Ravi Shankar (poet)

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Ravi Shankar
Dr.; Ravi Shankar
Born	1975 (age 49–50)
Language	Tamil; English;
Citizenship	American
Education	PhD
Alma mater	University of Virginia; Columbia University School of the Arts; University of Sydney;
Period	contemporary
Genre	Poetry, Translation, Criticism and Memoir
Notable awards	Pushcart Prize; Muse India Translation Award ; National Poetry Review Prize ; New York Foundation for the Arts; Corporation of Yaddo ; MacDowell Colony ; Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Artist Fellowship ; Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award

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 has given a TED (conference) talk on #impuritanthinking and is the founding editor of online literary journal Drunken Boat. He has been called "a diaspora icon" by The Hindu and "one of America's finest younger poets" by former Connecticut poet laureate Dick Allen.