Gary Mex Glazner

Gary Mex Glazner founded Poetry Slams in San Francisco, spent most of 1998 travelling around the world both gathering & giving out poetry, settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico & writes for About Poetry as our New Mexico/Southwest Museletter correspondent. Among the previous feature articles he has contributed here:

• The Reverse Blurb Chapter, an invitation to participate in the making of his new book, How To Make Your Living as a Poet.
• Dear Editor: “Fifty-Odd Years of Pissing Off Poets,” a review of the collected letters to & from the editors of Poetry published in 2002
• The Business of Fancy Dancing, a review of Sherman Alexie’s film
• “Poetry/Life/Politics,” a review of Margaret Randall’s book, Coming Up For Air
• “Poetry and Art in Santa Fe,” a review of two shows that combined poetry & visual art
• “Archipoetry 101,” about the building of Albuquerque’s Poets’ Plaza
• “To Feel the Poem Dance,” a report from the First International Poetry Olympics
• “Tea House Rappers, Crucification and the Slammer,” on poetry in China 1998

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