We will read and then write poems starting from close observation of our day, from waking to preparing coffee and bread, to recalling a dream, to answering a nagging question from the night's quarrel, to walking in the woods, to calling a friend for a chat, to starting a virtual session with a client, or putting on a jacket and catching a bus and taking it to the metro and then an office. The words, the metaphors, will come from the writer's own daily experience.
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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. 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.