Aung Cheimt – Prison to Poetry

Aung Cheimt (b.1948) is a poet, translator and former political prisoner.  Known as a member of the “Revolutionary Poets’, this epithet come from both his time incarcerated in the 1960’s after the military coup and for his contribution in the birth of a more modern stylistic framing of the role poetry could play in 1970’s Myanmar.  A contributor to the famed Moe Wai magazine which steered a generation of political writers and editors, Aung Cheimt has published at least 20 collections of poetr...