Please join us for a Dia De Los Muertos party
November 1st, 6:30pm to 9pm (FREE) at Agitator Gallery for a “Poetry of Death,” community party to close out ‘DECAYGING’ at Agitator Artist Collective, 3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647. Curated by Jason Greenberg.
We invite you to come celebrate with skull masks, skull puppets, skull make up, or the best attire to celebrate your death. Be ready to dance, recite poetry, and sing together throughout the night. Featuring Wendy Madrigal and Alonso Galué, Puppet Artists extraordinaire!
Gary Glazner, Event Curator, Poet, and Founder Alzheimer’s Poetry Project
Cin Salach, Poet
Luke Leisman, Astronomer/Fiddle player
Grant Kuchan, Novelist/Guitarist
Deborah Maris Lader, Artwork and Calligraphy
Gary Glazner acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts
We will use call and response to lead the audience in the performance of well-loved poems like Shakespeare’s Sonnet 71, “No longer morn for me when I am dead;” Emily Dickenson’s “Because I could not stop for Death,” and Dylan Thomas’” Do not go gentle into that good night.”
We will sing along with spirituals like, “I’ll Fly Away,” and “Amazing Grace,” and blues songs like Reverend Gary Davis’ “Death Don't Have No Mercy" and “St. James Infirmary Blues,” lead by Leisman and Kuchan.
By asking the audience a series of open-ended questions on the theme of death, Glazner will lead them in the creation of an original Memento Mori poem. "Memento mori" is a Latin phrase that literally translates to "remember you must die" or "remember your death".
Poetry of Death
Nov 1 Saturday 6:30-9pm (Free)
Gary Glazner, Event Curator, Poet, and Founder Alzheimer’s Poetry Project
Cin Salach, Poet
Luke Leisman, Astronomer/Fiddle player
Grant Kuchan, Novelist/Guitarist
Wendy Madrigal and Alonso Galue, Puppet Artists
Deborah Lader, Artwork and Calligraphy
Gary Glazner acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The event coincides with the closing party for Decaying: A Memento Mori Exhibit, curated by Jason Greenburg at the:
Agitator Artist Collective, 3851 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
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Photo from our costumed march in the 2005 annual Pet Parade in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Which is attended by over 10,000 people. Go Poetry! Go Precision Poetry Drill Team!
Precision Poetry Drill Team
From NPR’s All Things Considered, “The high school letter jacket is a tradition separating the jocks from the non-varsity crowd. But at the Santa Fe Desert Academy, a small private high school in New Mexico, a different kind of student qualifies for the coveted jacket — those who make the Precision Poetry Drill Team.” For more info.
Signal in the nose
TYCHO POEM FOOTNOTES
Artwork by Rachel Kazez
Scratch My Ticket Written and performed by Gary Glazner. Circa 1989 at a venue in Sonoma County, California. Background: The Savings and Loan crisis was in the headlines, the Calfornia Lottery started in 1985 and seemed a natural solution. © Gary Glazner
Thrilled to have a paper published in a special research poetry edition in the peer-reviewed journal Art and Health. Dementia Arts Mapping: observational methods for documenting impacts of poetry and recreation in care settings
The Poetry Slam at the Green Mill last Sunday 12/17/2023 was off the hook good. Marc Kelly Smith (So What!) reprised his justifiably beloved "The SPIRIT OF XMAS EXPECTATIONS." Last year at this time, Marc made a miraculous recovery from a serious accident. I reworked Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmas Time is Here," as a tribute to Marc.
Gary Glazner
…is a poet and author. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project. He was a pioneer of the Poetry Slam. Glazner is using Telepresence Robots to deliver programming and creative arts training in care homes. Glazner is a leading proponent of participatory arts.
Glazner BIO
I was a florist for 18 years…
Poetry Slam
“This is a photograph Glazner took in front of City Lights Bookstore in 1990. A stiletto boot on a stack of poetry books. It caught the spirit of the Poetry Slam and was published in two of the local papers announcing the launch of the Poetry Slam in San Francisco and became the model for the trophy for the first years of the National Poetry Slam.”
Alzheimer's Poetry Project
Gary Glazner is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, (APP). The APP has provided programming in 35 states and internationally in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Poland and South Korea. More info.
