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The Poetry of Main Street
A Performance and Writing, Walking Workshop with Gary Mex Glazner
Saturday, June 21st, 1 to 3pm, $25.

While most of America reflects the same-same of the strip mall,
down town Encinitas continues to rumble with unique character.
In this workshop we take Main Street as our muse. We will start the
workshop at 101 Artists' Colony... then walking through the downtown
area we will interview people, write in the voice of the street, explore
the buildings and history of this singular place. We will end the workshop at the beach using characterizations of the people we have met as the starting place for performance. If that isn't woo-woo enough for you think of how the rhythm of the ocean will increase the power of your poetry!

Then at 7pm:

WHAT: California premiere of the poetry film Busload of Poets.
WHERE: 101 Artists' Colony 25 East "E" St., Encinitas
WHEN: 7pm Saturday  June 21st.
WHO: Directed and produced by Gary Mex Glazner.
COST: $5.00

101 Artists' Colony and Full Moon Poets is proud to host the premiere of Gary Mex Glazner's first film; Busload of Poets. The film highlights the conversion of driver Paul Cavendish from retired trucker to poetry aficionado. This wild concert footage captures the 32-city, in 30-day spoken word tour, from the summer of 2000. Paul began spontaneously speaking in Haiku halfway through the 8000-mile tour. Glazner will give a short reading before the film and answer questions about the making of the film afterwards.

Learn the shocking truth about:

· What are the ancient secrets of Yo Mama Samurai?
· Does the Sudden Haiku Death Match hurt?
· Why do people bother to write poetry anyway?

Busload of Poets is chock full of crazy characters, each with their own story to tell.
Each spoken word piece is complete; a three minute blast; a unique story arch; quilted together to give a look at the inside of America's brain and soul. The driver Paul threads together the 85-minute work, with his every-man comments on the sanctity of poetry. The film combines animation and cutting edge editing to bring a Monty Python, Woody Allen, update to that most dusty and hated grade school topics: poetry.

The Santa Fe Film Festival hosted the sold out world premier of Busload of Poets on the opening night of their second annual festival in December of 2001. The Santa Fe Film Festival had over 12,000 people attend the weeklong event. Busload of Poets won an excellance in film award from the Memphsis Ditigal Film Festival. The digital film features: Poetry Slam founder Marc Smith, Big Poppa E, the leader of the Wussy Boys, 2000 National Poetry Slam champ, Shane Koyczan, Amalia Ortiz, Cass King, Al Letson and many other hot buttered performance poets. Glazner, Minister of Fun, for the non-profit Poetry Slam Inc.(PSI), secured the funding for the tour from the distributors of "Grand Marnier." Over 100 poets participated in the tour. PSI now has over 100 Poetry Slams registered worldwide. You can find out more about Poetry Slams at www.poetryslam.com.

Glazner makes his living as a poet. Denise Kusel, of The Santa Fe New Mexican says, "Poet Gary Mex Glazner belies a mild-manner with an in-your-face delivery. He shouts. He postures. He's a madman, insisting you get it - all of it. Because he holds nothing back he's insightful and dangerous, as only a good poet can be." Glazner is the curator of Word Art: Poetry Broadside Series at the Palace of Governor's Museum in Santa Fe. He spent the first two weeks of March this year in Laos studying the poetic form "Kuan An," which is chanted by the Buddhist monks. Glazner is the Minister of Fun for Poetry Slam Incorporated. See poetryslam.com. Glazner's poetry and film, Busload of Poets was featured along with readings by Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman and Sherman Alexi at the 20th anniversary of Tucson Poetry Festival.

The workshop fee includes admission the screening of Glazner's film,
Busload of Poets that night at 101 Artist's Colony.

ABOUT 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.  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 Festival.  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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