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Ravi Shankar

Connecticut

Ravi Shankar is Executive Director of Drunken Boat and author/editor of seven books and chapbooks of poetry

Interests: poetry, literature, web art, postcolonialism, soccer, basketball, cooking, Indian culture, mythology

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Tracks without Fossils, Pinchot Sycamores, Defamiliarization and Gabonese Hip Hop by Ravi Shankar

My last blog post for BAP so thanks to all of you for following along as my literary adventures took me from Jackson Hole, Wyoming back to Connecticut, where the state flower is the Mountain Laurel, state animal is the... Continue reading

Posted Jul 2, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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Bursting Bamboo Leads to the Bullet Train by Ravi Shankar

Fireworks, like mothers, are loved universally. Ever since the Han Dynasty, everyone from a Wall Street investment banker to a Mongolian yak-herder would stop with a jaw hung in astonishment to see that special ratio of saltpeter, charcoal and sulfur... Continue reading

Posted Jul 1, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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From King Gesar and the zany Basques to Complaint by Ravi Shankar

Let’s begin with oral poetry, which I ended the last blog post on, because I neglected to note that the cowboy poets have nothing on the Basques who sell tickets in the tens of thousands for their oral poetry competition,... Continue reading

Posted Jun 29, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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Thanks Lisa and Tina! And yes Prageeta was good to meet Jayme. I still need to get out to Montana sometime to say hello.

Commented Jun 29, 2011 on Cowboys, Beowulf and Oral Poetry by Ravi Shankar at The Best American Poetry

Cowboys, Beowulf and Oral Poetry by Ravi Shankar

One of the more intriguing aspects of being in Wyoming for this Easterner has been exposure to cowboy culture. Parts of the West retain in their vast spaces a tunnel to the past of the land and thanks to some... Continue reading

Posted Jun 28, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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Thanks Lisa! I think it's important to agitate on behalf of those without a voice, however we can. Glad to hear your thoughts. Best, Ravi Sent from my iPhone

Commented Jun 27, 2011 on Poetry of Uprising at Jackson Hole by Ravi Shankar at The Best American Poetry

Poetry of Uprising at Jackson Hole by Ravi Shankar

Hi all - glad to be the guest blogger for this week and in fact writing this first entry on the last day of the Jackson Hole Writers Conference where I was poetry faculty for the last few days. Beyond... Continue reading

Posted Jun 26, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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