Welcome. I’m an epic poet, rhapsode, poet-critic, and the author or editor of ten books, including The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. Thank you for visiting.
We human beings on this planet need a new vision and understanding of life, to help bring us together, to see and feel and understand our common humanity, to step back from the brink of self-destruction. From the Moon, together, we can see it, a new global, universal vision of life. Many millions of people around the world have already evolved toward such a vision. The Parliament of Poets is set partly on the moon and evokes a way humankind can come together in peace.
I hope in time word will spread. Even a brief review of a sentence or two, a paragraph, here on my blog or wherever, would be greatly appreciated. I’d love to hear from you. Please let me and others know what you think.
Frederick Glaysher, reading from Into the Ruins of Modernity at the UN Plaza, International Day of Peace, San Francisco, September 21, 2025. 26:49 minutes.
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Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations June 26, 1945 WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which
twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind,
and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, AND FOR THESE ENDS
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS
Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.
San Francisco City Hall in the background. Videographer, Jay Krohnengold.
Into the Ruins of Modernity:
FROM Into The Ruins: Poems. By Frederick Glaysher. Softcover. $18.00. Preface. Earthrise Press, 1999; 2024 Revised Edition. Several new poems. 88 pages. ISBN: 9780967042190. Printed in the USA, UK, Australia, India.
FROM The Bower of Nil: A Narrative Poem. Softcover. $18.00. Earthrise Press, 2002; 2024 Revised Edition. 72 pages. ISBN: 9780967042143. Printed in the USA, UK, Australia, India. https://bookshop.org/shop/earthrisepress
Holiday Special 15% Discount, until January 31, 2026, on The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem and The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays use LOVEBOOKSELLERS in the Bookshop Org checkout cart.
Frederick Glaysher has 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. Member/Board Member, UN Association of Greater Detroit UNA-USA. 2000/2012-2013.
Frederick Glaysher studied writing under a private tutorial, at the University of Michigan, with the poet Robert Hayden and edited both Hayden’s Collected Prose (University of Michigan Press) and his Collected Poems (Liveright). He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, the latter in English. At the college and university level, he taught rhetoric, American and non-Western literature, humanities, world religions, etc., for ten years.
He lived for more than fifteen years outside Michigan—in Japan, where he 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 his suburban hometown of Rochester.
A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, Glaysher 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, he further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity.
Ringwald Theatre, Ferndale, Michigan. November 13, 2022
“A hopeful vision of peaceful coexistence as one united humanity. It was delightful to hear the voices of great poets and thinkers of the past in dialogue with the narrator. The performance was thought-provoking, moving, and inspiring. Our world is desperately in need of this message of peace, love and humanity.” —Rev. Eric Williams, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Rochester, MI
“Impressed, moved to laughter, tears. Held our attention for 90 minutes, stayed so energized, a feat in itself. A creative, powerful message with so many of the poet masters, phenomenal! Amazing life-time work!” —Rev. Leonetta Bugleisi, Unitarian Universalist
As a universal interfaith story, The Parliament of Poets tells the tale of a journey toward cosmos, Christian and spiritual unity, “Spiritual, Not Religious.”
Sundays, November 6th & 13th. 3:00 – 4:30 pm. 90 minutes. Ringwald Theatre at AFFIRMATIONS 290 West 9 Mile Road, Ferndale, MI 48220 TICKETS ONLINE at EarthrisePress.Net or at the Door. $22 General, $15 Student, Senior Or Pay what you can (minimum $6.00)
The more than fifty performances have included Wayne State University’s Studio Theatre at Hilberry Theatre, TheatreNOVA in Ann Arbor, Shelton Theatre in San Francisco, and a variety of settings, Unitarian and Episcopal churches, Rochester Municipal Park Band Shell, and The 8th Parliament of the World’s Religions.
The Parliament of Poets, Ringwald Theatre, Frederick Glaysher, 11-13-2022
“A hopeful vision of peaceful coexistence as one united humanity. It was delightful to hear the voices of great poets and thinkers of the past in dialogue with the narrator. The performance was thought-provoking, moving, and inspiring. Our world is desperately in need of this message of peace, love and humanity.” —Rev. Eric Williams, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Rochester, MI
“Impressed, moved to laughter, tears. A creative, powerful message, phenomenal! Amazing life-time work!” —Rev. Leonetta Bugleisi, Unitarian Universalist
The theatre company Apollo’s Troupe will perform the critically-acclaimed epic poem, The Parliament of Poets, written by Michigan poet Frederick Glaysher.
Sundays, November 6th & 13th, 2022. 3:00 – 4:30 pm. 90 minutes. At AFFIRMATIONS Theatre, 290 West 9 Mile Road, Ferndale, MI 48220. TICKETS at the Door. $22 General, $15 Student, Senior Or Pay what you can (minimum $6.00)
As a universal interfaith story, The Parliament of Poets tells the tale of a journey toward cosmos, Christian and spiritual unity. “Spiritual, Not Religious.”
The Program for Solo Performance, with further background information, can be found at Apollo’s Troupe on EarthrisePress.Net. Purchase the book (294 pages) at the performance, Bookshop.org,, BarnesAndNoble.com, or Books-A-Million.
“A Little Girl Alongside a Road” is a poem about an experience that I had in China in 1994 (correct date), near Dunhuang, Gansu, relatively close to Xinziang, where perhaps as many as 1.8 million Muslim Uighurs have now been thrown into concentration camps by China and subjected to horrifying abuse and slave labor. We human beings on this planet must honor and protect their dignity and humanity.
Special thanks to ML Lieblier, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, for hosting and inviting me to participate in his recent poetry reading benefit on Zoom for Book Beat bookshop on Sunday, December 6, 2020. Book Beat, Oak Park, Michigan, has a couple of my books available The Parliament of Poets and The Myth of the Enlightenment.
As a universal interfaith story, The Parliament of Poets tells the tale of a journey toward cosmos, Christian and spiritual unity, “Spiritual, Not Religious.” Continue reading →
As a universal interfaith story, The Parliament of Poets tells the tale of a journey toward cosmos, Christian and spiritual unity. “Spiritual, Not Religious.” Continue reading →
Apollo calls all the poets of the nations, ancient and modern, East and West, to assemble on the moon to consult on the meaning of modern life. The Parliament of Poets sends the main character, the Poet of the Moon, on a Journey to the seven continents to learn from all of the spiritual and […]
