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| AN OPEN LETTER REGARDING THE ZOO PRESS
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To our readers:
Six years ago, The Paris Review and the Zoo Press agreed to award a poetry prize in The Paris Review's name. The Paris Review has been deeply dismayed to learn, over the past year, that the Zoo Press has failed to pay prize money, or to publish prize-winning manuscripts, as it promised to do. For this reason, The Paris Review advised the Zoo Press last October to terminate "The Paris Review Prize in Poetry." The Zoo Press failed to comply or to acknowledge subsequent efforts to
communicate. Thus, the Board of the Paris Review Foundation formally and legally terminated relations with the Zoo Press on March 2, 2006. The Paris Review Prize in Poetry, which the Zoo Press has listed as one of its programs, is also terminated, and has no connection with The Paris Review.
The Paris Review deplores that its name was used in a publishing scheme that
resulted in the disappointment of honest writers, whose hopes and expectations upon entering—and in some cases winning—the Zoo Press's prize competitions have been dashed.
Truly,
Philip Gourevitch
Editor
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