2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Winner

The winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize at Kent State University has now been selected.

Djelloul Marbrook’s manuscript Far from Algiers was chosen by our judge, Toi Derricotte, out of nearly 450 submissions. Marbrook currently lives in Germantown, NY, and his book will be published by the Kent State University Press in the fall of 2008.

Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers in 1934. One year later, he and his mother, American artist Anita Rice, departed for the United States. He grew up in Brooklyn, Long Island, and Manhattan, attended the Dwight School and Columbia, and served in the U.S. Navy. He pursued a respected newspaper career as Del Marbrook: reporter for the Providence Journal, editor for the Elmira Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun, Winston-Salem Journal, and Washington Star, and executive editor of small dailies in northeast Ohio and northern New Jersey.

In the 1960s he was published in Solstice (England) and Beyond Baroque and Phantasm, both in California, but then stopped writing poetry until the events of September 11, 2001 awakened his poetic voice. Far from Algiers is his first book of poems. He also writes fiction. Marbrook lives in Germantown, N.Y. with his wife Marilyn.



1st runner up
Red Leather Gloves
B.V. Olguin
San Antonio, TX

2nd Runner up
Apparition Wren
Maureen Alsop
Palm Springs, CA

3rd runner up
Take Me Anywhere
Melanie Drane
Durham, NC

4th runner up
Cooling Board
Douglas Mitchell
Indianapolis, IN