Michael Koppa of Heavy Duty Press discusses artistic freedom, collaboration and the evolution of his press over the years.
Michael Koppa is the owner and founder of Heavy Duty Press. When Michael Koppa started Heavy Duty Press in Milwaukee in the 90s, he knew that he intended for it to be a creative outlet, and not a press-for-hire. “There's nothing you can buy that is as fulfilling as what you can create,” he said. “Like, if you were a painter, painting would be your medium of creative expression. I’m a printer who wants to print the things that I want to print. It’s the same thing.” Heavy Duty
Love rare, out-of-print children’s books? E.M Maurice Books does too!
Timothy Forry is the founder and general manager of E.M Maurice Books. “I’ve always been enamored by old books,” said Timothy Forry, owner of E.M Maurice Books, an online bookstore that specializes in rare and out-of-print children’s books. “I went to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair once, just when I first started buying books for myself, and I looked around, and I was kind of like, "This feels like home. It felt like that's where I should be.” A graduate of Hampshire Coll
Copy of Perugia Press: Tipping the scales of gender inequity in poetry into balance
Founded in 1997, Perugia Press is a nonprofit feminist press that publishes one book each year selected by the Perugia Press Prize, their annual national contest for first or second books of poetry by women and nonbinary authors. This is the second year the literary press will be exhibiting and selling their books at the Northampton Book Fair. Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead by Jen Siraganian (Perugia Press.2026) Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead is a compelli