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.
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).
Looking for a late spring read? Check out the latest drops from past contributors like @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social, @jbrookewrites.bsky.social, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, and more: massreview.org/2026/05/05/s...
Spring + Early Summer 2026 Contributor Publications - The Massachusetts Review
Cortney Lamar Charleston (65.3)’s new collection, It’s Important I Remember, is out now from Northwestern University Press. Matthew E. Henry (62.2)’s latest collection, promises to keep, is out from W...
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starred review in Publishers Weekly for the new collection:
"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...
In Praise of Poetry and Form | The Russell Kirk Center
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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! 🎉🎉🎉
Acre Books@acrebooks.bsky.social · last yr.Delighted to see that two Acre authors -- @amitmajmudar.bsky.social and @josehernandezdz.bsky.social -- are included in the forthcoming BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2025! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky
Excerpt from @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's "Three Metamorphoses" now out in New Verse Review newversereview.substack.com/p/three-meta...
Three Metamorphoses
An Excerpt from Amit Majmudar's New Book
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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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We're excited to see Acre author @amitmajmudar.bsky.social's latest release! Congrats on THREE METAMORPHOSES: #NOVELLAS IN #VERSE AND PROSE! 🎉🎉🎉
The Cincinnati Review@cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 11mo agoCongratulations to contributor @amitmajmudar.bsky.social -- his new book, THREE METAMORPHOSES: NOVELLAS IN VERSE AND PROSE was released last week by Orison Books!
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
Review: Amit Majmudar, The Great Game1: Essays on Poetics (Acre, 2024)
(appearing belatedly because reasons)
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@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,
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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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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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...
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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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...