Poet Matty Layne Glasgow to share work at Randolph College

Matty Layne Glasgow

Poet Matty Layne Glasgow will read from his work at Randolph College on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 6 p.m. 

Glasgow, a professor of English at the College of Charleston, is the author of the collection deciduous queen, selected by Richard Blanco as the winner of the 2017 Benjamin Saltman Award. 

A 2022-2025 Black Earth Institute Fellow, he is co-editor of About Place Journal’s “Strange Wests” issue and an assistant editor for the issue on “Careful/Care-full Collaboration.” 

While completing his PhD in creative writing and English literature at the University of Utah, Glasgow was the recipient of a Vice Presidential Fellowship, a Jeff Metcalf Humanities in the Community Fellowship, and a Graduate Research Fellowship at the Tanner Humanities Center, where he also worked as a program coordinator. 

His poems and essays have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, the Missouri Review, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, Third Coast, and elsewhere.