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Allan Mark Kornblum (February 16, 1949-November 23, 2014) was an American independent publisher and printer who founded Coffee House Press, a nonprofit independent press based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was a poet and significant figure in the Actualist Poetry Movement.

Born in New York City, and raised in Delaware and Massachusetts, Kornblum moved to Iowa City in the early 1970s, where he edited a mimeo poetry magazine called Toothpaste. After learning letterpress typography at the University of Iowa, he founded Toothpaste Press, which specialized in publishing poetry, often by members of the New York School, using letterpress. Kornblum was one of the leaders of the small press movement that emerged out of the 1960s and its focus on social change. By 1984 he had moved the press to Minneapolis, turned it into a nonprofit, changed its name, and broadened its focus from exclusively letterpress to include offset. His interest in publishing American poetry continued, and the press published books by Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Patricia Smith, and others. Kornblum often published the work of young writers, both poets and fiction writers, with a special focus on the work of Asian-American authors, including Karen Tei Yamashita , Wang Ping, and Bao Phi.

In 2012, Kornblum received the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award, which recognizes overall contributions to the state's literary community. . The Minnesota Center for Book Arts type library is named for him.