Portrait of Gail Mazur

Gail Mazur

Gail Mazur is the author of eight books of poetry, including Land’s End: New and Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press 2020), Forbidden City (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and They Can’t Take That Away from Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems (2005) won the Massachusetts Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is founding director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, a center for the poetry community since 1973; serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; and was visiting faculty in Boston University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing from 2016 to 2020. She has twice been a fellow in poetry at the Radcliffe Institute. She lives in Cambridge. (updated 10/2023)

Mazur’s The Common was reviewed in AGNI 42 by Jennifer Clarvoe.

Mazur’s They Can’t Take That Away From Me was reviewed in AGNI 54 by Peter Campion.

AGNI published A Tribute to Gail Mazur in AGNI 78.

AGNI has published the following work:

Last Night

Poetry by Gail Mazur

Josef Albers

Poetry by Gail Mazur

Philip Guston

Poetry by Gail Mazur

To the Charles River

Poetry by Gail Mazur

Où Sont les Neiges d’Antan

Poetry by Gail Mazur

To the Women of My Family (reprinted from the collection Figures in a Landscape)

Poetry by Gail Mazur

On Lowell

Essay by Gail Mazur

American Scene 1935

Poetry by Gail Mazur

At First, They

Poetry by Gail Mazur

Insomnia at Daybreak

Poetry by Gail Mazur

Five poems: Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions,

Poetry by Gail Mazur

At Boston Garden, The First Night of War, 1991

Poetry by Gail Mazur

Phonic

Poetry by Gail Mazur

Family Plot, October

Poetry by Gail Mazur

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