Emily Fragos

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Emily Fragos
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NationalityAmerican
Alma materSyracuse University, Paris-Sorbonne University, Columbia University
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsWitter Bynner Fellowship

Emily Fragos is an American poet. She was a Witter Bynner Fellow, and Guggenheim Fellow. [1]

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Life

She graduated from Syracuse University, Paris-Sorbonne University, and Columbia University. [2]

She teaches at New York University, and Columbia University. [3]

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, [4] BOMB, [5] Boston Review , [6] and Paris Review. [7]

Works

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References

  1. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Emily Fragos". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
  2. "Faculty - Emily Fragos". Gallatin.
  3. "Emily Fragos". poetryfoundation.org.
  4. "Emily Fragos". Ploughshares.
  5. ( "Artists in Conversation". BOMB.
  6. "Emily Fragos". Boston Review.
  7. David O'Neill. "Emily Fragos on Emily Dickinson's Letters". The Paris Review.
  8. "BOXCAR Poetry Review". www.boxcarpoetry.com. Retrieved 2015-12-09. Fragos's poems fulfill every expectation: artful, revealing, soulful, and full of empathy and passion. This is what happens when a heart that cares about the broken things of the world pumps ink onto the page.
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