Indran Amirthanayagam (indranmx.substack.com) is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, youtube host and diplomat. He is the author of 30 books and translations. 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 unique record in 2020 publishing three poetry collections written in three different languages. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole. In music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly (www.beltwaypoetry.com); writes indramx.substack.com, 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 2025 Matwaala Poet of Honor. He is also the IFLAC Word Poeta Mundial 2022.
Amirthanayagam writes https://indranmx.substack.com, hosts The Poetry Channel https://youtube.com/user/indranam. New books and translations include Seer, The Runner’s Almanac, Animal For The Eyes and Powèt nan po la (Poet of the Port ) Indran publishes poetry books at Beltway Editions (www.beltwayeditions.com). Amirthanayagam’s White Space Sonnets has just been published in Sri Lanka (Sarasavi, 2025)..
