fiction.wikisort.org - Writer

Kathleen Fraser (March 22, 1935 - February 5, 2019) was a contemporary poet.[1][2] She was a Guggenheim Fellow.[3]

Kathleen Fraser
Born	(1935-03-22)March 22, 1935 Tulsa, Oklahoma
Died	February 5, 2019(2019-02-05) (aged 83) Emeryville, California
Occupation	Professor
Education	Occidental College
Genre	Poetry
Literary movement	(HOW)ever

Early years

Fraser was born in 1935 and grew up in Oklahoma, Colorado, and California.[4] She graduated from Occidental College.[5]

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".[5]

She died February 5, 2019, in Emeryville, California.[6]

Works

• What I Want New York Harper & Row, 1974. ISBN 9780060113445, OCLC 976635759.
• Magritte Series Willits, Calif. : Tuumba Press, 1977. OCLC 3011187
• New Shoes New York ; Hagerstown ; San Francisco ; London : Harper and Row, 1978. ISBN 9780060113742, OCLC 463065375
• Each Next, narratives, Berkeley : Figures, 1980. ISBN 9780935724028, OCLC 639716968
• Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (1984),
• Notes Preceding Trust Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1987. ISBN 9780932499240, OCLC 17280081
• When New Time Folds Up Minneapolis : Chax Press, 1993. ISBN 9780925904140, OCLC 28847000
• WING Mill Valley, CA Em Press 1995. ISBN 9780963208576, OCLC 333328959
• il cuore : the heart - New & Selected Poems (1970-1995) Wesleyan University Press; University Press of New England, 1997. ISBN 9780819522443, OCLC 37011379
• Discreet Categories Forced Into Coupling Berkeley, Calif : Apogee Press, 2004. ISBN 9780974468730, OCLC 637353897
• "The cars" (2004)
• Movable Tyype Nightboat Books, 2011. ISBN 9780984459889, OCLC 712117797

References

External links

External audio
PennSound

• Book review
• A web guide to Kathleen Fraser from literaryhistory.com
• The Magritte Series
• HOW(ever) archives
• Four Young Poets in 1959
• How2 archives
• Author page at the Electronic Poetry Center
• An Entirely Different Immersion: Talking to Kathleen Fraser, LA Review of Books, Andy Fitch, 12/08/2017
• Kathleen Fraser Papers MSS 529. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

---