Bootstrap Productions Explained

Bootstrap Productions is a nonprofit collaborative arts and literary organization based in Lowell, Massachusetts,[1] [2] which is primarily known for its publishing arm, Bootstrap Press, a small-press publisher of contemporary experimental writing.[3]

Begun in Boulder, Colorado in the winter of 1999, Bootstrap Productions originally formed as a parent organization combining Bootstrap Press, founded by Ryan Gallagher and Derek Fenner, and The @tached Document, a literary arts journal begun by Jeff Chester, Derek Fenner, and Todd McCarthy.

Both Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher are MFA graduates of Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.[1]

Bootstrap Press

Bootstrap Press is a project of Bootstrap Productions which has published such books as David Michalski's Cosmos & Damian,[4] Andrew Schelling's Two Elk: A High County Notebook,[5] and the poetry collection For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals.[6]

Bootstrap Productions has published 8 books, 3 anthologies, 5 chapbooks, and 2 CDs in the past six years.[7]

References

  1. Web site: Bootstrap Productions: The Biggest Little Press in Lowell. 2007-03-10. September 2006. Renovation Monthly Journal.
  2. Web site: Lowell Cultural Council. 2007-03-10. 2006. Massachusetts Cultural Council. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070405074216/http://www.mass-culture.org/lcc_public_about.asp?coun_enum=151. 2007-04-05.
  3. Web site: About Bootstrap Productions. 2007-03-10. 2005. Bootstrap Productions. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070302014737/http://www.bootstrapproductions.org/about/. 2007-03-02.
  4. Web site: Cosmos & Damian. 2007-03-10. Madgalene. David. 2005. Rain Taxi. Rain Taxi, Inc.. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20061019215506/http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2005fall/michalski.shtml. 2006-10-19.
  5. Web site: Book Reviews by William Walsh . 2007-03-10 . Walsh . William . Istanbul Literature Review . https://archive.today/20070207023924/http://www.ilrmagazine.net/bookshelf/ . 2007-02-07 . dead .
  6. Web site: Interview with Mark Pawlak. 2007-03-10. Mindock. Gloria. October 2006. Červená Barva Interviews. Červená Barva Press LLC.
  7. Web site: Bootstrap Productions Catalog . 2007-03-10 . 2005 . Bootstrap Productions . https://web.archive.org/web/20070302014851/http://www.bootstrapproductions.org/catalog/ . 2007-03-02 . dead .

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