Amit Majmudar

Make that THREE Acre poets! @marthasilano.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, and @josehernandezdz.bsky.social! What a way to finish the Best American Poetry Series! 🎉🎉🎉

Three Metamorphoses An Excerpt from Amit Majmudar's New Book

Excerpt from @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's "Three Metamorphoses" now out in New Verse Review

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Three Metamorphoses: Novellas in Verse & Prose by Amit Majmudar | Orison Books Three Metamorphoses: Novellas in Verse & Proseby Amit Majmudar Orison Bookspaper / 274 pp. / $20.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-62-7Distributed to the trade by Itasca Books952-223-8373 / …

Congratulations to contributor @amitmajmudar.bsky.social -- his new book, THREE METAMORPHOSES: NOVELLAS IN VERSE AND PROSE was released last week by Orison Books!

We're excited to see Acre author @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's latest release! Congrats on THREE METAMORPHOSES: #NOVELLAS IN #VERSE AND PROSE! 🎉🎉🎉

This summer the great @amitmajmudar.bsky.social approached a number of accomplished poet-translators (mistakenly including me) to reflect on particularly tricky challenges. I’m grateful to him and MARGINALIA for this opportunity to share a Julia Nemirovskaya poem. Read the piece below!

Our Summer 2025 issue is available! A striking cover by Rob McDonald and poems by @angelaodonnellpoet.bsky.social, @carlasarett.bsky.social, @victoriamoul.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, @azforeman.bsky.social, @akasomeguy.bsky.social, and more!

Review: Amit Majmudar, The Great Game1: Essays on Poetics (Acre, 2024) (appearing belatedly because reasons)

@graywyvern.bsky.social's review of @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's "The Great Game"

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@amitmajmudar.bsky.social in The New Criterion:

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I especially like the lines where when he lets alliterative rhythms run free ...

Time, that generous jewel-thief,
robbed us of some obsolete rubies
but filled the silence with far-fetched loanwords,

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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