Gregory Fraser


Gregory Fraser is an American poet.

Biography

Gregory Fraser is an American poet, editor, and professor. He is the author of four poetry collections: Strange Pietà, ''Answering the Ruins, Designed for Flight, and Little Armageddon. He is also the co-author, with poet Chad Davidson, of two college textbooks, Writing Poetry and Analyze Anything, and the co-editor, with Susannah Mintz, of Placing Disability: Personal Essays of Embodied Geography. Fraser grew up in Philadelphia and its suburbs, and earned a B.A. at Ursinus College, an M.F.A. at Columbia University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Houston. His poetry has appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. The recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Fraser teaches at the University of West Georgia, located an hour west of Atlanta, and serves as features editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review''. He also writes songs with the folk-rock group The Ties That Bind, featuring Anthony and Brittney Baxter, and plays drums for the Americana band Adamson Avenue, fronted by Jason Kesler.

Awards

Poetry

;CollectionsAnswering the Ruins Strange Pietà
;List of poems
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Business2019

Non-fiction

Placing Disability: Personal Essays of Embodied Geography, anthology Analyze Anything: A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing, textbook Writing Poetry: Creative-Critical Approaches, textbook

Online Works and Reviews

  • Review of Designed for Flight by Shawn Delgado
  • Review of Designed for Flight by Lauren Watel
  • “The Great Northeast,” The Missouri Review
  • “End of Days,” Verse Daily/''The Southern Review
  • “Ficus,” Verse Daily/Birmingham Poetry Review
  • “Epithalamium,” Verse Daily/New South
  • Review of Answering the Ruins A Different Bother, Beard of Bees Press
  • Interview with Gregory Fraser
  • Review of Strange Pietà''
  • Interview with Gregory Fraser