Bootstrap Productions is a nonprofit collaborative arts and literary organization based in Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...

, which is primarily known for its publishing arm, Bootstrap Press, a small-press publisher of 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.

Both Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher are MFA graduates of Naropa University

Naropa University

Naropa University is a private American liberal arts university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher and Oxford University scholar Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda.Naropa describes itself as...

's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Bootstrap Press

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

Poetic journal

A poetic journal is a literary genre combining aspects of poetry with the daily, or near daily, "takes" of journal writing. Born of twin impulses: to track change in daily life and to memorialize experience, poetic journals owe allegiances to Asian writing — particularly the Japanese haibun of...

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