Deborah Ager
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Deborah Ager is an American poet, essayist, and editor.
Life
Deborah Ager founded the poetry magazine known as 32 poems or 32 Poems Magazine in 2003 with the poet John Poch.{{cite web |title=Deborah Ager |url=http://www.deborahager.com/ |accessdate=May 28, 2015 |work=deborahager.com |archive-date=September 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918082359/http://deborahager.com/ |url-status=dead }} She was educated at the University of Maryland (B.A.) and the University of Florida (M.F.A.).
She has published three books. She co-edited the anthologies Old Flame: 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine (2012) with John Poch and Bill Beverly and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (2013) with M. E. Silverman.
Her writing has appeared in New England Review, The Georgia Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review, North American Review, and Best New Poets 2006. Her manuscript Midnight Voices was a semifinalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize in 2007 before being accepted for publication by Cherry Grove Collections.
Ager is also an essayist, with nonfiction writing published in Narratively, The Week, and Modern Loss.{{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
Honors and awards
- Scholarship, West Chester Poetry Conference, 2011
- Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
- Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference
- Fellowship, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, 2009
- Tennessee Williams scholar, Sewanee Writers' Conference
- Fellowship, MacDowell Colony
Books
- {{cite book|editor1=Deborah Ager|editor2=M. E. Silverman|title=The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e47mmQEACAAJ|accessdate=July 15, 2013|date=September 26, 2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1-4411-8879-3}}
- {{cite book|editor1=Deborah Ager|editor2=Bill Beverly|editor3=John Poch|title=Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uYpzMAEACAAJ|accessdate=July 15, 2013|date=January 10, 2013|publisher=WordFarm|isbn=978-1-60226-013-9}}
- {{cite book|title=Midnight Voices|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlhnPgAACAAJ|accessdate=July 15, 2013|date=March 1, 2009|publisher=WordTech Communications LLC|isbn=978-1-934999-42-4}}
Works
- "The Lights and Lessons of Toro Nagashi, the Japanese Candle Boat Ceremony," Modern Loss, 2018.
- From the Fishouse, May 2011
- "The Problem With Describing Men"
- "Mangos", Delaware Poetry Review, March 2003
- "The Lake", Connecticut Review, 2002
- "Night in Iowa", Georgia Review, 2000
- "Night: San Francisco", New England Review, 2002
- "Santa Fe In Winter", New England Review, 2002
- "The Space Coast", American Literary Review, 2002
Personal life
Ager is married to the writer Bill Beverly.{{cite web |title=Bill Beverly |url=http://www.noexit.co.uk/bill-beverly |access-date=9 April 2023 |website=noexit.co.uk |archive-date=January 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101091845/http://www.noexit.co.uk/bill-beverly |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://32poems.com/masthead/deborah-ager/}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070504041856/http://www.32poems.com/masthead.html Short biography]
- [http://www.poetrynet.org/month/index.htm Poet of the Month Feature] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727181422/http://poetrynet.org/month/index.htm |date=July 27, 2011 }}
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Category:University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Category:University of Florida alumni
Category:21st-century American poets