Henry Israeli
Assistant Teaching Professor; Associate Director, Certificate in Writing and Publishing
Office: 314 Stratton Hall
Phone: (215) 895-6905
Email: hpi22@drexel.edu
Education
- B.A., English, McGill University, 1990
- M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Iowa, 1993
- M.F.A., Theater Arts (Playwriting), University of Iowa
Biography
I have taught in Drexel’s First-Year Writing Program and the Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University since 2004. Aside from teaching, I am a poet, translator, and founder and editor of Saturnalia Books, a publisher of contemporary poetry. I have also published several books of my own, and received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Canada Council on the Arts, and elsewhere. I am currently working on a new collection of poetry, tentatively titled, Godsbreath hovering over the waters.
Publications
- Praying to the Black Cat (author). Washington: Del Sol Press, 2010
- Child of Nature (editor and translator; poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku). New York: New Directions, 2010
- New Messiahs (author). New York: Four Way Books, 2002
- Fresco: Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku (edited, translated and with an Afterword by Henry Israeli). New York: New Directions, 2002
- Lleshanaku, Luljeta. Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions. Ed. Jeffrey Yang. (New Directions, 2011)
- Lleshanaku, Luljeta. Between Water and Song. Norman Minnick, ed. (White Pine, 2010)
- Lleshanaku, Luljeta. New European Poets. Eds. Kevin Prufer & Wayne Miller (Graywolf, 2008)
- Lleshanaku, Luljeta. World Beat. Ed. Elliot Weinberger. (New Directions, 2006)
- Israeli, Henry. “The Bicycle Ride,” The Art of Bicycling: A Treasury of Verse. Ed. Justin Belmont. (Breakaway Books, 2005)
- Israeli, Henry. “Sway”, Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets. Eds. Brett Fletcher Lauer & Aimee Kelly. (Amherst: Verse Press, 2004)
- Lleshanaku, Luljeta (trans. Henry Israeli), Electrolytes. Anthology of Magazine Verse: Yearbook of American Poetry 1997. Ed. Alan F. Pater (Baker & Taylor, 1998)
- Someck, Ronny (trans. Henry Israeli), “Lion’s Milk”, Keys to the Garden, Ed. Ammiel Alcalay (San Francisco: City Lights, 1997)
- More than 100 poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals including American Poetry Review, Tin House, Grand Street, Verse, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, and elsewhere.