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. He has read at such venues as The National Arts Club, Columbia University, KGB, and the Cornelia Street Café, has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, reviews poetry for the Contemporary Poetry Review and is currently editing an anthology of South Asian, East Asian, and Middle Eastern poetry. He does not play the sitar.

You can read some of his poems & essays online:

• “Carousel” was published in both text & audio in The Cortland Review.
• “Symbiosis,” “Marine Pastel” & “Shapes in the Wilderness” appeared in Word for / Word #3.
• His reports from the 2002 State of the Art Symposium convened by the Electronic Literature Organization in Los Angeles appeared in The Iowa Review & Poets & Writers.
• His review of the 2005 Wallace Stevens conference at the University of Connecticut, “Querying the Connoisseur of Chaos,” was featured in Electronic Book Review.
• He helped co-edit an anthology of Asian-American writing in the September 2001 issue of nycBigCityLit.
• Ram Devineni interviewed him for Jacket magazine #16.

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Archive of Winning Poems from the IBPC

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I Was ThereCome In (oba)An Old Bridge

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