Marick Press

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Marick Press publishes 6-18 titles annually in both hardcover and paperback covering a broad spectrum of topic that range from literary non-fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, fiction and reprint of previously published titles.

Marick Press is a literary publisher, founded to preserve the best work by poets around the world, including many under published women poets.

Marick Press seeks out and publishes the best new work from an eclectic range of aesthetics —work that is technically accomplished, distinctive in style, and thematically fresh.

History

Marick Press is a for-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.[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. 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, Jim Schley, and others.

Marick Press started with A Complex Bravery and The Sleeping.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.[3] 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.[4] Marick Press currently publishes 6-18 books a year under all of its imprints.

Noted Publications

  • Gematrias Complete by Jerome Rothenberg
  • The Catfish by Franz Wright
  • At the Revelation Restaurant and other poems by Alicia Ostriker

References

  1. ↑ "The Journey of Mariela Griffor". The Student Operated Press. April 3, 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
  2. ↑ "SMALL PRESS PANEL DISCUSSION AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY". thedetroiter.com. October 25, 2006. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
  3. ↑ "Authors". Alaska Book Festival. University of Alaska Fairbanks. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
  4. ↑ "Small Press Points". Poets & Writers. September/October 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 


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