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Mariela Griffor

Publisher

A native of Chile, Griffor was forced to flee the regime of Augusto Pinochet after the murder of her fiancé by agents of the dictator and threats against her own life. She spent 12 years in Sweden, where she met her husband, Edward Griffor, a native Detroiter and world-renowned mathematician. In 1998 the couple moved to Grosse Pointe Park, where they live with their two daughters. Griffor earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and a certificate in Montessori education, and is completing a master's degree in Media Studies at Wayne State University. She is a co-founder of the Detroit Institute for Creative Writers at Wayne State University, where she also served as Detroit Urban Woman Writer in Residence in 2003. She is curator of the Poets Follies reading series at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association. She is the author of Exiliana.

Peter Stern

Poetry Editor

Peter Stern is an internationally recognized editor of fiction and poetry. After many years as as staff editor, free-lance writer and journalist, Stern has brought to print new talent for over two decades. He has worked as lead poetry editor in New York, Los Angeles and London. Since beginning his career as a writring profession in the mid '70s, Stern has himself published criticism and essays. Stern is a graduate of the Free University of Berlin.

Sean Tai

Art Director

Sean Tai has been working as a typesetter for Random House of Canada and McClelland & Stewart for the last ten years. He has also done freelance book design for Marick Press, The Key Publishing, Luna Publications and others. He was one of the founding editors of Pagitica in Toronto magazine from 1999-2003. Sean grew up in Fredericton, N.B. and now lives in Toronto, Canada.

Elizabeth Myhr

Managing Editor

Elizabeth Myhr has published work in Alaska Quarterly Review, Kimera, Stringtown, Knock, The Armchair Classicist, Pontoon, and others, and currently serves as poetry editor for The Raven Chronicles and as a Managing Editor for Marick Press of Detroit, Michigan. She is enrolled in the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University and lives in Seattle with her husband and son.

Upcoming Events

Sept 29Poets Follies Reading with RAUL ZURITA
Sept 29, 2011
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Grosse Pointe Artists Association located on 16900 Kercheval St, Grosse Pointe, MI 48230

Raúl ZuritaRaúl Zurita is winner of the Chilean National Poetry Prize and is arguably the most powerful poetic voice in Latin America today. He will be reading from his Marick title "INRI" and other works.

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Sept 30Calypso Editions publishes Seattle-based author Elizabeth Myhr’s debut collection
Sept 30, 2011
Elizabeth MyhrElizabeth Myhr is a Seattle native. She grew up playing jazz piano and attended Garfield High School where she was a member of Garfield’s acclaimed jazz band. She completed her undergraduate degree at The Evergreen State College with a B.A. in English, and began writing poetry in her twenties. She has published in many journals and literary reviews including Alaska Quarterly Review, Knock Magazine, LBJ and Poetry International. She received her MFA in poetry from Seattle Pacific University in 2009 and went on to become a founding member of Calypso Editions. She currently works as an editor for several print and online publishing companies and journals, including Marick Press, Web Del Sol Review of Books, and Raven Chronicles. Myhr works as a freelance product development manager and managing editor and lives in Seattle with her family.

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Oct 1Calypso Editions releases contemporary Romanian poetry in English translation
Oct 1, 2011
Seattle, WAThe finest voices in contemporary Romanian poetry are now available in an English translation from Calypso Editions. Of Gentle Wolves: An Anthology of Romanian Poetry brings together an eclectic collection of writers, from dynamic young poets such as Radu Vancu and Chris Tanasescu to venerable masters such as Ana Blandiana and Gellu Naum. Calypso is thrilled to bring these fresh translations, featuring a number of authors appearing in English for the first time, to an American audience.br />
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