiv Mirabito

Book release party for UNCLE SKALLYWAG by Shiv Mirabito printed on Lokta paper in Kathmandu by Shivastan Press.
Open poetry reading 
Art show of psychedelic collage prints by Shiv Mirabito -
plus amazing Asian textiles, jewelry, & costume by Tsering Pasang of Himalayan Textiles Baudha.
Refreshments & free admission.
This art show will be open all week at Taragaon with more events & artists - please come by & stay tuned for more info.
UNCLE SKALLYWAG by Shiv Mirabito
Selected poems craft printed with handmade Lokta paper in Nepal by Shivastan Press {Woodstock~Kathmandu}
A limited edition of 500 copies, 37 poems, 74 pages, lavishly illustrated with medieval alchemical art, bright red end sheets, a green ribbon to adjust your place, completely hand constructed with hand silkscreened hard covers, 6.5x8.5 inches.

Shiv Mirabito is a tantrik Buddhist-Hindu yogi, anthropologist, archivist, artist, photographer, publisher & poet who began writing as a teenager while living at Allen Ginsberg’s Cherry Valley poetry commune. He now divides his time between Woodstock NY, India & Nepal.
His small press Shivastan Press (Woodstock~Kathmandu) is the only press that prints chapbooks & broadsides on handmade paper in Nepal. It was started in 1997 & is inspired by the famous Bardo Matrix Press of Ira Cohen & Angus Maclise which also published in Nepal & also the Hanuman Press series by Raymond Foye & Francesco Clemente which published in India.