On November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.
FEATURED POET
Born in Odisha, India, Biswamit Dwibedy has an MFA from Bard College, New York. He is currently an assistant professor at the American University of Paris, where he co-directs the MFA in Creative Writing program. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including Ozalid (1913 Press, 2010), Hubble Gardener (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), Anicent Guest (HarperCollins, 2017), and Erode (Litmus Press, 2025). A book of essays, Hundred Greatest Love Songs, was just published by Penguin Random House.
In 2012, Dwibedy edited a dossier of Indian poetry in translation from seven different regional languages for Aufgabe, a literary journal published by Litmus Press, New York, and in 2015, he was a judge for the Best Translated Book Award conferred by Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester. He is also the founder and editor of Anew Print, a small press that publishes limited-edition chapbooks from writers in India and abroad.