Amit Majmudar
@amitmajmudar.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, essayist, translator.
Recent and forthcoming books: THE GREAT GAME (Acre Books, 2024), THE BOOK OF DISCOVERIES (Penguin India, 2024), THREE METAMORPHOSES (Orison Books, 2025), THE BOOK OF KILLINGS (Penguin India, 2025).
Recent and forthcoming books: THE GREAT GAME (Acre Books, 2024), THE BOOK OF DISCOVERIES (Penguin India, 2024), THREE METAMORPHOSES (Orison Books, 2025), THE BOOK OF KILLINGS (Penguin India, 2025).
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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! 🎉🎉🎉
Delighted to see that two Acre authors -- @amitmajmudar.bsky.social and @josehernandezdz.bsky.social -- are included in the forthcoming BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2025! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky
September 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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! 🎉🎉🎉
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Excerpt from @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's "Three Metamorphoses" now out in New Verse Review
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Three Metamorphoses
An Excerpt from Amit Majmudar's New Book
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October 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Excerpt from @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's "Three Metamorphoses" now out in New Verse Review
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Congratulations to contributor @amitmajmudar.bsky.social -- his new book, THREE METAMORPHOSES: NOVELLAS IN VERSE AND PROSE was released last week by Orison Books!
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 / …
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October 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Congratulations to contributor @amitmajmudar.bsky.social -- his new book, THREE METAMORPHOSES: NOVELLAS IN VERSE AND PROSE was released last week by Orison Books!
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We're excited to see Acre author @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's latest release! Congrats on THREE METAMORPHOSES: #NOVELLAS IN #VERSE AND PROSE! 🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to contributor @amitmajmudar.bsky.social -- his new book, THREE METAMORPHOSES: NOVELLAS IN VERSE AND PROSE was released last week by Orison Books!
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 / …
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October 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We're excited to see Acre author @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's latest release! Congrats on THREE METAMORPHOSES: #NOVELLAS IN #VERSE AND PROSE! 🎉🎉🎉
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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!
October 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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!
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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!
July 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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!
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@graywyvern.bsky.social's review of @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's "The Great Game"
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#poetry #review #poetrysky #SkyPoets #poetrycommunity
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#poetry #review #poetrysky #SkyPoets #poetrycommunity
Review: Amit Majmudar, The Great Game1: Essays on Poetics (Acre, 2024)
(appearing belatedly because reasons)
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August 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
@graywyvern.bsky.social's review of @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's "The Great Game"
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#poetry #review #poetrysky #SkyPoets #poetrycommunity
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#poetry #review #poetrysky #SkyPoets #poetrycommunity
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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,
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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,
Word-hoard | The New Criterion
Trope-trove, chatter-cache,diction’s rivet- dotted reliquary,language-locker, safe full of syllables,syntax-box, plosive stash,vocative nook in a hollowed o ...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@amitmajmudar.bsky.social in The New Criterion:
newcriterion.com/article/word...
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,
newcriterion.com/article/word...
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,
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Insane ghazaling from @amitmajmudar.bsky.social in @badlilies.bsky.social journal. www.badlilies.uk/amit-majmuda... Inspiring, too!
Amit Majmudar — Bad Lilies
A poem by Amit Majmudar
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June 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Insane ghazaling from @amitmajmudar.bsky.social in @badlilies.bsky.social journal. www.badlilies.uk/amit-majmuda... Inspiring, too!
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Delighted to see that two Acre authors -- @amitmajmudar.bsky.social and @josehernandezdz.bsky.social -- are included in the forthcoming BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2025! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky
July 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Delighted to see that two Acre authors -- @amitmajmudar.bsky.social and @josehernandezdz.bsky.social -- are included in the forthcoming BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2025! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky
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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
July 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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
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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
April 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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
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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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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...
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May 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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May 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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). 🎉🎉🎉
May 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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). 🎉🎉🎉
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'Rooftops', a poem by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social from our April / May 2025 issue.
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May 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
'Rooftops', a poem by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social from our April / May 2025 issue.
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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."
"The other great sources of poetry that Majmudar insists on are two that some may think of as contradictory: science and religion."
May 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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."
"The other great sources of poetry that Majmudar insists on are two that some may think of as contradictory: science and religion."
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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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April 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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
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
March 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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
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
March 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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"
March 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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"
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Congrats to Acre author and 2024 Foreword INDIES Finalist @amitmajmudar.bsky.social (THE GREAT GAME)! 🎉🎉🎉
March 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Congrats to Acre author and 2024 Foreword INDIES Finalist @amitmajmudar.bsky.social (THE GREAT GAME)! 🎉🎉🎉
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Congratulations to Acre authors and 2024 Foreword INDIES Finalists @kevinprufer.bsky.social! (SLEEPAWAY) and @amitmajmudar.bsky.social (THE GREAT GAME)! 🎉🎉🎉 #fiction #essays #booksky
March 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Congratulations to Acre authors and 2024 Foreword INDIES Finalists @kevinprufer.bsky.social! (SLEEPAWAY) and @amitmajmudar.bsky.social (THE GREAT GAME)! 🎉🎉🎉 #fiction #essays #booksky