Ravi Shankar (poet)

Ravi Shankar (born 1975) is an American poet. He was 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, He co-wrote Wanton Textiles (No Tell Books, 2006) with Reb Livingston, selections of which were published in Fringe Magazine and Beltway Poetry Quarterly.Reb Livingston, from Beltway Poetry Quarterly, (Winter 2007), Vol 8, No 1. Accessed 2007-03-09. His chapbook Voluptuous Bristle, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010.

Shankar received his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia where he worked with <!--Lisa Russ Spaar and -->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.Ram Devineni. Jacket magazine, (March 2002). Accessed 2006-12-13. Shankar's poetry has been published in such places as The Massachusetts Review,Ravi Shankar, Return to Mumbai. (Summer 1999), vol.40, no.2. Accessed 2006-12-13. The Cortland...
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