Biography gail mazur

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  • Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gail Mazur grew up in Auburndale, MA. Since the 1960s she has lived primarily in Cambridge and Provincetown, with periods in New York City, Houston and Los Angeles.

    • Mazur, Gail 1937–

    PERSONAL:

    Born November 10, 1937, in Cambridge, MA; daughter of Manuel (in antiques business) and Mildred (a teacher) Beckwith; married Michael Mazur (an artist), December 28, 1958; children: Daniel Isaac, Kathe Elizabeth. Education:Smith College, B.A., 1959; studied with Robert Lowell, 1975-77.

    ADDRESSES:

    Home—Cambridge, MA. E-mail—[email protected].

    CAREER:

    Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA, instructor in poetry, 1973-2002. Founder and director of Blacksmith House poetry program, beginning 1973, editor for Blacksmith Press, beginning 1974. Emerson College, Boston, MA, poet-in-residence, 1979-80; Lesley College, Cambridge, MA, mentor, 1983-84; University of Massachusetts—Boston, faculty member, 1985, 1991. Member of board of directors of "Book Affair"; has given readings from her works throughout New England and the Tennessee poetry circuit, and served as juror for poetry competitions.

    MEMBER:

    Poetry Society of America.

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  • Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gail Mazur grew up in Auburndale, MA. Since the s she has lived primarily in Cambridge and Provincetown, with periods in New York City, Houston and Los Angeles.

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      Mazur is the author of Nightfire (); The Pose of Happiness (); The Common (); They Can’t Take That Away from Me (), finalist for the National Book Award; Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems (), winner of The Massachusetts Book Prize and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize.

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  • Gail Mazur is an American poet born and raised in Massachusetts.

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      Gail Mazur is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College and Founding Director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, a weekly poetry reading series she ran for 29 years.