Smita Agarwal (born 1958) is an Indian poet and a professor of

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at the

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, India.

Biography

Smita Agarwal's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies. In 1999 she was a writer in residence at the

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in Scotland, and the

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in England. Agarwal's doctoral studies were on American poet, novelist and short story writer,

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. Agarwal is an editor and translator for Plath Profiles, the Sylvia Plath online journal,

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. Agarwal is also a

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for

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Works

*''Wish-granting Words.''

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: Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2002 *''Mofussil Notebook. Poems of Small Town India.''

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: Cooperjal Limited, UK, 2011 *''Mofussil Notebook. Poems, '' Print. With an Introduction and New Poems, Calcutta: Sampark, 2016.

Edited

*''Marginalized: Indian Poetry in English,'' ed. Smita Agarwal, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014.

Poetry anthologies

Agarwal's poems have been included in anthologies such as: *''Literature Alive, New Writing from India and Britain, Vol. 2,'' Summer 1996. *''Nine Indian Women Poets.''

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, 1997 *''Verse: Special Feature on Indian poetry, UK & USA, Vol. 17 & 18,'' 2001. *''Reasons for Belonging.''

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, 2002. * ''Midnight’s Grandchildren.'' Macedonia: Post Independence Poetry From India, Struga Poetry Press, 2003. *''Confronting Love.'' Penguin, 2005. *''Fulcrum: Special Issue on Indian Poetry in English, No. 4.'' US: 2005. *''Sparks, DAV Center for Creative Education.'' Mumbai:

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, 2008. *''Indian English Women Poets.'' New Delhi: Creative Books, 2009. *''We Speak in Changing Languages: Indian Women Poets, 1990-2007.'' New Delhi:

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, 2009. *''The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry,'' 2012. *''These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry,'' 2012. * ''A New Book of Indian Poems in English'' (2000) ed. by

Gopi Kottoor Gopikrishnan Kottoor is the pen name of Raghav G. Nair (born 1956, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala), an Indian English poet. He is the founder editor of quarterly poetry journal ''Poetry Chain''. Early life and education Kottoor studied at the Loyola ...

and published by Poetry Chain and

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*''

The Dance of the Peacock ''The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'' is a 2013 anthology of poems written by one hundred and fifty-one poets; edited by Dr Vivekanand Jha. The one hundred and fifty-one poets include Indians and diasporic India ...

: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'', featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada.

References

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Biography

Works

Edited

Poetry anthologies

See also

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