ARTICLES, REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS


SELECTED ARTICLES

Poetry Daily
April 5, 2012
Gail Mazur's Poetry Month Pick
To Giovanni da Pistoia "When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel" (1509)
by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 – 1564)
translated from the Italian by Gail Mazur

The Rumpus
The Last Poem I Loved: “Figures in a Landscape” by Gail Mazur
by Alexis Orgera, August 2nd, 2011
www.therumpus.net

On the Seawall, a literary website by Ron Slate
On Figures in a Landscape, poems by Gail Mazur

Provincetown Arts Magazine
" Michael and Gail Mazur first appeared in our pages in 1990, when Provincetown Arts published “Common Ground: A Collaboration,” featuring four poems by Gail and two spreads of Michael’s intertwining monotypes, connecting paired poems with surrounding foliage, as if the poems appeared in successive windows looking out upon a garden. The Mazurs, who had recently purchased a house in Provincetown, had been, for many years, spending summers in Mashpee, overlooking Wakeby Pond, the largest body of fresh water on Cape Cod."
— by Christopher Busa

COVER FEATURE - Gail Mazur, from Provincetown Arts Magazine
“Becoming a Poet”
by Lloyd Schwartz
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Saving Haiti with Poems, By Zoë Slutzky
Mother Jones
Wed, Dec 8, 2010

Labor Pains
Michelangelo's poem about the awkward parturition of the Sistine Chapel.
Slate
By Robert Pinsky, Jan 2010

Gail Mazur Reads At Radcliffe, By Sarah Sweeney
Harvard Gazette
Harvard News Office
Thursday, April 9, 2009

The Washington Post
Poet's Choice
By Robert Pinsky
Sunday, December 18, 2005

 

Provincetown Arts Magazine

 

 


Gail Mazur with Lloyd Schwartz
 


SELECTED REVIEWS

March, 2012 Review of Figures in a Landscape in Zoland Poetry
by Kent Leatham

Review by Ron Slate — Published on September 6, 2011
The Quarterly Conversation

Poetry Foundation, Reading Guide: Gail Mazur
Gail Mazur’s pop culture catalogue of 1940s.
by Samantha Myers, June 05, 2006

Review of Zeppo's First Wife
by Fred Marchant, Provincetown Arts, 2006
 


INTERVIEWS

Ploughshares
A Conversation with Gail Mazur

by Sarah Ehrich 
2013

This interview about the Blacksmith House Poetry Series, which will celebrate its fortieth anniversary in 2013, was edited and condensed from a tape recording made as part of the Cambridge Historical Society’s oral history initiative.

You Bet Your Life
Interview with Tess Taylor
The Atlantic / March 29, 2006

"Sometimes a shift in tone is all you'd need to make you happy," writes Gail Mazur in "American Ghazal," a poem in her new book, Zeppo's First Wife. This sizable volume showcases new poems and gathers selections from her four previous books—including They Can't Take That Away From Me (a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001). In the course of its 264 pages, its tone shifts many times. The opening poem, titled "Enormously Sad," explores the smallness of personal grief in the world, while the concluding poem, "Baseball," is a three-page ode to the game's "firm structure with the mystery / of accidents always contained." 

 

 

 

  

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