Poetry Jam 2004 – Presenter Bio

Gary Mex Glazner

Gary Mex Glazner makes his living as a poet. Pontiac featured Glazner’s poetry in April 2002 on the Beat Fest; a 17-city traveling festival organized by the New York based Knitting Factory. Gary is the Minister of Fun for Poetry Slam Incorporated. Glazner was featured along with Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman and Sherman Alexi at the 20th anniversary of Tucson Poetry Festival. In 1990, Glazner produced the first National Poetry Slam in San Francisco. His poetry has appeared in anthologies, periodicals, on CD, radio, television, and underwater on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. His poems have been translated into Chinese, Moldavian, Nepali, and Vietnamese. In 1997, Poets and Writers Inc. awarded him a grant to work with Alzheimer patients using poetry.