Poetry Reading at the Albany Word Fest

Friends,

I’ll be reading from the fifth draft of my epic poem The Parliament of Poets at the 2012 Albany Word Fest, Saturday, April 21, 2012, 1:15 pm, in Albany, New York, at the Albany Public Library, 161 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12210. Main Library Large Auditorium. You’re invited!
https://www.albanypoets.com/wordfest/

For a previous excerpt, see my reading at the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Buffalo, New York, March 24, 2012, from Book III, in medias res, on the moon. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher.

“Who needs warp drive when I’ve got Queen Mab,
My escort and midwife of my dreams.”

YouTube: https://youtu.be/XlWTzhNjIb4

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The Poet’s Religion of Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore

“The Poet’s Religion of Rabindranath Tagore.”  Just published in Rupkatha Journal Volume 3, Number 4, 2011 (400—416). Rupkatha.com (Kolkata, India).

I cannot write about Tagore without writing about what he has meant to me as a poet during the course of more than forty years of reading him. In the early 1970s he became for me a model and mentor, an example of the poet’s life, one which resonated deeply with my own experience, especially in spiritual terms, which I eventually learned was taboo even to mention in the learned halls of American universities, where God was and is usually dead, and no one desiring intellectual respectability had better utter the slightest syllable otherwise….

Essay: “The Poet’s Religion of Rabindranath Tagore,” Rupkatha (Vol. 3, No. 4. Spring 2012) or here: The Poet’s Religion of Rabindranath Tagore

Now available in

The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays
Forthcoming, September, 2014.

https://www.earthrisepress.net/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html

Frederick Glaysher

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Finished the Fifth Draft of The Parliament of Poets

Moon Ground

Lunar Soil

I finished the entire fifth draft of my epic poem The Parliament of Poets, after four years of writing, on March 30, 2012. I’d welcome invitations to read from it.

See my reading at the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, March 24, 2012, from Book III, in medias res, on the moon. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher.

“Who needs warp drive when I’ve got Queen Mab,
My escort and midwife of my dreams.”

YouTube:  https://youtu.be/XlWTzhNjIb4

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Frederick Glaysher, Buffalo Small Press Book Fair

Frederick Glaysher reading from the fifth draft of his epic poem, The Parliament of Poets, at the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, March 24, 2012.

FROM Book III, in medias res, on the moon. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher.

Frederick Glaysher, Reading from The Parliament of Poets, Book III.

Frederick Glaysher, Reading from The Parliament of Poets, Book III.

Reading from The Parliament of Poets, Book III, “Who needs warp drive when I’ve got Queen Mab, / My escort and midwife of my dreams.”

Frederick Glaysher

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