Meet Poet and Artist Jelena Glazov: A Creative Force Making Waves Worldwide

Today we will enjoy our morning coffee with the poet Jelena Glazov, who is also an artist, combining image, experimental sound, installation and poetic text in her projects.

Jeļena has participated in festivals and international projects in Latvia, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Holland, Turkey and other countries. She has worked as a guest artist at the Swedish electroacoustic research center “EMS” in Stockholm, as well as the music studio of the experimental art center “WORM” in Rotterdam.

The author’s first collection of poems “Transfēri” published in 2013 (Orbīta association) was nominated for the Latvian Literature of the Year Award, the second collection “Plasma” was published in English and Estonian in 2014 in Estonia (Paranoia publishing house). The third collection “Алчность/ Alkatība” in 2019 and the fourth collection – “Naiveness” in 2022 were published by Walter Dakshas publishing house.

all characters are turned away

as if they had no faces

take a closer look –

they seem to be schoolgirls

they are all in front of the door

since an agent appears

potential representative or sponsor

each of them is preparing

painted in bright colors