Jack Marshall (born 1936)[1] is an American poet and author.
He was born to an Iraqi father, and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage.
[4] The Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA) is where he attended night classes in poetry in 1960 with poets Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz.
[4][5] He is the author of numerous books and poems which reflect and explore his cultural heritage.
Two examples, From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America, along with Millennium Fever:Poems, proved very successful.