Ravi Shankar (poet)
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| Born | 1975 |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Indian American |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia, Columbia University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | What Else Could It Be, Deepening Groove, Voluptuous Bristle, Seamless Matter, Language for a New Century, Wanton Textiles, Instrumentality, Autobiography of a Goddess, Union |
| Notable awards | Pushcart Prize, Connecticut Commission on Arts Grant, Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, Poets' Prize, Glenna Luschei Prize from Prairie Schooner, NYSCA Grant |
Ravi Shankar (born 1975) is an Indian American poet, and former literature professor at Central Connecticut State University and City University of Hong Kong.
In 1999, he founded one of the world's oldest electronic online arts journals, Drunken Boat. He has published and edited ten books and chapbooks of poetry, including Deepening Groove for which he won the 2010 National Poetry Review Prize and which was called "the work of one of America's finest younger poets". He co-edited W.W.Norton's "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond" as well as "Union," containing the best of 50 years of Singaporean literature and 15 years of Drunken Boat. Along with Priya Sarukkai Chabria, he translatedThe Autobiography of a Goddess, a collection of poems of the 9th century Tamil poet/saint Andal. He has won a Pushcart Prize, been nominated for a Poets' Prize and served as a judge for numerous poetry related competitions. He is also featured on the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets website. His full-length collection "What Else Could it Be" contains collaborations with over 20 contemporary poets. He has appeared on NPR, the BBC and on PBS, and has performed his work around the world.
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. He has contributed to the New York Times "The Paris Review" and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
His first book, Instrumentality, was published in 2004, and was a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. He co-wrote Wanton Textiles in 2006 with Reb Livingston, selections of which were published in Fringe Magazine and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. His chapbook Voluptuous Bristle, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010. His chapbook "Seamless Matter" was published by Rain Taxi Books in 2011.. His book "Deepening Groove" won the National Poetry Review Prize in 2011. His next full length collection "What Else Could it Be: Ekphrastics and Collaborations" was published by Carolina Wren Press in 2015. He edited "The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks" and translated the 8th century Tamil mystic poet Andal in "The Autobiography of a Goddess" published in India and distributed by University of Chicago Press.
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