Djelloul Marbrook

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Djelloul (jeh-lool) Marbrook, born in Algiers to a Bedouin father and an American painter grew up New York, served in the US Navy. His book of poems, Far From Algiers, won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize from Kent State University. His story, Artists Hill, won the Literal Latte first prize in fiction. He worked as a reporter for The Providence Journal and as an editor for The Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, The Baltimore Sun, The Winston-Salem Journal & Sentinel and The Washington Star. Later he worked as executive editor of four small dailies in northeast Ohio and two medium-size dailies in northern New Jersey.

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Broken Syntax in Cyberspace: The Future of Language?

Do I see a breakdown in language? I find texting both exhibitionistic and inane, much as children show off and test their independence, trying to find themselves.

We Must Begin to Redefine The Nature of News

I believe the news is a national health problem. The way it is presented afflicts us with post-traumatic stress disorder and impairs our reasoning.

A Rare Poet Recalls His Youth and The Pacific War

Paul Elisha is a Northeast Public Radio commentator, composer and poet. His excellent book, 'Swash,' recalls his youth and how the Pacific War engulfed and forever changed his life. The poems are restrained and deeply moving.

Algerian Sketches Savage Beauty of Tribal Dancer Inspires a Poem

The savage beauty of an Algerian tribal dancer from his father's tribe inspired a poem by Djelloul Marbrook just published by CELAAN, the Skidmore College Review of its Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa.

War is Too Big a Responsibility for Filmmakers and Historians Alone

It cannot be left to soldiers, politicians and preachers. Poets and artists must be called on to grasp all the dimensions of its horror and folly.

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