PURVI SHAH, Brooklyn, New York, will travel to Chennai, India, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, to study Sanskrit poetics and Vedic charts in order to deepen her own poetics and poetry in English. She will explore profound modes of structuring sound and language; see how complex philosophical ideas can be transmitted and embodied in words; and learn more about the relationships of grammar, meaning, and mathematical repetition. While not a poet who often employs formal meter and poetic forms, she has long been drawn to the rhythms in language, its sounds, and the power of auditory elements of poetry. This study will enable her quest to produce a simultaneous philosophical, auditory, and meditative poetry.