Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Tender Buttons Press

Dear Wikipedia, To address the comments leading to "deletion". 1. Tender Buttons Press is an incorporated entity, technically a C Corp filed until Tender Buttons Press, INC in NY State. Tender Buttons Press additionally has a non-profit umbrella organization, The Segue Foundation, to accept tax-deductible donations. 2. Tender Buttons Press is not self-published works. Founding Editor Lee Ann Brown has not self-published work on Tender Buttons Press. Tender Buttons Press is a publisher of an outstanding collection of women's experimental writers. 3. As part of relevant history of the beginning of all presses which go on to become of historical relevance, the origins of the press starting small (500-1000 copies) is noted. Similar origins are notable to stories like Steve Jobs and Apple are how Steve started Apple in his garage. 4. Small Press Distribution is not a self-publishing organization, but a top distributor of poetry books within the United States. 5. Separately, even if Tender Buttons was in some way a self-publishing tool, it's unclear why 'self-publishing" would be criteria for being "unimportant." After all, "50 Shades of Gray" was also self-published, and certainly can be deemed "relevant" in American culture. 6. Tender Buttons Press is important precisely because of its independent origins. As noted, Tender Buttons is widely credited with an EXCELLENT publishing track record which changed not only the gender-divide in American poetry forever, but also the leading aesthetic tenor.