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Reading by Kathleen Fraser and Jane Sprague

02/08/12
07:30pm - 09:00pm
Lecture, Reading, Film, Conference

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Graduate Writing presents a reading by Kathleen Fraser and Jane Sprague. Kathleen Fraser is the author of fifteen poetry collections, including New Shoes, Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake, Notes Preceding Trust, When New Time Folds Up, and most recently il cuore : the heart - New & Selected Poems (1970-1995), Discreet Categories Forced Into Coupling, and m o v a b l e TYYPE. She also has collaborated seven limited-edition artists books, a book of essays, Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity, and a children’s book, Stilts, Somersaults & Headstands. During her teaching career at San Francisco State University from 1972 to 1992, she founded the American Poetry Archives and both wrote and narrated the video Women Working in Literature. With Beverly Dahlen and Frances Jaffer, Fraser founded the feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever. She now divides her time between Rome and San Francisco.

Poet Jane Sprague’s books include The Port of Los Angeles and, with Tina Darragh and Diane Ward, The *Belladonna Elders Series 8. She is also the author of the chapbooks Apache Roadkill, Sacking the Henwife, Entropic Liberties, and fuck your pastoral. Her poems, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in the Rain Taxi, Columbia Poetry Review, How2, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. Since 2004, she has edited and published the imprint Palm Press. She teaches at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking and at Cal State Long Beach.

Ahmanson Hall Forum, 9045 Lincoln Blvd, L.A. 90045, Free parking

grads@otis.edu (310) 665-6892