As we approach the heart of winter, Raffael de Gruttola has finished editing the upcoming book of Nick Virgilio poems and Rick Black is beginning to design the cover and interior. Tentatively entitled Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku, the book is due out in the spring and will feature more than 100 unknown poems [...]
Diary of a Small Press
On running a small press, bookmaking, poetry, digital photography, and trying to stay sane in this increasingly hectic world…
TLP 2012 Chapbook Contest is Underway…
We want to thank all of the poets who entered the 2012 TLP Haiku Chapbook Competition. We have received more than 30 entries from around the world. It is thrilling each day to go to our post office box and find manuscripts, either stuffed into the tiny box or a yellow card indicating that it [...]
Got the Monday Morning Blues
I had the Monday morning blues, especially following the need to return to work following a lovely Thanksgiving holiday, so I decided to take some time to see a photography exhibition that I had read about: Daphne — The Subtle Power of a Woman’s Eye at the embassy of Peru in Washington, D.C. Of course, [...]
Our New Arlington, VA Neighborhood – Paintings
Over the past two months, my family and I have been busy settling into our new house in Arlington, Virginia, and in my spare time I’ve been making digital paintings of nearby hiking trails, parks, shopping areas and houses. It has been a lot of fun getting out to take these photos that I then [...]
A Talk on Selecting Our First Chapbook Winner
With our 2012 TLP Haiku Chapbook Contest deadline fast approaching (Dec. 1, 2011), many poets ask us about the selection process. So, we are posting here a talk given at the Haiku North America conference in Ottawa in 2009 about how we went about picking our first winner and the ensuing editing and design process. [...]
Upcoming Events and Fairs
Beginning with a luncheon this Thursday, May 12th, we’ll be kicking off our partnership with Greenwood House — a nursing home that provides specialized care for the Jewish elderly — in order to launch the “Life Story” book project. We will interview and produce books of Greenwood House residents and their families and, in return, [...]
On Staying Sane and the World Trade Center
We are more and more pressed for time in an age that values speed over sanity. Do you recall when computers were still in their infancy and their inventors were promising everyone an age of virtually unlimited leisure time? Ah, yes, those were the days…we would put our feet up and just relax. While just [...]
Marketing 101 for Book Artists, Authors, etc.
On a recent evening, I took the train into the Center for Book Arts in New York City where Peter Cuce, a marketing expert, gave an overview of the various tools that artists and authors can use these days, from free web hosting sites to social media like Facebook and Twitter as well as lesser [...]
Inching Along The Road
Part of running a small press is inching slowly along the road and investigating lots of different things. For instance, we’re now learning about Facebook and Twitter — okay, so we’re latecomers to the social media phenomenon — not to mention doing this blog. It is a surprisingly relaxing endeavor and will be a fun [...]
Welcome to the New Turtle Light Press Website
A year in the making, we are finally unrolling our new website with lots of exciting projects as well as old favorites. Stay tuned as we gradually fine-tune the site and get this blog rolling. Our first task is to come up with a name for the blog. Anybody got any ideas? One thought of [...]
