Kathleen Fraser (poet)

Kathleen Fraser (March 22, 1935 - February 5, 2019) was a contemporary poet. She was a Guggenheim Fellow.

Early years
Fraser was born in 1935 and grew up in Oklahoma, Colorado, and California. 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".

She died February 5, 2019, in Emeryville, California.

Works

 * What I Want New York Harper & Row, 1974. ISBN 9780060113445,.
 * Magritte Series Willits, Calif. : Tuumba Press, 1977.
 * New Shoes New York ; Hagerstown ; San Francisco ; London : Harper and Row, 1978. ISBN 9780060113742,
 * Each Next, narratives, Berkeley : Figures, 1980. ISBN 9780935724028,
 * Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake (1984),
 * Notes Preceding Trust Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1987. ISBN 9780932499240,
 * When New Time Folds Up Minneapolis : Chax Press, 1993. ISBN 9780925904140,
 * WING Mill Valley, CA Em Press 1995. ISBN 9780963208576,
 * il cuore : the heart - New & Selected Poems (1970-1995) 	Wesleyan University Press; University Press of New England, 1997. ISBN 9780819522443,
 * Discreet Categories Forced Into Coupling Berkeley, Calif : Apogee Press, 2004. ISBN 9780974468730,
 * "The cars" (2004)
 * Movable Tyype Nightboat Books, 2011. ISBN 9780984459889,