Ben Mazer

Ben Mazer (born 1964 in New York City) is an American poet and editor.

Life

Mazer was born in New York City and raised in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. He studied under Seamus Heaney and William Alfred at Harvard University. Following graduation, he entered the Editorial Institute at Boston University to focus on textual scholarship.[1]

Mazer is the editor of the Battersea Review. He lives in Cambridge.

Publications

As poet:[2]

• White Cities (Barbara Matteau Editions, 1995)
• Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2010)
• January 2008 (Dark Sky Books, 2010)
• New Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2013)
• The Glass Piano (MadHat Press, 2015)
• December Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2016)
• February Poems (Ilora Press, 2017)
• Selected Poems (MadHat Press, 2017)

As editor:

• Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955–2005 (Graywolf Press, 2006), winner of the Poetry Foundation's first Emily Dickinson Award.[3]
• Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press, 2010)
• The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press, 2015)
• The Uncollected Delmore Schwartz (Arrowsmith Press, 2019)
• Harry Crosby. Selected Poems (MadHat Press, 2020)

References

1. http://www.bu.edu/clarion/14/interview-with-ben-mazer.htm
2. http://madhat-press.com/pages/ben-mazer
3. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/17/books/poet-79-wins-prize-and-new-audience.html

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