Kathleen Fraser
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Early years
Fraser was born in 1937 and grew up in OklahomaOklahoma
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, Colorado
Colorado
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, and California
California
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.
Her works
Kathleen Fraser's published works include 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, and Categories Forced Into Coupling (2004).During her teaching career at San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University
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from 1972 to 1992, she founded The American Poetry Archives and both wrote and narrated the hour video Women Working in Literature.
Fraser was a cofounder, with Beverly Dahlen
Beverly Dahlen
Beverly Dahlen is an American poet who lives and works in San Francisco, CA.-Life and work:A native of Portland, Oregon where she attended public schools, Dahlen moved with her family to Eureka, California after World War II. In 1956, she resettled in San Francisco where she has lived for many years...
and Frances Jaffer, of the feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever. From 1983-1991, Fraser published and edited HOW(ever), a journal focused on innovative writing by contemporary women and neglected texts by American modernist women writers.