Highland Park Artists' Collective
Rick Black
| Rick Black, a poet, journalist and book artist, is the founder of Turtle Light Press, a small publishing company that specializes in limited edition books of poetry and photography, personal life histories and fine art greeting cards. In his new work, he will be drawing especially on his recent attraction to and focus on the book arts. Over the past few years, he has attended many workshops at The Center For Book Arts in New York, studying with Mario Pisano, Susan Mills, Carolyn Chadwick, and Yukari Hayashida. Recently, he was awarded one of eight emerging writer awards to attend a special three-day intensive Letterpress Printing Seminar at the Center for Book Arts. For more than 20 years, he has been a professional journalist. From 1989 - 1991, he worked as a reporter in the Jerusalem bureau of The New York Times. He has also freelanced for numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Jerusalem Post, The Forward, Archeology, Cicada, and Cricket. In addition to his work in journalism, he has been working as a haiku poet for the past ten years and garnered several international awards for his poetry, including first prize in the James W. Hackett Award, sponsored by The British Haiku Society and third prize in the Betty Drevniok Competition, Haiku Canada. His haiku have appeared in Frogpond, Cricket, RawNervz, Blithe Spirit, Still, and other journals. A graduate of New York University in Classical Civilization in 1979, he also studied for two years at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem on a post-graduate grant in Hebrew Literature, and has translated many modern Israeli poets, including Yehuda Amichai, Leah Goldberg, Rahel, and others. |
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