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Frederick Glaysher<\/strong>\u00a0is an epic poet, rhapsode, poet-critic, and the author or editor of ten books.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n He studied writing under a private tutorial, at the University of Michigan, with the poet Robert Hayden and edited both Hayden\u2019s\u00a0Collected Prose<\/em>\u00a0(University of Michigan Press) and his\u00a0Collected Poems\u00a0<\/em>(Liveright). He holds a bachelor\u2019s and a master\u2019s 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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n He lived for more than fifteen years outside Michigan\u2014in 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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, Glaysher studied at Beijing University, the\u00a0Buddhist Mogao Caves\u00a0on the old Silk Road, and elsewhere in\u00a0China, including Hong Kong and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. While a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar in 1995 on\u00a0India,\u00a0 he further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Glaysher has been an outspoken advocate of the United Nations, an accredited participant at the\u00a0UN Millennium Forum\u00a0(2000), and attended the UNA Members Day 2012\u00a0on the Millennium Development Goals,\u00a0held in the General Assembly Hall.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n He spoke on Robert Hayden at the centennial celebrations held for him at the University of Michigan in November, 2013, and at Wayne State University in April, 2014, as well as read at each event from the canto of his epic poem in which Hayden is a character. Both Hayden centennial essays are included in\u00a0The Myth of the Enlightenment,\u00a0<\/em>much of which was written concurrently with his epic. He also spoke on Hayden for Poetry Month, 2017, at the Detroit Public Library and read from some of his poems about outer space, as well as read from his epic poem. On May 16, 2017, Glaysher lectured on “The Poetry of Robert Hayden” at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n In 1977, Glaysher took a theatre course in the Interpretative Reading of Poetry, learning that the Greek rhapsodes would travel throughout ancient Greece reciting Homer. Before long the idea of writing an epic poem became compelling and the dream that one day he might also revive the art of the rhapsode. He has given more than seventy epic poetry readings and performances (selected list in Program).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The Grove of the Eumenides: Essays on Literature, Criticism, and Culture<\/em>\u00a0forms much of the background study for\u00a0The Parliament of Poets.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Seeking invitations to perform.<\/strong>iPhone: 248-652-4982<\/strong> PRESS KIT<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0| Press Release, 8 Photos 300ppi, Program for Solo Performance, Bio, Theatre Industry Marketplace, Touring, etc.<\/strong> BUY Books Directly Through Ingram Book Company’s\u00a0Shop Lightning Source<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on each Book page.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Or\u00a0Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/bookshop.org\/shop\/earthrisepress<\/a>\u00a0Holiday Special\u00a015% Discount until January 31, 2026<\/strong>, on\u00a0The Parliament of Poets<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0The Myth of the Enlightenment<\/strong>\u00a0use\u00a0 LOVEBOOKSELLERS in the checkout cart.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Books can also be ordered through\u00a0Bookshop<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>Barnes & Noble,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Books-A-Million<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Kobo,\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>Blackwell\u2019s, Foyles, and\u00a0Order Books<\/a>\u00a0worldwide. Please do not buy my books from Amazon.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Political Views<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0Cooperative Global Governance, under a seriously developed United Nations, or successor institution, preferably prior to a nuclear, biological, or chemical\u00a0apocalypse. Member\/Board Member, UN Association of Greater Detroit UNA-USA. 2000\/2012-2013.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Religious Views<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0Transcendence, Universality\u2014<\/em>God is not in a box\u2014<\/em>as suggested in Meister Eckhart’s\u00a0Sermons<\/em>, Tolstoy’s\u00a0Calendar of Wisdom<\/em>, Emperor Akbar’s Divine Faith, Tagore’s\u00a0Religion of Man,\u00a0<\/em>and the universal teachings of Christ, essentially the\u00a0Shema\u00a0<\/em>and the Golden Rule, not the doctrines Tolstoy rightly called “sorcery.”\u00a0That is, my “religious views” seek what all the “mystics,” “heretics,” and poets have sought throughout human history, East and West. By definition, religion does not consist of “organized” or “institutional religion.” “It is written, man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4.4 KJV). In our global age, we can now see that “every word” means not only the Bible but the Upanishads, the Buddhist sutras, Adi Granth, the Quran, Analects, Dao de Ching, the wisdom traditions of the indigenous peoples, and so forth.Quantum physics and the new age and consciousness movements affirm this spiritual evolution toward universality. Participant\/Member of the Leadership Team, Troy-area Interfaith Group, 2010-2013. Rochester Area Interfaith, 2017.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Favorite quotations<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n AMENDMENT 1<\/strong> “Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”\u2014Meister Eckhart<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “There can no longer be any doubt or hesitation in the mind of one who is completely and finally resolved to seek nothing and do nothing but what is willed for him by God’s love.”\u00a0\u2014Thomas Merton<\/strong>,\u00a0Contemplative Prayer<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still.”\u00a0\u2014Pslam 4<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.”\u00a0\u2014Rumi<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “Truth is One; sages call it by many names.”\u00a0\u2014Rig-Veda<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “My soul is a Mosque for Muslims, “The heart of so great a mystery cannot ever be reached by following one road only.”\u00a0\u2014Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 345 \u2013 402)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “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.”\u00a0\u2014Emperor Akbar (1542 \u2013 1605)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “Jesus said, ‘I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all has come forth, and to me all has reached. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.'”\u00a0\u00a0\u2014The Gospel of Thomas, from\u00a0The Nag Hammadi Scriptures<\/em>, ed. Marvin Meyer, 2007<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “One who knows does not speak; one who speaks does not know.”\u00a0\u2014Laozi, Dao de Ching<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you.”\u00a0\u2014Werner Heisenberg. 1932 Nobel Prize for Quantum Physics<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Genealogical Highlights<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Glayshers from Hampshire and Surrey, England, fought and died in WW I and emigrated to Canada and the US in the 1920s and ’30s.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Our Stuck forebears settled on the Pennsylvania frontier in the early 1750s, soon temporarily displaced by the French and Indian War, with a few scalped and massacred in 1781, and served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and WW II.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Great-great grandpa Benjamin McCalla may have lived through the infamous Andersonville Civil War camp for Union soldiers.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n John Jacob Mickley, of\u00a0Huguenot lineage,\u00a0helped save the Liberty Bell from being melted down by the British in September 1777.\u00a0“BECAUSE no People can be truly happy, though under the greatest Enjoyment of Civil Liberties, if abridged of the Freedom of their Consciences, as to their Religious Profession and Worship.”\u00a0—\u00a0Charter of Privileges,\u00a0William Penn, 1701<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Carl Vugrinec, a Croat and Catholic from the ancient city of Varazdin, demobbed from the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s army in 1919 prior to bringing his family to the United States through Ellis Island.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/fglaysher?trk=profile-badge<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Frederick Glaysher\u00a0is an epic poet, rhapsode, poet-critic, and the author or editor of ten books. 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