Ravi Shankar (poet)

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Ravi Shankar is an American poet. He was born in 1975 and raised in Manassas, VA. He is the poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of the online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat. His first book, Instrumentality, was published by Cherry Grove in May 2004,[1] and was a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards.[2]

Shankar received his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia where he worked with Gregory Orr, and his master's degree in poetry from Columbia University's School of the Arts, where he studied with Lucie Brock-Broido and Richard Howard.[3] Shankar's poetry has been published in such places as The Massachusetts Review[4] and The New Hampshire Review,[5] and critical work in The Iowa Review,[6] among other publications.

Shankar reviews poetry for the Contemporary Poetry Review.[7] He has been a commentator for National Public Radio and a judge for various poetry competitions.[8][9] He is currently co-editing an anthology of contemporary Arab and Asian poetry, due to be published by Norton in fall 2007.

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  1. ^ CCSU Poet Ravi Shankar’s Poem Collection Published. September, 2004. Accessed 2006-12-13.
  2. ^ 2005 Connecticut Book Awards Finalists and Winners. Accessed 2006-12-13.
  3. ^ Ram Devineni. Riding the Boat. Jacket magazine, (March 2002). Accessed 2006-12-13.
  4. ^ Ravi Shankar, Return to Mumbai. Massachusetts Review, (Summer 1999), vol.40, no.2. Accessed 2006-12-13.
  5. ^ Ravi Shankar, Dark. New Hampshire Review. Summer 2005. Vol 1, no.1. Accessed 2006-12-13.
  6. ^ Ravi Shankar, "Node and Network in Los Angeles". The Iowa Review, (1 July 2002). Accessed 2006-12-13.
  7. ^ Ravi Shankar at Contemporary Poetry Review. Accessed 2006-12-13.
  8. ^ InterBoard Poetry Competition. Accessed 2006-12-13.
  9. ^ Young Writers Competition. Accessed 2006-12-13.

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