Frederick Glaysher

Facebook Profile:	https://www.facebook.com/fglaysher
Website:	https://www.fglaysher.com
Education:	The University of Michigan - 1980 American and World Literature, Biblical Studies, Islam, Non-Western Literature The University of Michigan - 1981 American Literature
	On the Moon, for Apollo
Political Views:	Other (Cooperative Global Governance, under a seriously developed United Nations, or successor insti
Religious Views:	Other (Transcendence, Universality, Reform Bahai Faith, Unitarian Universalist, Tolstoy's Calendar o
Interests:	Ragnarök
Activities:	Welcome to My Web Site, Epic poem
Favorite Quotations:	Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind. https://fglaysher.com/ “The heart of so great a mystery cannot ever be reached by following one road only." -- Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 345 – 402), a Roman statesman and man of letters; Quoted by Augustine, in exchange with Ambrose. Quoted by Arnold Toynbee in his Gifford Lecture. "Now it has become clear to me, that it cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another. In our troubled world so full of contradictions, the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all. Perhaps in this way the door may be opened again whose key has been lost." -- Emperor Akbar
Books:	Dante Alighieri, Walt Whitman, Miguel de Cervantes, Earthrise Press eBooks, Robert Hayden, Cervantes, The Argonautica, Homer, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Vyasa, John Milton, Ramayana, Beowulf, Walt Whitman, The Song of Roland, Epic of Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Mahābhārata, Valmiki, The Aeneid, Ovid, Lucretius, Nibelungenlied, Shahnameh, Kālidāsa, Epic of Sundiata, Le Cid, Goethe's Faust, The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser, La Divina Commedia, Kalevala, The Song of Hiawatha, Idylls of the King
Other:	Voices of Women Worldwide - India, Bhatter College, Dantan, Chitrolekha International Magazine on Art and Design, Shamanism, Pan-Theistic, Sufism, Judaism, Daoist, Buddhism, Albany Poets, Northshire Bookstore, Native Americans, Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, Pachamama Alliance, Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythological RoundTable® Group of Sacramento, Joseph Campbell, Huston Smith, Chinese Literature Today, Lorraine Kashdan, The Criterion: An International journal in English, Cro-Magnon, Literaturhaus International, Kritya, United Nations For a Free Tibet (India), Facebook Security, Ai Weiwei, Open Culture, Ashok Banker, Dr Helen Caldicott, Austin International Poetry Festival (AIPF), Known Issues on Facebook, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Reform Bahai Faith, Troy Interfaith Group, Unitarian Universalist Association, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Naguib Mahfouz, Interfaith Alliance, Seamus Heaney, William Blake, Pablo Neruda, R. K. Narayan, T. S. Eliot, All Rivers, Chinua Achebe, United Nations Millennium Campaign, Stratford Festival, World Policy Journal, Hafiz, Jorge Luis Borges, Tagore, Charter for Compassion, Dante, The Planet Earth
Bio:	Welcome. I'm an epic poet, rhapsode, poet-critic, and the author or editor of several books. My epic poem, "The Parliament of Poets," takes place partly on the moon, at the Apollo 11 landing site, the Sea of Serenity, and was just published in late 2012. I studied writing with the poet Robert Hayden and edited both Hayden’s Collected Prose (University of Michigan Press) and his Collected Poems (Liveright). I hold a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Michigan, the latter in English. At the college and university level, I taught rhetoric, American and non-Western literature, humanities, world religions, etc., for ten years. I lived for more than fifteen years outside Michigan—in Japan, where I taught at Gunma University in Maebashi; in Arizona, on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation, site of one of the largest internment camps for Japanese-Americans during WWII; in Illinois, on the central farmlands and on the Mississippi; ultimately returning to my suburban hometown of Rochester. A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, I studied at Beijing University, the Buddhist Mogao Caves on the old Silk Road, and elsewhere in China, including Hong Kong and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. While a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar in 1995 on India, I further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity. I have been an outspoken advocate of the United Nations, an accredited participant at the UN Millennium Forum (2000), and attended the UNA Members Day 2012 on the Millennium Development Goals, held in the General Assembly Hall. Much of my book The Grove of the Eumenides: Essays on Literature, Criticism, and Culture forms the background study for my epic poem The Parliament of Poets. Read a free chapter, BOOK I, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem: PDF. Work: On the Moon, for Apollo. Website: https://www.fglaysher.com/ Blog: https://www.fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/ Earthrise Press eBooks https://books.fglaysher.com/ Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/101034665675885529190 YouTube, Epic Poetry Readings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL21F9D6C4DA6FE818
Groups:	Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, AfroSurreal New York, ENGLISH POETRY ALL OVER THE WORLD, Troy Interfaith Group, Sensible Sensuality, The Biblio File, Call For Submissions, Indian English Drama, Austin International Poetry Festival, Comparative Indian Literature, Leaders of Large Unitarian Universalist Congregations, Unitarian Universalists exploring Congregations and Beyond, UU Social Media Lab, UNA Greater Detroit, Indian Writing in English, Indian English Fiction, CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE, Poetry San Francisco

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