Life and Work

A New England

New England

New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...

 native, John Drexel is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and holds an M.A. in English from the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

, England, where his thesis adviser was Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation...

. He subsequently worked as an editor at Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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 and other publishing houses in New York City, and served as general editor of The Facts On File Encyclopedia of the 20th Century.

Mr. Drexel's poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including First Things

First Things

First Things is an ecumenical journal focused on creating a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The journal is inter-denominational and inter-religious, representing a broad intellectual tradition of Christian and Jewish critique of contemporary society...

, Hudson Review, Image, Oxford Poetry

Oxford Poetry

Oxford Poetry is a literary magazine based in Oxford, England. It is currently edited by Hamid Khanbhai and Thomas A Richards.Founded in 1910 by Basil Blackwell, its editors have included Dorothy L...

, The New Criterion

The New Criterion

The New Criterion is a New York-based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. It has sections for criticism of poetry, theater, art, music, the media, and books...

, New Ohio Review, Notre Dame Review, The Paris Review, Salmagundi (magazine)

Salmagundi (magazine)

Salmagundi is a quarterly periodical of the Humanities and Social Sciences which aims to address the general reader. It was founded in 1965, and Skidmore College has produced it since 1969. The name refers to Salmagundi, a salad dish originating in early 17th century England.-External links:* *...

, Southern Review

Southern Review

The Southern Review, a literary journal co-founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks and located on the campus of Louisiana State University, publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress by established and emerging writers...

, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Verse.

He has written on modern British and Irish poetry for the online Contemporary Poetry Review, and has reviewed for Arts & Letters

Arts & Letters

Arts & Letters is a literary journal based at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia.The journal is known for its in depth interviews with major American writers such as John Guare, Tina Howe, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Charles Simic. Notable contributors to the journal have...

, Irish Literary Supplement, Partisan Review

Partisan Review

Partisan Review was an American political and literary quarterly published from 1934 to 2003, though it suspended publication between October 1936 and December 1937.-Overview:...

, and other journals. He also directed poetry workshops at Hay-on-Wye

Hay-on-Wye

Hay-on-Wye , often described as "the town of books", is a small market town and community in Powys, Wales.-Location:The town lies on the east bank of the River Wye and is within the Brecon Beacons National Park, just north of the Black Mountains...

, Wales, and has twice served as a poetry judge for the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.

Criticism

• “Threaders of Double-Stranded Words: News from the North of Ireland,” New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, Vol. XII, No. 2, Winter, 1989, pp. 179–92.
• “Seaching the Darkness for a Landing Place: The Achievement of Thomas Kinsella,” Literary Review, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3, Spring, 1990, pp. 337–44.

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