Discipline: Literature – poetry

John Frazier

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Ridgeland, SC
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003

John Frazier has published poetry in many venues, including The Beacon's Best of 2001: Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures, which includes work by Lucille Clifton, Cornelius Eady and Li-Young Lee. Frazier has also published work in The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, and Presence Africaine. Many of these featured poems come from a manuscript of sonnets and sonnet derivations called "Aldebara." Frazier recently completed "Subaltern", a book on hierarchy and touch.

Studios

MacDowell

John Frazier worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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