Alamgir Hashmi

• Name — Alamgir Hashmi • Born — 15 November 1951 • Birthplace — Lahore, Pakistan • Awards — Rockefeller Fellow • Occupation — Poet and writer in English language • Education — University of Louisville, Kentucky University of the Punjab • Spouse — Beatrice Stork • Website — https: www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/hashmi-aurangzeb-alamgir • Native Name — عالمگیر اورنگزیب ہاشمی

He was a practicing transnational humanist and educator in North American, European and Asian universities. He has argued for a "comparative" aesthetic to foster humane cultural norms. He showed and advocated new paths of reading the classical and modern texts and emphasized the sublime nature, position and pleasures of language arts to be shared, rejecting their reduction to social or professional utilities. He has produced many books of seminal literary and critical importance as well as series of lectures and essays (such as "Modern Letters") in the general press.

Hashmi earned an M.A. degree at the University of the Punjab, Lahore (1972) and another M.A. degree at the University of Louisville, Kentucky (1977).

• The Oath and Amen: Love Poems. Philadelphia, Dorrance, 1976. • America Is a Punjabi Word. Lahore, Karakorum Range, 1979. • An Old Chair. Bristol, Xenia Press, 1979. • My Second in Kentucky. Lahore, Vision Press, 1981. • This Time in Lahore. Lahore, Vision Press, 1983. • Neither This Time/Nor That Place. Lahore, Vision Press, 1984. • Inland and Other Poems. Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, 1984. • The Poems of Alamgir Hashmi. Islamabad, National Book Foundation, 1992. • Sun and Moon and Other Poems. Islamabad, Indus Books, 1992. • A Choice of Hashmi's Verse. Karachi and New York, Oxford University Press, 1997.

• Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-Definition of a Popular/Counter Culture. Lahore, Vision Press, 1983 • The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World. Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, 1988 • Editor, Pakistani Literature: The Contemporary English Writers. New York, World University Service, 2 vols., 1978; revised edition, Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, I vol., 1987 • Editor, with Les Harrop and others, Ezra Pound in Melbourne. Ivanhoe, Australia, Helix, 1983 • Editor, The Worlds of Muslim Imagination. Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, 1986 • Editor, Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. London, Routledge, 1994 • Member of the 1996 jury for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (American Literary Award) • Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose (New Rivers Press, 2021)