In this inviting and reflective workshop, we gather to explore how the movement of people and the shifts of language serve as a vital, creative life force in our writing. Join award-winning poet and author Indran Amirthanayagam, who brings the quiet wisdom of fifty years and twenty-eight collections to our table, to share his humble perspective on the geographic and political frontiers that shape the migrant Muse.
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INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM is a poet, editor, translator, YouTube host, publisher and former diplomat. He has published 28 books of poetry and translation. His first collection The Elephants Of Reckoning won the 1994 Paterson Prize. He has received fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the U.S./Mexico Fund for Culture, and the MacDowell Colony. He is the 2025 Poet of Honor for Matwaala, a South Asian poetry collective. In 2022 he received the World Poet/Poeta Mundial award from  the International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace.