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POETS FOLLIES READINGS SERIES AT THE EWALD LIBRARY IN GROSSE POINTEMARICK PRESS READING SERIES INTRODUCE JEROME ROTHENBERGIn celebration of Poetry Month Marick Press and Grosse Pointe Artists Association introduce a reading of Gematria Complete ((Marick Press, 2010) by Jerome Rothenberg at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association located on 16900 Kercheval Avenue, Grosse Pointe, MI 48230 (313) 821-1848 on Sunday 25, 2010 at 5pm. Without doubt, Rothenberg's gematrias formalize the tension between the poet's voice and the voices of others. As this tension unfolds itself in the notion of "othering," it also resonates with the myth of dibbuks: in the same way as the restless souls of those who died too early return to inhabit the poet's body, the restless words of the dead return to haunt the poem, inscribing the memories tearing apart the bodies of the survivors in the body of the Hebrew letter, between radical absence and unbearable presence. … With his gematrias, Jerome Rothenberg performs the literalization of something we already knew, if only vaguely: a word never stands alone, but always in a paradigm, and the legend of the dibbuk, of this voice of the dead that speaks through the body of the living against their will and obsesses them with its repetitions, is a legend of language.Hélène Aji Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over seventy books of poetry including acclaimed volumes such as Poland/1931, Khurbn, and The Lorca Variations (all from New Directions). Describing his poetry career as "an ongoing attempt to reinterpret the poetic past from the point of view of the present," he has also edited ten major anthologies, including Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and Poems for the Millennium (three volumes, co-edited with Pierre Joris and Jeffrey C. Robinson). His poetry has been translated extensively into French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian, Polish, Japanese, Lithuanian, Chinese, and Finnish. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and was awarded an American Book Award, two PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Awards and two PEN Center USA West Translation Awards, among other honors. He was elected to the World Academy of Poetry in 2001.Marick Press Reading Series in Celebration of poetry month is a free admission event. |
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- Read the new review of Katie Ford's Storm on Web del Sol! read more ...
- Watch for the coming Marick releases by Jerome Rothenberg, Alicia Ostriker, Dawn Paul and Gerry LaFemina!
- Read the comments by Forrest Gander about Raul Zurita's new book, translated by Marick Press author William Rowe at the Poetry Foundation's Blog read more ...
- Read the new review of Derick Burleson's Never Night! read more ...
- We are back after a few weeks of vacation and we have wonderful news to share. The Polish Institute in Krakow, POLAND has awarded a grant to Marick Press for the publication of the inaugural volume in the much awaited Marick Press Translation Series!
- The Marick Press Spring 2009 Launch will feature poetry translators and writers William Rowe, Raul Zurita, Piotr Florczyk, David Matlin. This launch will be the Kick-Off the Marick Press Translation Series. The launch will be held in the Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA on April 11, 2009 from 2-5 p.m. see Stata Center at MIT RTA
- Peter Conner's Emily Ate the Wind is reviewed in Gently Read Literature - read more ... ; also reviewed in Lake Affect Magazine, Small Press Book Watch, Cengage Learning, Book Review Index, Word Press, Artvoice, Brooklyn Rail and Midwest Book Review.
- Marick Press announces its list of new authors for 2009! - William Rowe, Gerry LaFemina, Dawn Paul, Jerome Rothenberg
- Read a new review by Forest Roth of Sean Thomas Dougherty's The Blue City in Art Voice
- Open Door Poetry, sponsored by Borders Books will be featuring Marick Press author Franz Wright. Check here ... for more poets featured at Borders!
- Wednesday June 11, 2008
Spring 2008 Book Launch authors at the 2008 Mini-Literary Festival
from left to right Peter Conners, David Matlin, Derick Burleson, and Sean Thomas Dougherty, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Jim Schley
- Thursday June 5, 2008
SFStation interviews Katie Ford on her new book. Many of the poems in this book appeared first in Storm read more ...
- Thursday June 5, 2008
Derick Burleson poem "Omega Bend" from his book Never Night featured at Poetry Daily! read more ...
 
- Monday, May 19, 2008
Marick Press Mini-Literary Festival and Book Launch a Tremendous Success
It began Friday, May 2, a soggy spring evening saw writers from Alaska to Vermont gathered at the Grosse Pointe Arts Center to read for a captivated crowd. read more ...
- The Marick Press Mini-Literary Festival will have its Book Party on May 4, 2008 at 2pm at the Tompkins Center in Grosse Pointe Park. Open to the public, National Book Award Winner, author Gloria Whelan will cut the opening ribbon at the ceremony that will mark the Spring Release of 5 new Marick Press authors! Register for the Mini-Literary Festival now! (Students get 50% off the Workshop Fee!)
- Read the insightful review of The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars by Joshua Kornreich in The Meridian.
- See the posting of A Blessing from The Dropped Hand by Terry Blackhawk on VerseDaily on December 25, 2007.
- Register now for workshops at the Marick Press Mini-Literary Festival - May 2-4, 2008 by Peter Conners, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Ilya Kaminsky, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, G.C. Waldrep, Katie Ford and Derick Burleson. This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers Magazine, American Ink, Wayne State University, The Grosse Pointe Art Center, James and Alice Padilla and the Friends of the Grosse Pointe Libraries.
- We are proud to announce that the New Yorker magazine has decided to publish an additional poem, Visiting the Library in a Strange City, from the chapbook entitled The Catfish by Franz Wright.
- Robert Fanning started successfully his eight-week Doghouse Poetry Series sponsored by the Marick Press Authors Workshop October 6 at Marick Press. The next eight-work series will start in January - watch Marick News for the start date!
- Ilya Kaminsky and Garth Greenwell read at the Poets Follies on October 5, 2007. This reading was the best of the year! Ilya will return in January to his residency at the Greenhill School in Ann Arbor, MI - where he will be giving another public reading.
- Marick Press publisher has been selected to receive the International Award from the Wayne County Council for Arts, History and Humanities for 2007!
- The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars by Joshua Kornreich and Katie Ford's Storm will appear with Marick Press September 2007.
- The poetry collection As When, In Season by Jim Schley will be published by Marick Press Fall 2008. 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 is now executive director of The Frost Place, a museum and poetry conference center in Franconia, N.H.
- The poem Wheeling Hotel by Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright has been accepted by the New Yorker magazine. Franz Wright's chapbook under the name The Catfish will be released by Marick Press in Fall 2007.
- Folding a River by Kawita Kandpal was released by Marick Press on April 29. You can see Kandpal's upcoming readings here.
- Garrison Keillor to Feature Poem by Robert Fanning on NPR AGAIN on April 16! Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac, selected Robert Fanning's poem "The list of Good Names" from his 2006 publication, The Seed Thieves, to read on the April 16, 2007 episode of The Writer's Almanac. In each of these brief daily programs, featured on more than 300 non-commercial public radio stations nationwide, Mr. Keillor begins with literary news and history before finishing with a poem. The program audio is also streamed and podcast from and archived on the website at Writer's Almanac on Public Radio
- Terry Blackhawk's poem The Dropped Hand from her book of the same name to be release in April 29, 2007 by Marick Press, will be featured on the MacGuffin.
- We welcome Andrew Poloni as our intern for the Spring-Summer 2007.
- Marick Press is opening its own house on 15120 Kercheval Avenue, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, 48230. Come and visit our store and buy our titles directly from the Press!!!!The opening day is May 22, 2007 from 10 am-2pm.
- Derick Burleson's new book Never Night will be released by Marick on April 2008. "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
- Katie Ford's chapbook Storm will be publish by Marick Press in Fall 2007. Read what reviewers have said about Katie Ford's previous work: “Moving and mysterious, the poems in Ford’s first collection possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night.” — The New York Times Book Review “A promising first collection.” — Library Journal "Unavoidable and unforgettable." — Iowa Press-Citizen "Ford's treatment of her theme is one of the best in poetry since Jean Cocteau's 'The Crucifixion.'" —St. Louis Post Dispatch
- Garrison Keillor to Feature Poem by Robert Fanning on NPR
Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac, selected Robert Fanning's poem "Crooked Wisdom" from his 2006 publication, The Seed Thieves, to read on the March 19, 2007 episode of The Writer's Almanac. In each of these brief daily programs, featured on more than 300 non-commercial public radio stations nationwide, Mr. Keillor begins with literary news and history before finishing with a poem. The program audio is also streamed and podcast from and archived on the website at Writer's Almanac on Public Radio and may be streamed and archived on carrying station websites as well.
- The Witness of Music by Alexander Suczek and The Seed Thieves by Robert Fanning are coming out in a Second Edition for January 2007
- Peter Markus, Marick Press Fiction Editor, was awarded the Michigan Humanities Professional Award and the Detroit Urban Writer-in-Residence 2007
- Marick Press was selected the Motor City Shine by the Metro Times
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