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Kathleen Fraser (poet)

Kathleen Fraser (March 22, 1935 - February 5, 2019) was a contemporary poet. She was a Guggenheim Fellow.

Early years

Fraser was born in 1935 and grew up in Oklahoma, Colorado, and California. She graduated from Occidental College.

Career

During her teaching career at San Francisco State University from 1972 to 1992, she directed The Poetry Center and founded The American Poetry Archives; she also wrote and narrated the one-hour video Women Working in Literature.

Fraser was co-founder and co-editor, with Beverly Dahlen and Frances Jaffer, later joined by Susan Gevirtz, of the feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever. From 1983-1991, Fraser published and edited HOW(ever) as "a journal focused on innovative writing by contemporary women and neglected texts by American modernist women writers".

She died February 5, 2019, in Emeryville, California.

Works

  • What I Want New York Harper & Row, 1974. , .
  • Magritte Series Willits, Calif. : Tuumba Press, 1977.
  • New Shoes New York; Hagerstown; San Francisco; London : Harper and Row, 1978. ,
  • Each Next, narratives, Berkeley : Figures, 1980. ,
  • Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (1984),
  • Notes Preceding Trust Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1987. ,
  • When New Time Folds Up Minneapolis : Chax Press, 1993. ,
  • WING Mill Valley, CA Em Press 1995. ,
  • il cuore : the heart - New & Selected Poems (1970-1995) Wesleyan University Press; University Press of New England, 1997. ,
  • Discreet Categories Forced Into Coupling Berkeley, Calif : Apogee Press, 2004. ,
  • "The cars" (2004)
  • Movable Tyype Nightboat Books, 2011. ,

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