Elton Glaser is an American poet. He has published collections of poetry and been published in literary magazines.

He is a native of New Orleans, is a retired Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English from the University of Akron, and former editor of the Akron Series in Poetry.^[1]

He lives in Akron, Ohio.^[2]

• 2010 Guy Owen Prize for his poem "Do the Do"
• 2009 Guy Owen Prize for his poem "Slow Fuse Around the Cranium"
• 2002 Marlboro Prize in Poetry for his poem, "Meditation in Blue and White"
• 2002 Crab Orchard Award

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2015)

• Glaser, Elton (1984). Relics : poems. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-8195-2118-7.
• — (1988). Tropical depressions : poems. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-201-0.
• — (1992). Color photographs of the ruins. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-3705-0.
• Glaser, Elton (2000). Winter amnesties. Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2305-0.
• — (2003). Pelican tracks. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2516-0.
• — (2005). Here and hereafter : poems. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-796-0.
• Glaser, Elton (2023). Ghost Variations. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-6719-4.