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About Us – History and Lineage
Started in 1974, Bombay Gin is the literary journal of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics—co-founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman—at Naropa University. It is edited and produced by department BA and MFA students in collaboration with department faculty and staff.
With increased infrastructure and following a model of best practices for literary journals, Bombay Gin is growing its readership and expanding on its long history of publishing innovative poetry, prose, and hybrid texts as well as art, translations, and interviews.
The first and most noticeable change is the journal’s jump from one to three issues a year. The journal’s format will have a newsstand-friendly size, manageable page count, and continuity in typesetting and design from issue to issue. Contents reflect the desire to involve the journal in broad literary conversations and feature both solicited and submitted work.
In the Autumn/Winter and Spring issues, writers associated with Naropa mingle with emerging and established writers outside of the Naropa community. The Summer Special Feature Issue highlights writ¬ers within the sphere of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poet¬ics, which includes current and former faculty, students, and staff of the year-round Writing & Poetics Department and the Summer Writing Program. Each issue includes a talk or lecture transcribed from the Naropa Audio Archives.
Recent changes to Bombay Gin include: The redesigned website that features links for sub¬mission guidelines and Paypal to purchase the journal; the creation of a Procedures and Resource Manual; revised Editorial Board job descriptions and a project calendar of deadlines; the continued assistance of a Graduate Assistant for Publications/Bombay Gin who provides research and administrative support; and new membership in the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, as well as the Associated Writing Programs.
See Naropa Magazine article on Bombay Gin
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