Ben Mazer (born 1964 inNew York City) is anAmerican poet and editor.

Mazer was born in New York City and raised in theCambridge, Massachusetts area. He studied underSeamus Heaney andWilliam Alfred atHarvard University. Following graduation, he entered theEditorial Institute atBoston University to focus on textual scholarship.^[1]

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

As poet:^[2]

• 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, 2015)
• December Poems (Pen & Anvil Press, 2016)
• February Poems (Ilora Press, 2017)
• Selected Poems (MadHat Press, 2017)
• Te conozco? (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2018). Bilingual edition with translations into Spanish by Mario Murgia.
• The Hierarchy of the Pavilions (MadHat Press, 2020)
• The Ruined Millionaire: New Selected Poems: 2002-2022 (MadHat Press, 2023)
• The Ruined Millionaire: New Selected Poems: 2002-2022 (Poetrywala, 2023)

As editor:

• Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955–2005 (Graywolf Press, 2006), winner of thePoetry Foundation's first Emily Dickinson Award.^[3]
• Selected Poems ofFrederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press, 2010)
• Hart Crane.The Bridge: The Uncollected Version, from Periodicals and Anthologies, 1927-1930 (MadHat Press, 2015)
• The Collected Poems ofJohn Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press, 2015)
• The UncollectedDelmore Schwartz (Arrowsmith Press, 2019)
• Harry Crosby.Selected Poems (MadHat Press, 2020)
• Thomas Sayers Ellis,Mexico: Photographs (Art and Letters, 2021)
• Ruth Lepson,on the way: new and selected poems (MadHat Press, 2021)
• The Collected Poems ofDelmore Schwartz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)

Books About:

• Thomas Graves.Ben Mazer and the New Romanticism (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021)

• American male poets
• 1964 births
• 21st-century American poets
• Poets from Massachusetts
• Harvard University alumni
• Living people
• Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Writers from New York City
• 21st-century American male writers

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