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! 🎉🎉🎉

Excerpt from @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's "Three Metamorphoses" now out in New Verse Review newversereview.substack.com/p/three-meta...

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!

@graywyvern.bsky.social's review of @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's "The Great Game" graywyvern.substack.com/p/review-ami... #poetry #review #poetrysky #SkyPoets #poetrycommunity

@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,

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

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

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! 🎉🎉🎉 www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social ✍️🕌🚁

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. Save 20% on the current issue in our flash sale (ending this Thursday): thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

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). Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

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"

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

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). Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...

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 www.newversereview.com/issue-2-1--w...

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? www.mayacpopa.com/onlineclasse...

'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. www.mayacpopa.com/onlineclasse...

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: : 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.

An extremely perceptive review of The Notebook by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social who elegantly (and unlike all other reviewers) identified both the bits I'm (secretly) least happy with; AND the part I'm (secretly) proudest of. Not sure how he did that. Hats off. newcriterion.com/article/scra...

"Poetry engages in linguistic behaviors that seem strange, if not perverse, to those who do not know the rules that govern its playfulness." Acre author @amitmajmudar.bsky.social in the title essay for his collection, THE GREAT GAME @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Can’t remember who posted this essay by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social recently, but it’s fantastic—smart & accessible & tapping into the playfulness of lit that so many people miss. It’d be great for teaching. Some faves: “[Poets] choose to use…extraordinary language.” “Poetry is athletic speech.”

Dennis Wise has some great reviews of alliterative poetry by @graywyvern.bsky.social, @adambolivar.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, @zachweinersmith.bsky.social, @lanceschaubert.bsky.social, & others talesaftertolkien.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_... stratofanatic.blogspot.com/2024/09/revi...

New #essays on the 30th anniversary of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's SONG by Acre #poet @amitmajmudar.bsky.social and Consulting Editor @sharalessley.bsky.social now online @WestBranchMag! 🎉🎉🎉 westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wind…

I'm very pleased to have a short sequence of poems published in this wonderful issue. I haven't finished reading yet, but so far my favourites are poems by J. C. Scharl, Christopher Childers, @pauljpastor.bsky.social, and @amitmajmudar.bsky.social.

Calling all #BrigitPegeenKelly fans! Five new #essays on the 30th anniversary of SONG by @davidbakerpoet.bsky.social @amitmajmudar.bsky.social @gabriellebates.bsky.social C. Dale Young, and yours truly. Please help us celebrate this singular #poet! 🎉🐐 westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi...

imagine if Achilles & Hector knew each other since their teens, were lifelong rivals, swore to kill each other...and then turn out to have the same mother, only one of them knows it & the other doesn't. that's why Karna and Arjuna squaring off hits different. that's Vyasa

Watched Die Hard for the first time last night. Don’t know how it escaped me for so many years I get why it’s so famous Other iconic movies I’ve never seen: Bambi, Snow White, Goodfellas, American Psycho, ET (have only seen scenes/parts) Gonna go through those soon

Much of what T S Eliot does is not supposed to “work” in poetry esp Four Quartets No sentimentality or emotional effusiveness Few people/characters/poignant vignettes Few personal details Long sometimes prosey locutions Goes to show you there are no rules really

Mahabharata warriors utter mantras over their arrows, and these arrows launch into the sky and split into multiple independent warheads like MIRV ballistic missiles. Cold War US & USSR unwittingly built things that Sanskrit poets imagined 3000 yrs ago. truly uncanny

Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter is excellent, like so much of his fiction. There’s an alternate ending translated in pevear and Volokhonsky’s Pushkin volume that is more exciting than the final version