Ravi Shankar's first book, Instrumentality, was published by Cherry Grove in May 2004 and was a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. He co-wrote Wanton Textiles with Reb Livingston, selections of which were published in Fringe Magazine and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Shankar's poetry has been published in such places as The Massachusetts Review, The Cortland Review, and The New Hampshire Review. He is currently co-editing an anthology of contemporary Arab and Asian
poetry, along with poets Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, due to be
published by Norton in Spring 2008.
Shankar is the poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State
University and the founding editor of the online journal, Drunken Boat.
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