Djelloul Marbrook
Djelloul Marbrook, also known as Del Mabrouk, was an American contemporary poet, writer, and photographer.
Biography
Djelloul Marbrook was born on August 12, 1934, in Algiers, Algeria, to parents Juanita Guccione and Ben Aissa ben Mabrouk. Marbook's father was Algerian and he moved with only his mother to New York City when he was a young child. He was raised by his extended family, primarily by his grandmother and aunts. Marbook grew up in Brooklyn, West Islip, and Manhattan. He attended Dwight Preparatory School, and Columbia University.Marbook worked as a soda jerk, newspaper vendor, messenger, theater and nightclub concessionaire, and served in the United States Navy and as a Merchant Marine before beginning his newspaper career. Marbrook learned photography in the United States Navy and became a reporter-photographer. Marbrook was married to Wanda Ratliff from 1955 to 1963, which ended in divorce. He was also married to Marilyn Hackett Marbrook.
Career
He was a reporter for The Providence Journal and an editor for the Elmira Star-Gazette, The Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, The Washington Star, and Media News newspapers in northeast Ohio, and Passaic and Paterson, New Jersey. His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in a number of journals.Published works
Books
- winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry, explores the poet's feelings of not belonging to family or country.
- Brash Ice
- Mean Bastards Making Nice
- Riding Thermals to Winter Grounds
- A Warding Circle: New York stories
- Air Tea with Dolores
- Making Room: Baltimore stories
- Nothing True Has a Name
- Even Now the Embers
- Other Risks Include
- The Seas Are Dolphin's Tears,
- Light Piercing Water trilogy
- *Book 1, Guest Boy
- *Book 2, Crowds of One
- *Book 3, The Gold Factory
- Songs in the O of Not
- The Loneliness of Shape
- Suffer the Children: Sailing Her Navel & Ludilon
- Lying Like Presidents, New & Selected Poems, 2001–2019
- The Yellow Suitcase, New Poems | | Pierian Springs Press, 2025