Journal Review: Bombay Gin

Name: Bombay Gin - www.naropa.edu/bombaygin/

Who They Are: Bombay Gin is actually a literary journal run by Naropa University, which is okay because Naropa is this crazy little liberal arts Buddhist-inspired university out in Boulder. They have a dept. called (I kid you not) The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - so they must be okay.

What They Do: They are interested in poetry of all kinds - "innovative poetry, prose, and hybrid text" - and also publish some interviews, art, whatever really. They use the phrase "counter-poetics," so take that for what you will. They have published, among others, Charles Bukowski, Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and Lyn Hejinian. Pretty serious stuff.

Submission Logistics: I'll just copy-paste, since they're so succinct:

"Submissions to Bombay Gin are accepted between September 1 and March 1 of every year. Submissions sent at other times will be discarded.

Please submit 1–8 pages of previously unpublished poetry, prose, translation, artwork, interviews, hybrid work or otherwise. Submissions will be considered for the fall and spring issues of Bombay Gin as time and space allows.

For TRANSLATIONS, please include both the original language and English version; it is the writer’s responsibility to receive publication rights for the original piece.

ARTWORK should be submitted on a CD as a PDF or jpg, with minimum 720DPI; all artwork will be published as grayscale. Unsolicited manuscripts are read anonymously, so include your name and contact information only on the cover letter. Please include an S.A.S.E. so the board can respond to you once selections have been made.

Bombay Gin accepts electronic submissions at bgin@naropa.edu.

Submissions are also accepted at the Writing and Poetics Department in the Arapahoe House or mailed to:

Naropa University
Bombay Gin
Writing and Poetics Department
2130 Arapahoe Ave.
Boulder, CO 80302"



I think this college sounds really cool, and the journal also sounds pretty awesome. It's $8 for an old issue and $12 for a current one, so I didn't get one, but I feel safe taking this at face value because everything about the environment this journal comes from speaks to the avant-gardeness of it all.