Chris Glomski

Chris Glomski was born on a U.S. army base in Pueblo, Colorado, and grew up in a northwest suburb of Chicago. Glomski studied poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he discovered some of his most significant influences in the poets of the New York School, in particular James Schuyler. After spending some time in Italy in the early 1990’s, Glomski earned his PhD in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

Glomski is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently Lit Up (The Cultural Society, 2017) and The Nineteenth Century and Other Poems (The Cultural Society, 2011). In a recent review of Lit Up for The Carolina Quarterly, Kylan Rice observes that when “Glomski evicts the ‘I’ from his lyrics, he leaves out what leaves out; what provincializes a poem with a single, limited frame of reference. In doing so, he tries to secure for poetry a better strategy for owning up to and negotiating the super-saturation of [our present] media environment.”  For Rice, “Glomski is the flâneur for an online epoch—he closes the laptop and exits the apartment of the self for the broad day of the mobilized crowd.”

As a Senior Lecturer and instructor of writing in UIC’s Department of English, Glomski’s research interests include contemporary poetics, the history of English and American poetry, the visual arts, popular music, and Italian literature. He is also a translator of contemporary Italian poetry.