Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named Poet Laureate of Ohio.^[1]

Life

Majmudar grew up in the Cleveland area. He earned a BS at the University of Akron and an MD at Northeast Ohio Medical University.^[2] 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.

His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,^[3] Image,^[4] Poetry, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review,^[5] The New England Review, Smartish Pace,^[6] and The New Yorker.^[7]

Amit has voiced concerns on the rise of Donald Trump as the Republican frontrunner, most notably during the Democratic Presidential Town Hall held in Columbus, Ohio on March 13th, 2016.

Works

Books

• Entrance. Ohm Publishing. 1997. ISBN 978-0-9658704-9-8.
• 0, 0: Poems. Northwestern University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8101-2625-1.
• Heaven and Earth. 2011.^[8]
• Partitions. 2011.
• The Abundance: A Novel. Metropolitan Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8050-9658-3.

Poems

• "By Accident", Counter Balance
• "The Miscarriage", Poetry, June 2008
• "Instructions to an Artisan", Poetry, June 2008
• "Reading", The Formalist

Anthologies

• Heather McHugh, David Lehman, eds. (2007). "By Accident". The Best American Poetry 2007. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9973-2.

References

1. Randy Ludlow, Dublin physician named first Ohio poet laureate, Columbus Dispatch, 17 Dec. 2015 (accessed 17 Dec. 2015)
2. "A Poet Laureate for Ohio," Clevelandpoetics, Dec. 17, 2015 (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)
3. John Donald Kingsley (2006). The Antioch Review. Google Books (Antioch Review, Incorporated). Retrieved 20 December 2014.
4. "Image ◊ Journal ◊ Back Issues ◊ Issue 50". imagejournal.org. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
5. The National Poetry Review. Google Books (Dream Horse Press). 1 January 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
6. "Poet Index & Photos - Smartish Pace (a poetry review)". Smartish Pace. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
7. Majmudar, Amit (March 21, 2011). "The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim". The New Yorker.
8. Amit Majmudar, Verse Wisconsin (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)

Further reading

• "Book Review: 'Partitions'". NPR.
• "Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar". The New York Times.
• "Amit Majmudar's 'The Abundance' trades fake family happiness for something real". The Plain Dealer.
• "Four lives displaced by the dividing of India; Books and Authors". The Seattle Times. (subscription required)
• "Literary Fiction". Daily Mail. (subscription required)
• "A New Wave". The Virginian-Pilot. (subscription required)
• "3 books about restless Indians". The Washington Post. (subscription required)
• "Amit Majmudar puts the 1947 'Partitions' on a human scale: New in Paperback". The Plain Dealer.
• "Indian American Novelist Amit Majmudar Named Ohio’s First Poet Laureate". India West.
• "Ohio’s first official poet says writing isn’t work". The Columbus Dispatch.
• "To Take Out Trump, Hillary Clinton Must First Dispense With Her Inner Politician". Time.

External links

• "The Pedestrian", Poetry Foundation
• "Riches", Poetry Foundation