Draft:Tough Poets Press

Tough Poets Press
Founded	2015
Founder	Rick Schober
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Arlington, Massachusetts
Distribution	IngramSpark
Official website	www.toughpoets.com;

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Comment: See WP:COI]. The first source is good, others are mostly passing mentions. The publishing section is also entirely unsourced. Greenman (talk) 09:05, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Tough Poets Press is an independent publisher based in Arlington, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 2015 by Rick Schober. The press specializes in new and neglected out-of-print unconventional literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

History[edit]

In 2019, the press was profiled in Publishers Weekly in an article titled "The One-Man Press Resuscitating Forgotten Classics."^[1] It has been credited with reviving the careers of authors Marvin Cohen^[2] and Donald Newlove.^[3]^[4] In 2023, Tough Poets Press published Editor Lynge, the first-ever English translation of Nobel Prize laureate Knut Hamsun's 1893 novel Redaktør Lynge. The translation by publisher Rick Schober was listed as one of the 75 notable translations of 2023 by World Literature Today.^[5]

Publishing[edit]

Other authors published by Tough Poets Press include Carol Bonomo Albright, Ross Barkan, Maxwell Bodenheim, Myron Brinig, Michael Brodsky, Robert M. Coates, Gregory Corso, Domício Coutinho, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Kirby Doyle, Russell Edson, Joyce Elbert, B. H. Friedman, Richard Horn, Steve Katz, Joel Lieber, J. P. McEvoy, Gil Orlovitz, John Sanford, Alexander Theroux. and Wendy Walker.

References[edit]

^ "The One-Man Press Resuscitating Forgotten Classics", Publishers Weekly, November 22, 2019. Accessed May 15, 2024.
^ "Surreal Genius: Why Onetime Literary Hotshot Marvin Cohen Deserves Another Look", Village Voice, November 23, 2016. Accessed May 15, 2024.
^ "Author Donald Newlove Dies at 93", Publishers Weekly, August 20, 2021. Accessed May 15, 2024.
^ "Donald Newlove, 93, Dies; Novelist Explored the Depths of Drink", New York Times, August 27, 2021. Accessed May 15, 2024.
^ "75 Notable Translations 2023", World Literature Today, December 5, 2023. Accessed May 15, 2024.

External links[edit]

Tough Poets Press website

Category:Publishing companies established in 2015 Category:Book publishing companies based in Massachusetts Category:Small press publishing companies Category:Literary publishing companies Category:American companies established in 2015

[1] "The One-Man Press Resuscitating Forgotten Classics", Publishers Weekly, November 22, 2019. Accessed May 15, 2024.

[2] "Surreal Genius: Why Onetime Literary Hotshot Marvin Cohen Deserves Another Look", Village Voice, November 23, 2016. Accessed May 15, 2024.

[3] "Author Donald Newlove Dies at 93", Publishers Weekly, August 20, 2021. Accessed May 15, 2024.

[4] "Donald Newlove, 93, Dies; Novelist Explored the Depths of Drink", New York Times, August 27, 2021. Accessed May 15, 2024.

[5] "75 Notable Translations 2023", World Literature Today, December 5, 2023. Accessed May 15, 2024.

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