BRUTAL
Guilty of nothing more than Driving While Brown, the author was arrested and hauled off in handcuffs. It was not an anomaly.
Ravi Shanker is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and editor of more than 15 books and chapbooks of poetry. The founder of Drunken Boat, one of the world’s oldest electronic journals of the arts, he has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, BBC, and PBS NewsHour. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island. His memoir, Correctional, will be published by University of Wisconsin Press in January 2022.