Wandering Words: Modern Oriya Poetry Since Independence

Jayanta Mahapatra is a leading Indian poet.  He has read and published his poetry all over the world.  He has won such coveted awards as the Jacob Glatstein Memorial Award of Chicago’s Poetry and the Sahitya Akademi Award.  Four out of his sixteen collections of poems are published abroad. Some of the latest prestigious international anthologies which include his poems are The Vintage Books of Contemporary World Poetry (Random House, New York, 1996) and The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2002.  His latest book is Random Descent.  He lives in Cuttack where he edits the influential literary magazine Chandrabhaga.