Kjell Espmark author of Lend Me Your Voice and forthcoming Outside the Calendar has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Capri Prize for Poetry.

Marick Press is pleased to announce that Kjell Espmark author of Lend Me Your Voice and forthcoming Outside the Calendar has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Capri Prize for Poetry. (http://premiocapri.com/en/history.php ) The Capri Prize has been given to writers such Raphael Alberti, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Attilio Bertolucci, Hector Bianciotti, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Joseph Brodsky, Ralf Dahrendorf, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Francis Fukuyama, Bohumil Hrabal, Czeslaw Milosz, Alberto Moravia, Roger Peyrefitte, Thomas Venclova. “Established in 1987 on the Mediterranean island of Capri, the Capri Awards, or Premio Capri, is one of Italy’s most prestigious cultural institutions. 'Il Premio', as nicknamed by the literati, began as an informal redezvous of writers, poets and film directors and as a launch pad for emerging creative talent. Known for its literary heritage, the island of Capri was beloved by many renowned figures throughout history, including the Roman Emperor and poet Tiberius, the writer Count Fersen and the artist Alberto Savinio. More than just a cultural destination, Capri represents a state of mind. Each year the foundation hosts an award ceremony to honor the best-known and most promising poets in the world. This televised ceremony traditionally takes place at Grand Hotel Quisisana in Capri.”

Kjell Espmark visiting Grosse Pointe, Michigan

All the way from Sweden, distinguished poet and professor of the History of Literature, Kjell Espmark, will be speaking in Grosse Pointe. Professor Espmark will discuss his experiences as a member of the Nobel Prize Selection Committee, and he will introduce his first book translated into English, Lend Me Your Voice, a poetry collection.

The library has joined forces with Marick Press to present this special program, and it promises to be a unique and wonderful evening.

The program will be held at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial on Thursday, April 7, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10.00. Please reserve a spot on the online

The Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival

The Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: "TRANSLATING 2010"

AT THE RECONSTRUCTION ROOM



CONTACT: Dan Godston

info@borderbend.org

312.380.9223



DATE: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 (8 p.m.)



LOCATION: The Reconstruction Room at the Black Rock Bar

3614 N. Damen Ave.

Chicago, IL 60618



ADMISSION: Free and open to the public, donations accepted.





The Reconstruction Room presents Translating 2010, which is part of the Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival and Chicago Artists Month. Translating 2010 explores the theme of "translations" in its wide range of permutations and possibilities: translating matter into energy, poetry into prose, time into memories, the present into the past and the future into the present, sound into words and the page into the air, promises into reality / ideals into facts, pencils into sketches into sculptures, DOS into HTML, 1999 into 2012 into The Long Now, frames into motion, and clouds into rain and water into ice.



Participants to include:

· A Guest Giving Way like Ice Melting: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Laozi -- Sou Vai Keng (Macao) and Steven Schroeder (Chicago)

· Erin Teegarden (Chicago), Della Watson (San Francisco), and Eric Cressley (Pittsburgh)

· Brett Foster reads a selection of his English translations of Cecco Angiolieri's poetry

· RaKel Delgado (Barcelona), Saul Aguirre (Chicago), and Luis Humberto Valadez (Chicago)

· Catie Olson (Chicago), Meg Duguid (Chicago), and the purveyors of Lovitt Restaurant (Colville, WA)

· Eric Elshtain (Chicago) and Gregory Fraser (Carrollton, Georgia)

· Francesco Levato (Chicago) reads English translations of poems by Tiziano Fratus and Fabiano Alborghetti, and he and and Mariela Griffor (Gross Pointe Farms, MI) give a bilingual reading of her poetry

· Happy 150th Birthday, Jules LaForgue, Piccolo Mountains Repertoire -- David Harrison Horton (Beijing), Sheila Murphy (Phoenix), Harry Ross (London), and Dan Godston (Chicago)





Chicago Calling is organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective, a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to promote the arts, to create opportunities for artists to explore new directions in and between art forms, and to engage the community. Annual Borderbend projects include Chicago Calling and the Mingus Awareness Project. Other organizations partner with Borderbend to enrich and extend the reach of its project, such as the Experimental Piano Series, which is co-produced by the Chicago Composers Forum and Borderbend, in partnership with the PianoForte Foundation.





Fifth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival

During the Fifth Annual Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, Chicago-based artists collaborate with artists in other locations -- both here in the U.S. and abroad. These collaborations involve a range of art forms -- including music, dance, film, literature, and intermedia -- and they are prepared or improvised. Some Chicago Calling events involve live feeds between Chicago and other locations. 2010 Chicago Calling events include "Bicycles and the Arts" at Happy Dog Gallery, "Translations 2010" at the Reconstruction Room, "Seda Röder / Burton Greene - Harrison Bankhead Duo Concert" at Curtiss Hall, "Temperatures and Shapes / Arctic Live" at Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery, "I Remember Fred" at the Velvet Lounge, "Chicago Calling, Waiting for the Bus" at Café Ballou, "Two Way Tarot Mirrors" at Myopic Books, "My Favorite Banned Books Abecedarian Read-Out" at the Logan Square Library, "Aural Architecture" at WNUR, and other events.





Chicago Artists Month

Throughout October, you are invited to meet hundreds of Chicago visual artists at exhibitions, workshops, open studios, tours, neighborhood art walks and more in venues across the city. Presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with more than 200 program partners, Chicago Artists Month aims to showcase the extraordinary talent and vibrancy of Chicago's art community.



This year's theme, "The City as Studio," explores the impact of the urban environment on Chicago artists and their work, and the contributions that artists make to the vitality of our city. The place where art is imagined and made, whether in a physical or virtual space, affects the idea, the process and the final product. And the art, once created, leaves a mark on the place it occupies. Chicago Artists Month 2010 looks at how the city influences art and artists, and how artists transform the city by contributing to civic dialogue and quality of life.

Marick Press Spring -Summer 2010 titles

From Threshold to Threshold by Paul Celan translated by David Young
7Prose by Franz Wright
The Paris Stories by Laird Hunt
Bunker Anatomy by Cristopher Claro translated by Brian Evenson

Spring-Summer 2010 Titles

From Threshold to Threshold by Paul Celan translated by David Young
The Paris Stories by Laird Hunt
Bunker Anatomy by Brian Evenson
From Milltown to Malltown by Jim Daniels, Charlee Brodsky and Jane MaCafferty
7Prose by Franz Wright

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check out new titles at http://www.marickpress.com/

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Erin McKnight at Prick of the Spindle calls WATER THE MOON a “stunning debut collection.” Read the full review of Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s WATER THE MOON here.