Poet Stephanie Glazier

This week’s Writer Wednesday features Detroit poet Stephanie Glazier. Stephanie serves as the poetry editor for Gertrude Press. Her poems and critical prose have appeared in the "Alaska and Michigan Quarterly Reviews," "Iraq Literary Review" and in "Reading and Writing Experimental Texts: Critical Innovations." Her manuscript "Of Fish & Country" was a finalist in the 2020 Perugia Press Prize. 

Stephanie leading our April 21 virtual workshop, “The Central Nervous System & The Heart: Poems of Queer Resistance.” Join in to explore poems written by queer poets that speak to our moment. Check out our interview with Stephanie below!

What writing projects are you currently working on?

I’m writing about the nature of love, I’m asking questions about belonging and divinity and desire. 

What is your favorite part of the writing process?

Making the first draft, often having come to the page with an idea of my meaning and watching that change, then, soul work in real time. 

What does your writing workspace look like?

I have a study but am often writing on my couch, in bed in the middle of the night, the car. 

How has writing poetry shaped the way you view the world?

Reading the work of others, in all genres, has more deeply shaped my worldview than has writing. Writing provides space to hear what Howard Thurman calls the “sound of the genuine,” which is to say it’s the place I feel witnessed and able to make a record of my desire, sorrow and life. 

What is your favorite non-writing hobby?

Right now, going to fabric stores for the batiks and adult coloring books. Also estate sales. 

Read more about Stephanie at stephanieglazier.com.