Poetry at Sangam

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ABOUT

Founded in 2013 by Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Poetry at Sangam is an e-journal that showcases Anglophone poetry and translations into the English as well as essays on poetics, from India and internationally.

We are interested in poetry and translation that is not merely cutting edge or formally rigorous but startling in its truth and nuance, that makes the heart lurch with its beauty and causes pause. Poetry that is visceral in effect, memorable in voice, that unfolds mysterious resonances within the self and that is alive to the movement of the moment and its tremulous still center. We crave poetry and translations that are brave, even reckless in  their adventures with language and form, that return the reader to life with questions, unanswered.

We turn to poetry for love or longing, celebration or loss, or when reality is too intense, brutal, or inattentive to contain rumination. We turn to poetry for distillation, to help clear a space for attentiveness, to touch another with precision, exactitude and song. The work we showcase is not limited by genre, theme, aesthetic sensibility or national boundaries. Additionally we, on occasion, feature essays on poetics.

We and our guest editors write an introduction to each contributor,  and solicit from each translator their reflections on their art and craft; when possible we include audio recordings as well so that together we enhance an international community of translators and poets.

Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Founding Editor

Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an award-winning poet, writer, translator and curator of eleven books that include four poetry collections, two SF novels, translations from Classical Tamil, literary nonfiction, a novel, and edited two poetry anthologies Winner, Muse India Translation Prize, Kitaab Experimental Story Award, Best Reads from Feminist Press and awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Literature by the Indian government. Residencies/ presentations include Writer’s Centre, Norwich, Sun Yat-sen International Writers Program, Guangzhou, Commonwealth Literature Conference, Innsbruck, Alphabet City, Canada, Frankfurt Book Fair, UCLA, JLF, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, etc. She has curated seminars for Sahitya Akademi, Raza Foundation-PIC. Priya collaborates with photographers, dancers and filmmakers and channels Sanskrit aesthetics and Tamil Sangam poetics into her work. Anthologies publications include Another English Poems from Around the World, Asymptote, Consequence Forum, Kenyon Review, MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, PEN International, Post Road, PR & TA, Reliquiae, South Asian Review, The British Journal of Literary Translation, The Literary Review (USA), The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction I & II, Voyages of Body and Soul etc. Priya is on the Advisory Council of G100, India, and WrICE Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange, Australia. She is Founding Editor, Poetry at Sangam.  www.priyasarukkaichabria.com

Contact: priya.sangampoetry@gmail.com

Mrinalini Harchandrai, Deputy Editor

Mrinalini Harchandrai’s poetry has been longlisted for the erbacce-prize 2022, was a finalist for the Quarterly West Poetry Prize 2021 and Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize 2019, and received an Honourable Mention for the CID Pearlman Performance Project 2021. Her short fiction has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018 and shortlisted for Columbia Journal Spring 2020 Contest. Her novel, longlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2021 and selected as Notable Entry for the Disquiet International Literary Prize 2019, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2023. In 2021, she joined as Deputy Editor at Poetry at Sangam.