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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Congratulations to all of our contributors who have new books out this week! Celebrating work by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social , Chrissy Martin, Sara Elkamel, and Matthew Buckley Smith.

Cover of Amit Majmudar's "Things My Grandmother Said." Imagery of a Hindu god.

Cover of Chrissy Martin's "Whole Holy Hot." Vintage black-and-white photo of hands on a chest releasing gems alongside purple lavender in a B&W bottle.

Cover of Sara Elkamel's "Garden City." Painting of blue-headed figures in white robes on a blue ground.

Cover of Matthew Buckley Smith's "The Soft Black Stars." Image of a red-and-white swirl.

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

starred review in Publishers Weekly for the new collection:

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"Whether he is discussing religion, #poetry, sport (or science, another major topic of this collection), @amitmajmudar.bsky.social plays the 'great game' at a very high level. This is a play of the most vital and enlivening kind." New review of THE GREAT GAME! 🎉🎉🎉 kirkcenter.org/reviews/in-p...

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In Praise of Poetry and Form | The Russell Kirk Center

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

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Three Metamorphoses

An Excerpt from Amit Majmudar's New Book

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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

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Review: Amit Majmudar, The Great Game1: Essays on Poetics (Acre, 2024)

(appearing belatedly because reasons)

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

@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,

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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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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Delighted to see that two Acre authors -- @amitmajmudar.bsky.social and @josehernandezdz.bsky.social -- are included in the forthcoming BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2025! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky

Cover image for Best American Poetry 2025. In right corner beachgoers in historical swimsuits with lighthouse and sailboat in the background.

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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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Joshua Mehigan @joshuamehigan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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...

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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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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

'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...

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New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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."

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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...

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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

Amit Majmidar's essay collection, The Great Game (cover image features a series of human silhouettes) rests on a carpeted background.

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Congratulations to Acre authors and 2024 Foreword INDIES Finalists @kevinprufer.bsky.social! (SLEEPAWAY) and @amitmajmudar.bsky.social (THE GREAT GAME)! 🎉🎉🎉 #fiction #essays #booksky

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.

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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...

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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

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

'Side A' of our latest issue ends with 'The Diwan' by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social badlilies.uk/amit-majmudar-2

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.

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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...

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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:

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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective – West Branch

A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A radiology report is a form of ekphrastic prose poetry.

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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.

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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)

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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.

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Roland Allen gazes on the space where Chapter XVIII shall be @zibaldoni.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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...

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“Scratched pads,” by Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar on “The Notebook: A History of Writing on Paper,” by Roland Allen.

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"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-...

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The Great Game | Los Angeles Review of Books

Amit Majmudar uncovers the play element in poetry.

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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.”

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The Great Game | Los Angeles Review of Books

Amit Majmudar uncovers the play element in poetry.

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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…

Cover image for Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poetry collection SONG. Etching of goat head and plants inside of black border in the center of the layout.

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Jakob Ziguras @noonessleep.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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.

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New Verse Review Issue 2.1: Winter 2025

The winter 2025 issue, featuring poetry by Amit Majmudar, Sydney Lea, Jean Kreiling, Aaron Poochigan, Midge Goldberg, Debra Bruce, and others.

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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...

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Amit Majmudar @amitmajmudar.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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

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