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

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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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. 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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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

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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 Indian ...

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

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Biography

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Poetry Anthologies

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