Kathleen Fraser

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Kathleen Fraser (born 1935) is a contemporary poet.[1][2][3]

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[edit] Early years

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

[edit] Her works

Kathleen Fraser's published works include, among books of poetry, What I Want (1974), Magritte Series (1977), New Shoes (1978), Each Next, narratives (1980), Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (1984), Notes Preceding Trust (1987), When New Time Folds Up (1993), WING (1995), il cuore : the heart - New & Selected Poems (1970-1995) (1997), Discreet Categories Forced Into Coupling (2004), and Movable Tyype (2011).[5][1]

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 both wrote and narrated the one-hour video Women Working in Literature.

Fraser was a cofounder and coeditor, 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".[citation needed]

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