Amit Majmudar Biography
Amit Majmudar is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named Poet Laureate of Ohio.
Majmudar grew up in the Cleveland area. He earned a BS at the University of Akron and an MD at Northeast Ohio Medical University. 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, Image, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review, The New England Review, Smartish Pace, and The New Yorker.
Hrhm Shp, colt-culling,
Is what hoof lore calls it—
The choke-chain sound a roan coined
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Into the rood wood, where the grain's current splits
around the stones of its knots, carve eyelashes and eyelids.
Dye the knots, too—indigo, ink-black, vermillion
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Some species can crack pavement with their shoots
to get their share of sun some species lay
a purple froth of eggs and leave it there
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