Ravi Shankar (born 1975) is an Indian American poet, editor, and former literature professor at Central Connecticut State University and City University of Hong Kong.
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Career
Shankar received his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia where he worked with Gregory Orr, and his M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University's School of the Arts, where he studied with Lucie Brock-Broido and Richard Howard.
His work has been featured on the Poetry Foundation, Poetry International, and Academy of American Poets websites and in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.. He won a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in 2017.
Shankar has published and edited ten books and chapbooks of poetry, and translated the work of the 9th century Tamil poet/saint Andal.
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Drunken Boat
In 1999, he was one of the founders of the online arts journal Drunken Boat.
Criminal convictions and resignation
Shankar resigned from teaching at CCSU following a suspension over a number of arrests and convictions including driving under the influence, giving a police officer someone else's license after getting into a collision, providing a false statement to authorities, and credit card fraud related to using school equipment. He served time in Hartford Correctional Center. As part of his termination agreement, Shankar was barred from applying for or accepting a job in the state university system.
As a result of media attention surrounding the case and complaints by Connecticut State Senator Kevin D. Witkos, the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education proposed that criminal convictions be allowed into consideration in employment decisions.
Selected works
Poetry
- Instrumentality, Harper & Row, 2004, (WordTech Communications, 2015)
- Wanton Textiles, with Reb Livingston, No Tell Books, 2006
- Seamless Matter, with Sol LeWitt (Chapbook), OHM Editions - Rain Taxi, 2010
- Deepening Groove, The National Poetry Review Press, 2011
- What Else Could It Be: Ekphrastics and Collaborations, Carolina Wren Press, 2015
Translations
- The Autobiography of a Goddess, with Priya Sarukkai Chabria, University of Chicago Press, 2016
As editor
- Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond, with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008
- Radha Says: final poems of Reetika Vazirani Drunken Boat Books, 2010
- UNION: 50 Years of Writing from Singapore and 15 Years of Drunken Boat, with Alvin Pang, Drunken Boat Media, 2015
- The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, with Patricia Smith and Peter Kahn, University of Arkansas Press, 2017
References
External links
- Drunken Boat, an Internet arts journal founded by Shankar
- Shankar on Poetry Society of America's "Q-and-A on American Poetry"
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