About Ravi Shankar and The Literary Review

Today's poem is "Dust"

from The Literary Review

Ravi Shankar is Associate Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of the international online journal of arts, Drunken Boat. He has published a book of poems, Instrumentality (Cherry Grove), named a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards; with Reb Livingston, a collaborative chapbook, Wanton Textiles (No Tell Books); and two poetry chapbooks due out next year. His creative and critical work has appeared in publications such as Atlas, Scribner's The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present, The Paris Review, Poets & Writers, Time Out New York, The Massachusetts Review, McSweeney's, and AWP's The Writer's Chronicle. He has taught at Queens College, University of New Haven, and Columbia University, where he received his MFA in Poetry. He has appeared on BBC and NPR; and along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he co-edited Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond (WW Norton).
Other poems by Ravi Shankar in Verse Daily:
May 20, 2004: "Fabricating Astrology" "I lie on my back in the damp grass..."
Books by Ravi Shankar:

Other poems on the web by Ravi Shankar:
Multiple poems and readings
"Carousel"
"Crossings"
Four poems
Three poems
Three poems
"Excerpt #4"
"American Liver Mush"
"Gossip"
Three poems
Ravi Shankar according to Wikipedia.
About The Literary Review:
Poets in this issue: Ravi Shankar, Caitlin Meissner, Neema Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Shailja Patel, Kitso-yame Kgaboesele

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September 28, 2008: "Morning Edition" by Andrzej Sosnowski, translated by Benjamin Paloff
September 22, 2008: "Popular Science" by Steve Davenport
March 21, 2008: "Morning Edition" by Michele Newcomb
March 18, 2008: "Gloucester" by Ann Snodgrass
October 19, 2007: "Lywelwyn's Dog" by Peter E. Murphy
October 16, 2007: "The Night in Question" by Paul Lisicky
April 4, 2007: "Climograph" by James Grinwis
April 1, 2007: "So You Want to Be a Teaching Assistant in English" by Jeff Worley
March 31, 2007: "In 1986 My Uncle Jack Sits On His Front Porch" by William Delman
May 25, 2006: "Fairy Tale" by Kathleen McGookey
May 22, 2006: "=" by Lightsey Darst
March 19, 2006: "Unveiling" by Diane Mehta
March 17, 2006: "but the house sparrows are . . ." by Jon Woodward
October 7, 2005: "When Will We Begin?" by Eric Elshtain
October 3, 2005: "Refugee" Richard Hoffman
May 27, 2005: "The Gazing-Globe Garden" Jeanne Larsen
May 24, 2005: "Music Left by Another" George Looney
May 22, 2005: "Dishonest Elegy for a Sentimental Mood" Melissa Koosmann
May 20, 2005: "Pas De L'Incise" D. Nurkse
January 27, 2005: "What Goes On" by Scott Topper
January 26, 2005: "We Golems" by Michael Demos
December 9, 2004: "Seeing Through Things" by Diane Mehta
December 8, 2004: "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary" by Renée Ashley
December 7, 2004: "Fleur de Lys" by Daniel Mark Epstein
December 6, 2004: "Animals at My House" by Eduardo Chirinos, translated by G. J. Racz
October 9, 2004: "Prose Poems" by Louise Ho
May 19, 2004: "There Must be Music or Fear" by Rodney Wittner
May 18, 2004: "Pythia: The Process" by Rita Signorelli-Pappas
February 4, 2004: "Insomnia" by Rick Mulkey
May 28, 2003: "The Garden" by David Daniel
January 17, 2003: "The Shelter in Children's Stories" by Stephen Frech
December 29, 2002: "Quo Journal: Just as They Come" by Michael Morse
July 28, 2002: "The Heron" by Kathleen Jamie

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