Education
Columbia University; University of Virginia.
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Ravi Shankar
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In 1999, he founded one of the world"s oldest electronic online arts journals, Drunken Boat. He co-edited West.W.Norton"s "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond" as well as "Union," containing the best of 50 years of Singaporean literature and 15 years of Drunken Boat. Along with Priya Sarukkai Chabria, he translatedThe Autobiography of a Goddess, a collection of poems of the 9th century Tamil poet/saint Andal.
He is also featured on the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets website.
His full-length collection "What Else Could it Be" contains collaborations with over 20 contemporary poets. He has appeared on National Public Radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation and on Public Broadcasting Service, and has performed his work around the world.
Shankar received his bachelor"s degree from the University of Virginia where he worked with Gregory Orr, and his master"s degree in poetry from Columbia University"s School of the Arts, where he studied with Lucie Brock-Broido and Richard Howard. He has contributed to the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
His first book, Instrumentality, was published in 2004, and was a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards.
He co-wrote Wanton Textiles in 2006 with Reb Livingston, selections of which were published in Fringe Magazine and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. His chapbook Voluptuous Bristle, was published by Finishing Lincolnshire Press in 2010. His chapbook "Seamless Matter" was published by Rain Taxi Books in 2011.
Shankar"s poetry has been published in such places as The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Cortland Review, 3Elements Review, and The New Hampshire Review.
He co-edited an anthology of contemporary Arab and Asian poetry, along with poets Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, published by West.W. Norton in 2008. He has contributed to the Poetry Society of America"s "Q-and-A on American Poetry", and has also written many reviews and works of creative nonfiction.
Achievements
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He has published and edited ten books and chapbooks of poetry, including Deepening Groove for which he won the 2010 National Poetry Review Prize and which was called "the work of one of America"s finest younger poets". He has won a Pushcart Prize, been nominated for a Poets" Prize and served as a judge for numerous poetry related competitions.
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United States
Awards
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Pushcart Prize; Poets' Prize
The Poets' Prize is awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Poets' Prize is awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.