Subhro Bandopadhyay

Subhro Bandopadhyay (b. 1978) is the penname of Subhransu Banerjee, a polyglot poet who speaks four languages, including English and Spanish, and writes in two. Closely connected with a whole generation of contemporary Spanish and Chilean poets, Subhro is also a prolific translator. An associate editor of Kaurab, Subhro has published five books of poetry in Bengali and one in Spanish, four translation anthologies, and a short biography of Pablo Neruda. He was awarded the Beca Internacional Antonio Machado de creación poética in 2008 by Fundación Antonio Machado and the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He regularly publishes in leading literary journals in India and Spain, and received his Diploma Superior de español como lengua extranjera from the Instituto Cervantes, Spain, in 2010. Subhro currently teaches at Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi.

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Poems by Subhro Bandopadhyay

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Al Filreis brought together James Berger and Richard Deming (who traveled together from Yale) and Sophia DuRose to talk about two poems by Ron Padgett. The poems are “The Austrian Maiden” and “Joe Brainard’s Painting Bingo.” Our recording of “The Austrian Maiden” comes from a February 26, 2003, reading Padgett gave at the Kelly Writers House; the poem had just recently been published in Padgett’s book You Never Know (2002). The recording of “Joe Brainard’s Painting Bingo” — a poem published in Great Balls of Fire (1969) — was performed at a November 20, 1979, reading given at a location that is now (sadly) unknown. That reading in its entirety is available at Padgett’s PennSound page; the recording comes to us courtesy of the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry, now housed at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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