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The Mission of Coffee House Press
The mission of Coffee House Press is to publish exciting, vital, and enduring authors of our time; to delight and inspire readers; to contribute to the cultural life of our community; and to enrich our literary heritage. By building on the best traditions of publishing and the book arts, we produce books that celebrate imagination, innovation in the craft of writing, and the many authentic voices of the American experience.
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Funder Acknowledgments
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS is an independent, nonprofit literary publisher. Our books are made possible through the generous support of grants and gifts from many foundations, corporate giving programs, state and federal support, and through donations from individuals who believe in the transformational power of literature. Coffee House Press receives major operating support from Amazon, the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts—a federal agency, and from Target. This activity made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota.
Coffee House Press also receives support from: several anonymous donors; Mr. & Mrs. Rand L. Alexander; Suzanne Allen; Elmer L. & Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation; Mary & David Anderson Family Foundation; Emil & Marion Angelica; Patricia & John Beithon; Bill Berkson; the E. Thomas Binger and Rebecca Rand Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation; the Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation; the Buuck Family Foundation; Claire Casey; Patrick Coleman; Jane Dalrymple-Hollo; Ruth Stricker & Bruce Dayton; Dorsey & Whitney, LLP; Mary Ebert & Paul Stembler; Chris Fischbach & Katie Dublinski; Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.; Katharine Freeman; Sally French; Jocelyn Hale and Glenn Miller; Roger Hale and Nor Hall; Jeffrey Hom; Carl and Heidi Horsch; Kenneth Kahn; Alex and Ada Katz; Stephen & Isabel Keating; the Kenneth Koch Literary Estate; Allan & Cinda Kornblum; Kathryn & Dean Koutsky; the Lenfestey Family Foundation; Sarah Lutman; Carol & Aaron Mack; George Mack; Joshua Mack; Leslie Larson Maheras; Gillian McCain; Mary & Malcolm McDermid; Sjur Midness & Briar Andresen; the Nash Foundation; Peter Nelson & Jennifer Swenson; the Rehael Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation; Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.; Kiki Smith; Jeffrey Sugerman & Sarah Schultz; Nan Swid; Patricia Tilton; the Private Client Reserve of US Bank; the Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Foundation; Stu Wilson & Melissa Barker; the Woessner Freeman Family Foundation; Margaret & Angus Wurtele; and many other generous individual donors.
To you and our many readers across the country, we send our thanks for your continuing support.
PHOTO: NATHANIEL DORSKY
Born in New York in 1939, Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, and professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute, whose previous collection Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems won the Balcones Prize for Best Poetry Book of 2010. His poems have appeared in Poetry, the Brooklyn Rail, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, The New York Poets II, Bay Area Poetics, The i.e. Reader, The Zoland Poetry Annual 2011, Amerarcana, Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology, and Nuova Poesia Americana. He now divides his time between San Francisco and Manhattan.