| Facebook Profile: | http://www.facebook.com/fglaysher |
| Website: | http://www.fglaysher.com |
| Current City: | Rochester, Michigan USA |
| Political Views: | Cooperative Global Governance |
| Religious Views: | Transcendence, Universality, Reform Bahai Faith |
| Bio: | Welcome. I'm a poet and literary critic and the author or editor of several books of poetry, essays, and a collection of Bahai writings and prayers. I'm presently working on an epic poem, "The Parliament of Poets," which takes place partly on the moon. I studied writing with the poet Robert Hayden and edited both Hayden’s Collected Prose (University of Michigan Press) and his Collected Poems (Liveright). I hold a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Michigan, the latter in English. At the college and university level, I taught rhetoric, American and non-Western literature, humanities, world religions, etc., for ten years. I lived for more than fifteen years outside Michigan—in Japan, where I 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 my suburban hometown of Rochester. A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, I studied at Beijing University, the Buddhist Mogao Caves on the old Silk Road, and elsewhere in China, including Hong Kong and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. While a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar in 1995 on India, I further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity. I have been an outspoken advocate of the United Nations and was an accredited participant at the UN Millennium Forum (2000). Given the radicalization and the spiritual, moral, and intellectual decline of the humanities in the university, the pervasive nihilism and Marxism underlying deconstruction and other academic theories, the obsession with the self in poetry and literary studies, the corrupting professionalization of both, the duplicities of race politics, and the exploitation of teaching assistants and adjunct faculty, to name only a few of the commonly cited maladies, I resigned from Oakland University in 1996. I believe the university has often failed the best interests of poetry, literature, and culture, as have publishing and the media. Under the aegis of scientism, further decline demonstrates that respect for the humanites, which no longer seriously engage with the vital spiritual issues of human experience, their raison d'etre, appears but a remote memory, held, it seems, only by Stendhal's "lucky few." |
| Education: | The University of Michigan - 1980 American and World Literature, Biblical Studies, Islam, Non-Western Literature The University of Michigan - 1981 American Literature |
| Groups: | ONE WORLD RELIGION – HUMANITY, Indica 2.0 : An idea of India, Chitrolekha International magazine on Art and Design, Indian English Fiction, INTERNATIONAL ACTION COUNCIL FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT (2) , TLS, Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists, Rethinking World Literature, The Asian American Literary Review, Facebook Developers, The Fractured World, OneWorld Consortium, CROSS CURRENTS - Indo Canadian International Arts, Poetic Paths, The Biblio File, South West London, English Literature Forum, World Federalists, World Federalist Movement - Institute for Global Policy, ETCETERA, Medieval Literature, United Nations, Nations United, UNITED NATIONS, UNITED NATIONS, United Nations, World Policy Institute, Europa - Land of Heroes, Mythville, Online Bengali Literature Archive , The Literature Appreciation Society, Edinburgh University Literature Society, Victorian Literature Appreciation Group, CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE, Utopian and Dystopian Literature, Indian Crossover Literature, Those who worship Icelandic Literature, The Nigerian Literature Debates!, African American Literature, Argentina Literature and Fiction, Native Literature Network, LOVERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, Cairo In Live _ Literature, Literature Has Changed My Life, South Asian Literature, Boost: Canadian Literature, Afghan Culture and Literature, Society of Biblical Literature, Literature Co, Poetry and Literature, SAVE LITERATURE!, Literature Lovers, Literature, Dogri Literature, American Literature, Czech Literature, Tamil Literature, Manipuri Literature, Urdu Literature, Bangla Literature, Kannada Literature, Maithali Literature, Gujrati Literature, Punjabi Literature, passion to literature, Messianic Literature, English literature, Russian Literature , Literature in Coalition, Spotlight for Literature, Literature Club, Absurdist Literature, The Literature Show, LITERATURE LOVERS!, BOOKS & LITERATURE, English Literature, Literature meetings , Distributing Literature, Literature for Life, In love with Literature, Literature Scotland, World Literature, English Literature, Classical Literature, Canadian Literature, we love literature, LITERATURE CONVENTION, SRJC Literature, Literature, Literature, Literature, The Literature, Literature, Literature, Literature, Literary Criticism, Religion Society, International Society of Religion, Literature and Culture, Rome The Second Time, Facebook's Poets & Writers Registry, Offence: The Hindu Case, Calliope: Voice of the Writers, eBooks A new way to read, Mysticism for Beginners: An Adam Zagajewski Group, Associates of the New Criterion, Poetry San Francisco, Australians for Australian Books, Inner Cities of Gulls, 9th Annual Juniper Festival: Celebrating 50 years of the Mass Review, THE TORONTO QUARTERLY, ExPatLit.com - A Literary Review for Writers Abroad, The Broadkill Review & John Milton Poetry Festival , Friends of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review, Southern Women's Review, Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry, Bird's Eye reView, The Cafe Review Poets and Artists Group, A Tribute to the London Review of Books, Northern New England Review, Roanoke Review - The Facebook Group, the disappearing city literary review, earthwords, the undergraduate literary review, Eleutheria: The Scottish Poetry Review, The Stanton Park Book Review, Friends of The Salt River Review, Book & Literature Review Club, Wilderness House Literary Review, Chiron Review Fan Club, Mississippi Review & Center for Writers, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Pacific Rim Review of Books, Friends of the North American Review, The National Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Ukazoo Haiku Review, Evergreen Review: an appreciation, The Yellow Medicine Review, Internet Review of Books, Elm City Review, Friends of The Quarterly Review, Triggerfish Critical Review, Dust Jacket Review, The Stolen Island Review, 21 Stars Review, Fox Cry Review, Academic Review of Norway, Blue Mesa Review, Florida Book Review, Southern Humanities Review, Rio Grande Review, White Wall Review , Ottawa Arts Review, Black Market Review, Sacramento Book Review, Hobo Camp Review, Hart House Review, Scrivener Creative Review, The Bangalore Arts Review, New Haven Review, Underground Book Review, Naugatuck River Review, Anansi Review Crew, Book Review Circle, The Dos Passos Review, Cider Press Review, Western Humanities Review, Broad River Review, Cream City Review, St. Petersburg Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Big Toe Review, The Englewood Review of Books, Los Angeles Review, Black Warrior Review, Northern Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Caribbean Review of Books, Willows Wept Review, Pebble Lake Review, Southeast Review Sundogs, The Cartier Street Review, VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW, The Nevada Review, The Citron Review, The Colton Review, Oleander Review, Tulane Review, The Literary Review, Wrecking, The Caledonia Review, The Monongahela Review, The Louisville Review, TYPE Review, The Glasgow Review, The Cincinnati Review, Lamplighter Review, The Capilano Review, The Antigonish Review, The Antioch Review, The Rome Review, Sonora Review, The Manhattan Review, Horizon Review, THE DANFORTH REVIEW, Monthly Review, The Raintown Review, Harvard Review, Albawtaka Review, Comstock Review, The Florida Review, The Iowa Review, The Short Review, Georgetown Review, The Laurel Review, The Southern Review, The Paris Review, The Malahat Review, The Review Review, POETRY, 2:00 a.m.: A Poetry Group, Passion for Books, Charles Bukowski., Poetry, Poet Scriptorium, Poet Society, Poet of Truth, Newage Poet, The Poet Tree, Every Poet on Facebook, The Poet, Religion and Literature, African Literature, Sindhi Literature, World Literature, American Literature, Excellence in Literature, Book Geeks, BRITISH LITERATURE, Irish Literature, Writing Industries, Chinese Literature, Classic literature for always, Indian Literature, English Literature, Ontario Literature, Sikh Literature, Scandinavian literature, Comparative Literature, Literature |
| Books: | The Argonautica, Virgil, Homer, Dante Alighieri, Vyasa, John Milton, Ramayana, Beowulf, Walt Whitman, The Song of Roland, The Iliad, Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Mahābhārata, Valmiki, The Aeneid, Lucretius, Ovid, Nibelungenlied, Shahnameh, Lucan, Kālidāsa, Epic of Sundiata, El Cid, Goethe's Faust, The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser, La Divina Commedia, Kalevala, The Song of Hiawatha, Idylls of the King |
| Other: | Gandhi Fellowship, Seamus Heaney, William Blake, Pablo Neruda, R. K. Narayan, George Orwell, T. S. Eliot, Naguib Mahfouz, All Rivers, Chinua Achebe, Ward Connerly, United Nations Millennium Campaign, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, World Policy Journal, Hafiz, Jorge Luis Borges, Tagore, Charter for Compassion, Dante, The Planet Earth |
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