The reading series Poet's Follies continues in 2008! The Poet's Follies returns to the Grosse Pointe Artist Association in its all new location at 15001 Kercheval in Grosse Pointe Park. This is a comfortable, enjoyable and creative atmosphere. To make reservations or for more information about these events, contact mgriffor@marickpress.com or call 313-407-9236
Poet's Follies
The New Grosse Pointe Artist Association
15001 Kercheval
Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230
- May 2, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. Peter Conners, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Katie Ford, Derick Burleson
- June 27, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.M.L.Liebler and Christopher Leland
- Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.Tyrone Williams and Rebecca Brown
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MARICK PRESS MINI-LITERARY FESTIVAL 2008
P.O. Box 36253
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236
Telephone: (313) 407-9236
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marick Press
January 15, 2008
(313) 407-9236
mgriffor@marickpress.com
MARICK PRESS INTRODUCES NEW AUTHORS May 2-4, 2008 "The Fortunate Islands", "Emily Ate the Wind", "The Blue City", "Never Night", and "As When, In Season" are publisher's new books for Spring 2008
GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. - Marick Press, a literary publisher dedicated to poetry and fiction, will release its five new titles for Spring 2008 "The Fortunate Islands" by Susan Kelly-DeWitt, "Emily Ate the Wind" by Peter Conners, "The Blue City" by Sean Thomas Dougherty, "Never Night" by Derick Burleson and "As When In Season" by Jim Schley. The Mini Literary Festival will take place between May 2-4, 2008 with the additional participation of G.C. Waldrep, Katie Ford, David Matlin and Ilya Kaminsky, poetry editor of Marick Press. Marick Press was founded by Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., writer Mariela Griffor, whose career has spanned from Concepcion, Chile, to Europe to the United States as a poet, journalist, activist and Director of the Urban Writer-in-Residence Program at Wayne State University Interdisciplinary Studies. Mariela is the Consul Honorary of Chile in Michigan. The Spring 2008 release will feature writers Susan Kelly DeWitt, Peter Conners, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Jim Schley and Derick Burleson in a Mini Literary Festival that will start on Friday May 2 and it will end on May 4, 2008 with the launch of its titles at the Tompkins Center located on 14920 Windmill Pointe Drive in Grosse Pointe Park.
Susan Kelly-DeWitt is an editor of Swan Scythe Press and the author of six poetry chapbooks, a letterpress collection The Book of Insects, an illustrated story chapbook The Audience and Cassiopeia Above the Banyan Tree, a chapbook of poems about her family history in Hawaii. She has been featured on Writer's Almanac and Verse Daily, and her poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, North American Review, Nimrod, Women's Studies Quarterly, Spoon River Quarterly, Hawaii Review among others. "Through the Fortunate Islands, where "the past seems far away// I can cross the wooden bridge/in either direction." And illuminated along the way by her stunning imagery, her brilliant conjunctions of art, language, art, personal history, we hasten to follow her." Carole Simmons Oles.
Peter Conners is a poet and fiction writer. He works as an editor and directs marketing for the literary publisher BOA Editions, Ltd. He is editor of PP/FF: An Anthology His writing appears regularly in such journals as Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Verse, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Mid-American Review, The Bitter Oleander, Beloit Fiction Journal, Sentence, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, American Book Review, Paragraph, and, Quick Fiction. Peter Conners stretches the possibilities for fiction in a way that will leave no reader unaffected. With much excitement, Marick Press is pleased to share with you this beautiful book, whose publication marks the rarest of occasions: a debut of the literary master. "Sparks of brilliant images light up the compressed worlds Peter Conners creates with words. Music is made with whispers and curses, belches and laughter, pronouncements and asides and sly retorts. Startling lists transform into unsettling truths. The performances in Emily Ate the Wind are dazzling." Joanna Scott.
Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of nine books including Broken Halleluyas (BOA editions), Nightshift Belonging to Lorca , a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and Except by Falling winner of the 2000 Pinyon Press Poetry Prize from Mesa State College. His awards include two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry. Known for his electrifying performances, he has toured extensively across North America and Europe. He received an MFA in poetry from Syracuse University and lives in Erie, PA where he teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at Penn State Erie. "Be prepared for wonder: The Blue City is a place where you will see paper boats made by God illuminated in the merciful light that rises from the eyes of the dead. Be prepared to grieve for the children who sing a song you sang in childhood. Sean Thomas Dougherty's mesmerizing tale is a song of praise, a hand-written psalm, a visionary prayer made from the last handful of earth." Melanie Rae Thon.
Derick Burleson's first book, Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-94 won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review and Poetry, among other journals. A recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Burleson teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. "Derick Burleson has given us a far northern book of invitations ("You'd like it here where/it's never night"), which shines with a radiant spirit. It is a work of soul-making." Edward Hirsch
Jim Schley grew up in Wisconsin and moved to New England in 1975 to attend Dartmouth College, where he majored in Literature & Creative Writing and Native American Studies. In 1986 he earned an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. He has been co-editor of the literary quarterly New England Review, production editor for University Press of New England, and editor-in-chief of Chelsea Green Publishing Company and has edited more than a hundred books on a wide variety of subjects, including poetry and fiction, literary essays, history, art, Native American culture, organic farming and gardening, solar and wind energy, and natural architecture and building techniques.
Books scheduled for publication in the Spring 2008 include a non-fiction titles, by G.C. Waldrep and David Matlin (Galley proofs for reviews are available upon request.).Marick Press Events
All events are open to the publicPoets Follies at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association Art Center
The Grosse Pointe Artists Association is pleased to feature Marick Press writers at its monthly poetry, literary and music gathering. The evening will feature national acclaimed writers Ilya Kaminsky author of "Dancing in Odessa" Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of "The Fortunate Islands" Peter Conners, author of "Emily Ate the Wind" Sean Thomas Dougherty author of "The Blue City", Derick Burleson author of "Never Night"and Jim Schley author of "As When, In Season"
Date: Friday, May 2, 2008
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: 15001 Kercheval Avenue, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230.
For more info call (313) 407-9236 or write to mgriffor@marickpress.com for directions.
Admission: $5
Information: mgriffor@marickpress.com or www.marickpress.com
Marick Press Authors Workshops
Date: Saturday, May 3, 2008
Time: 8:00-8:45 registration, coffee & bagels
Location: Grosse Pointe Artists Association 15001 Kercheval Avenue,Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230
Admission: All Individual workshops are $100.00 each, includes lunch and refreshments. $150.00 for the full day, includes all the workshops, buffet lunch and refreshments!
- 9am-11am Peter Conners(confirmed)
- 11am-Noon Katie Ford (confirmed)
- Noon-1pm G.C. Waldrep (confirmed)
- 1pm-2 pm Ilya Kaminsky (confirmed)
- 2pm-3pm Susan Kelly DeWitt (confirmed)
- 3pm-4pm Sean Thomas Dougherty (confirmed)
- 4pm-5pm Derick Burleson (confirmed)
Contact Mariela Griffor
mgriffor@marickpress.com
(313)407-9236
Marick Press Authors Reading
Date: Saturday Night May 3
Time: 8 pm
Location: Izzy's Raw Art Gallery located at: 2572 Michigan Ave. Detroit, MI 48216
Information: Visit www.marickpress.com
Admission: $5
Launch celebration
Join the Grosse Pointe Artists Association for the Spring 2008 launch of new books by Marick Press. A lecture by Ilya Kaminsky will be followed by poetry readings by Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of "The Fortunate Islands" Peter Conners, author of "Emily Ate the Wind" Sean Thomas Dougherty author of "The Blue City", Jim Schley author of "As When, In Season" and Derick Burleson author of "Never Night". Readings will be followed by cocktail party.
Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008
Time: 2-5 p.m.
The Launch Program Schedule is:
- 2pm to 2:10 pm - Opening Introduction (Mariela Griffor)
- 2:10 pm to 2:40 pm - Author Introductions (Ilya Kaminsky)
- Jim Schley
- Susan Kelly-DeWitt
- Peter Conners
- Derick Burleson
- Sean Thomas Dougherty
- 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm - Book Signing and Reception
Admission: Free admission
Information: (313) 407-9236
Registration Form Marick Press Author's Workshops
Registration Form Marick Press Author's Workshops Saturday May 3, 2008 : Fiction and Poetry. Please fill up the form with the name of the authors and workshop you would like to attend and print a copy and send with your check to: "Marick Press Writers Workshop" P.O. Box 36253 Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48230
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MARICK PRESS: MOCAD-WSU PRESS AUTHOR READINGMarick Press, MOCAD, and WSU Press are building on their successful individual readings to form a series of collaborative readings highlighting local writers and artists.
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