Indran Amirthanayagam

Indran Amirthanayagam (www.indranmx.com) was born in 1960 in Ceylon, a country that, as he says, "no longer exists"--it is now Sri Lanka, its population represented across the globe. A.K. Ramanujan called Amirthanayagam's poems "a welcome addition to the poetry of migration." Amirthanayagam writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. He has published 23 poetry books, including The Migrant States (ww.hangingloosepress.com), Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant, Coconuts on Mars, The Elephants of Reckoning (1994 Paterson Prize), Uncivil War and The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems. In music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly (beltwaypoetry.com); writes https://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com; is a publisher at Beltway Editions ( www.beltwayeditions.com; runs “The Poetry Chsnnel” on youtube; writes a poem every week 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.