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Promethean Books, originally named The
Promethean Press, was formed in 1996 by New Orleans poet
and writer, John F. Collins. The Promethean Press, like
many small presses across America was an optimistic,
perhaps idealistic, community-based effort focused on
providing a creative forum for New Orleans writing and
writers.
By sponsoring the New Orleans Literary Renaissance Project,
a series of local writing contests and eclectic readings,
the Promethean Press was able to stimulate an ongoing
literary interphase between writer and reader: one that
is still going strong today. It became clear that the
potential of local talent, as yet untapped, was abundant
and rich.
Finally, in collaboration with Tribe Magazine, The Eisenhower
Center, and Rant for the Renaissance, an unprecedented
convergence known as The Insomniacothon: Voices Without
Restraint took place. Beat luminaries like Robert Creeley,
William S.Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane DiPrima, Gregory
Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and countless others came
together to amalgamate and anoint their legacies. Contemporary
New Orleans writers and poets helped take the torch from
a fading generation and re-ignite it to illuminate the
future and beyond.
In time, Collins teamed up with Austin, Texas artist
and writer, Nigel Pickhardt, and the two formed the present
collaboration, Promethean Books. This exciting publishing
venture is bent on shining a bright light into those
infinite recesses of the Human Condition, mining the
ore of the written word. |
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