Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar is poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University. His first book of poems,
Instrumentality, was published in 2004 by Word Press. His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in such places as
The Paris Review,
Poets & Writers,
Time Out New York,
Gulf Coast,
The Massachusetts Review,
Descant,
LIT,
Crowd,
The Cortland Review,
Catamaran,
The Indiana Review,
Western Humanities Review,
The Iowa Review, and
The AWP Writer's Chronicle, among other publications. He has been a commentator on
NPR, Wesleyan Radio, and KKUP's
Out of Our Minds. He has read at such venues as The National Arts Club, Columbia University, KGB, and the Cornelia Street Café, has held residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, reviews poetry for the
Contemporary Poetry Review and recently edited, with
Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal,
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (
W.W. Norton, 2009).
Posted on March 4, 2005 5:16 AM
