Tribute to Kathleen Fraser: March 22, 2015

The Poetry Center, in collaboration with California College of the Arts MFA-Writing Program, and Small Press Traffic, presents a tribute to Kathleen Fraser, in celebration of her 80th birthday. The program was organized and introduced by Susan Gevirtz and Stephen Motika. Fraser's publications include il cuore -- the heart: Selected Poems 1970-1995 (Wesleyan University, 1997,) Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity (University Alabama Press, 1999), Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling (Apogee Press, 2004), and movable TYYPE (Nightboat Books, 2011). Contributions to this tribute would subsequently be included in the festschrift anthology Dear Kathleen: On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser's 80th Birthday, edited by Stephen Motika and Susan Gevirtz (Nightboat Books, 2017).

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Writers Studio, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Date
03/22/2015
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01:55:58
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Steve Dickison, Susan Gevirtz, Samantha Giles, Stephen Motika
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Susan Gevirtz and Stephen Motika, organizers of this tribute on the day of her 80th birthday to poet, essayist, editor, and teacher Kathleen Fraser, provide introductions. Participants include Lauren Shufran, Frances Richard, Brian Teare, Beverly Dahlen, Elena Rivera, Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Brenda Hillman, John Sakkis, Jean Heuving, and Norma Cole, followed by Kathleen Fraser reading the poem from her limited edition artist's book Wing (EM Press, 1995) in its entirety.

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