Indran Amirthanayagam is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, youtube host and diplomat.
For thirty years he worked for his adoptive country, the United States, on diplomatic
assignments in Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America. Amirthanayagam
produced a “world record” in 2020 publishing three poetry collections written in three
different languages. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole.
He has published twenty four poetry books, including Isleño (R.I.L. Editores), Blue Window
(Ventana Azul) (trans. Jennifer Rathbun) (Diálogos Books), Ten Thousand Steps Against the
Tyrant (BroadstoneBooks.com), The Migrant States, Coconuts on Mars, The Elephants of
Reckoning (winner 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize), Uncivil War and.The Splintered Face:
Tsunami Poems. In music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly
(www.beltwaypoetry.com); writes https://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com; writes a
weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; has received fellowships from the
Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The
US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony. He is the IFLAC Word Poeta
Mundial 2022.
Amirthanayagam hosts The Poetry Channel https://youtube.com/user/indranam. New books
include Powèt nan po la (Poet of the Port ) MadHat Press, 2023) and Origami:Selected
Poems of Manuel Ulacia (Diálogos Books, 2023).. Indran publishes poetry books with Sara
Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions (www.beltwayeditions.com). Kont Anlèvman is
forthcoming from Edisyon Freda in Haiti. Amirthanayagam’s first collection in Portuguese
Música subterranea will be published in 2024 by Editorial Kotter in Brazil. Seer is
forthcoming in 2024 from Hanging Loose Press.