Ravi Shankar

Instrumentality by 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).

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Ravi Shankar's work can be found elsewhere online at:
The Cortland Review
Word for Word

Listen to some of his poems from the The Carrboro Poetry Festival

Read reviews at:
The Iowa Review
Time Out New York
Electronic Book Review
Poets & Writers

Read an article about him in the Chronicle of Higher Education and an interview with him in Jacket magazine.

Posted on March 4, 2005 5:16 AM