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Ravi Shankar (poet)

October 28, 2023

For other people named Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation).

Dr. Ravi Shankar (born 1975) is an American poet, editor, and former literature professor at Central Connecticut State University and City University of Hong Kong and Chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators (APWT). He is the founding editor of online literary journal Drunken Boat.[1][2][3] He has been called "a diaspora icon" by The Hindu[4] and "one of America's finest younger poets" by former Connecticut poet laureate Dick Allen.[5]

Dr.

Ravi Shankar
Born1975 (age 47–48)
Language
  • Tamil
  • English
NationalityIndian American
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationPhD
Alma mater
Periodcontemporary
GenrePoetry, Translation, Criticism and Memoir
Notable awards

Corporation of Yaddo
MacDowell Colony
Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Artist Fellowship

Career edit

Shankar received his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia, his M.F.A. in poetry from the Columbia University School of the Arts and his PhD as an international research fellow at the University of Sydney.[6][7] He moved to Chester from Brooklyn, and joined the Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) as a faculty member in 2002.[8][9] He was also a guest teacher of the masters program at Fairfield University.[10][11] He was elected Chairman of the Connecticut Young Writers Trust in 2011. In 2014, he was promoted from the rank of associate professor to professor at CCSU.[12] He also served as co-director of the creative writing minor at CCSU.[13] He has appeared on PBS [14] and on National Public Radio.[15] He received the University-level Trustees Research Award as a faculty member at CSUS in 2009.[16] In the same year, he also received a fellowship award from The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism and Summer Literary Seminars fellowship to Kenya.[17] He has taught around the world including at Wesleyan University Summer Writing Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus, Sun Yat Sen University in China and his poetry has been translated into over a dozen languages, including French, German, Spanish, Hindi, Italian, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil, Slovenian, Russian, Greek, Mandarin, and Japanese.

In 1999, he founded Drunken Boat.[18] As of 2018, he was a teacher at the New York Writers Workshop and City University of Hong Kong.[19] He is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators Organization .[20] and a Board Member of the New York Writers Workshop. He has held fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Artists Residency, Ragdale, the Blue Mountain Center, the Jentel Foundation, iPark, and he received the prestigious University of Sydney International Research Fellowship to complete work on his memoir "Correctional" and to do research on the Puritanical roots and racial demographics of mass incarceration in the United States of America.

Literary career edit

Shankar's collections of poetry include A Field Guide to Southern China (2019) written with T. S. Eliot Prize winner George Szrites, The Many Uses of Mint (2018), What Else Could it Be (2015), Instrumentality (2004), a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards, and Deepening Groove (2011), winner of the National Poetry Review Prize.[21] He has also served as an editor for other works such as Language for a New Century (2008), which was hailed as "a beautiful achievement for world literature" by Nobel laureate in Literature Nadine Gordimer.[22] He won a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in 2017 [23] His translations with Priya Sarukkai Chabria of the 8th century Tamil poet/saint Andal won the 2016/2017 Muse India Translation Award at the Hyderabad Literary festival.[24][25][26] He also appeared as a guest speaker at the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2018.[27]

His literary works appeared in Paris Review, Fulcrum, McSweeney's, the AWP Writer's Chronicle, and Scribner's Best American Erotic Poems.[28][29] In 2014, he won Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner.[29][30]

Controversies edit

Shankar became the subject of several controversies during 2010. He won a settlement against the NYPD, after being racially profiled under the stop-and-frisk policies later found illegal by New York Superior Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, and appeared on NPR to discuss his wrongful arrest.[31] He was later arrested and convicted[32] in a few public cases[33] including driving with a suspended license. He served 90 days in Hartford Correctional Center[34][35] as a pretrial confinement, an experience which he wrote about in The Hartford Courant.[36]

In 2013, Shankar resigned from teaching at Central Connecticut State University.[8] to accept an International Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney, where he received his PhD from the University of Sydney researching the racial roots of mass incarceration and the genre of the prison memoir. He also filed multiple charges against the public university system of Central Connecticut and won a settlement of $60,409, paid by the college authority to Shankar, in exchange for his resignation.[37] He has published a memoir about his experiences entitled "Correctional,"[38] excerpts from which have been published in The New York Times,[39] the Daily Beast,[40] the Hartford Courant,[41] The Common (magazine)[42] and the Michigan Quarterly Review.[43]

Selected works edit

Memoir edit

  • Correctional, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021)

Poetry edit

  • Instrumentality, Harper & Row, 2004, (WordTech Communications, 2004)
  • 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)
  • Durable Transit: New and Selected Poems, (Poetrywala, 2018)
  • Many Uses of Mint, (Recent Works Press, 2018)
  • A Field Guide to Southern China with George Szirtes, (Eyewear Press, 2019)

Translations edit

  • The Autobiography of a Goddess, with Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Zubaan Books/University of Chicago Press, 2016

As editor edit

  • 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
  • Meridian: The APWT/Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing, with Tim Tomlinson and Peter Kahn, Sally Breen, 2020

References edit

  1. ^ "Restless at home". The Straits Times. 2015-12-06. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  2. ^ Shivani, Anis (2015-08-10). "The Festival That Was Matwaala: South Asian Poets Celebrating Poetry and Love". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  3. ^ Kelley, Tina. "Suburban Region's Poets Convey a Sense of Place". Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  4. ^ "The champak dripping dye". The Hindu. 2018-08-18. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  5. ^ "Poet Ravi Shankar Launches Deepening Groove". PR. 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  6. ^ "Ravi Shankar (poet) - India - Poetry International". www.poetryinternationalweb.net. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  7. ^ Daily, Verse. "Verse Daily: Ravi Shankar". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  8. ^ a b RONDINONE, NICHOLAS. "CCSU Professor Ravi Shankar Resigns". courant.com. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  9. ^ Kelley, Tina. "Suburban Region's Poets Convey a Sense of Place". Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  10. ^ Daily, Verse. "Verse Daily: About Deepening Groove by Ravi Shankar". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  11. ^ University, Fairfield. "Fairfield University - Fairfield University journal awards its first prize for creative non-fiction". www.fairfield.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  12. ^ "CT Young Writers honors 30 students". The Register Citizen. 2011-06-13. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  13. ^ "Monday's Poem: 'Breast Feeding at the Blue Mosque,' by Ravi Shankar – Arts & Academe". www.chronicle.com. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  14. ^ "PBS". PBS. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  15. ^ "Poet Says He Was Arrested for 'Driving While Brown'". NPR.
  16. ^ "The Connecticut State University System 2009 University-Level Trustees Research Award" (PDF). Connecticut State University System. March 12, 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  17. ^ Tourism, Connecticut Commission on Culture and. "CCT: FY 09 Artist Fellowship Recipients". www.ct.gov. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  18. ^ Kelley, Tina. "Suburban Region's Poets Convey a Sense of Place". Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  19. ^ "Berry College - Ravi Shankar". www.berry.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  20. ^ "Home". apwriters.org.
  21. ^ "Ravi Shankar". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2017-12-27. Retrieved 2017-12-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  22. ^ "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond". Nathalie Handal. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  23. ^ "Berry College - Ravi Shankar". www.berry.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  24. ^ "Muse India Prize Panel on Translations - Hyderabad Literary Fest 2018".
  25. ^ "Three new attractions at HLF 2018".
  26. ^ "Three new attractions at HLF 2018". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  27. ^ Pareek, Harsh (January 27, 2018). "At the Jaipur Literature Festival 2018, whispers of Karni Sena, an absent CM, and Rupi Kaur hysteria". Firstpost. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  28. ^ Banerjee, Neelanjana; Kaipa, Summi; Sundaralingam, Pireeni (2012). Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. University of Arkansas Press. p. 198. ISBN 9781610752077. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  29. ^ a b "Gold Coast Participants | Asia Pacific Writers & Translators || APWT". apwriters.org. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  30. ^ "Prairie Schooner Announces $8,250 in Writing Prizes for 2014 | Prairie Schooner". prairieschooner.unl.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  31. ^ "Poet Says He Was Arrested for 'Driving While Brown'". NPR.org.
  32. ^ "CCSU professor Ravi Shankar suspended without pay after larceny charge". nhregister.com. 2015-08-26. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  33. ^ Moran, David. "CCSU Suspends Professor Ravi Shankar; Senator Says Fire Him". courant.com. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  34. ^ "As professor racks up convictions, CSCU unable to consider them in employment decisions". ctmirror.org. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  35. ^ "CCSU professor appears in court after being arrested 3 times in a year". FOX 61. 2015-08-26. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  36. ^ "The Eight Things I Learned in Jail".
  37. ^ "For CCSU professor with multiple convictions, a $60K settlement and resignation - The CT MirrorThe CT Mirror". ctmirror.org. 3 February 2016. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  38. ^ Shankar, Ravi (4 January 2022). UW Press: Correctional. ISBN 9780299335304.
  39. ^ Shankar, Ravi (17 December 2012). "Opinion | Ravi Shankar on Ravi Shankar". The New York Times.
  40. ^ Shankar, Ravi (13 December 2021). "It's Always a Good Day When You can bag a Sand N***". The Daily Beast.
  41. ^ "Making a Joke Out of Justice".
  42. ^ "The Five-Room Box". 26 April 2021.
  43. ^ "Hold Your Mud – Michigan Quarterly Review".

External links edit

  • Drunken Boat, an Internet arts journal founded by Shankar
  • Ravi Shankar at Poets Foundation
  • Shankar on Poetry Society of America's "Q-and-A on American Poetry"

October 28, 2023
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For other people named Ravi Shankar see Ravi Shankar disambiguation Dr Ravi Shankar born 1975 is an American poet editor and former literature professor at Central Connecticut State University and City University of Hong Kong and Chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers amp Translators APWT He is the founding editor of online literary journal Drunken Boat 1 2 3 He has been called a diaspora icon by The Hindu 4 and one of America s finest younger poets by former Connecticut poet laureate Dick Allen 5 Dr Ravi ShankarBorn1975 age 47 48 LanguageTamil EnglishNationalityIndian AmericanCitizenshipAmericanEducationPhDAlma materUniversity of Virginia Columbia University School of the Arts University of SydneyPeriodcontemporaryGenrePoetry Translation Criticism and MemoirNotable awardsPushcart Prize Muse India Translation Award National Poetry Review Prize New York Foundation for the ArtsCorporation of Yaddo MacDowell Colony Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Artist Fellowship Contents 1 Career 1 1 Literary career 2 Controversies 3 Selected works 3 1 Memoir 3 2 Poetry 3 3 Translations 3 4 As editor 4 References 5 External linksCareer editShankar received his bachelor s degree from the University of Virginia his M F A in poetry from the Columbia University School of the Arts and his PhD as an international research fellow at the University of Sydney 6 7 He moved to Chester from Brooklyn and joined the Central Connecticut State University CCSU as a faculty member in 2002 8 9 He was also a guest teacher of the masters program at Fairfield University 10 11 He was elected Chairman of the Connecticut Young Writers Trust in 2011 In 2014 he was promoted from the rank of associate professor to professor at CCSU 12 He also served as co director of the creative writing minor at CCSU 13 He has appeared on PBS 14 and on National Public Radio 15 He received the University level Trustees Research Award as a faculty member at CSUS in 2009 16 In the same year he also received a fellowship award from The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism and Summer Literary Seminars fellowship to Kenya 17 He has taught around the world including at Wesleyan University Summer Writing Conference City University of Hong Kong Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus Sun Yat Sen University in China and his poetry has been translated into over a dozen languages including French German Spanish Hindi Italian Bengali Urdu Tamil Slovenian Russian Greek Mandarin and Japanese In 1999 he founded Drunken Boat 18 As of 2018 he was a teacher at the New York Writers Workshop and City University of Hong Kong 19 He is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers amp Translators Organization 20 and a Board Member of the New York Writers Workshop He has held fellowships from Yaddo the MacDowell Colony Djerassi Artists Residency Ragdale the Blue Mountain Center the Jentel Foundation iPark and he received the prestigious University of Sydney International Research Fellowship to complete work on his memoir Correctional and to do research on the Puritanical roots and racial demographics of mass incarceration in the United States of America Literary career edit Shankar s collections of poetry include A Field Guide to Southern China 2019 written with T S Eliot Prize winner George Szrites The Many Uses of Mint 2018 What Else Could it Be 2015 Instrumentality 2004 a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards and Deepening Groove 2011 winner of the National Poetry Review Prize 21 He has also served as an editor for other works such as Language for a New Century 2008 which was hailed as a beautiful achievement for world literature by Nobel laureate in Literature Nadine Gordimer 22 He won a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in 2017 23 His translations with Priya Sarukkai Chabria of the 8th century Tamil poet saint Andal won the 2016 2017 Muse India Translation Award at the Hyderabad Literary festival 24 25 26 He also appeared as a guest speaker at the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2018 27 His literary works appeared in Paris Review Fulcrum McSweeney s the AWP Writer s Chronicle and Scribner s Best American Erotic Poems 28 29 In 2014 he won Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner 29 30 Controversies editShankar became the subject of several controversies during 2010 He won a settlement against the NYPD after being racially profiled under the stop and frisk policies later found illegal by New York Superior Court Judge Shira Scheindlin and appeared on NPR to discuss his wrongful arrest 31 He was later arrested and convicted 32 in a few public cases 33 including driving with a suspended license He served 90 days in Hartford Correctional Center 34 35 as a pretrial confinement an experience which he wrote about in The Hartford Courant 36 In 2013 Shankar resigned from teaching at Central Connecticut State University 8 to accept an International Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney where he received his PhD from the University of Sydney researching the racial roots of mass incarceration and the genre of the prison memoir He also filed multiple charges against the public university system of Central Connecticut and won a settlement of 60 409 paid by the college authority to Shankar in exchange for his resignation 37 He has published a memoir about his experiences entitled Correctional 38 excerpts from which have been published in The New York Times 39 the Daily Beast 40 the Hartford Courant 41 The Common magazine 42 and the Michigan Quarterly Review 43 Selected works editMemoir edit Correctional University of Wisconsin Press 2021 Poetry edit Instrumentality Harper amp Row 2004 WordTech Communications 2004 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 Durable Transit New and Selected Poems Poetrywala 2018 Many Uses of Mint Recent Works Press 2018 A Field Guide to Southern China with George Szirtes Eyewear Press 2019 Translations edit The Autobiography of a Goddess with Priya Sarukkai Chabria Zubaan Books University of Chicago Press 2016As editor edit Language for a New Century Contemporary Poetry from Asia the Middle East amp Beyond with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal W W Norton amp 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 Meridian The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing with Tim Tomlinson and Peter Kahn Sally Breen 2020References edit Restless at home The Straits Times 2015 12 06 Retrieved 2018 09 29 Shivani Anis 2015 08 10 The Festival That Was Matwaala South Asian Poets Celebrating Poetry and Love Huffington Post Retrieved 2018 09 29 Kelley Tina Suburban Region s Poets Convey a Sense of Place Retrieved 2018 09 29 The champak dripping dye The Hindu 2018 08 18 Retrieved 2019 10 15 Poet Ravi Shankar Launches Deepening Groove PR 2011 08 14 Retrieved 2019 10 15 Ravi Shankar poet India Poetry International www poetryinternationalweb net Retrieved 2018 09 23 Daily Verse Verse Daily Ravi Shankar www versedaily org Retrieved 2018 09 23 a b RONDINONE NICHOLAS CCSU Professor Ravi Shankar Resigns courant com Retrieved 2018 09 23 Kelley Tina Suburban Region s Poets Convey a Sense of Place Retrieved 2018 09 24 Daily Verse Verse Daily About Deepening Groove by Ravi Shankar www versedaily org Retrieved 2018 09 25 University Fairfield Fairfield University Fairfield University journal awards its first prize for creative non fiction www fairfield edu Retrieved 2018 09 25 CT Young Writers honors 30 students The Register Citizen 2011 06 13 Retrieved 2018 09 24 Monday s Poem Breast Feeding at the Blue Mosque by Ravi Shankar Arts amp Academe www chronicle com Retrieved 2018 09 24 PBS PBS 12 December 2011 Retrieved 2018 09 25 Poet Says He Was Arrested for Driving While Brown NPR The Connecticut State University System 2009 University Level Trustees Research Award PDF Connecticut State University System March 12 2009 Retrieved 28 September 2018 Tourism Connecticut Commission on Culture and CCT FY 09 Artist Fellowship Recipients www ct gov Retrieved 28 September 2018 Kelley Tina Suburban Region s Poets Convey a Sense of Place Retrieved 2018 09 23 Berry College Ravi Shankar www berry edu Retrieved 2018 09 25 Home apwriters org Ravi Shankar Poetry Foundation Poetry Foundation 2017 12 27 Retrieved 2017 12 28 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint others link Language for a New Century Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East Asia and Beyond Nathalie Handal Retrieved October 16 2018 Berry College Ravi Shankar www berry edu Retrieved 2018 09 23 Muse India Prize Panel on Translations Hyderabad Literary Fest 2018 Three new attractions at HLF 2018 Three new attractions at HLF 2018 The New Indian Express Retrieved 2018 09 23 Pareek Harsh January 27 2018 At the Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 whispers of Karni Sena an absent CM and Rupi Kaur hysteria Firstpost Retrieved October 16 2018 Banerjee Neelanjana Kaipa Summi Sundaralingam Pireeni 2012 Indivisible An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry University of Arkansas Press p 198 ISBN 9781610752077 Retrieved 28 September 2018 a b Gold Coast Participants Asia Pacific Writers amp Translators APWT apwriters org Retrieved 2018 09 28 Prairie Schooner Announces 8 250 in Writing Prizes for 2014 Prairie Schooner prairieschooner unl edu Retrieved 2018 09 28 Poet Says He Was Arrested for Driving While Brown NPR org CCSU professor Ravi Shankar suspended without pay after larceny charge nhregister com 2015 08 26 Retrieved 2021 05 10 Moran David CCSU Suspends Professor Ravi Shankar Senator Says Fire Him courant com Retrieved 2018 09 23 As professor racks up convictions CSCU unable to consider them in employment decisions ctmirror org 16 December 2015 Retrieved 2018 09 23 CCSU professor appears in court after being arrested 3 times in a year FOX 61 2015 08 26 Retrieved 2018 09 23 The Eight Things I Learned in Jail For CCSU professor with multiple convictions a 60K settlement and resignation The CT MirrorThe CT Mirror ctmirror org 3 February 2016 Retrieved 2018 09 29 Shankar Ravi 4 January 2022 UW Press Correctional ISBN 9780299335304 Shankar Ravi 17 December 2012 Opinion Ravi Shankar on Ravi Shankar The New York Times Shankar Ravi 13 December 2021 It s Always a Good Day When You can bag a Sand N The Daily Beast Making a Joke Out of Justice The Five Room Box 26 April 2021 Hold Your Mud Michigan Quarterly Review External links editDrunken Boat an Internet arts journal founded by Shankar Ravi Shankar at Poets Foundation Shankar on Poetry Society of America s Q and A on American Poetry Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ravi Shankar poet amp oldid 1164241644, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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