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Drunken Boat, founded 1999 🌍 oldest online journal of #arts and #publisher . DB#26 is out now! Partner @electronicliterature @fortunatetraveller

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Issue 26 of Drunken Boat is out now and it is one of our most urgent yet!

This issue brings together work on born-digital forms, statelessness, and the enduring resonance of A.K. Ramanujan, all in conversation around a single question: how does art persist against erasure?

We are so proud of the writers, artists, and editors who made this happen. Head to the link in bio to read!

#drunkenboat #literaryjournal #poetrycommmunity #literature #art by @drunkenboat1999

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Issue 26 features Muyesser Abdul’ehed (pen name Hendan), a poet, novelist, editor, and educator.

Born in Ghulja, East Turkistan, she trained in medicine, earning a degree from Beijing University and a master’s from the University of Malaya. After relocating to Turkey in 2013, she shifted her focus to writing and to teaching the Uyghur language.

Her debut novel, Farewell to the Sun, is the first work of fiction to address the internment camps in East Turkistan.

She also founded Ayhan Education, an organization dedicated to sustaining the Uyghur language among diaspora communities. Its projects include Totqulaq (Four Leaf Clover), a Uyghur-language magazine written by children for children.

Additionally, she taught in-person language classes in Istanbul until the pandemic, when she founded the Uyghur Online Language School instead. It has since grown to more than 20 teachers and 400 students.

In November 2020, she was named to the BBC’s 100 Women.

Read her poetry in our newest issue, link in bio! (www.drunkenboat.com)

#Uyghur #EastTurkistan #Poetry #Writing #Books by @drunkenboat1999

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Meet Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee, one of the featured artists in Issue 26 of Drunken Boat!

Born in Kamrao village, Himachal Pradesh, Tenzin paints on tarp sacks (“drochak bureh”), the same sacks that once carried USA aid barley to Tibetan refugee communities and have since found their way into everyday household use. He turns to the people closest to him, family, friends, and neighbors, as subjects, using different mediums to find new meaning in objects that once seemed ordinary.

At age 6, Tenzin learned traditional Tibetan drawing from his father, Tulku Troegyal. After studying science in Himachal Pradesh and moving to Delhi for further study, he has been working as a professional artist since 2013, where he is currently based in Delhi.

View his paintings in Issue 26! (www.drunkenboat.com)

#tibetan #painting #acrylicpainting #art #artist by @drunkenboat1999

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Drunken Boat Issue 26 postcards out in the wild 🔖💗! Read our newest issue today and explore our 3 wonderful folios: Born-Digital, Statelessness, and A.K. Ramanujan

Link in bio! (www.drunkenboat.com)

#literaryjournal #postcards #reading #writing #poetry taken in Busboys and Poets by @drunkenboat1999

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Issue 26 features NOWHERE TO CALL HOME, an essay on exile, family, memory, and the pursuit of home, by Tibetan writer and activist Tenzin Tsundue.

Tsundue is one of the most prominent voices in the Tibetan independence movement, well-known for his building-climb protests where the Chinese embassy had to ask India to restrain him during state visits. He has been jailed sixteen times, toured twenty-five countries for speaking events, and written five books translated into seventeen languages.

Read his touching work now, link in bio! (www.drunkenboat.com)

#tibetan #literaryjournal #essay #writer #activist by @drunkenboat1999

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The Maasai people once held sovereign territory stretching 700 miles from northern Kenya down to central Tanzania, until the creation of the modern Kenyan and Tanzanian states stripped them of their sovereignty and systems of government. Today, their pastoralist lands are still being seized by governments and foreign corporations alike.

Nairobi-based artist Jacque Njeri responds to that history by imagining Maasai futures rather than only mourning what’s been lost. Her MaaSci series, which has appeared on CNN and BBC and been exhibited across Africa, America, and Europe, blends Maasai identity with speculative technology and mythology to position Africa as an active author of its own future rather than a passive subject of it. Her 2017 piece Shestory is currently on view as part of the Art Inspired by the Celestial exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery.

Her artwork is displayed in our 26th Issue! Link in bio to view and appreciate (www.drunkenboat.com)

#literaryjournal #art #design #maasai #literaryart by @drunkenboat1999

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A look inside Drunken Boat Issue 26! Thank you to Marilyn for making this spectacular walkthrough of the digital issue and to Dene for sharing!

Our Born-Digital folio would not have existed without The NEXT, a digital preservation space directed by Dene Grigar at the Electronic Literature Organization. Since 1999, Drunken Boat has published work using the software of its time, Shockwave, Flash, hypertext, much of it now unreadable as that software goes obsolete. The NEXT is where our full archive, all 25 issues, is being kept alive using tools like the Flash emulator Ruffle, so work from the millennium’s turn stays viewable.

Enjoy the trailer, then head to Issue 26 to explore and learn to your heart’s content. Link in bio!

#literaryjournal #greatread #poetry #art #photography by @drunkenboat1999

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We are so delighted to have Alina Kostenko’s poems, Google Camp Alley Number Twenty-Eight Now Five and Finding Home, in our newest Drunken Boat Issue (26)! Her work can be read in the Statelessness folio in our bio or at www.drunkenboat.com

You don’t want to miss out on her poem Ask Anybody that she reads on SoundCloud! Use this link to listen: https://tinyurl.com/2dv97bse

More about Kostenko, she is a Dublin-based Roma poet and cultural facilitator exploring memory, family, and the border between mythmaking and storytelling. A recipient of the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Mentorship Grant, she showcased her work through One Island Many Voices (supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and Linen Hall), with poetry published in Unapologetic Magazine and the Dubeloving Anthology. A graduate of The Stinging Fly’s 2025 Summer School for Creative Non-Fiction, Kostenko is currently working on her first poetry collection.

“Where I grew up is not necessarily what I call home. I spent many years away from Camp Alley, partly by choice, partly by force. As many do, I unashamedly called this self‑imposed exile ‘expat‑life’, while in reality I floundered for years before I saw that I had built a home within, a project largely furnished by now. The physical place, however, exists still, and I am gently rediscovering it without intruding memories. As a Roma writer, I find that my longing for home and belonging goes deeper—perhaps it actually is an ancestral calling, the one that my people are so familiar with, and often sing about. I suppose this could be true for all rootless (stateless) people.” - Words by Kostenko

#literaryjournal #literature #poetry #roma #romapeople by @drunkenboat1999

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Drunken Boat Issue 26 features “The Oranges’ Picker,” acrylic on canvas by Ahmed Hmeedat. His art can be found in the Statelessness folio under “Palestinians” 🇵🇸💗

Hmeedat is a Palestinian self-taught artist with a background in international law and hands-on experience in business and humanitarian immigration and nonprofit work in the United States. His art spans watercolor, oil, ink, and digital media! He also helped establish the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C., the first Palestinian museum in the United States, in 2019.

Outside of Issue 26, he has been involved in a multitude of projects:

1. The Mosaic Memory: A Tent Knows No Stability
(https://artists-consortium.com/2025/09/02/interactive-cyanotype-art-installation/)

2. Kafka in Palestine
(https://artists-consortium.com/product/kafka-in-palestine-limited-edition-poster-black-and-white-or-colored/)

3. From Palestine to Standing Rock
(https://artists-consortium.com/product/from-palestine-to-standing-rock-first-limited-edition-black-and-white-or-colored/)

4. Participation in the ongoing mural painting project “Walls of Resilience”
(https://lajee.org/walls-of-resilience-murals-of-solidarity-between-american-indigenous-communities-and-palestine/)

View his work in Issue 26: www.drunkenboat.com (link in bio too!) by @drunkenboat1999

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Drunken Boat Issue 26 launch party this Tuesday, June 23rd @ 10AM ET to celebrate, listen, and learn from this issue’s contributors.

Join us @drunkenboat1999 on this Instagram, X, and YouTube to watch (link in our Instagram bio!)

See you there!

#literaryjournal #launchparty #art #poetry #stories by @drunkenboat1999

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Drunken Boat Issue 26 features three poems by Yahia Lababidi: “Reading List,” “The Lightkeepers,” and “Say Something,”work that asks what remains to art when language itself is under siege. These poems can be found in the Statelessness folio under “Palestinians” 🇵🇸💕

Lababidi is an Arab-American poet of Palestinian heritage and the author of twelve books, including Palestine Wail (2024) and What Remains to Be Said (2025). His writing appears in The Threepenny Review and World Literature Today and has been featured on NPR and PBS NewsHour.

His forthcoming book, If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE: Essays on Conscience and Witness, asks what task is left to art when words are turned into weapons. The collection gathers essays written in response to Palestine and the moral obligation to bear witness when public speech fails, with advance praise from Peter Beinart, Ilan Pappé, Hamid Dabashi, Sarah Leah Whitson, and others. Forthcoming will be from New Village Press on October 6, 2026 and distributed by NYU Press!

“What remains to a writer is testimony: prose born of the hour, a way of keeping faith with what survives when song is taken from us.”
- Preface of If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE: Essays on Conscience and Witness

Pre-order Lababidi‘s forthcoming book today! Use this link: https://nyupress.org/9781613323045/if-you-cannot-say-genocide/

Read his poems in Issue 26 in www.drunkenboat.com (link in bio too!) by @drunkenboat1999

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