November 2019 - Turtle Light Press

Black Wins Jewish Book Arts Award

ARLINGTON, VA – Rick Black, a book artist, poet and director of Turtle Light Press, was named the winner of the 2019 Isaac Anolic Jewish Book Arts award. “The award panel was very impressed with all of Black’s artwork,” said Rita Rosen Poley, director and curator of the Temple Judea Museum in Elkins Park, Pa,…

2019 TLP Haiku Chapbook Contest Results

Nov 20, 2019Rick BlackHaiku Competitionhaiku poetry

ARLINGTON, VA – After a close competition, the winner of the fifth Turtle Light Press haiku chapbook competition is Glenn Coats’ Furrows of Snow, a magical collection of poems that interweaves a river’s qualities and his mother’s aging. “The poems in Furrows of Snow are essential, especially in these times when life seems so harried,”…