We are thrilled to announce that Paloma Press has been awarded an unrestricted grant by the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture and its Arts Commission! More than ever, we are grateful for the support of our local arts agency. Our work in publishing allows space for more diverse stories which ensures more visibility for underrepresented voices beyond their niche audiences, and ultimately, a more balanced narrative of our lived contexts in contemporary American society.
Over the past nine years, we have released award-winning and notable books which made it to the News Room of Americans for the Arts, Kirkus Reviews, The New York Times, Politico, and other fine publications. In 2023, we released Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States, edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto & Jeremy S. Hoffman, as a companion to the congressionally-mandated Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5). It earned an endorsement from President Biden, won the 2023 American Book Fest Best Book Award, and fostered relationships with key personnel from over 30 organizations.
In 2024, we announced a call for submissions for a new anthology, The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders, to be edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto & David Hassler in partnership with Poets for Science/Wick Poetry Center as a companion to our nation’s first ever National Nature Assessment (NNA1). Our online Gallery, which currently features over 1,300 poems, is an American story and literary landscape as sweeping as the ecosystems that inspired it. A print anthology is forthcoming in the fall, along with collaborative programming with various organizations.
