Deborah Ager
“Deborah Ager’s Midnight Voices takes us to a place not unlike midnight itself, to a precarious edge between tenderness and unkempt desire, between a good laugh and the brutal truth, between the day’s stark glare and clarity, and the murk and backwater of deep night. Intelligent, subtle, uncanny, and playful, these poems, at each turn and turning, take me by surprise. The work is beautiful, exact, and exacting: it deserves and commands our attention.”—Eric Pankey
Deborah Ager's first book, Midnight Voices, was published by WordTech/Cherry Grove Collections in 2009.
Her poems appear in Best New Poets 2006, Best of the Tigertail Anthologies, The Bloomsbury Review, New England Review, The Georgia Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She's received fellowships from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
She codirects the Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Reading Series in Washington, DC.
She is founding editor of 32 Poems Magazine. Many poems first appearing in 32 Poems have been honored in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. The magazine publishes 64 poems per year.
Email her at deborah at 32poems dot com.