Marick Press

Marick Press

Marick Press is a non-profit publishing house that was founded in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, in 2005. Mariela Griffor, founder and publisher,[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] 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[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]

References

  1. ^ "The Journey of Mariela Griffor". The Student Operated Press. April 3, 2007. http://thesop.org/index.php/cgi-bin/index.php?article=4884. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
  2. ^ "SMALL PRESS PANEL DISCUSSION AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY". thedetroiter.com. October 25 2006. http://www.thedetroiter.com/b_city/blogs/index.php?blog=2&title=title_6&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
  3. ^ "The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars by Joshua Kornreich". Meridian (University of Virginia). January 2008. http://www.readmeridian.org/issue.php?issue=20&page=bookreviews. Retrieved 2008-09-11. [dead link]
  4. ^ "Poetic perseverance". Metro Times. July 5, 2006. http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=9364. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
  5. ^ "Authors". Alaska Book Festival. University of Alaska Fairbanks. http://www.uaf.edu/bookfestival/authors/. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
  6. ^ "Small Press Points". Poets & Writers. September/October 2008. http://www.pw.org/content/small_press_points_15. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
  7. ^ "The Detroit Urban Writer-in-Residence Program". Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Wayne State University. http://www.clas.wayne.edu/unit-inner.asp?UnitID=24&WebPageID=1456&site=candle. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
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