Kathleen Fraser | |
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Born | Tulsa, Oklahoma | March 22, 1935
Died | February 5, 2019 83) Emeryville, California | (aged
Occupation | Professor |
Education | Occidental College |
Genre | Poetry |
Literary movement | (HOW)ever |
Kathleen Fraser (March 22, 1935 - February 5, 2019) was a contemporary poet. [1] [2] She was a Guggenheim Fellow. [3]
Fraser was born in 1935 and grew up in Oklahoma, Colorado, and California. [4] She graduated from Occidental College. [5]
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]
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