Kathleen Fraser (poet) explained

Kathleen Fraser
Birth Date:	22 March 1935
Birth Place:	Tulsa, Oklahoma
Death Place:	Emeryville, California
Occupation:	Professor
Education:	Occidental College
Genre:	Poetry
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Movement:	(HOW)ever
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Kathleen Fraser (March 22, 1935 - February 5, 2019) was a contemporary poet.^{[1] [2]} She was a Guggenheim Fellow.^[3]

Early years

Fraser was born in 1935 and grew up in Oklahoma, Colorado, and California.^[4] 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".^[5]

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

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.,

External links

• 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.

Notes and References

1. http://awp.diaart.org/poetry/97_98/fraserbio.html Kathleen Fraser Biography
2. Web site: Electronic Poetry Center. writing.upenn.edu. 2019-02-07.
3. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Kathleen Fraser. en-US. 2019-02-07.
4. Web site: Jacket author notes: Kathleen Fraser . Jacketmagazine.com . 2010-01-31.
5. Web site: Kathleen Fraser - Bio Notes and Publications. writing.upenn.edu. 2019-02-07.
6. Web site: Kathleen Fraser (1935-2019) Nightboat Books. nightboat.org. 2019-02-07.