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"[This is] a supreme moment for the United States and its democracy.
The moment of silence we need to observe for Justice Ginsburg is loud and ominous with uncertainty about what the US will become, not just as a country and a political system, but most of all, as a society." —Herman Portocarero
https://diplomaticloungeblog.wordpress.com/2020/09/19/a-supreme-moment/
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This Thursday, SEPT 17, don’t miss Turtle Point authors Diane Glancy and Spencer Reece discuss suffering in today’s world vis-a-vis Glancy’s “Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job.” The event starts at 7 pm via Zoom and will be hosted by @caniosbooks.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtdu2orzorHdafxw1QzEww_mkYlqxYHtx5
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“You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.”
—Shere Hite (1942-2020)
Hopeful words for this injured world, from Grace Schulman's The Marble Bed. Out October 20th, available for pre-order now through our Bookshop page. https://buff.ly/31F7mip
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Image Journal's lively Summer Stage Series will feature Diane Glancy tomorrow, AUGUST 18th, at 3pm EST. Diane will read from her new collection, ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT: A CONSIDERATION OF THE BOOK OF JOB, and will speak about her work with Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros, Writer.
The event is free, but registration is required here: https://buff.ly/2PDOx9G
For a sneak preview, here's Diane at a recent launch for the book, in conversation with historian Edward Carson.
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#onlineevents #dianeglancy #nativepoets #poetryevents #zoomevents #christianpoetry #poetryreading #smallpress
On Big Bang Poetry's "Whole Life of the Poet," our DIVINING POETS: DICKINSON cards, compiled by David Trinidad @dtrinidadpoet, are given a lovely review by Mary McCray. Get an insight into some of our favorite Emily Dickinson snippets here.
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Herman Portocarero pays a beautiful tribute to his friend Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, "the savior of the soul of Havana," whose work restoring historic Habana Vieja transformed the city and was an inspiration for Portocarero's Havana without Makeup. https://buff.ly/2DwjQRa
Photo by Joaquin Portocarero.
Turtle Point author Diane Glancy in conversation with Edward Carson in Newburyport, MA, for an outdoors and socially distanced crowd. Diane read from her new book ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT: A CONSIDERATION OF THE BOOK OF JOB, which is available for purchase through Bookshop: https://buff.ly/3gy0sBE
David Trinidad is in the latest issue of The Iowa Review with three poems plus an plus an illustrated interview with Izzy Casey featuring his incredible Barbie collection.
Turtle Point is delighted to announce that we will be publishing David's latest collection, Digging to Wonderland, in Fall 2021.
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Grace Schulman rises to new heights in her eighth and finest collection to date, with poems of lament, praise, and joy. As Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes: "The Marble Bed is a vision; it is an ode to life." Out October 20th, and available for pre-order now from our Bookshop page: https://buff.ly/3g9ahpt
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"I see a continuum between scripture and Native belief." Diane Glancy, author of ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT: A Consideration of the Book of Job, speaks about her Cherokee heritage and her Christian faith with @amjuster in @Image_Journal.
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Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she taught Native American literature and creative writing.She has published more than sixty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as screenplays and plays—and increasingly, as in her new book, Isla...
Langston Hughes, always in vogue.
Diane Glancy's ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT: A Consideration of the Book of Job, is New & Noteworthy, says The New York Times!
Consortium Book Sales #poetrycommunity
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
What the f**k does your name mean Linda?
#AssétouXango #poetrycommunity #BlackLivesMatter
Give Your Daughters Difficult Names - Assétou Xango performs for Cafe Cultura in Denver.
Evan Thomas reviews our latest book, Roger Rosenblatt's THE STORY I AM, in The Washington Post.
Please support independent bookstores and publishers by picking up this book, or pretty much any book, right here:
https://bookshop.org/books/the-story-i-am-mad-about-the-writing-life/9781885983787?aid=1291
"Rosenblatt’s writing brims with creativity and insight . . . His knack, as I recall from my days at TIME, was to see what everyone else saw, only, somehow, more clearly and more movingly." Says Rosenblatt: "[A]fter witnessing enough pain and plain courage in the world, I . . . started writing about the life before my eyes.' In “The Story I Am,” that life is on vivid display."
In his new collection, longtime author Roger Rosenblatt calls writing an “adventure.”
"Because." A note of hope from poet Grace Schulman.
Grace's new collection is THE MARBLE BED: https://bookshop.org/a/1291/9781885983831
No shelter from the blast. Journalist Mark MacNamara reports from Asheville.
June 1st. Night. A few minutes before the first explosion a black woman stopped to say, “It’s nice to see another older person.” She patted my arm. “You too,” I replied. Such kind eyes, I thought and reached out to touch back but she was gone. I was standing just up from the police s...
In his blog post "Another Country," career diplomat, former ambassador, and Turtle Point author Herman Portocarero questions the absence of black leadership and the urgent need for new leadership during this point of crisis.
https://diplomaticloungeblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/another-country/
In his blog post "Another Country," career diplomat, former ambassador, and Turtle Point author Herman Portocarero questions the absence of black leadership and the urgent need for new leadership during this point of crisis.
The title of James Baldwin’s 1962 novel often comes to my mind as summing up the collective feelings of alienation experienced by many African-Americans individually and Black communities col…
Twenty-three poets around the country granted 50K each for civic projects: such good news. Thanks to Elizabeth Alexander, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the The Academy of American Poets.
The program, now in its second year, was expanded from 13 poets in 2019 thanks to a $4.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Support Turtle Point Press by donating to our New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) launch campaign, celebrating 30 years of our iconoclastic publishing program. Click to donate here: https://www.facebook.com/donate/2926595174234411/2926595210901074/
Your donation will help us continue publishing books of exceptional content and design, and will ensure that our coming season is the best yet. Next month, we'll be launching JOAN BOOKS, a series highlighting the experiences, insights, and wisdom of bold, outspoken women. Authors Diane Glancy and Katharine Coles will be the first writers on that list. The series is named after our perennially popular book Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words, a work championed by bookseller-turned-publisher-turned memoirist Jeannette Watson Sanger.
Help support the very best of independent publishing!
Pre-order Diane Glancy's ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT: A Consideration of the Book of Job here: https://bookshop.org/books/island-of-the-innocent-a-consideration-of-the-book-of-job/9781885983800
Buy more quality titles from Turtle Point's Bookshop page here: https://bookshop.org/shop/turtlepointpress
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Thank you to Foreword Reviews, American Booksellers Association, and Emily Behnke for this wonderful small press profile of Turtle Point!
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Congratulations to Turtle Point Press on their 30th anniversary! Huzzah!!
Looking for some top titles to add to your isolation reading list? Turtle Point author Edward J Delaney has you covered with his list of recommendations on our Bookshop storefront 🐢📚 Featuring works by Grace Schulman, Roger Rosenblatt, Eric Howard, and more -- check it out here https://bookshop.org/lists/edward-j-delaney-recommends
Edward J. Delaney is an award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker. He is the author of, most recently, The Big Impossible: Novellas + Stories, as well as the novels Follow the Sun, Broken Irish, and Warp & Weft, and the short story collection The Drowning and Other Stories.
"The acclaimed author and essayist mines his personal oeuvre in this winning compilation." (Turtle Point Press). Reviewed by Kitty Kelley.
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days (featuring titles from Grove Atlantic, Putnam Books, Turtle Point Press, Riverhead Books, and Sidebrow).
More impeccable taste from Turtle Point Press author Michael Carroll, whose list of recommended reading at Bookshop.org will lead you in all the right directions. https://tinyurl.com/mcarrollny
Thank you, Michael Carroll!
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Michael Carroll is the author of Stella Maris: And Other Key West Stories. His debut story collection, Little Reef, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the Publishing Triangle....
Another publishing great, lost too soon. RIP, Carolyn Reidy.
Ms. Reidy once described herself as a “meddler,” because she enjoyed being involved in every aspect of the company. But Jonathan Karp, the president and publisher of Simon & Schuster’s adult publishing, said he had seen things differently.
"By showing us that she cared about the smallest details,” he said in an interview, “she wanted all of us to care about the smallest details, because she knew that those details can often be the reason a book succeeds.”
Taking the helm in 2008, she steered the publishing house, one of the Big Five, through a deep recession and a digital revolution.
Many thanks to Sonya Chung and Bloom for this great look back, today, and ahead at the work of Turtle Point at our thirty-year mark.
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#RogerRosenblatt Diane Glancy @Grace Schulman #GraceSchulman @David Trinidad #DavidTrinidad #DiviningPoets Katharine Coles Herman Portocarero Michael Mazza #JonathanTel Edward J Delaney #JeannetteWatsonSanger Beowulf Sheehan #beowulfsheehan Alban Fischer #AlbanFischer Consortium Book Sales
by Sonya Chung “I find that older writers tend to have more to say—more wisdom, more that’s worth hearing and remembering. They are sure-footed, at their peak. They can also be a pain in t…
Turtle Point Press author Edward J Delaney's list of recommended books is available on our Bookshop.org storefront. See what the author of THE BIG IMPOSSIBLE thinks we should all be reading.
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They've left. They've all left.
The pigeon feeders have left.
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Even the birds have left.
A peaceful, lightly surreal scene is shadowed with wider foreboding
Children's book covers, reimagined for our time.
"The only legend I have ever loved is / the story of a daughter lost in hell. And found and rescued there."
“The veiled stars are above ground. It is another world.” The world lost one of our boldest and most exquisite voices on April 27, 2020. In honor of…
HEROIC by Eavan Boland
Sex and history. And skin and bone.
And the oppression of Sunday afternoon.
Bells called the faithful to devotion.
I was still at school and on my own.
And walked and walked and sheltered from the rain.
The patriot was made of drenched stone.
His lips were still speaking. The gun
he held had just killed someone.
I looked up. And looked at him again.
He stared past me without recognition.
I moved my lips and wondered how the rain
would taste if my tongue were made of stone.
And wished it was. And whispered so that no one
could hear it but him. Make me a heroine.
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Farewell to poetry's heroine, Eavan Boland,
September 24, 1944 – April 27, 2020
There’s no way to keep Katharine Coles indoors for too long. Here she debuts as a snowflake in this fine feature for LOOK BOTH WAYS on Darrell Lauren's cool new blog, Snowflakes in a Blizzard.
Stony Brook Southampton MFA & Writers Conference
"My mother teaches me to read. I am two and a half. We sit together at the dinette table with a book between us."
An excerpt from THE STORY I AM by Roger Rosenblatt (MFA and Conference Faculty member), on Literary Hub.
https://lithub.com/brief-variations-on-the-writers-life/
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Image Journal's lively Summer Stage Series will feature Diane Glancy tomorrow, AUGUST 18th, at 3pm EST. Diane will read from her new collection, ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT: A CONSIDERATION OF THE BOOK OF JOB, and will speak about her work with Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros, Writer. The event is free, but registration is required here: https://buff.ly/2PDOx9G For a sneak preview, here's Diane at a recent launch for the book, in conversation with historian Edward Carson. . #onlineevents #dianeglancy #nativepoets #poetryevents #zoomevents #christianpoetry #poetryreading #smallpress
"Because." A note of hope from poet Grace Schulman. Grace's new collection is THE MARBLE BED: https://bookshop.org/a/1291/9781885983831
SEE CIVILIZATION IS NO LONGER CIVIL BUT IT NEVER F**KING WAS OH YEAH
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Katharine Coles's "fierce, dazzling"* bio/memoir, LOOK BOTH WAYS, is just in! Coles ventures to the Dutch East Indies, South and Central America, the Southern US, and Cuba to follow in the footsteps of her geologist grandparents, examining their lives and her own. Preorder at a discount on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Look-Both-Ways-Grandmothers-Far-Flung/dp/1885983581/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538707148&sr=1-1&keywords=look+both+ways+coles *--Betsy Burton, The King's English Bookshop
Turtle Point Press, an independent publisher distinguished by books of superior literary content and elegant design, has been delighting readers with new fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, translations, and rediscovered classics since 1990. Our books have been recognized by the National Book Awards, the National Book Critic's Circle Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, the PEN/New England Awards, the French-American Foundation Translation Awards, the New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, and elsewhere. Our newest titles introduce arresting work by more women writers and West Coast writers, and fiction and nonfiction that spans the globe. www.turtlepointpress.com
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