Glaisma Pérez Silva
Puerto Rican
Person TypeIndividual
BiographyGlaisma Pérez Silva is a Puerto Rican educator, professor, and Spanish-language poet who held teaching and administrative positions in the Hartford area from 1988 and now in Massachusetts. She holds a Masters degree from the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico and has received certificates of study and awards from several organizations. She is the founder of Coloquio, a poetry reading group for Latino writers in Spanish, and has been published in several anthologies. She produced and hosted the weekly radio program De Mujer a Mujer con Glaisma Pérez Silva on WRYM 840 AM, and a Spanish-language program broadcast on WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts. Glaisma has been selected as a Master Teaching Artist by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She presented her poetry at many events, including some organized by CCHAP, in Hartford and around New England. A dynamic presenter, she often incorporates music into her poetry events.
