As a poet, novelist, and translator of the Bhagavad Gita, Amit Majmudar writes at the intersection of religion and poetry. In this one-of-a-kind audiovisual tour through poetry, art, architecture, and theology, Majmudar will illuminate the ways in which the world's faiths determine the sound and structure of their most representative poems. The many meters of the polytheistic Vedas, ghazals and the Islamic art of tessellation, terza rima and the Holy Trinity, contemporary free verse: the form in which poets express themselves is never a coincidence. This profound but accessible tour of world literature and comparative religion will be followed by a question and answer session. 

Amit Majmudar is a poet, novelist, essayist, translator, and the former first Poet Laureate of Ohio. He works as a diagnostic and nuclear radiologist and lives in Westerville, Ohio, with his wife and three children. He is the author of twenty books so far in a variety of categories, with different bodies of work published in the United States and in India. www.amitmajmudar.com
 
Virtual Session | Sat. 12/7, 3:00-5:00 ET | $75