Drunken Boat (literary journal)

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Drunken Boat
EditorRavi Shankar
Circulation Online
Founder Ravi Shankar (poet) and Michael Mills
Founded1999;26 years ago (1999)
Country United States
Based inProvidence, RI
LanguageEnglish
Website www.drunkenboat.com

Drunken Boat is one of the first online literary magazines, publishing electronic literature, digital poetry and digital art. It was founded in 1999 by Ravi Shankar (poet) and Michael Mills.

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History

The journal website [1] and some other sources states that Drunken Boat was founded in 1999; a few sources say 2000, [2] [3] including an interview with editor Shankar himself. [4] This confusion may also be due to another online literary journal with almost the same name that started in spring 2000, The Drunken Boat, edited by Rebecca Seiferle. [5] Seiferle's journal was also online, but published traditional poetry and commentaries, not using multimedia in the way that Shankar and Mills' Drunken Boat did.

From the start, Drunken Boat included multimedia elements, using the possibilities that the internet and the computer gave for new genres of poetry, literature and art. [3] Issues included poetry, sound fields and news about poetry. [6] The journal currently describes its content as including "sound, video, hypertext, digital animation, locative media, web art, interactive fiction - alongside more traditional forms of representation such as poetry, prose, photography, and translation." [1]

Drunken Boat has always been open access, and providing easier access to new literary genres has been a key goal. [7] [8] Along with journals like The New River and Iowa Review Web it has had an important role in developing the new genre of electronic literature: digital poems could not be published in traditional print literary magazines. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Home Page | drunken_boat". www.drunkenboat.com. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  2. ↑ Pressman, Jessica (2014). Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media. OUP USA. ISBN   978-0-19-993710-3.
  3. 1 2 Morris, Ian; Diaz, Joanne (April 10, 2015). The Little Magazine in Contemporary America. University of Chicago Press. p. 11. ISBN   978-0-226-12049-2.
  4. ↑ "Interview with Ravi Shankar". Ilanot Review. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Drunken Boat". www.thedrunkenboat.com. Archived from the original on April 8, 2002. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  6. ↑ Stevens, Jen (January 1, 2004). "Long-Term Literary E-Zine Stability: Issues and Access in Libraries". Technical Services Quarterly. 22 (1): 21–32. doi:10.1300/J124v22n01_03. ISSN   0731-7131.
  7. ↑ "Translated works allow you to relate to other parts of the world". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  8. ↑ Schäfer, Jörgen; Gendolla, Peter (July 15, 2015). Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres. transcript Verlag. ISBN   978-3-8394-1258-9.
  9. ↑ Hunsinger, Jeremy; Klastrup, Lisbeth; Allen, Matthew (June 17, 2010). International Handbook of Internet Research. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN   978-1-4020-9789-8.
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