The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

The holidays are upon us, and that means it's time to reflect on where we have been, and where we are going. Paris Press had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and we are thrilled to announce that Zdena Berger's Tell Me Another Morning just received a fantastic review from Alyce at At Home With Books, just in time for Hannukah! A wonderful way to kick off the season of light and family.

We also want to thank you for valuing the work of Paris Press — for supporting, reading, and enthusiastically sharing our books and attending our events and outreach programs. With your generosity, Sisters: An Anthology reached more readers than any book in our fifteen-year history!

In December 1995, Paris Press began our publishing venture with the determination to bring back into print The Life of Poetry. Our mission: to publish groundbreaking literature by women writers that was overlooked by the publishing world, and to educate the public about the writers and their literature. Each year we have worked to build on these founding principles, which are as necessary today as they were fifteen years ago. We have published 16 books and one CD, and continue our commitment to creative educational programming.

We hope that you will continue to support Paris Press. Please consider increasing your financial contribution in this challenging time. The Press must raise 30% more funds than in previous years to maintain our programming, expand the diversity of our audience, and qualify for grants that will stabilize the Press’s operations.

Paris Press’s goals for 2011 include increased collaboration with arts and social-service organizations, board expansion, gradual staff expansion, and programming strategies to secure the Press’s future and mission. We depend on your financial support and your ideas. Your generosity will enable a fall publication, and stage and film projects inspired by Sisters: An Anthology. (Sample clips will be available on YouTube at “Paris Press Books.”)

During the past year, the publication of Sisters introduced Paris Press to a broader audience and provided opportunities for expansive outreach. The subject of sisters transcends all boundaries in this socially disconnected time, providing a poignant ground note about family and “chosen” family when we need it most.

In addition to Sisters, the Press focused on our previous releases: We published a third printing of Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, which was featured in Joshua Wolf Shenk’s essay about creative partnerships in SLATE. Mass Humanities gave Muriel Rukeyser's The Life of Poetry to every participant in the new Mass POP program for secondary-school teachers, encouraging the integration of poetry throughout the curricula. And San Francisco’s Mercy High School adopted Zdena Berger’s Tell Me Another Morning for their 2010-2011 All School Read.

Please help Paris Press continue to bring groundbreaking literature by women into the world—books that offer inspiration, strength, and solace to readers in the U.S. and beyond. Gifts of all sizes are tax-deductible. Donations of $250 or more will receive a signed and numbered print of Jane Lund's original, "Sisters Dresses"—a perfect holiday gift for friends, colleagues, daughters, granddaughters, nieces, aunts—and of course, sisters!