John Drexel

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John Drexel
BornStamford, Connecticut, U.S.
OccupationPoet, critic and editor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Connecticut
University of Leeds
GenrePoetry

John Drexel is an American poet, critic, and editor.

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Life and work

John Drexel was born in Stamford, Connecticut. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and holds an M.A. in English from the University of Leeds, England, where his thesis advisor was Geoffrey Hill. He subsequently worked as an editor at Oxford University Press and other publishing houses in New York City, and served as general editor of The Facts On File Encyclopedia of the 20th Century. [1]

Mr. Drexel's poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including First Things , [2] [3] Hudson Review , [4] Image, [5] Oxford Poetry , [6] [7] The New Criterion , [8] New Ohio Review, [9] Notre Dame Review , [10] The Paris Review , [11] Salmagundi (magazine) , [12] Southern Review , [13] St. Petersburg Review , [14] Valparaiso Poetry Review, [15] and Verse.

He has written on modern British and Irish poetry for the online Contemporary Poetry Review, [16] and has reviewed for Arts & Letters , Irish Literary Supplement, Partisan Review , and other journals. He also directed poetry workshops at Hay-on-Wye, Wales, [17] and has twice served as a poetry judge for the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.

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  15. ↑ Edward Byrne. "Valparaiso Poetry Review, Contents: V. IX N. 1". Valpo.edu. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
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  17. ↑ "John Drexel | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". Pw.org. 2013-05-22. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
  18. ↑ "Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship- List of Past Recipients". Amylowell.org. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
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