Ep. 55 - Amit Majmudar

Rattlecast #55 features novelist, poet, translator, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist Amit Majmudar. Amit has appeared in Poets Respond twice, and has another poem in the soon-to-arrive fall issue of Rattle. Amit Majmudar’s books include Godsong: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary (Knopf/Penguin Random House India, 2018) and the mythological novel Sitayana (Penguin Random House India, 2019). His fourth poetry collection, What He Did in Solitary (Knopf, 2020), was just published. His novel Partitions (Holt/Metropolitan, 2011) was shortlisted for the HWA/Goldsboro Crown Prize for Historical Fiction and was named Best Debut Fiction of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews, and his second novel, The Abundance (Holt/Metropolitan, 2013), was selected for the Choose to Read Ohio Program. His poetry has appeared in The Best of the Best American Poetry 25th Anniversary Edition, numerous Best American Poetry anthologies, as well as the Norton Introduction to Literature, The New Yorker, and Poetry; his prose has appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017, The Best American Essays 2018, and the New York Times. Winner of the Anne Halley Prize and the Pushcart Prize, he served as Ohio's first Poet Laureate. He practices diagnostic and nuclear radiology full-time in Westerville, Ohio, where he lives with his wife, twin sons, and daughter. For more information, visit: http://www.amitmajmudar.com/ As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt. For details on how to participate, either pre-recorded, via Skype, or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem that is entirely dialogue. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem based on one of the top 100 most famous paintings. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Periscope.