Upcoming Events:

To be posted soon!

Past Events:

December 1, 2009 – Deadline for Turtle Light Press's biannual Haiku Chapbook Competition. Enter now!

Summer/Fall 2009 – A limited edition of Sketches from the San Joaquin will be out in late summer or early autumn -- check back then for more information...

August 5 - 9, 2009 – TLP will have a booth at the biennial Haiku North America conference in Ottawa, Canada. Come visit us there!

April 19 - May 17, 2009 – Work by Turtle Light Press's poets, photographers, and artists were featured for a full month as part of the the Highland Park Artists Collective's "Found Objects Art Show" at Pino's Wine Shoppe, 13 N. 4th Ave., Highland Park. The exhibit's opening was on Sunday, April 19th, from 2 - 5pm, where it was evident that we "recycle with a passion"!

Rick Black recited the following poem at the opening:

A Sunday Afternoon in the D.P.W. Parking Lot
By Rick Black

I am surrounded by the detritus of our times –
empty, sodden cardboard boxes, doorless refrigerators,

an orange glove. If only we could recycle kindness,
peace and love – deposit them in a blue bin

at the edge of the curb. Imagine: every other week
a truck would stop to pick them up so that they could be

sorted by color, weight and size, and recycled
like jugs of wine, bottles of soda, and boxes of cereal.

We are so hungry; we long for perfection
in this imperfect world. If only we could recycle

the kindness of our hearts, if only
compassion had a color like the sea.

April 28, 2009, 7:30 p.m. – Rick Black recited poems by Yehuda Amichai, Rahel, Leah Goldberg and others in Hebrew and English at the Highland Park Public Library at a poetry reading to celebrate Israel Independence Day. He also read some of his own haiku about Israel from his Peace and War chapbook and talking about being a journalist in Jerusalem.

May 17, 2009 – Turtle Light Press had a booth at the annual Highland Park Street Fair, where we sold new books and cards, including a new Highland Park notecard series.

In addition, we featured a new series of note cards made from original prints of Erena Rae, a feminist artist whose work belies a wry sense of humor and keen wit.

June 4 – 6, 2009 Turtle Light Press had a booth at the Hybrid Book Fair in Philadelphia, where sold both popular books and limited editions of our imprints.