{"id":12322,"date":"2015-12-23T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=12322"},"modified":"2015-12-24T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T15:26:15","slug":"amit-majmudar-ohios-first-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/amit-majmudar-ohios-first-poet-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio\u2019s First Poet Laureate is Indian American Novelist Amit Majmudar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian American writers are on a roll! Amit Majmudar, an Indian American novelist, poet and essayist, became Ohio\u2019s first Poet Laureate in Columbus.<\/strong> Amit Majmudar dons several hats at the same time. He is a creative writer on one hand and a diagnostic nuclear radiologist on the other. Ohio\u2019s Governor John Kasich publicly announced his appointment as the first poet laureate of the state.<\/p>\n

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Amit Majmudar\u2019s appointment as Ohio\u2019s poet laureate will be effective on January 1 for two years from 2016 till December 31, 2017. In honor of this prestigious title, he wishes to promote poetry<\/a><\/span> by all possible means. He looks forward to taking a multidimensional approach to connect poetry with Ohio\u2019s popular arts community.<\/strong> His plans to heighten the prospects of poetry in Ohio do also include reaching out high school students and engaging them in different ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe profile of Ohio\u2019s first poet laureate exemplifies that both profession and passion can go hand in hand.<\/strong> He will put a new perspective into the future of poetry for today\u2019s young generation who can pursue their passions irrespective of their career choices,\u201d said Ohio\u2019s Governor ebulliently.<\/p>\n

Amit Majmudar graduated in science from the University of Akron and earned a \u2018Doctor of Medicine\u2019 (MD) degree from Northeast Ohio<\/a><\/span> Medical University.<\/strong> On completion of his full-time medical residency at university hospitals of Cleveland where he was brought up, he started practicing in Columbus. He specializes in nuclear medicine.<\/p>\n

Ohio\u2019s first poet laureate, Amit Majmudar developed a tryst with poetry many years before his first novel was published. His poetry found space in several reputed publications<\/strong>, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Antioch Review, Poetry Northeast, Poetry Daily, and The Best of the Best American Poetry. He is equally acclaimed in writing essays and literary criticism which were published in the New York Times, The Kenyon Review, and National Poetry Review.<\/p>\n

Amit Majmudar owes his international fame to his debut novel \u201cPartitions\u201d<\/strong> (published in 2009), which was followed by \u201cThe Abundance\u201d in 2011. The first novel \u201cPartitions\u201d is a poignant story of uprooted children and their eventful journey during the Partition of India in 1947, with references to communal violence on both sides of the then new India-Pakistan border. The tale of broken hearts and scattered families won millions of minds, which got him entry into the league of novelists with a powerful voice.<\/p>\n

The second novel \u201cThe Abundance\u201d is a story of immigration and its pathetic outcomes including cultural conflict.<\/strong> It is no less poignant than the story of \u201cPartitions.\u201d Amit Majmudar\u2019s next piece of creative writing is a collection of poems, \u201cDothead,\u201d which will see the daylight in March 2016.<\/p>\n

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Recently, Indian American comedian Mindy Kaling\u2019s \u201cWhy Not Me\u201d has been on Amazon\u2019s list of top 100 Books in 2015. Mindy Kaling\u2019s second book, \u201cIs Everyone Hanging Out With Me,\u201d (published in 2001) was a New York Times bestseller. – IndianEagle<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Travel Beats<\/span>, a digital portal for Indian diaspora by IndianEagle, publishes the latest news and stories about India, USA, Canada and NRIs. IndianEagle is a leading U.S. based travel organization book travel to India<\/a> at the best prices.<\/span> <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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