John Drexel

Poet

Glen Ridge, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
jfdrex@yahoo.com

Author's Bio

 

 

 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
"For New Orleans" & Other Poems (Bayeux Arts, 2007)
,
A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play (Sarabande Books, 2001)
Chapbook:
The Necessary Pilgrim (Headingley Press, 2004)
Journals:
Acumen Literary Journal
,
First Things
,
Hudson Review
,
Illuminations
,
Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion
,
Outposts Poetry Review
,
Oxford Poetry
,
Paris Review
,
Salmagundi
,
Seneca Review
,
Southern Review
,
U.S. 1 Worksheets
,
Verse
,
Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry & Prose
,
New Ohio Review
,
Notre Dame Review
,
Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry
,
The Alembic
,
The Chimaera
,
The New Criterion
,
The St. Petersburg Review
,
Valparaiso Poetry Review
Prizes won: 
  • Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship (1993)
  • Hawthornden Fellowship (1996)
  • two Pushcart Prize nominations

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Prose: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Henry James, Raymond Chandler, P. G. Wodehouse, Patrick O'Brian. Verse: Shakespeare, Poe, W. B. Yeats, Ivor Gurney, T. S. Eliot, Eugenio Montale, Fernando Pessoa, W. S. Graham, Geoffrey Hill, Derek Mahon. Et alia.
What I'm reading now: 
The Strudlhof Steps by Heimito von Doderer, The Green Month: Poems after Dafydd ap Gwilym by Matthew Francis, The Scandal of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton, Lapidary by Rosamund Stanhope, A Water Walk by Villa d'Este by Jean Garrigue, Selected Poems by William Bronk, Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel, The Letters of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Stamford, CT
Connecticut
Raised in: 
Stamford, CT
Connecticut
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Last update: May 24, 2026