Smita Agarwal Explained

Smita Agarwal
Birth Date:	1958
Nationality:	Indian
Occupation:	Poet and a Professor

Smita Agarwal (born 1958) is an Indian poet and a professor of English literature at the University of Allahabad, India.

Biography

Smita Agarwal's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies. In 1999 she was a writer in residence at the University of Stirling in Scotland, and the University of Kent in England. Agarwal's doctoral studies were on American poet, novelist and short story writer, Sylvia Plath.^[1] Agarwal is an editor and translator for Plath Profiles, the Sylvia Plath online journal, Indiana University.^[2]

Agarwal is also a vocalist for All India Radio.^[3]

Works

• Wish-granting Words. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2002 ^[4]
• Mofussil Notebook. Poems of Small Town India. E-book: Cooperjal Limited, UK, 2011^{[5] [6]}
• Mofussil Notebook. Poems, Print. With an Introduction and New Poems, Calcutta: Sampark, 2016.^[7]

Edited

• Marginalized: Indian Poetry in English, ed. Smita Agarwal, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014.^[8]

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. Oxford University Press, 1997^[9]
• Verse: Special Feature on Indian poetry, UK & USA, Vol. 17 & 18, 2001.
• Reasons for Belonging. Penguin, 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: New Panvel, 2008.
• Indian English Women Poets. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2009.
• We Speak in Changing Languages: Indian Women Poets, 1990-2007. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 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 and published by Poetry Chain and Writers Workshop, Calcutta
• The Dance of the Peacock

An Anthology of English Poetry from India,^[10] featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,^[11] Canada.

See also

• Indian English Poetry

Notes and References

1. Web site: Archived copy . 12 May 2011 . 24 March 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170324203418/https://www.kent.ac.uk/alumni/pdf/kent40.pdf . dead .
2. Web site: IU Northwest: Plath Profiles . Iun.edu . 2012-01-28 . 23 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140423205514/http://www.iun.edu/~nwadmin/plath/ . dead .
3. Web site: Smita Agarwal - Folk Music artiste of India . Beatofindia.com . 2012-01-28.
4. Web site: Wish-Granting Words/Smita Agarwal . Vedamsbooks.in . 2012-01-28.
5. Web site: Mofussil Notebook, Poems Of Small-Town India . Smita Agarwal . Ideaindia.com . 2011-09-25 . 2012-01-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120407003303/http://www.ideaindia.com/product_detail.php?pid=1924 . 7 April 2012 . dmy-all .
6. Web site: Of love, longing and failed husbands . Hindustan Times . 2011-09-24 . 2012-01-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111106122926/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Of-love-longing-and-failed-husbands/Article1-749779.aspx . 6 November 2011 . dmy-all .
7. Book: Mofussil Notebook: Contemporary Indian Poetry in English. Smita Agarwal. Sampark. 2013. 978-8192684253.
8. Web site: Rodopi . 3 March 2014 . 3 March 2014 . https://archive.today/20140303210829/http://www.rodopi.nl/ntalpha.asp?BookId=DQR+53&type=new&letter=N . dead .
9. Web site: An ode to our nightingales . https://archive.today/20120707032427/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-10/view-from-venus/28180799_1_poet-laureate-indian-women-women-writers . dead . 2012-07-07 . 2009-05-10 . . 2012-01-28.
10. News: Grove. Richard. The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India. 5 January 2015. current. Hidden Brook Press, Canada. 29 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180929050126/http://hiddenbrookpress.com/Book-Indo-EnglishPoetry.html. dead.
11. Web site: Press. Hidden Brook. Hidden Brook Press. Hidden Brook Press. 5 January 2015.