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FREDERICK GLAYSHER is an epic poet, rhapsode, poet-critic, and the author or editor of ten books.

Glaysher studied at the University of Michigan with the American poet Robert Hayden and edited his collected prose and poetry. He holds two degrees from the University of Michigan, including a Master's in English, and is the Literary Executor of the Hayden Estate.

He lived for more than fifteen years outside Michigan in Japan, where he 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 his suburban hometown of Rochester, Michigan.

A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, he 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, he further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity. An accredited Presenter at The 8th Parliament of the World's Religions 2021.

Mr. Glaysher spoke on Robert Hayden at the centennial celebrations held at the University of Michigan in 2013 and Wayne State University in 2014, reading at each his canto in which Hayden is a character. Both centennial essays are included in The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays, which was written concurrently with his epic. He spoke on Hayden for Poetry Month 2017 at the Detroit Public Library, and lectured on Hayden at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Another essay on Hayden is in The Grove of the Eumenides: Essays on Literature, Criticism, and Culture.

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We human beings know how to cooperate and pull together when necessary. We've done it many times through the millennia, and we can do it again on the entire planet. The problems and the solutions are in our mind. Just a little fine-tuning might make all the difference. So, when I was in my mid-twenties, I thought perhaps a Journey to the Moon might help. And as a great world city and theatre capital, New York seems the perfect place to perform and chant my epic tale of all the great poets of the many civilizations on Earth coming together in peace and global community. If they can do it, so can we.