July 2019 Notable Maryland Author Michael S. Glaser

Michael S. Glaser

“The darkness and cold is out there — and there is not a stranger among us.” Michael S. Glaser

Michael S. Glaser was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1943, received his B.A. from Denison University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Kent State University. Glaser served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2004 – 2009. Over 500 of Glaser’s poems have been published in literary journals and newspapers such as American Scholar, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Christian Science Monitor, The Antioch Review, The Progressive Magazine and Sacred Journey. He is a Professor Emeritus at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where he served as both a professor of English and an administrator for nearly 40 years.

While at St. Mary’s, he co-founded and directed their annual Literary Festival as well as the VOICES literary reading series. He is a recipient of the Homer Dodge Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching, Glaser as well as the Poetry Committee of the Greater Washington’s Columbia Merit Award for his service to poetry. Loyola College awarded him the Andrew White Medal for his dedication to the intellectual and scholarly life, and for his commitment to sustaining the poetic tradition in the State of Maryland. He served as a Maryland State Arts Council poet-in-the-schools for over 25 years. He writes poetry reviews for The Friends Journal, and co-leads retreats which embrace the reading and writing of poetry as a means of self-reflection, personal growth, and meaningful engagement in the world.

He lives in St. Mary’s City, Maryland with his wife and educator, Kathleen W. Glaser, who works with the Center for Courage and Renewal. The Glaser’s enjoy five grown children and ten grandchildren.

Genre: Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. Glaser firmly believes in the power of poetry to reflect upon what it means to be human.

Partial reading list of Glaser Poetry: A Lover’s Eye; In The Men’s Room and Other Poems; Being a Father; Fire Before the Hands; Remembering Eden; Disrupting Consensus.

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