Day and Night of New Moon

About Glenn Hughes

Glenn “Chip” Hughes (1951-2024) grew up in Seattle and lived subsequently in the Skagit Valley of Washington State, in Boston, and in San Antonio, where he taught philosophy at St. Mary’s University for thirty years. He held degrees in English literature and history from the University of Washington, and in philosophy from Boston College.

His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Poetry Northwest, Atlanta Review, Poets West, and other journals as well as the first volume of Watershed Press’s Cascadian Zen (2023). He published two previous chapbooks of poetry, Sleeping at the Open Window (2005) and Erato (2010). He edited Taos Mountain: Poems and Paintings, by Robert Sund (2007), and, with Tim McNulty, co-edited Poems from Ish River Country: Collected Poems and Translations of Robert Sund (2004), Notes from Disappearing Lake: The River Journals of Robert Sund (2012), as well as Sund’s First Glimpse of Swallows: Uncollected Poems (2022). He also authored, edited, or co-edited twelve books of scholarship on art, literature, and philosophy.