Bombay Gin, the literary journal published by Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Publishes New Issue

BOULDER, Colo. (January 28, 2010)—Editor-in-Chief Andrew Schelling, Managing Editor Amy Catanzano, and a board of Naropa University Writing and Poetics MFA student editors are pleased to release the latest issue of the Jack Kerouac School’s biannual literary journal, Bombay Gin. The issue’s international focus features translations from the Chinese, Navajo, Spanish, North African French, Finnish, Sanskrit, and Japanese. It also features experimental, typographical translations of computer languages, translations of the celebrated Haiku artist Basho, and an essay on the art of translation from renowned poet Jerome Rothenberg. These translations next to original, cutting-edge work by Cecilia Vicuña, Zhang Er, Tahar Ben Jelloun and others fulfill Ezra Pound’s dictum that great periods of innovative writing correspond to eras alive with translation. In addition, the issue contains transcriptions of talks given by Gary Snyder and Anselm Hollo culled from Naropa University’s Audio Archive, work in multiple genres, book reviews, and interviews. The cover art is by the San Francisco Renaissance artist Jess Collins.

To celebrate, Bombay Gin is holding a release party on January 28th at The Draft House, located at 2027 13th St, Boulder, CO 80302. The release party begins at 6:30 p.m. and will feature readings of work by the issue’s contributors and a preview of the next issue to be published this summer. This event is free and open to the public, and the entire Bombay Gin staff invites you to attend.

Bombay Gin is the literary journal of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics—co-founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman in 1974—at Naropa University. Bombay Gin, running strong for 36 years, publishes innovative poetry, prose, and hybrid texts as well as art, translations and interviews. Bombay Gin emerged from the outrider or left-hand lineage, which operates outside the cultural mainstream and honors a heritage of powerful scholarship and counter-poetics through the publication of work that challenges the boundaries of language, form, and genre.

For more information about Bombay Gin, visit http://www.naropa.edu/bombaygin/.

Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Naropa University is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian liberal arts institution dedicated to advancing contemplative education. This approach to learning integrates the best of Eastern and Western educational traditions, helping students know themselves more deeply and engage constructively with others. The university comprises a four-year undergraduate college and graduate programs in the arts, education, environmental leadership, psychology and religious studies.

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