Kathleen Fraser

Kathleen Fraser (born 1935) is a contemporary American poet.

Life
===Early years= Fraser grew up in Oklahoma, Colorado, and California.

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".

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.