Tomis Press is named after the remote town on the forbidding Black Sea where the poet Ovid (author of Metamorphoses) was exiled by the Emperor Augustus Caesar some two thousand years ago. Ovid’s poetry written during his time in exile remains an enduring testimony to the power of the human spirit to channel our heartbreak and loss into great works of art: and to the power of great art to connect humans to one another, across great distances and even vast spans of time.