Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar — Bad Lilies A poem by Amit Majmudar

Insane ghazaling from @amitmajmudar.bsky.social in @badlilies.bsky.social journal. www.badlilies.uk/amit-majmuda... Inspiring, too!

Cover image for Best American Poetry 2025. In right corner beachgoers in historical swimsuits with lighthouse and sailboat in the background.

Delighted to see that two Acre authors -- @amitmajmudar.bsky.social and @josehernandezdz.bsky.social -- are included in the forthcoming BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2025! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky

The July links round-up is now live at NVR—pastoral vs. bucolic, clodhopping Americans, the French sublime, and more. Featuring: @zinagomezliss.bsky.social @dacooperpoet.bsky.social @claudiagary.bsky.social @amitmajmudar.bsky.social @hudsonreview.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social

Thanks to @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social & @jamiepcameron.bsky.social for running a poem of mine in their Apr./May issue. I get to appear there with @amitmajmudar.bsky.social & @ianduhig.bsky.social , poets whose new poems I wait for, & teach. I'm tickled to death about it. thelondonmagazine.org

A Reading List for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses For Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of May, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share some of the literature by Asian American and Pacific I...

Delighted to see two Acre authors -- Jenna Le (MANATEE LAGOON) and @amitmajmudar.bsky.social (BLACK AVATAR, THE GREAT GAME) -- featured on @clmporg.bsky.social's reading list for 2025 Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! 🎉🎉🎉
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Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social
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We're counting down until the big reveal at the awards ceremony this June! Fingers crossed for our 2025 Foreword INDIES Finalists @kevinprufer.bsky.social (SLEEPAWAY) and @amitmajmudar.bsky.social (THE GREAT GAME). 🎉🎉🎉

'Rooftops', a poem by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social from our April / May 2025 issue.

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A Review of The Great Game by Amit Majmudar Review by Maryann Corbett

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Now up at NVR, @maryanncorbett.bsky.social reviews The Great Game: Essays on Poetics (@acrebooks.bsky.social) by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social.

"The other great sources of poetry that Majmudar insists on are two that some may think of as contradictory: science and religion."

Poetry by @ianduhig.bsky.social, Alex Wong, C. P. Nield, Dane Holt, Larry Narron, Malene Engelund, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, Heidi Williamson and Gaspara Stampa (trans. Harry Cochrane).

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publishing’s bedeviled by “comps”

What book does your book resemble, what preexisting success-ruts does its wheels slot into

Favors Paint-by-numbers

But it goes back to readers

Readers in the aggregate like to re-experience that thing they liked rather than try something new

a non literary job keeps the literary stuff precious, something you escape to and delight all the more in. Chekhov’s specific metaphor was quite colorful: medicine was his wife, he said, while literature was his mistress

Shakespeare, in OTHELLO, named Iago "Iago" because the name is a variant/contraction of Santiago...meaning Saint James, known in Spanish as Matamoros--the "Moor-killer"

Amit Majmidar's essay collection, The Great Game (cover image features a series of human silhouettes) rests on a carpeted background.

Congrats to Acre author and 2024 Foreword INDIES Finalist @amitmajmudar.bsky.social (THE GREAT GAME)! 🎉🎉🎉

Cover image for Amit Majmudar's THE GREAT GAME. Silhouettes of men playing leap frog.

Cover image for Kevin Prufer's novel, SLEEPAWAY. Strange cloud hangs above field in clear blue sky.

Congratulations to Acre authors and 2024 Foreword INDIES Finalists @kevinprufer.bsky.social! (SLEEPAWAY) and @amitmajmudar.bsky.social (THE GREAT GAME)! 🎉🎉🎉 #fiction #essays #booksky

Poetry by @ianduhig.bsky.social, Alex Wong, C. P. Nield, Dane Holt, Larry Narron, Malene Engelund, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, Heidi Williamson and Gaspara Stampa (trans. Harry Cochrane).

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Check out the Winter issue of New Verse Review, featuring many great poets, including @claudiagary.bsky.social @chrissiemkl.bsky.social @amitmajmudar.bsky.social @pauljpastor.bsky.social @stevensearcy.bsky.social @ffteague.bsky.social @noonessleep.bsky.social

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Writing Historical Fiction with Amit Majmudar, March 8, 3-5 PM EST — Maya C. Popa Free for members of Conscious Writers Collective

What exactly are we writing when we write historical fiction?
What techniques can we use to get inspired and stay inspired?
How can even anachronism be harnessed to maximize effect?
How is the historical novel a time machine that teaches us about the present?

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v. Chokechain I bring you here to breathe a thing I cannot bring myself to think. The pressure of a word unspoken Breaks my chokechain into links. December flurries: Catch a secret on your tongue And time will grow a pearl for you to string. Spiked leather, pearl choker—a ghazal always snaps her collar. Dissolve your pearls in me, Clio, till I'm sweet enough to drink. Piano wire, strung with lotuses.... They swear it's a garland. Amit knows damn well it's a garrotte. But he chooses to sing.

'Side A' of our latest issue ends with 'The Diwan' by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social badlilies.uk/amit-majmudar-2

This weekend in CWC, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social will lead a session on the history & nature of historical fiction with an eye to its many roles: collective storytelling, memory-keeping & shaping, & engagement with contemporary discourse.

Join us! 3/8, 3-5 PM EST.

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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective – West Branch A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews

NBCC member @sharalessley.bsky.social, editor-at-large for West Branch, edited a feature on the 30th anniversary of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "SONG," including essays by David Baker, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, @gabriellebates.bsky.social, and C. Dale Young:

New collection (Things My Grandmother Said, Knopf, 2026) has 3 subsections

I translated an epigraph for each (in cleverly cross-cultural ways)

One from Goethe
One from Borges
One from Adi Sankara

Presiding spirits that I hope will bless what will be a breakthrough volume

it may already be the case that "literary" English is the equivalent of scholarly Latin in Europe in Milton's day, and that those who write it are proliferating stylized exercises, self-exiled from the course of poetic history, which will happen elsewhere, in the new vernacular

A radiology report is a form of ekphrastic prose poetry.

Religions and languages spread along the gradients of military, political, and/or economic power. The role of their intrinsic appeal is not absent, but is negligible when assessing the past, present, and future religious and linguistic maps of the world.

Audiobooking R. F. Kuang's BABEL which is an excellent fantasy on linguistic themes. a real storyteller! my wife and my son are fans of her other books but I picked this one to start

(her early-1800s foreign students in London sound awfully like postcolonial theorists tho)

THREE METAMORPHOSES, forthcoming from Orison Books:
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Part 1 is Azazil, a Sufi retelling of the Fall in prose
Part 2 is Creon/Pilate, a screenplay-poem simultaneously portraying Jesus & Antigone
Part 3 is Metamorphoses--Hindu myths of transformation, every verse paragraph in a different verse form

The Sanskrit for "translation" is अनुवाद anuvāda. It means "say after": A repetition of the original speech-act. The distance is temporal.

The English word "translation" means "carry across": The speech-artifact is moved from one language to another. The distance is spatial.