Ravi Shankar

is Associate Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat. He has published a book of poems, Instrumentality (Cherry Grove), named a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards, and with Reb Livingston, a collaborative chapbook, Wanton Textiles (No Tell Books, 2006). He currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Connecticut Center for the Book, reviews poetry for the Contemporary Poetry Review and along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he edited Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond (W.W Norton & Co.). He is a recipient of a Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism (CCT) FY09 fellowship in Poetry, has received fellowships from Breadloaf, the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, serves as a commentator on National Public Radio and will have two chapbooks of poetry coming out in 2010, including a collaboration With late American artist Sol LeWitt. He is currently on the faculty of the Wesleyan Writers Conference, Stonecoast Writers Conference and the first international MFA program in Creative Writing at City University of Hong Kong and has performed his work around the world, including at the Asia Society, PEN India, St. Mark's Poetry Project and the National Arts Club. He is growing a beard and preparing for the fallout from this act of apparent civil disobedience.

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