Ben Mazer was born in New York City in 1964. His poems have been widely published in international periodicals, including Fulcrum, Verse, Harvard Review, Jacket, Agenda, Stand, Boston Review, Salt, and The Wolf. His poetry collections include Poems (The Pen & Anvil Press, 2010), and two chapbooks, The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (Cannibal Books, 2008) and Johanna Poems (Cy Gist Press, 2007). He is the editor of Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press, 2010), Landis Everson's Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 (Graywolf Press, 2006, winner of the first E...