About Promethean Books

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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