Poetry as disturbance, a meditation on conceptual poetry
As an appellate lawyer and conceptual poet Vanessa Place is no stranger to controversy, and it’s...
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Djelloul Marbrook
Djelloul (jeh-lool) Marbrook was born in 1934 in Algiers to a Bedouin father and an American painter. He grew up in Brooklyn, West Islip and Manhattan, New York, where he graduated from Dwight School and attended Columbia. He then served in the U.S. Navy. Marbrook blogs at www.djelloulmarbrook.com and is the author of two books of poetry (Far from Algiers, Kent State; Brushstrokes and Glances, Deerbrook Editions) and three novellas (Artemisia’s Wolf, Saraceno, and Alice Miller’s Room), with other works forthcoming. A retired newspaper editor, he lives in New York with his wife Marilyn.
Djelloul (jeh-lool) Marbrook was born in 1934 in Algiers to a Bedouin father and an American painter. He grew up in Brooklyn, West Islip and Manhattan, New York, where he graduated from Dwight School and attended Columbia. He then served in the U.S. Navy. Marbrook blogs at www.djelloulmarbrook.com and is the author of two books of poetry (Far from Algiers, Kent State; Brushstrokes and Glances, Deerbrook Editions) and three novellas (Artemisia’s Wolf, Saraceno, and Alice Miller’s Room), with other works forthcoming. A retired newspaper editor, he lives in New York with his wife Marilyn.
Posts by Djelloul Marbrook
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Ringing satisfaction
I had a daughter once whom I scolded beyond repair. She left her name with me and found another...
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For all I know
I remember nothing of former lives except the details which are as you know impediments to what...
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I turn my back on words
Whoever’s good for more than seven words shouldn’t wholly trust my compliments. A sniper’s...
Read MoreThe glory of snakes
I asked you if you liked wildflowers & you said yes & then the devil got into me & and I asked you if you liked snakes & then we could not hold the planets in their circuits for our fear of each other—you like...
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