About Antarabhava Press

Antarabhava is a Sanskrit word meaning “intermediate state.” It’s the word Tibetans translated as bardo, and it often refers to the state between death and rebirth. It describes a moment when the past has dissolved, the future has yet to come into being, and there’s great potential for utter delusion or brilliant liberation.

We’ve created Antarabhava Press as a publishing outlet–at least to begin with–for Gary Allen’s writing, in particular his poetry, but also for other projects related to Buddhism and secular mindfulness. It’s come into being as a conduit for creative work, a way to start articulating a lifetime of births and deaths, luminous visions and barely endurable human struggles to a larger world.

About Gary Allen

Gary Allen was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up in northern Vermont, in a town three miles south of the Canadian border. He’s published five books of poetry and three books on secular mindfulness. He has two degrees–a B.A. and M.F.A.–in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied with the poet Allen Ginsberg and many luminaries. He’s taught college English in Colorado, and worked as an English teacher for five years in South Korea while traveling and exploring Asia. He’s been a practicing Buddhist for forty-plus years, and has taught meditation programs around the U.S., in Canada, and in Korea. For the last 16 years he’s been the Education Director for the Mindfulness Peace Project (www.mindfulnesspeaceproject.org), which runs programs teaching meditation and Buddhist spirituality to prison inmates, and secular mindfulness to military veterans and inmates in solitary confinement.

Gary Allen reading from Transmigration Suite at Inkberry Books

Dec 9th, 2022, in Niwot, Colorado

INTERVIEW with GARY ALLEN about ANTARABHAVA PRESS

bDharma Interview with Gary Allen: The Bardo Poetics of Transmigration Suite