Drunken Boat | 10 | Spring 2009

Rifat Abbas Daisy Abey Dinesh Adhikari Ajanta Usha Akella Dilruba Ara Hiren Bhattacharya Buddhadhasa Bhikkhu Michelle Cahill Huang Canran Pak Chaesam Mamang Dai Suresh Dalal Mahmud Farani Yao Feng Sylva Gaboudikian Gagan Gill Subrata Augustine Gomes Sara Goudarzi Xie Gu Na Hui-Dok Joumana Haddad Roya Hakakian Raza Ali Hasan Hamid Ismailov Ouyang Jianghe Adil Jussawalla Fatma Kandil Rafiq Kathwari Basir Sultan Kazmi Fawziyya Abu Khalid Kichul Kim Jee Leong Koh Maki Kureishi	Salman Tarik Kureshi ONV Kurup Fiona Tinwei Lam Tariq Latif Jayanta Mahapatra Fatima Mahmoud Malathi Maitri Shikha Malaviya Mai Mang Si. Mani Sharanya Manivannan Leeya Mehta Hoshang Merchant Soubhagya Kumar Misra Mary Anne Mohanraj Arka Mukhopadhyay Mong-Lan Umme Muslima Nguyen My Sumatheendra Nadig Dina Nath Nadim Panna Naik Kunwar Narain Behçet Necatigil Miho Nonaka Papa Osumbal Laksmi Pamuntjak Rauf Parfi Pradodh Parikh R. Parthasarathy Amrita Pritam Naowarat Phongpaiboon Amarantha Ravva Rahman Rahi Shamshur Rahman	Bratya Raisu E. V. Ramakrishnan Sundara Ramaswamy Abdul Rasheed Ian Iqbal Rashid N.M. Rashid P.S. Rege Taher Riyad Zohra Saed Raghuvir Sahay Saniyya Saleh Devulapalli Krishna Sastri Ghada Shafi'i Roger Sedarat Sudeep Sen Purvi Shah Perveen Shakir Yuyutsu RD Sharma Ng Yi-Sheng Torii Shozo Shukrulla Girgis Shukry Melanie Silgardo Tenzing Sonam Satyendra Srivastava Rabindra K. Swain Sharika Thiranagama Topden Tsering Divya Victor Rita Wong Lakdasa Wikkramasinghe Chun Ye Chong Ho Yu Changming Yuan Can Yücel	Sampurna Chattarji is an Indian poet, fiction-writer, and translator, widely featured in Indian and international journals and anthologies. Her Sukumar Ray translations in this issue are appearing for the first time.
			Kaiser Haq is one of Bangladesh’s leading English poets. Haq has published half a dozen collections of poetry, most recently Published in the Streets of Dhaka: Collected Poems 1967-2007 and has translated and edited a number of volumes.
			Toshio Matsumoto has been a pioneer of avant-garde film, documentary, multimedia, and video in Japan since the 1960s. In “For the Damaged Right Eye,” Matsumoto transforms his portrayal of sexuality and violence through his brazenly experimental style.
			Dinah Roma was born Samar and grew up in Manila. In 1993, she left for Japan where she earned an MA in Comparative Culture. Her first book of poetry A Feast of Origins won the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.
			Sri Anand Thakore has been described as an “unlikely English poet.” A contemporary Hindustani vocalist, Thakore’s poetry draws from both classical Western and Hindustani styles.
			Edwin Thumboo is often dubbed Singapore’s unofficial poet laureate. His poetry is inspired by myth and history. He compiled and edited some of the first anthologies of English poetry and fiction from Singapore and Malaysia.
			Xu Zhongmin began working in theater as a teenager in China during the Cultural Revolution. In “Egg Shape No 1”, we glimpse Xu Zhongmin’s “new media” mechanical installations—the artist’s kino-kinetic method finds new technical applications and achieves novel aesthetic results.