Mariela Griffor

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Mariela Griffor
File:Mariela Griffor.jpg
Born (1961-09-29) September 29, 1961 (age 62)
Concepcion, Chile
Nationality Chile
Occupation Poet, Translator, Diplomat
Known for Poetry, Publisher
Website www.marielagriffor.com

Mariela Griffor (born September 29, 1961, Concepcion, Chile), is a poet, editor, publisher and diplomat. She is author of three poetry collections, Exiliana, House and most recently, The Psychiatrist (Eyewear Publishing, 2013), and has had her poems and translations published in many literary journals and magazines including Poetry International, Washington Square Review , Texas Poetry Review, and Éditions d'art Le Sabord, in anthologies including Poetry in Michigan / Michigan in Poetry, from New Issues Press.

Early life

Griffor was born in Concepcion, Chile.[1][2] She attended the University of Santiago[2] and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.[3] She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden in 1985.[1][4] Griffor holds a B.A in Journalism from Wayne State University and a M.F.A in Creative Writing from New England College.[3] She and her American husband returned to the United States in 1998 with their two daughters.[2][4] They live in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.[2][4]

Career

Griffor is co-founder of the institute for Creative Writers at Wayne State University and Publisher of Marick Press.[2][4] Her work has appeared in Passages North, Cerise Press, Washington Square Review, Texas Poetry Review and many others.[3] She is the author of Exiliana (Luna Publications) and House (Mayapple Press).[5] Her latest publication is The Psychiatrist (Eyewear Publishing). She is honorary consul of Chile in Michigan.

Griffor writes about her homeland of Chile, and her immigrant experiences as an exile in both Sweden and the United States.[4][6]

Works

Griffor, who is bilingual, is a rare exception among lyrical Chilean writers that publishes here [Chile] and in other places. In Resolana one notices an exceptional consistency, a coherence in contrast to the robust naturalism of our tradition and, above all, a profound cultural formation – without a doubt, immersed in the North American lyric, especially Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore – consolidated in hymns to the common and current, in the everyday, in the allusion to the flora and fauna that, without extending in manifest form, uses symbols and literary resources so that the verbal weight asserts itself to her readers. If one has to position Griffor within the recent history of Chilean poetry, her art is closest to poets such as Jorge Teillier, Delia Domínguez and the early Enrique Lihn.

Poetry

Editing

  • Poetry International,Issue 13/14 2009 Special Double Issue Featuring Chilean Poetry Today [San Diego State University Press] ISBN 1-879691-90-6 ISSN 103-054-X (San Diego, California), 2009

References

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External links

Reviews

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Reviews of books

1. Exiliana • http://cutbankpoetry.blogspot.com/2007/02/exiliana-by-mariela-griffor.html • http://www.ravenchronicles.org/Reviews/13-1Kaminsky.html • http://www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/2007/01/11/marielas-exiliana/ • http://www.themontserratreview.com/bookreviews/Exiliana.html

2. House

3. The Psychiatrist http://www.artifizz.org/Wordpress/tag/mariela-griffor/

4. Ma Demeure Brule ( House, French edition)

5. Il rumore della pioggia nel Michigan

6. Heartland

7. Poemas Militantes (Trans)

8. ANTHOLOGY OF CHILEAN WRITERS: Poetry International (Editor)

9. ANTHOLOGY: WORKING WORDS: Punching the clock and kicking out the jams (Contributor as poet and translator)

10. ANTHOLOGY: Poetry in Michigan/Michigan Poetry ( Contributor as poet)

11. DETROIT ANTHOLOGY ( Contributor as essayist)

12. TYGERBURNING Literary Journal ( Founder)

13. TYGERBURNING Literary Journal ( Founder)

14. Resolana ( Poetry Collection in Spanish)

Marks, Camilo. "Resolana/Sunspots by Mariela Griffor". Web del Sol.

Etcheverry, Jorge. "En torno a un libro de Mariela Griffor". letras.s5.com (in Spanish).

15. Sunspots and other poems ( Bilingual collection, Spanish & English)

16. House in Chinese (China)

17. House (Bilingual edition in US)

Reviews and publications of individual poems

1. Poems Curls and Prologue in Cerise Press: http://www.cerisepress.com/01/01/seeking-a-new-you-speaking-with-mariela-griffor/view-all 2. Cimarron Review: http://cimarronreview.com/issue-186-winter-2014/

3. Texas Poetry Review: http://www.borderlands.org/current_issue.htm

4. Poem: Poem Without a Number: House http://mayapplepress.com/house-mariela-griffor/

5. Poem Wings, Clarification and Ether in ithacalit: http://ithacalit.com/mariela-griffor.html

6. Poems Boys and Prayer to a farm worker: Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams 7. Poem The Sonnets of the Death http://www.talismanmag.net/mistralgriffor.html 8. Poem Chiloe Island http://www.acentosreview.com/november_2012/Griffor.html 9. Poem Crisis http://amoskeagjournal.com/2013-2-2/2013-mariela-griffor-crisis/ 10. Five poems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HUJjVkgXsU 11. Poem Code Names http://ghosttownlitmag.com/mariela-griffor/ 12. Poem The Year of the Plague http://calderaculture.com/author/marielagriffor/ 13. http://aldebaranreview.com/ar_fall_2012 14. http://www.2river.org/2RView/17_1/poems/griffor.html 15. http://jmwwjournal.com/Winter2014Index.html 16. http://borderbend.bandcamp.com/album/translating-2010 17. http://pionline.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/on-mariela-griffors-after-death/ 18. http://dailydoseoflit.com/2012/11/13/poem-mariela-griffor/ 19. Translations: http://epc.buffalo.edu/presses/SN/files/GrifforSNI2.pdf 20. http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/news/344/pbs_winter_choices/ 21. http://www.thebaconreview.com/featureone.php?id=29 22. http://passagesnorth.com/archives/issue-31/ 23. http://washingtonsquarereview.com/archives/issue-25/ 24. http://www.thecafereview.com/?m=201302

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