Djelloul Marbrook, also known as Del Mabrouk[1] (born 1934), is an American contemporary poet,[2] writer, and photographer.

Biography

Djelloul Marbrook was born in 1934 in Algiers, Algeria, to parents Juanita Guccione (née Rice) and Ben Aissa ben Mabrouk.[1] Marbook's father was Algerian and he moved with only his mother to New York City when he was a young child.[3] He was raised by his extended family, primarily by his grandmother and aunts.[3] Marbook grew up in Brooklyn, West Islip, and Manhattan. He attended Dwight Preparatory School, and Columbia University.

Marbook worked as a soda jerk, newspaper vendor, messenger, theater and nightclub concessionaire, and served in the United States Navy and as a Merchant Marine before beginning his newspaper career. Marbrook learned photography in the United States Navy and became a reporter-photographer. Marbrook was married to Wanda Ratliff from 1955 to 1963, which ended in divorce.[1] He is married to Marilyn Hackett Marbrook.[3]

Career

He was a reporter for The Providence Journal[4] and an editor for the Elmira Star-Gazette,[4] The Baltimore Sun,[5] Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, The Washington Star,[5] and Media News newspapers in northeast Ohio, and Passaic and Paterson, New Jersey. His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in a number of journals.

Published works

Books

  • Marbrook, Djelloul (2008). Far from Algiers: Poems. Issue 14 of Wick Poetry Series. Ohio: Kent State University Press. ISBN 9780873389877.[6] winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry, explores the poet's feelings of not belonging to family or country.
  • Marbrook, Djelloul (2010). Brushstrokes and Glances: Poems. Maine: Deerbrook Editions. ISBN 9780982810019.
  • Marbrook, Djelloul (2012). Saraceno. Bliss Plot Press. ISBN 978-0-9718908-8-6.[7]
  • Brash Ice (2014, Leaky Boot Press)
  • Mean Bastards Making Nice (2014, Leaky Book Press)
  • Riding Thermals to Winter Grounds (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
  • A Warding Circle: New York stories (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
  • Air Tea with Dolores (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
  • Making Room: Baltimore stories (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
  • Nothing True Has a Name (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
  • Even Now the Embers (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
  • Other Risks Include (2017, Leaky Boot Press)
  • The Seas Are Dolphin's Tears, (2018 Leaky Boot Press)[5]
  • Light Piercing Water trilogy (2018, Leaky Boot Press)
    • Book 1, Guest Boy
    • Book 2, Crowds of One
    • Book 3, The Gold Factory
  • Songs in the O of Not (2019, Leaky Boot Press)
  • The Loneliness of Shape (2019, Leaky Boot Press)
  • Suffer the Children: Sailing Her Navel (poems) & Ludilon (novella) (2019, Leaky Boot Press)
  • Lying Like Presidents, New & Selected Poems, 2001–2019 (2020, Leaky Boot Press)

Awards

  • Far from Algiers (2008, Kent State University Press) won the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry.[6]
  • "Artists Hill", an excerpt from Crowds of One, Book 2 in the Guest Boy trilogy, won the 2008 Literal Latté fiction prize.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Evory, Ann; Draper, James P.; Locher, Frances Carol (1978). Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields. Vol. 73-76. Gale Research Company. p. 403. ISBN 978-0-8103-0031-6.
  2. ↑ Marbrook, Djelloul; Nye, Naomi Shihab (2020-11-25). "Poem: The next what-have-you". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  3. 1 2 3 Shengold, Nina (2013-08-07). "The Literary Palette of Djelloul Marbrook". Chronogram Magazine. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  4. 1 2 Atroun, Warda. McCormick, Joneve (ed.). "INTERVIEW - Djelloul Marbrook - The Peregrine Muse". The Peregrine Muse. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  5. 1 2 3 4 ""The Seas Are Dolphins' Tears" And More From Poet Djelloul Marbrook". WAMC. 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  6. 1 2 Poets & Writers. Poets & Writers, Incorporated. 2008. p. 126.
  7. ↑ "Saraceno". Archived from the original on 2017-09-18. Retrieved 2016-07-18.
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