Marick Press
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Marick Press is a non-profit publishing house that was founded in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan
, in 2005. Mariela Griffor
, founder and publisher, has won prizes in Europe, South America and the US for her poetry
. Under Griffor's leadership Marick has attracted nationally and internationally known writers to its editorial staff, including poet Peter Markus. Marick published its first three books at a joint launch with the Detroit Institute of the Arts in April 2006. In 2007 the press published its first novel, Joshua Kornreich's The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars. By 2011 the press published such acclaimed authors as Paul Celan, Jerome Rothenberg, Alicia Ostriker, and Franz Wright. The press also continues with its legacy of publishing promising new authors including Katie Farris, Derick Burlesson, and others.
Marick Press started with A Complex Bravery by Robert Lipton and The Sleeping by Caroline Maun. Lipton's book is a Pushcart Prize
Nominee and Maun, on the English faculty of Wayne State University
, has won the faculty's 2006 writing award for her book. Derick Burleson of Alaska, whose book Never Night was published by Marick in spring of 2008, won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for his first book Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-94. Burleson was a runner up for the Pulitzer Prize. Another of Marick's authors, Peter Conners, who has just published Emily Ate the Wind, is the Editor of BOA Editions, an historically important independent American press. Marick Press currently publishes 8 books a year under all of its imprints.
Marick Press is a sponsor of the Detroit Urban Writer-in-Residence Program at Wayne State University
.
Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan
Grosse Pointe Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 11,555 at the 2010 census. Bordering on Detroit with frontage on southern Lake Saint Clair, it is the westernmost of the noted Grosse Pointe suburbs, with the oldest overall housing stock of the five cities...
, in 2005. Mariela Griffor
Mariela Griffor
Mariela Griffor , is a journalist, poet, short story writer, international activist, columnist, and scholar.-Early life:...
, founder and publisher, has won prizes in Europe, South America and the US for her poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
. Under Griffor's leadership Marick has attracted nationally and internationally known writers to its editorial staff, including poet Peter Markus. Marick published its first three books at a joint launch with the Detroit Institute of the Arts in April 2006. In 2007 the press published its first novel, Joshua Kornreich's The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars. By 2011 the press published such acclaimed authors as Paul Celan, Jerome Rothenberg, Alicia Ostriker, and Franz Wright. The press also continues with its legacy of publishing promising new authors including Katie Farris, Derick Burlesson, and others.
Marick Press started with A Complex Bravery by Robert Lipton and The Sleeping by Caroline Maun. Lipton's book is a Pushcart Prize
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
Nominee and Maun, on the English faculty of Wayne State University
Wayne State University
Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...
, has won the faculty's 2006 writing award for her book. Derick Burleson of Alaska, whose book Never Night was published by Marick in spring of 2008, won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for his first book Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-94. Burleson was a runner up for the Pulitzer Prize. Another of Marick's authors, Peter Conners, who has just published Emily Ate the Wind, is the Editor of BOA Editions, an historically important independent American press. Marick Press currently publishes 8 books a year under all of its imprints.
Marick Press is a sponsor of the Detroit Urban Writer-in-Residence Program at Wayne State University
Wayne State University
Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...
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