Kathleen Fraser (March 22, 1935 - February 5, 2019) was a

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Early years

Fraser was born in 1935 and grew up in

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, and

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. She graduated from Occidental College.

Career

During her teaching career at

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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

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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

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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. ,

References

External links

Book reviewAuthor page at the Electronic Poetry CenterAn Entirely Different Immersion: Talking to Kathleen Fraser
''LA Review of Books'', Andy Fitch, 12/08/2017

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