Tough Poets Review 01
Edited by Kathleen Cullen & Rick Schober
October 15, 2025
ISBN 9798218776558 Paperback / 188 pages / $20.00

Featured pieces in our inaugural issue include new stories by critically acclaimed debut novelists John Tottenham (Service) and Nini Berndt (There Are Reasons for This), a photo essay by the international performance artist Marcher Arrant, as well as interviews with novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman (The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity), Reclaim NYC activists and poet-artists HOMESICK and Damian Bielak, and writer Alejandro Heredia, author of the highly praised debut novel Loca.

Additional contributors:

Kali Abel, David Anderson, Finn Brown, Marsha Burger, Peyton Burgess, June Chua, Maureen Clark, Marvin Cohen, Holly Coleman, Richard Collins, Joseph Cooper, Emily Coppella, Will Cordeiro, Megan Davis, Charles Day, Sarah Rose de Souza, Jaydn DeWald, Brian Engles, Corwin Ericson, Rachel Desiree Felix, Nicholas Fillmore, Jefferson Fortner, Barry Foy, Justin Gradin, Samina Hadi-Tabassum, Erin Heney, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Colin James, Robert Kinerk, Aaron Lelito, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Vanessa Matic, Maisie May, Bruce McRae, Elinor Nauen, Martina Reisz Newberry, Per Olvmyr, Magdalen Papa, Larry Parker, Marie-Louise Plum, David Preizler, David Salner, Neal Allen Shipley, Mark Simpson, Abhishek Kumar Singh, J. D. Smith, Willow Sommer, Amy Soricelli, Johnny Stanton, Aden Thomas, Kevin Tosca, Edwin Vásquez, Wendy Walker, and Omar Zefier