Turtle Point Press

10/06/2024

Come raise a glass on October 9th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the launch for Indra Tamang’s remarkable photo memoir about his years with surrealist Charles Henri Ford and their extraordinary circle of friends. The party and book signing is at the Mitchell Algus Gallery, 132 Delancey Street, 2nd Floor, NYC.

08/24/2024

https://poems.com/poem/50-miles-west-of-abilene-texas-november-7-2020/

Poetry Daily

from "Psalm to Whom(e)" published by Turtle Point Press

07/11/2024

I had three significant exchanges with Stanley Moss. The first was at a small brunch at the home of Daphne Merkin, my first publishing mentor. I was in my late twenties, the conversation was heady, and I was mostly quiet until it turned to me. Did I have a partner, and was he "the one?" If not, Stanley had a son or stepson who might fit the bill. "Does he please you intellectually? Does he please you sexually?" Daphne probed. "Does he please you *sensually*?" Stanley posed.

Some months after, Stanley phoned me--it seemed he might have a job opening. Would I like to edit poetry? Would I be willing to commute to Riverdale? How much did Harcourt pay me--he would pay more. Perhaps I could come and visit the press sometime. I was flattered and a bit flustered.

Nearly two decades later, I finally visited Stanley in Riverdale. He was officially seeking a senior editorial person, and I was interested. I had a hard time finding his place by car and was somewhat late to meet him. His wife and big dog led me to his old, art-filled room. This time, he waited for me to do the questioning. He seemed distracted, and the meeting was short and awkward.

It always pleases me to come upon a Stanley Moss poem and to contemplate the complexities of this beautiful and mysterious man. Rest in Always Alwaysland, Stanley.

06/21/2024

This one-of-a-kind account of a young Nepalese villager who became "the father of American surrealism's" lifelong assistant and collaborator is packed with delicious images and tales of the '70 and '80s arts scene in New York, Paris, and Kathmandu.

My Curious Years with Charles Henri Ford: The Autobiography of Indra B. Tamang by Indra Tamang and Romy Ashby, advance reading copies just in. Thanks to Martha Ormiston for the smashing design. Press and event inquiries: [email protected]

06/10/2024

Grace Schulman at Bogliasco reading from THE MARBLE BED and a poem about Kandinsky's "The Church at Murnau," among others, with her translator Massimo Bacigalupo.

06/04/2024

Don't miss Sallie Bingham's "masterpiece of women's frontier experience" [Kathy Schulz ], out June 11th and available wherever you get good books: bit.ly/3Kr2AvA

"Every page of this astounding story electrifies." —Joan Frank

“Thoroughly informed and daringly imagined, this gripping recreation of an ancestor’s captivity probes the most momentous period in North American history: the clash between Native people and the remorselessly expanding white world.” —William deBuys

12/16/2023

FINAL DAYS! We’re so close to our funding goal for brilliant observations on city creatures by the father-daughter team of Peter Wortsman and Aurelie Bernard Wortsman. Help us get there:
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11/18/2023

City mice, country mice, friends one and all:
What is an Urban Bestiary, you ask? A most imaginative illustrated book we have in the works, with tales from around the world about the creatures that surround us. Learn more below and help bring this magical book to life!

Ignite your knowledge and imagination about our fellow fauna with this brilliant indie press book. | Check out 'An Urban Bestiary' on Indiegogo.

11/02/2023

WORTH THE TRIP: “Delaney’s novel is topical because it sheds light on the current “psychedelic renaissance” of the past 15 years. As psychedelics begin to gain medical respectability and FDA approval, Delaney’s novel asks the contemporary reader, Can we learn something from Cary Grant’s cathartic trips? . . . Delaney’s prose captures the elasticity of expanded consciousness but also the unpredictable and surreal moments that inevitably transpire.”

Thanks to James Penner for this smart new take on THE ACROBAT in the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).

10/26/2023

LISTEN UP: "Reimagining Job, with Diane Glancy" is an in-depth interview with Matthew Wickham of Brigham Young University 's Faith and Imagination Institute. In it, Diane speaks about and reads from ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT: A Consideration of the Book of Job, and touches on her newest book, PSALM TO WHOM(E), out this week: https://humanitiescenter.byu.edu/podcast/reimagining-job-with-diane-glancy-american-poet-and-author/

10/22/2023

Diane Glancy's PSALM TO WHOM(E), officially out this Tuesday, has hit the Amazon charts as a Top New Release in Native American Poetry. It's a one-of-a-kind quilt of geography, history, word origins, memory, and faith. See for yourself: https://bit.ly/3Sc2xZS

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10/09/2023

Great day at the Brooklyn Book Festival with author Diane Glancy, associate David Reines (behind the camera), and visits from so many friends old and new.

10/01/2023

Après le déluge, sunny Brooklyn Book Festival Day, Sunday, October 1st. The Turtles will be at Booth 623 all day, eager to see you. From 1 to 2pm, Diane Glancy will be signing her just off the press work of hybrid poetry/prose, PSALM TO WHOM(E). Come for the good stuff, the good talk, the good looks, the discounts!
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09/21/2023

New insights on Margo Tamez’s searing work of Indigenous fusionism-Indigenous futurism FATHER | GENOCIDE.

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Margo Tamez’s Father | Genocide was published by Turtle Point Press in 2021. A book of Ndé Dene [Lipan Apache] ‘place, memory, and poetics,’ Tamez describes currently living “on unceded sqilxw lands on the Okanagan Indian Band Reserve #1 (near Vernon, BC) as an invited guest.”

06/23/2023

"Diane Glancy explores new modes of converging poetry and storytelling in [this] 'investigational [re] imagining' of the road diary.... Her record of solitary travel spans a multiplicity of indexical forms quilted to unearth childhood memories, 'feel the confines of the oppressive past,' and to p/robe Indigenous futurity.... [It] quivers and pulsates with the capaciousness and vitality of beginner's mind. A bravura work by a truly great poet."—PAOLO JAVIER

"This dazzling variety of poems, proems, and creative nonfiction takes the reader on both an outward and inward pilgrimage from home to home. Glancy saturates her journey with Native wisdom and biblical story. She sews a quilt, stitching together the stories and meditations into a vast network of connections. It is more than masterful. It is a thrilling, electric ride."—JILL PELÁEZ BAUMGAERTNER

Review copies: [email protected]
Preorder at: bit.ly/3paz7iI

05/03/2023

Join us next week as we host Diane Glancy & welcome her into our beloved community. She will open her poems & the Bible for us in new ways.

04/22/2023

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04/21/2023

East end friends: this Sunday, April 23rd, at 2pm, Grace Schulman will be reading from and speaking about the work in AGAIN, THE DAWN: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2022, at The Church at Sag Harbor at Sag Harbor. Hope you can be there!

Spend your Sunday immersed in the words of American Poet Grace Schulman. "Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2022," is Schulman’s latest book of poems and her crowning achievement to date. Schulman splits her time in New York and East Hampton, drawing inspiration from the hectic urban l...

03/30/2023

I'm thrilled to share the news that the superb writer and human Sallie Bingham has won the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize for her short story "What I Learned from Fat Annie," which you can read below. And doubly so because next spring, Sallie will make her first appearance on the Turtle Point Press list with a novel based on the story of her great-great-great-great grandmother's capture by the Shawnee Indians and the years she lived in captivity with them.

When Dad was courting Fat Annie, she gave us a chandelier, not a cheap wire contraption but hand-forged welded iron.

03/23/2023

A peek inside one of our favorite poems, “Disorder” by Katharine Coles.

Shop (SOLVE FOR) X and the rest of our JOAN Books titles here: tinyurl.com/2w8b9srn

03/13/2023

Edward J Delaney and THE ACROBAT on Forgotten Hollywood. Have a listen!

In this episode, I discuss with author Edward J Delaney his book "The Acrobat".“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant,” mused the world’s most famous leading man. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” In The Acrobat, fiction writer Edward J. Delaney takes on the elusive character of Cary Grant. He imagines the inner life of a man who spent a career brilliantly creating a persona as ethereal as his best roles.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/forgotten-hollywood/id1554877313?i=1000603880160

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