Bootstrap Productions
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Bootstrap Productions is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit collaborative arts and literary organization based in Lowell, Massachuttes. Run by Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher since 2000, Bootstrap Productions is the parent organization of Bootstrap Press and The @tached Document, a literary journal focusing on art and experimental poetry. Both Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher are MFA graduates of Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
Notable Books
- Loveland, by Steven Taylor (2001)
- Bodhidharma Never Came to Hatboro & Other Poems, by Tyler Doherty (2003)
- Plum Smash and Other Flashbulbs, by Ryan Gallagher (2005)
- Cosmos and Damian: A World Trade Center Collage, by David Michalski (2005)
- Two Elk: A High Country Notebook, by Andrew Schelling (2005)
- My Favorite Color is Red: Experiments with Lines 1999-2005, by Derek Fenner (2006)
- The Way To Get Here, by Gavin Pate (2006)
Recent Projects
For the Time-Being
For the Time-Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals is an critical anthology featuring twenty-nine writers from three continents whose work explores and interrogates the genre of the poetic journal. Contributors include: Bob Arnold, Ken Bolton, Daniel Bouchard, Pam Brown, Thomas A. Clark, Jack Collom, William Corbett, Laurie Duggan, Marcella Durand, Ryan Gallagher, Jonathan Greene, Joanne Kyger, Louise Landis Levi, Joseph Massey, Rachael McKeen, Hoa Nguyen, Shin Yu Pai, Mark Pawlak, Michelle Naka Pierce, Stephen Ratcliffe, Michael Rothenberg, Andrew Schelling, Dale Smith, Stacy Szymaszek, and Aaron Tieger. Edited by Tyler Doherty & Tom Morgan.
A Book of Prophesies by John Wieners
A Book of Prophesies is a notebook by John Wieners written in 1971, and recently discovered in a collection at Kent State University. Edited by Michael Carr.
Official Links
- Bootstrap Productions Homepage
- Union Square Poetry Series Homepage
- Bootstrap Productions Page at Small Press Distribution
- Bootstrap Bay Area Tour poster (2006).
In the News
Other Links
The Press
- Aaron Tieger reviews the Bootstrap Positively Past Post Modern Pocket Series (2006).
- Tyler Doherty in Conversation with Clark Coolidge in Jacket #22 (interview originally appeared in @tached Document #2) (2003).
- Ron Silliman’s review of Derek Fenner’s My Favorite Color is Red (2006).
- Ryan Gallagher and Derek Fenner’s e-renga review of David Crawford’s “Stop Motion Studies” from Cross Cultural Poetics’ Street Notes (2004).
- “Notes on Translating” by Ryan Gallagher in Exquisite Corpse.
- Translation of Catullus “64” by Ryan Gallagher in Cipher Journal.
- Rain Taxi review of Dave Michalski’s Cosmos and Damian (2005).
- Cervena Barva Press interview with Mark Pawlak touching on the For the Time-Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals (2006).
- J. Quinn Mallot reviews Gavin Pate’s The Way to Get Here (2006).
- Tyler Doherty reviews Andrew Schelling’s Tea Shack Interior in Jacket #22 (2003).
- “Joanne Kyger’s Portable Poetics” essay by Andrew Schelling in Jacket #11 (2000).
- American Sentences’ interview with Andrew Schelling and Anne Waldman.