GARY GLAZNER is the founder and director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, (APP). The National Endowment for the Arts listed the APP as a “best practice” for their Arts and Aging initiative.  NBC's “Today” show, NPR's “All Things Considered” and Voice of America have featured segments on Glazner’s work.  Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Salon.com have published his work. He is the author of "Ears on Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poets," published on La Alameda Press. The book chronicles a year abroad in Asia and Europe meeting poets, working on translations and writing poems. Glazner is the author of "How to Make a Living as a Poet" on Soft Skull Press. Glazner is the Managing Director of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

Glazner's student group, the Precision Poetry Drill Team, was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He has worked in poet-in-the-schools project since 1990 and was poet-in-residence at Desert Academy in Santa Fe from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, Glazner was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera to create a performance based on the Spanish poet, Federico García Lorca, for their festival on Lorca. Glazner along with co-producer Don McIver were the winners of the 2004 Special Merit Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, for "The Poetry of Vietnam," which was broadcast on KUNM, in Albuquerque.



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