Amit Majmudar Explained
Amit Majmudar (born 1979)[1] is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.[2]
Life
Majmudar, a son of Indian immigrants, grew up in the Cleveland area. He earned a BS at the University of Akron and an MD at Northeast Ohio Medical University.[3] He is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine practicing full-time in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife Ami and his twin sons, Shiv and Savya, and daughter Aishani.
His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,[4] Image,[5] Poetry, National Poetry Review,[6] Smartish Pace,[7] River Styx,[8] and The New Yorker.[9]
Bibliography
Novels
- Partitions, Metropolitan Books, 2011.
- Book: The Abundance: A Novel . Metropolitan Books . 2013 . 978-0-8050-9658-3.
- Sitayana, Penguin, 2019.
Poetry
Collections
- Book: Entrance . Ohm Publishing . 1997 . 978-0-9658704-9-8.
- Book: 0°, 0°: Poems. Northwestern University Press. 2009. 978-0-8101-2625-1 .
- Book: Heaven and Earth . Story Line Press . 2011. [10]
- Dothead, Knopf, 2016
Translations
- Godsong : a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita
Anthologies
- Resistance, rebellion, life : 50 poems now / edited and introduced by Amit Majmudar
Further reading
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: The O. Henry Prize Stories.
- Randy Ludlow, Dublin physician named first Ohio poet laureate, Columbus Dispatch, 17 Dec. 2015 (accessed 17 Dec. 2015)
- Web site: A Poet Laureate for Ohio. Clevelandpoetics. 17 December 2015. 17 December 2015.
- Book: John Donald Kingsley . The Antioch Review. Antioch Review, Incorporated . 2006 . 20 December 2014.
- Web site: Image ◊ Journal ◊ Back Issues ◊ Issue 50. imagejournal.org . 20 December 2014.
- Book: The National Poetry Review. Dream Horse Press . 1 January 2009 . 9780982115527. 20 December 2014.
- Web site: Poet Index & Photos - Smartish Pace (a poetry review). Smartish Pace . 20 December 2014.
- Web site: Majmudar . Amit . Amit Majmudar . River Styx Literary Magazine . River Styx . 20 June 2019.
- The New Yorker . The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim . March 21, 2011 . Amit . Majmudar.
- http://versewisconsin.org/Issue108/reviews/majmudar.html Amit Majmudar