Glen Mazis

Glen A. Mazis from Marietta, Pennsylvania taught philosophy and humanities for decades at Penn State Harrisburg and just retired in 2020. He has published many npoems in literary journals, including: Rosebud, The North American Review, Sou’wester, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Review, The Atlanta Review, Reed Magazine, and Asheville Poetry Review (best of 1994-2004). His poetry collection, The River Bends in Time was published by Anaphora Literary Press in 2012. His poem won The Orchard Street Press Poetry Contest (and the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize) in 2019. He is also the author of five books of cultural critique and Philosophy: Emotion and Embodiment: Fragile Ontology; The Trickster: Magician and Grieving Man; Returning Men to Earth; Earthbodies: Discovering Our Planetary Senses; and Merleau-Ponty and the face of the World: Silence, Ethics, Imagination and Poetic Ontology. Mazis is a marathon runner, a hiker, a mediator, Borough Council President, gardener, and now a sailor who loves nature and lives happily with his wife, Judith, also a poet, and their two dogs, Sophie and Rosie, alongside the Susquehanna River. The Body Is a dancing Star, 2020.