# Ben Mazer

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{{short description|American poet and editor (born 1964)}}
'''Ben Mazer''' (born 1964 in [New York City](/source/New_York_City)) is an [American poet](/source/American_poet) and editor.

== Life ==

Mazer was born in New York City and raised in the [Cambridge, Massachusetts](/source/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts) area. He studied under [Seamus Heaney](/source/Seamus_Heaney) and [William Alfred](/source/William_Alfred) at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University). Following graduation, he entered the [Editorial Institute](/source/Editorial_Institute) at [Boston University](/source/Boston_University) to focus on textual scholarship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/clarion/14/interview-with-ben-mazer.htm|title=Clarion Magazine at Boston University}}</ref>

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

== Publications ==

As poet:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://madhat-press.com/pages/ben-mazer|title=Ben Mazer}}</ref>
* ''White Cities'' (Barbara Matteau Editions, 1995)
* ''Johanna Poems'' (Cy Gist Press, 2007)
* ''The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics'' (Cannibal Books, 2008; 2009)
* ''Poems'' (Pen & Anvil Press, 2010)
* ''January 2008'' (Dark Sky Books, 2010)
* ''A City of Angels: A Verse Play in Three Acts'' (Cy Gist Press, 2011)
* ''Tales of the Buckman Tavern'' (Poetrywala, 2012)
* ''New Poems'' (Pen & Anvil Press, 2013)
* ''The Glass Piano'' ([MadHat Press](/source/MadHat_Press), 2015)
* ''December Poems'' (Pen & Anvil Press, 2016)
* ''February Poems'' (Ilora Press, 2017)
* ''Selected Poems'' ([MadHat Press](/source/MadHat_Press), 2017)
* ''Te conozco?'' ([Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México](/source/Universidad_Nacional_Aut%C3%B3noma_de_M%C3%A9xico), 2018). Bilingual edition with translations into Spanish by Mario Murgia.
* ''The Hierarchy of the Pavilions'' ([MadHat Press](/source/MadHat_Press), 2020)
* ''The Ruined Millionaire: New Selected Poems: 2002-2022'' ([MadHat Press](/source/MadHat_Press), 2023)
* ''The Ruined Millionaire: New Selected Poems: 2002-2022'' ([Poetrywala](/source/Poetrywala), 2023)

As editor:
* ''[Landis Everson](/source/Landis_Everson)’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955–2005'' ([Graywolf Press](/source/Graywolf_Press), 2006), winner of the [Poetry Foundation](/source/Poetry_Foundation)'s first Emily Dickinson Award.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/17/books/poet-79-wins-prize-and-new-audience.html|title=Poet, 79, Wins Prize and New Audience|newspaper=The New York Times|date=17 October 2005|last1=Smith|first1=Dinitia}}</ref>
* ''Selected Poems of [Frederick Goddard Tuckerman](/source/Frederick_Goddard_Tuckerman)'' ([Harvard University Press](/source/Harvard_University_Press), 2010)
* [Hart Crane](/source/Hart_Crane). ''The Bridge: The Uncollected Version, from Periodicals and Anthologies, 1927-1930'' ([MadHat Press](/source/MadHat_Press), 2015)
* ''The Collected Poems of [John Crowe Ransom](/source/John_Crowe_Ransom)'' (Un-Gyve Press, 2015)
* ''The Uncollected [Delmore Schwartz](/source/Delmore_Schwartz)'' (Arrowsmith Press, 2019)
* [Harry Crosby](/source/Harry_Crosby). ''Selected Poems'' ([MadHat Press](/source/MadHat_Press), 2020)
* [Thomas Sayers Ellis](/source/Thomas_Sayers_Ellis), ''Mexico: Photographs'' (Art and Letters, 2021)
* [Ruth Lepson](/source/Ruth_Lepson), ''on the way: new and selected poems'' ([MadHat Press](/source/MadHat_Press), 2021)
* ''The Collected Poems of [Delmore Schwartz](/source/Delmore_Schwartz)'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)

Books About: 
* Thomas Graves. ''Ben Mazer and the New Romanticism'' (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021)

== References ==

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