Hassanal Abdullah

Hassanal Abdullah is a Bangladeshi American poet, novelist, critic, songwriter, translator, and editor. He is the innovator of the sonnet form known as Swatantra Sonnets and the author of an epic on cosmology. His poetry has been translated into eighteen languages and published in numerous anthologies around the world. His Collected Poems (Ananya, 2019) in original Bengali has been published in two volumes.  He has been invited to international poetry festivals in China, the Czech Republic, Greece, Guatemala, Poland, India, Indonesia, North Macedonia, Morocco, Mexico, and Kenya. He is the editor of World Poetry Anthology (Darklight, 2023) and the translator of Contemporary Bangladeshi Poetry (CCC & Feral Press, 2018). A retired New York City high school mathematics teacher, he also serves as the editor of Shabdaguchha. Abdullah has received five international poetry awards, including the Homer European Medal, and was also awarded a translation grant from the Queens Council on the Arts. He is the author of sixty-two books spanning poetry, fiction, criticism, translation, and other genres.