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On October 19, 2002 Gary Mex Glazner performed from his new book "EARS ON FIRE" at the 101 Artists' Colony. Gary has been a welcome guest in Encinitas on 2 previous occasions, including the national tour of Beatfest 2002. Gary captivates the audience with his exuberance and lively execution of his poetic works. Ears on Fire will be available online at poetryslam.com in the very near future.

EARS ON FIRE: Snapshot: Essays in a World of Poets - This book is an album, a journal, and a recollection. The idea was to travel around the world, meet poets, work on translations, and write poems. "My wife Margaret and I traveled approximately 34,299 miles by planes, trains, tuk-tuks, bemos, ferries, broken down Chinese night buses, and rickshaws." Along the way would be encounters with the Princess of Thailand, The Pink Man, Shilendra K. Singh in Kathmandu, fried grasshoppers, Tibetan monks in China cheating at cards, Tea House rappers, Xuan Xe of the Naxi Music Orchestra, the Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey, the mystic barber of Selcuk, Turkey, a sandalmaker poet in Greece, the Nubian Insect Poet of Tuscany, in Paris with George Whitman at Shakespeare & Company, a visit to Garcia Lorca's home and grave, Geraldo Rivera, and more! The stories are breezes over beers, swapped yarns, epiphanies, a jumble of thoughts, smells, kisses and bites. This isn't Basho's journey to the far north, this is Gary's stumble into the big picture, cracking out of the nutshell, hopping onto the blank page: the pen always moving to where poems actually happen. What results is a quirky look at the friendly camaraderie when poets from elsewhere meet poets of somewhere.

Bio:

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. The tour also featured the jazz trio "Vibes", and will be the subject of a documentary film to be produced by the 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 Festsival. He is writing a book for Sherman Asher Press to be released in the spring of 2003 entitled, "THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: How to Make your Living as a Poet". He is a graduate of Sonoma State University's Expressive Arts program with an emphasis in poetry. 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.

In 1998, Glazner and his wife Margaret traveled to 18 countries, meeting with poets and working on translations. This journey has resulted in a manuscript of travel stories and poems entitled, "Ears on Fire" which was published in the summer of 2002 by La Alameda Press. Glazner won the individual series in the first Poetry Olympics held in Stockholm in October 1998.

In November of 1999 to June 2001, Glazner was named Poet in Residence at the Inn on the Alameda, in Santa Fe. The hotel placed his poems on the guest's pillows. To date the hotel has given away 45,862 poems from his southwestern series. Glazner edited the anthology entitled "Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry" which documents the first ten years of the National Poetry Slam which was published in July of 2000 by Manic D Press. Glazner organized S1amAmerica, a poetry bus ride across America, which featured 37 readings over a 30 day period in 36 cities. Sponsored by Grand Mariner, the tour took place in the Summer of 2000 and over 100 poets participated. Glazner is the director and executive producer of a documentary film on the tour. The film "Busload of Poets", was selected by the Santa Fe Film Festival and had its world premiere in December 2001 on opening night of the festival. Glazner along with Amalia Ortiz won the 2001 Tag-Team Championship vs Quincy Troupe and Pat Payne at the Taos Poetry Circus. In the fall of 2001, Glazner worked with the YMCA teaching children ages 5 to 12, and with the program Read, Write, Succeed.

Glazner was born in Oklahoma in 1957. His middle name Mex is shortened from New Mexico. His great grand parents homesteaded in Stanley, New Mexico in the early 1900's and named their son Mex. The name has been passed down since then. He lives outside of Santa Fe with his wife Margaret and their dog Federico.

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