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Bootstrap Productions is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit collaborative arts and literary organization primarily known for its publishing arm, Bootstrap Press, which publishes contemporary experimental writing. 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.
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[edit] Beginnings
Bootstrap Productions was founded by Derek Fenner and Jeff Chester in the Winter of 1999 in a North Broadway warehouse in Boulder, Colorado. Originally, Bootstrap was a reaction on Derek and Jeff’s part to “start a community of writers and artists of our own and not to buy into the pre-existing sects, or communities surrounding us in Boulder at that time.”[1] While Derek was finishing his MFA at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, while Jeff worked at the Bookend Café adjoining the Boulder Bookstore [1] in downtown Boulder. After a number of beer-filled brainstorming sessions at the down-the-street Bustop Gentlemen's Club, a number of scattered manifestos coalesced into The (then unnamed) @tached Document.
[edit] The @tached Document #1
The Letter: (4/16/00)
"Derek, Check the attached document out. Think about wacky 'marketing' campaigns with cartoons or silly photo shoots that hype Bootstrap. I know it sounds goofy, but it’s a great way to get noticed and would be damn fun to be a part of. Also—I didn’t think about it ‘til now but what about 'The Attached Document” as a name????'"[2] —Jeff Chester.
The idea for the @tached Document was hashed out in a letter from Jeff Chester to Derek Fenner in the Spring of 2000. Jeff was working at NetLibrary [2] in Boulder, Colorado, while Derek taught creative writing for the California Youth Authority in a maximum-security juvenile facility outside of Sacramento, California. After nine months in California, Derek returned to Boulder and immediately moved into a tent in Jeff’s backyard. Soon after, Todd McCarthy became involved in Bootstrap Productions. The three of them teamed up and co-edited The @tached Document #1 in the late spring of 2001. Highlights of the first issue include Jerome Rothenberg translations of Picasso as well as poems by Lisa Jarnot, Thalia Field, Kevin Killian, Jeni Olin, Anselm Berrigan, among others.
[edit] Bootstrap Press
While work on The @tached Document proceeded, Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher made plans to start Bootstrap Press in Ryan’s cabin outside of Nederland, Colorado. Ryan, a fellow Naropa MFA student, had recently finished translating the first 60 poems of Catullus. As a practice run “to learn the book printing process,”[3] Bootstrap published Ryan’s Gaius Valerius Catullus: Blues from Ancient Rome in the fall of 2000. These Catullus translations were quickly follow up by Big Ray’s Six Pack of Poetics, a staple-bound chapbook collaboration series pairing artists and with emerging writers, as well as Steven Taylor’s first book of poems, Loveland, in the Summer of 2001.
[edit] 2002 — Present
Since 2002, Bootstrap Productions has been based in Lowell, Massachusetts. Under the care of Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher, Bootstrap Productions has published 8 books, 3 anthologies, 5 chapbooks, and 2 CDs in the past six years.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] In the News
[edit] Official Links
- Bootstrap Productions Homepage
- Union Square Poetry Series Homepage
- Bootstrap Productions Page at Small Press Distribution
[edit] Other Links
The Press
- Aaron Tieger reviews the Bootstrap Positively Past Post Modern Pocket Series (2006).
- Bootstrap Bay Area Tour poster (2006).
The Writers
- Tim Peterson blogs on a Bootstrap-sponsored Tyler Doherty reading (2004).
- Selections from Tyler Doherty’s “Walkin’ Blues” at Cross Cultural Poetics’ Street Notes (2002).
- Tyler Doherty in Conversation with Clark Coolidge in Jacket #22 (interview originally appeared in @tached Document #2) (2003).
- A quick Shin Yu Pai blurb on Tyler Doherty’s Bodhidharma Never Came to Hatboro (2004).
- Dan Bouchard’s reading report after William Corbett - Tyler Doherty reading (2006).
- Joe Torra’s reading report after William Corbett – Tyler Doherty reading (2006).
- Ron Silliman’s review of Derek Fenner’s My Favorite Color is Red (2006).
- Jack Kimball’s quick review of Derek Fenner’s My Favorite Color is Red (2006).
- A quick Lisa Jarnot blurb on Derek Fenner’s My Favorite Color is Red (2006).
- “I no Longer Believe in the Sun” by Derek Fenner on Action Yes Online Quarterly.
- 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.
- Ondit review of Ryan Gallagher’s Plum Smash and Other Flashbulbs.
- Rain Taxi review of Dave Michalski’s Cosmos and Damian (2005).
- Review of Dave Michalski’s Cosmos and Damian (2005).
- Tom Morgan, poem from “Slip and Field” in Ecopoetics #1 (2001).
- 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).
- Reivew of Andrew Schelling’s Two Elk: A High Country Notebook.
- Review of Andrew Schelling’s Two Elk: A High Country Notebook (2005).
- “Joanne Kyger’s Portable Poetics” essay by Andrew Schelling in Jacket #11 (2000).
- American Sentences’s interview with Andrew Schelling and Anne Waldman.
- Dale Smith’s review of Steven Taylor’s Loveland (2002).
