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John Drexel [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Glen Ridge, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
jfdrex@yahoo.com
Bio: 

 

 

 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Stamford, CT
Connecticut
Raised in: 
Stamford, CT
Connecticut
Prizes won: 
  • Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship (1993)
  • Hawthornden Fellowship (1996)
  • two Pushcart Prize nominations
What I'm reading now: 
Selected Poems by Vittorio Sereni
Lapidary by Rosamund Stanhope
Uncommon Prayer by Kimberly Johnson
Without Title by Geoffrey Hill
A Water Walk by Villa d'Este by Jean Garrigue
the Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian
The Collected Poems by Terence Tiller
Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel
Duino Elegies (in original German and in translation by Alfred Corn) by Rainer Maria Rilke

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