Founded in 1974, Bombay Gin Literary Journal is the flagship publication of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics—created by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg—at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Edited by students, Bombay Gin Literary Journal publishes innovative poetry and prose, as well as art, translations, and interviews. Emerging from the Outrider lineage, which operates outside the cultural mainstream, Bombay Gin Literary Journal honors a heritage of powerful scholarship and counter-poetics through the publication of work that challenges the boundaries of language, form, and genre.

BOMBAY GIN LITERARY JOURNAL IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE #49

in the strangler fig

We want writing that holds its own tongue,

     art that bites through the vines in its mouth,

           ideas that dig life into death. 

We are looking for poetry, prose, visual art, and mixed media work that explores the dichotomy between parasite and host, growth and decomposition, origins and apocalypse. 

         Create from your endangered imagination.

This issue also coincides with Naropa University's 50th anniversary--please join us in celebrating this historic occasion!