Drunken Boat

05/19/2024

Have you checked out the new issue of Drunken Boat yet? Live now! https://drunkenboat.com/

03/29/2024

If you haven't checked it out yet! https://drunkenboat.com/ 🤩

03/28/2024

friends - I'll be launching my new book Nirala Publications in on Saturday, April 6th at an amazing salon in a private home. If you are around and would like an invitation, please message me. I'd love to celebrate with you.

Called one of “America’s finest younger poets” by former Connecticut poet laureate Dick Allen and “a diaspora icon” by The Hindu, Pushcart-prize winning poet and acclaimed memoirist Ravi Shankar has been simultaneously crafting a canny and prophetic body of essays. Split into four sections...

03/12/2024

Dear friends - it's been nearly three years in the untangling and remaking, but I'm so pleased the share that the new issue of DDrunken Boat #25 will be launching this evening at 8 PM. Join us online tonight for the reveal!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Drunken Boat , one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, announces its long awaited 25th issue! Join us for a special live release drop today, Tuesday, March 12th at 8 PM NYC EST online at:

https://tufts.zoom.us/j/3481482573

The issue includes new work from Rick Moody, Diane Mehta, Peter Zilahy, Gopika Nath, Sam Baron, Nata Metlukh, Rachel Liu-Ballard, Molly Gaudry, Arundhati Subramaniam, George Szirtes, Stephanie Sauer, Jabari Asim, Sue Johnson and many more! Special thanks to the Tufts Journalism students for helping with the production of the issue and Akash Patel and Code in Nature for web design.

Drunken Boat also will also debut its new series in Global Contemporary Classics, kicking off with an India and Nepal edition connected to the upcoming Himalayan Literature Festival. as well its inclusion in the NEXT , Museum, Library and Preservation Space and the event will be joined by its Director Dene Grigar, founding editor, Ravi Shankar, Director of the New York Writers Workshop Tim Tomlinson, as well as over a dozen contributors from around the world who will perform their work live.

Watch this space live at 8 PM today for the reveal: https://drunkenboat.com/

Contact info: For media inquiries or additional information, please contact:

[email protected]

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03/02/2024

For those who missed the talk GBH on , here's the link to a very rich discussion (and nice camera work!)

A panel discussion on one of the least known forms of hierarchical oppression: Caste. It is an ancient form of division and the subject of Ava Duverney’s sho...

02/17/2024

Any of you read Isabella Wilkerson's or see Ava DuVernay's Origin? friends, please join us for a FREE discussion on this subject this Tuesday GBH with Chelli Keshavan Arun Rath and Suraj Yedge, introduced by the brilliant Phillip Martin. 2/20 7 PM!

11/11/2023

"Meridian is new and fresh and fresh and thrilling, suffused with the sense of a beginning but also with the sense of the perennial and the permanent."

08/19/2023

Iso Break v.24: Count Every Breath Climate Change Showcase Saturday August 19 2023
On Saturday August 19 APWT and the New York Writers Workshop will present the globally acclaimed reading series Iso Break v. 24 Climate Change Showcase in celebration of the release of Count Every Breath: a Climate Anthology edited by APWT member Vinita Agrawal. Vinita’s latest collection of poems Twilight Language was the winner of the Proverse prize Hongkong 2021. She has authored five books of poetry. She was awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2018 and the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence 2015. She is Poetry Editor with Usawa. Iso Break v.24 showcases other contributing APWT members: writer and editor from Mumbai Michelle D'costa, author of the poetry chapbook Gulf (Yavanika Press, 2021) and co-host of the author interview podcast Books and Beyond With Bound; Tom Doig a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, living in Meanjin Brisbane author of Hazelwood (2020) The Coal Face (2015) Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure (2013) and editor of Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (2020); Mary Newell, author of the poetry chapbooks RE-SURGE (Trainwreck Press 2021) and TILT/HOVER/Veer and co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary and the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics and poet Pervin Saket, winner of the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2021, author of the novel Urmila and poetry collection A Tinge of Tumeric. Pervin is poetry editor of The Bombay Literary Magazine and the co-founder of the annual Dum Pukht Writers’ Workshop. Hosted by New York Writers Workshop founder Tim Tomlinson. Join these incredibly talented writers and poets as they seek to unravel and respond to the defining global crisis of our times. Not to be missed! Iso Break streams live on Facebook and YouTube. Check our socials one week out from the event to register.

06/17/2023

On Saturday, June 17th 8 AM (NYC EST) / 10 PM (AEST) APWT and the New York Writers Workshop will present the globally acclaimed reading series ISOBREAK v.23: New Members Showcase. Featuring ANNA V. Q. ROSS’s whose most recent book, Flutter, Kick (Red Hen Press), won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and who is a Fulbright Scholar, a Mass Cultural Council fellow, and poetry editor for Salamander; Vietnamese-American writer JOSHUA NGUYEN, author of Come Clean (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award as well as a former collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI); poet, essayist, priestess, badass mom, and host of the podcast, Spiritual Grit, a show at the intersection of spirituality and activism LESLIANN HOBAYAN, author of the chapbook, Divorce Papers: A Slow Burn (Finishing Line Press, 2023) and awarded the James Merrill Fellowship for Poetry at the Vermont Studio Center; bilingual poet and writer from Singapore whose poems have been published in The Best Asian Poetry 2021, SHILPA DIKSH*T THAPLIYAL; and LUU DIEU VAN, a prolific Vietnamese poet, translator and co-editor of the prominent Vietnamese-English literary magazine Da Mau, whose books include The Transparent Greenness of Grass, M of December and most recently She, Self-Winding (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). MC'ed by Pushcart Prize winning poet, translator and recent memoirist of the 2022 Connecticut Book Awards finalist Correctional (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022) and forthcoming TEDx talk on , RAVI SHANKAR, called 'an absolutely brilliant writer' and 'a diaspora icon' in The Hindu. Watch our socials a week out from the event to register