From the Archives--The Night Bootstrap Was Born

This was the night Bootstrap was born. Pictured Colonel Chester (with Tecate) and Colonel Fenner (with Turkey). Boulder, CO 1999.

Kid Koala - Moon River Remix Live (Boston)

3.8.08 Pierre Joris & Christopher Rizzo

reading starts at 6:00. come early for a drink at the bar if you want. readings occasionally start on time.

Painting by Derek Fenner & Ryan Gallagher

a collaboration called "Duchamp & Picabia" 2006

COMING SOON---The Complete Poems of Catullus

Bootstrap Press is proud to announce the imminent arrival of THE COMPLETE POEMS OF GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS, translated by our very own Ryan Gallagher. Here's what the critics are already saying:

Gaius Valerius Catullus is distinguished from all the other writers of antiquity by his vulnerability. He is the most personal of Latin poets, and more personal than any Greek poet including Sappho... if his love poems could only be duplicated in English they would be popular at every level of society and might be sung in night clubs or by rock groups.

KENNETH REXROTH

I would much rather lie on what is left of Catullus’ parlour floor and speculate the azure beneath it and the hills off to Salo and Riva with their forgotten gods moving unhindered amongst them, than discuss any processes and theories of art whatsoever. I would rather play tennis. I shall not argue.

EZRA POUND

Catullus scarcely has a decent poem.

LORD BYRON

I pothered but
you’ll have bothered
Catullus played Bach.

LOUIS ZUKOFSKY

Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk
that way?

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

They Are Flying Planes Launch---February 16, 2008

We understand that the amazing Arlo Quint has been added to the lineup
and we can't wait to get to Brooklyn!

Gil-Scott Heron "The Revolution will not..."

2 non-traditional Thangka Paintings by Ryan Gallagher

Buddha with Tigse

Maitreya in a Thought Bubble

Recommended: They are Flying Planes & The Shock Doctrine

They are Flying Planes 1, Winter 2007 / 2008

Editors: Nora Almeida, Kate Jaeger, Joe Robitaille, Will Sanders

email them at: theyareflyingplanesATgmail.com

Here's what Lisa Jarnot thinks:

We'll start with flying planes. Joe, Kate, Nora, and Will (that's Robitaille, Jaeger, Almeida, and Sanders) have just published the first issue of their new magazine They Are Flying Planes. It's a beautiful production, based in form partly on the good old Angel Hair magazine edited by the Warsh/Waldman team, with a little bit of J or Open Space from that good old San Francisco Spicer scene. This is even a little bit more ambitious than Angel Hair in that you will find ephemera popping out of the pages as you open the issue up.

Writers and artists contributing to issue one include the editors, L. S. Asekoff, Andrew Hughes, Whit Griffin, Evan Kennedy, Sara Wintz, Ryan Gallagher, Derek Fenner, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Sean Mullin, LJ of Lisablog, Clint Krute, Scott Gallagher, Clark Jaeger, Matt Reeck, Andrew Bourne, Vincent Zompa, Carol Ann Davis, and Mary Millsap.

Let me say right now that the fluidity of this magazine and the attention to coterie poetics (in the best sense of coterie— as in the Round Table and its Knights) is amazing. There are a bunch of fabulous (and some very young) writers gathered here. Did we mention that it comes with a CD of poets and musicians and that there was an awful lot of hand sewing that went into this project? Did we mention that it's already a collectors item? (200 copies were made). Here's how you can get ahold of the good editors of They Are Flying Planes: 570 45th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Three cheers for Joe, Kate, Nora, and Will. It's not a magazine; it's a movement.

We agree. Write them asap.

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Also, before you vote or before you have another political thought, please read this book by Naomi Klein. Though her other books are fabulous, this may be the smartest book ever. Then watch all her video clips on youtube.


Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine

Two Paintings in Progress by Derek Fenner

Untitled (Self-Portrait Series), 2007 by Derek Fenner

Untitled (Spare Series), 2007 by Derek Fenner