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Glen Mazis [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Marietta, PA
Pennsylvania US
Email: 
glen.mazis@comcast.net
Bio: 

Glen A. Mazis taught philosophy for decades at Penn State Harrisburg, retiring in 2020. He has more than 90 poems in literary journals, including Rosebud, The North American Review, Sou'wester, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Review, Atlanta Review, Reed Magazine and Asheville Poetry Review, and the collection, The River Bends in Time (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012), a chapbook, The Body Is a Dancing Star (Orchard Street Press, 2020), and Bodies of Space and Time is in press with Kelsay Books. He has published five philosophy books and is the 2019 winner of the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize (Orchard Street national contest).

Other books published: The Trickster, Magician, & Grieving Man (Bear & Co., '94), Emotion and Embodiment (Lang, '93), Earthbodies: Rediscovering our Planetary Senses (SUNY Press, July, 2002) and Humans/Animals/Machines: Blurred Boundaries (SUNY, Fall, 2008). Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics, Imagination and Poetic Ontology (2016, SUNY).

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Woodbury
Raised in: 
New York, NY
New York
Website: 
https://glenmazis.com [2]
Prizes won: 

2019 WINNER OF THE ($500) WINNER OF THE $500 MALOVRH-FENLON POETRY PRIZE (ORCHARD STREET PRESS), EDWIN MARKHAM (REED MAGAZINE) POETRY FINALIST, WHITE EAGLE COFFEE STORE PRESS CHAPBOOK FINALIST, WRITERS AT WORK FELLOWSHIP FINALIST, WHITE PINE PRESS POETRY BOOK PRIZE FINALIST, SPIRE PRESS POETRY BOOK FINALIST, CROSSWINDS POETRY FINALIST

What I'm reading now: 
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Identifies as: 
Buddhist
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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