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.

I was a florist for 18 years…

**Tulip Thief**

I worked as a florist for eighteen years, but always wanted to do something more masculine, so I became a poet. There were however manly moments on the job.
“Call 911,” I yelled over my shoulder as I ran towards the door. Someone had been stealing plants and flowers from the display in front of the store.
**Read Tulip Thief**

Slam 001.jpg — 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.”
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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.**