Join ESWA Executive Director Tara A. Elliott in rich conversation with Michael Glaser as he reads from and discusses his work. 

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MICHAEL S. GLASER is a Professor Emeritus at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2004 – 2009.  The recipient of awards for his teaching, and his service to poetry,  he served as a Maryland State Arts Council Poet-in-the-Schools for nearly 25 years and also served on the Board of the Maryland Humanities Council. The founding director of the Literary Festival at St. Mary’s, he now co-leads retreats which embrace the reading and writing of poetry as a means of self-reflection and personal growth. Glaser writes book reviews for The Friends Journal, has published several award-winning collections of his own poetry (most recently The Threshold of Light (Bright Hills Press, 2019) and Elemental Things, ( The Poetry Box, 2022), edited three anthologies and co-edited The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (BOA 2012). He now lives in Hillsborough, NC. More on his out-dated website.