Elton Glaser

Elton Glaser was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1945. He earned a BA and MA in English from the University of New Orleans, as well as an MFA from the University of California at Irvine.

He is the author of eight poetry collections, including The Law of Falling Bodies (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), winner of the 2013 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize; Translations from the Flesh (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013); and Here and Hereafter (University of Arkansas Press, 2005), winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award.

Glaser’s honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, seven fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the 1996 Ohioana Poetry Award.

He is a distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of Akron, as well as the former director of the University of Akron Press and former editor of the Akron Series in Poetry. Glaser lives in Ohio.

Bibliography

Poetry
The Law of Falling Bodies (University of Arkansas Press, 2013)
Translations from the Flesh (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013)
Here and Hereafter (University of Arkansas Press, 2005)
Pelican Tracks (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003)
Winter Amnesties (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000)
Color Photographs of the Ruins (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992)
Tropical Depressions (University of Iowa Press, 1988)
Relics (Wesleyan University Press, 1983)