Loss Pequeño Glazier is an American writer who makes print poetry, digital poems, theoretical texts, and performance works. He has been described as at the "forefront of the digital poetics movement,Bruehl, Thalia A-M, "Technology's Poet". (Hispanic Executive, July/August 2011): 28-29. and, by N. Katherine Hayles, as a "distinguished writer of electronic poetry as well as a critic".Hayles, N. Katherine, "Translating Media: Why We Should Rethink Textuality". (The Yale Journal of Criticism 16, no.2, Fall 2003): 281. He is Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo.
Glazier's works include Transparent Mountain: Ecopoetry from the Great Smokies (Night Horn Books, 2022), Luna Lunera (Night Horn Books, 2020), Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm (Salt, 2003), Digital Poetics: the Making of E-Poetries (Alabama, 2002),"How Do They Do It?" (Publishers Weekly 9 July 2001): 65. Literature Resource Center. Web. 17 Aug. 2012. the first book-length study of digital poetry,Adalaide Morris, "New Media Poetics: As We May Think/How to Write" in Morris, Adalaide and Thomas Swiss, eds. New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts & Theories MIT Press, 2006: 21. and Small Press (Greenwood, 1992),"Small Press: An Annotated Guide". (Library Quarterly Oct 1993): 564-565. as well as the major digital works, white faced bromeliads on 20 hectares (1999, 2012),Ingalls, Zoe, "A Web Site Grows New Poems, Sometimes Right Before Readers' Eyes". (The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 28, 2000).Tessier, Natalie Green, "At UB, 'E-Poetry' Plays With Rhyme, Reason". (Buffalo News 17 April 2001): C1. Io Sono at Swoons (2002, 2020),See: "Artist's Statement" in Morris, Adalaide and Thomas Swiss, eds. New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts & Theories. MIT Press, 2006. and Territorio Libre (2003-2010).Venegas, Cristina, "Shared Dreams and Red Cockroaches: Cuba and Digital Culture". (Hispanic Review, December 2007): 399-414. These three latter works are featured in his digital poetry performance film, Middle Orange | Media Naranja (Buffalo, 2010). His projects also include numerous poems, essays, film, visual art, sound, digital works, and projects for dance, music, installations, and performance.
His book, Luna Lunera: Poems al-Andalus (Night Horn Books, 2020) is a ten-year project culminating in a collection of print poetry drawn from scores of digital, code, and performance iterations, "a quantum embrace of words in an intensely present form, luminous as moon."Glazier, Luna Lunera Luna Lunera is co-presented on the Web as digital poems, solo readings and as dance performances (in video).
Glazier is Professor Emeritus of Media Study, State University of New York, Buffalo, and Director, Electronic Poetry Center (EPC). He has served as Director of the E-Poetry: An International Digital Poetry Festival series of international digital poetry gatherings, 2001-2017, and Artistic Director, U.B. Digital Poetry & Dance, 2011-2015.
See also Electronic Poetry Center Digital Poetry Electronic literature
References
External links E-Poetry International Digital Poetry Festivals Slashdot: Review of Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm Personal Homepage U.B. Digital Poetry & Dance Middle Orange | Media Naranja Loss Pequeño Glazier by David (Jhave) Johnston Luna Lunera Homepage Transparent Mountain Homepage