BOMBAY GIN LITERARY JOURNAL

Started in 1974, Bombay Gin Literary Journal is the flagship publication of Kavyayantra Press, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics publishing arm. The journal began shortly after the commitment to the “100 year project” was made—co-founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman—at Naropa University. Edited by department faculty and students, Bombay Gin Literary Journal publishes innovative poetry, prose, and hybrid texts as well as art, translations, and interviews. Emerging from the “Outrider” or left-hand lineage, which operates outside the cultural mainstream, Bombay Gin Literary Journal honors a heritage of powerful scholarship and counter-poetics through the publication of work that challenges the boundaries of language, form, and genre.

Each issue includes a folio of work from that year’s Summer Writing Program and a talk or lecture transcribed from the Naropa Audio Archives. Called “one of the three most important literary audio collections in America” by The New York Times, the Archives are comprised of approximately six thousand hours of audio tapes documenting classes, performances, workshops and lectures conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S. literary avant-garde. The collection represents several generations of artists who have contributed to aesthetic and cultural change in the postmodern era.